Theme Studio vs Novique
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Theme Studio
Design custom app icons, widgets, and wallpapers to personalize your iPhone home screen. Create unique themes by mixing and matching styles, and save your creations for easy application.
- Custom app icon maker
- Themed widget builder
- Matching wallpaper generator
- Icon pack library
- Save and load custom themes
- Live icon preview
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Theme Studio is a design tool for creating custom app icons, themed widgets, and matching wallpapers for a personalized iPhone home screen aesthetic. You make everything in the app, save it to your Photos, then apply it yourself: icons through Apple's Shortcuts app, and wallpapers through the iOS Settings app. Theme Studio never changes your app icons, wallpaper, or any system setting automatically. HOW IT WORKS 1. Design a custom icon, widget, or wallpaper in the app. 2. Save the image to your Photos library. 3. For icons, open Apple's Shortcuts app and add the saved image to your Home Screen. For wallpapers, set the saved image from the iOS Settings app. The app walks you through these steps the first time. ICON PACKS Choose from a variety of icon styles: minimalist line art, bold chroma, retro pixel grids, and more. Each pack is designed to feel cohesive. Browse the collection, search by app name, or mix and match icon packs to design a custom home screen aesthetic. STUDIO: CUSTOM ICON MAKER & ICON CHANGER Studio is your in-app custom icon maker and icon changer. Customize any glyph: layer solid colors, gradients, photo backgrounds, or blurred wallpaper slices behind it. Tune position, scale, shadow, and color overlays, or upload your own PNG or JPEG. The live preview shows how each icon will look once you apply it. When you are happy with an icon, save it to your Photos and use the Shortcuts app to add it to your Home Screen. WIDGETS Build clock, weather, calendar, battery, app grid, photo, and quote widgets that match your home screen aesthetic. Pick fonts, colors, backgrounds, and styles, from minimalist to bold, or bake your wallpaper into the widget background for a transparent look. Widgets are added by you from the standard iOS widget gallery (touch and hold the Home Screen, then add a Theme Studio widget). WALLPAPERS Browse a library of curated wallpapers, or generate color-matched wallpapers from your icon palette. Save them to your Photos, then set them as your Lock Screen or Home Screen wallpaper from the iOS Settings app. SAVE YOUR THEMES Save your icon, wallpaper, and widget combinations as themes. Loading a saved theme brings all of its pieces back into the app at once, ready for you to save and apply. Build seasonal looks, mood-based aesthetics, or personalize your home screen aesthetic for any occasion. APPLYING YOUR ICONS Theme Studio is an icon changer built around Apple's built-in Shortcuts app, the standard, user-initiated workflow for icon customization on iOS. You save an icon image to your Photos, then add it to your Home Screen yourself in the Shortcuts app. Theme Studio guides you through this the first time, and does not change your app icons or Home Screen for you. Made by an indie developer focused on iPhone personalization. Questions, ideas, or bug reports? Reach out through Settings > Contact. SUBSCRIPTIONS & IN-APP PRODUCTS The free tier includes the Solid icon pack and non-Pro widgets. Theme Studio Pro unlocks additional icon packs, premium widgets, and custom PNG icon saving. Monthly, yearly, and lifetime purchase options are available in the app. Terms and pricing may vary by region. Information about the auto-renewable subscription: Subscriptions auto-renew until canceled. Cancel at any time. Manage in Account Settings. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours before the end of the current period. For more information on how to cancel a subscription, please review - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Novique
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Your Home Screen, in one look. Novique gives you 18 widget families and 36 theme packs that actually match each other. Pick a theme, and every Novique widget on your screen follows it — the same colours, the same surfaces, the same type. No more Home Screen assembled from a dozen apps that each had their own idea. WIDGETS FOR THE THINGS YOU CHECK • Clock — digital, analog, flip, neon, glass and minimal • Date, Month and World Clock • Countdown to the day you're waiting for • Moon Phase, drawn from the real phase • Weather, by city or where you are • Steps, from Health • Water and Habit, tracked with a tap • Focus — a Pomodoro timer with a Lock Screen Live Activity • Quotes, including ten sacred texts • Photo Frame, Crypto, GitHub and YouTube MAKE IT YOURS • 36 theme packs, from Midnight and Nordic to Aurora, Tokyo and Black Titanium • Put your own photo behind any widget, framed and dimmed exactly how you like it, per size • Save presets — a widget that keeps its own look even when you change everything else • Write your own quotes • Home Screen and Lock Screen, iPhone and iPad BUILT PROPERLY • No account. Nothing to sign up for • No tracking, no ads, no analytics • Your steps stay on your device. Your location is rounded before it is stored • Every widget reads clearly at every size, in light and dark FREE, AND PRO Seven widget families and ten theme packs are free forever — Clock, Countdown, Date, World Clock, Quotes, Moon Phase and Year Progress, with the Blueprint, Cartograph, Cascade, Crayon Box, Dark, Light, Linen, Midnight, Minimal and Nordic packs. No trial, no sign-up, no catch. Novique Pro unlocks the other 11 families and the remaining 26 packs. Try it free for 3 days, then choose monthly, yearly, or a one-time Lifetime purchase that never renews. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Lifetime is a one-time purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://novique.app/support#privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Theme Studio at weekly against Novique's every 3 weeks. Theme Studio also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Theme Studio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Novique sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Theme Studio ships an update weekly, Novique every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Theme Studio | Novique |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Invader Digital | Coding Protocols Private Limited |
In-app purchases
Theme Studio
- Theme Studio Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Theme Studio Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$39.99
Novique
- Novique Pro — Lifetime$4.99









