Comparison

gradeful vs Meshwork

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

gradeful

Features
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Create your own random wallpaper with beautiful color gradients. Swipe for a new pattern, choose your favorite color, and create widgets with custom text for your Home Screen. Features: • New wallpapers with a simple swipe • Customize colors and gradients • Dynamic mode for subtle color and pattern shifts • Preview directly in the app • Perfect for OLED devices with notch or Dynamic Island • Home Screen widgets with your personal text • Save directly to Photos • Built-in gallery for favorites The basic features of gradeful are completely free. With gradeful+, you get these benefits: • All modes (Horizon, Aura, Orbit & more) • Up to 3 colors for richer gradient blends • Maximum quality (export in full resolution) • Unlimited gallery (no 7-wallpaper limit) • Hide UI (touch & hold your wallpaper) Test gradeful+ 7 days for free (monthly and yearly subscription) or choose the one-time lifetime purchase. With your purchase, you support me as an independent developer and help me continue improving gradeful and my other apps. Thank you! PS: If you have ideas, questions, or problems, feel free to email me at info.kkaupp@icloud.com.

About

Meshwork

Features
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Meshwork makes wallpapers on your phone. Not a gallery of downloads — a generator. Every wallpaper you see was drawn the moment you opened the app, and no two are ever the same. THREE FAMILIES Gradients — soft mesh blobs, directional colour fields with visible folds, clean linear fades, and radial glows. Geometry — faceted bars, triangles, rings, waves, and grids, each tile coloured from the gradient beneath it. Lines — dense fields of lit strokes bending across black, with the moiré that comes from drawing them densely. THIRTEEN CURATED PALETTES Tokyo Night, Peach Sunset, Vaporwave, Pastel Dream, Deep Ocean, Ember, Mint Fresh, Midnight, Citrus Pop, Orchid Haze, and three dark sets built for Lines. Colours are chosen, never random, which is the difference between a wallpaper and noise. DESIGN YOUR OWN Open Create and build one from scratch. Pick two to six colours from sixty swatches, choose a style, then tune it — blob count, softness, angle, pattern density, light position. The preview updates as you drag. SEE IT BEFORE YOU SET IT Preview any wallpaper full screen behind a mock Lock or Home screen, so you can judge whether the clock and your icons stay readable. That is what actually decides if a wallpaper works. EXPORTS AT YOUR SCREEN'S TRUE SIZE Downloads render at your device's native resolution, not a scaled-up preview. Choose PNG, WebP, or JPEG. Watch an ad to unlock 4K export. KEEP WHAT YOU LIKE Tap the heart, or press and hold any thumbnail. Saved wallpapers are stored as a recipe rather than an image, so they cost almost nothing and still export at full size whenever you come back. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER There is nothing to sign up for. Meshwork has no backend, and your wallpapers never leave your phone unless you save them yourself. A NOTE ON SETTING WALLPAPERS iOS does not let any app change your wallpaper for you — that is an Apple restriction, not our choice. Meshwork saves to Photos at full resolution and shows you the two taps that finish the job. Remove ads with a single payment. It is not a subscription.

Screenshots

gradeful3 screens
Meshwork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: gradeful at none against Meshwork's shown. Meshwork's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. gradeful sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Meshwork sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 3 level
gradeful versus Meshwork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametergradefulMeshwork
PriceFreeFree
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin KauppMoin Pate

In-app purchases

3 purchases

gradeful

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$4.99
1 purchases

Meshwork

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is gradeful free?
gradeful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meshwork free?
Meshwork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do gradeful or Meshwork have ads?
Meshwork shows ads; gradeful does not.

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