Comparison

gradeful vs Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither

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

Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither

Features
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Make pictures out of dots, and put them on your lock screen, your home screen, or anywhere else. init.Dither is a pattern generator that dithers. Tap shuffle and a new picture arrives. Like the pattern but not the colours? Shuffle only the colour, or only the pattern, the style or the mark, and lock the parts you want to keep. Open any section to set things yourself, down to the size of a single dot. Every picture has a recipe: the list of settings behind it. The same recipe makes exactly the same picture again, on another device or at another size, from a lock screen to an A3 print. What's inside • 12 structures: soft lights, ridgelines receding into a dithered sky, a fractal edge endlessly folded, spots and stripes that grew themselves, a swinging pen's one long line • 16 marks, from fine grain to big blocks: halftone dots, ascii, pixels, hatching, stipple, tiles and gems • 20 dithers: ordered grids, blue noise, error diffusion, and a curve that wanders the whole frame • 102 palettes, from plain black and white to riso inks, film stocks and glowing terminal green, plus colours of your own • Symmetry, mirror, polar, tile, twirl, ripple and warp, on any structure • A second layer and a second style, blended together or split by tone • Paper and screen grounds, glow, blur, grain, scanlines, bloom and halation • Undo, redo, and a preview you can pinch to see every dot Made to fit any screen you own • Your iPhone's lock screen and home screen, or any other phone's • iPad and tablet sizes • Desktops from 1080p to 5K, ultrawide, MacBook and iMac • Apple Watch faces • E-ink readers: Kindle, Kobo, reMarkable and Boox • Prints from A5 to A3 at 300 dpi • Squares, stories and album cover art • Any size you type, up to 6000 px a side Pictures are saved to Photos as full-size PNGs, with no watermark. Discover A feed of recipes other people made, arranged in shelves by colour and by structure. Open one as it is, or change it into something of your own. Share yours with just a name. There is no account, and only the recipe is uploaded, never an image. Free, and unlimited when you want it The whole app is free: every structure, mark, dither, palette and size. Save as many recipes as you like and export 5 of them as images, plus one more each month when you come back to claim it. A recipe you have exported stays free to export again, at any size. Unlimited is a single payment, not a subscription. It lifts the export limit and adds more app themes, backgrounds and app icons. If you only need a couple more, there are packs of 2, 5 or 10 exports. Also: 23 app themes, six sound kits, shake to shuffle, and an iCloud backup of your recipes, or a .dither file that is yours to keep. Made by one person, one dot at a time.

Screenshots

gradeful3 screens
Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither at 18.0 against gradeful's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. gradeful sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 4 level
gradeful versus Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametergradefulAbstract Wallpaper init.Dither
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin KauppVladyslav Glogus

In-app purchases

3 purchases

gradeful

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

Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither

One-time4
  • 2 more exports$2.99
  • 5 more exports$5.99
  • 10 more exports$9.99
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  • Unlimited$14.99

Questions

Is gradeful free?
gradeful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither free?
Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do gradeful or Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither have ads?
Neither gradeful nor Abstract Wallpaper init.Dither shows ads.

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