Wallax vs Simple Notch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wallax
Easily scale and resize your favorite photos to perfectly fit any device's wallpaper. Create unique designs with various backgrounds, patterns, and effects.
- Scale and resize wallpapers
- Customizable backgrounds (black, white, color, gradient, blurred)
- Minimalist wallpaper creation tools (color, gradient, pattern, bokeh, text)
- Parallax effect for iPhone & iPad
- Add reflection, tiling, frames, shapes, blur, bokeh, text, and filters
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Can't Resize & Fit your favourite photos as Wallpapers? Wallax app has 100+ options to create perfect size wallpapers. Featured in iMore.com as No 1. Choice for Best Wallpaper Apps Features ======= - Scale & Resize your wallpapers on black, white, color, gradient or blurred background. - Make minimal wallpapers by using Color, Gradient, Pattern, Bokeh and Text options. - Perfect Wallpaper Size with Parallax Effect for all iPhone & iPad Devices. - Add Following Effects + Refection - Adds reflection to make your photos to fit the correct wallpaper size. + Tile Photo - Repeats the photo to make a wallpaper. + Frames - Combine two or more photos to make a wallpaper. + Shapes - Mask your photo to predefined shapes to make wallpapers. + Blur, Bokeh, Text, Adjustment, Filters, Colorize, Pattern, Splash Effects
Simple Notch
Design custom wallpapers for your iPhone's Dynamic Island or notch. Choose from over 80 styles, import your own background image, and save your creation to set as your wallpaper.
- Create island & notch wallpapers
- Over 80 styles available
- Import custom background images
- Save to album
- Set as wallpaper
- Supports iPhone 15, 14, 13 series
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This is a creative app that allows you to create island & notch wallpapers for your iPhone 17, iPhone 16, iPhone 15, etc. Just as shown in the screenshots above. Choose from over 80 styles to create your own island & notch wallpapers or lock screens. It only takes three steps. 1. Import a photo for the background 2. Select the style you like 3. Save it to your album and set it as your wallpaper If you have any suggestions, please let us know. The content will be continuously updated and optimized. Hope you like it :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Simple Notch at Free against Wallax's $0.99. Simple Notch also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly). Wallax's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating and review sentiment 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
Simple Notch is free to download; Wallax costs $0.99 up front. Simple Notch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wallax asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Wallax against 4.6 for Simple Notch. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 426 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Wallax's written reviews are positive against 59% of Simple Notch's.
Wallax ships an update monthly, Simple Notch every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wallax | Simple Notch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better | 4.6 (426 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.4% of reviews — better | 59.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 426 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BRIJIT SHEELIA | 振山 董 |
Customer experience
Wallax
Simple Notch
Bugs and requests
Wallax
Reported bugs
4 issues- Saving images doesn't work
- Crashes on iPhone X/iOS 14
- Blurry images after editing
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to move/position image within frame
- Provide more customization options
- Support for Live Photos
- Add batch processing for multiple images
Simple Notch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wallax
No in-app purchases
Simple Notch
- Simple Notch PRO$1.99
