GradientWallpaper vs Designgraphik
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GradientWallpaper
Design unique wallpapers with customizable gradients. Adjust direction, extent, and color combinations in real-time. Save up to 50 favorite patterns for your device.
- Customizable gradient creation
- Real-time gradient preview
- Up to 7 color gradients
- Linear and Radial gradient types
- Save up to 50 favorite patterns
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You can create gradient wallpapers. The direction and extent of the gradient can be freely adjusted by swiping. As you move your finger, the gradient changes in real time. Since you can create a gradient with up to 7 colors, you can design a unique wallpaper. You can save up to 50 favorite gradient patterns. [Features] Gradient types: Linear and Radial [How to Use] Q: How can I reverse the order of the colors? A: Tap the selected pattern.
Designgraphik
Explore a curated collection of innovative digital art from a renowned designer. This app showcases high-resolution works in a custom gallery, offering a unique artistic experience.
- High-resolution artwork display
- Custom gallery presentation
- Curated digital art collection
- Exploration of online design boundaries
- Artist's proprietary creative environment
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Designgraphik is Michael Paul Young. His innovative work has been exhibited worldwide, from the 500,000 LED pixels of U2’s 360° Tour to a 70-foot tall projection on Richard Meier’s The Hague City Hall. He has won awards including the Clio and the Cannes Gold Cyber Lion and has spoken at the world’s most renowned design conventions and festivals. At the turn of the millennium, Young found himself needing a place to explore and test the boundaries of online digital art, resulting in his creation of the Designgraphik name and website. Whether on the web at that site and others like Submethod and Vir2l, in print, or on various hard media, his goal was always the exploration and testing of boundaries, under presentation circumstances that he controlled, in environments that were his own proprietary creations. The work helped to shape online design throughout the late 90s and early 00s, and was nominated for and won numerous multimedia and online design awards until Young retired the Designgraphik name in 2010. In 2020, as we enter the fourth decade of life online, nothing is proprietary. Online art is democratized and sanitized, cropped, compressed, formatted, influenced, ranked, rated and ultimately forgotten in a dark corner of a corporate data center. And so Young has re-launched the Designgraphik name and ethos, once again in presentation circumstances under his control, in an environment that is his own proprietary creation. The ultimate expression of that concept is this app, designed to present Young's work as Designgraphik in high resolution, in a custom gallery, for free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Designgraphik at monthly against GradientWallpaper's every 65 months. Designgraphik also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). GradientWallpaper's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($0.49 vs $1.99). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
GradientWallpaper costs $0.49 and Designgraphik $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GradientWallpaper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Designgraphik has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GradientWallpaper ships an update every 65 months, Designgraphik monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GradientWallpaper | Designgraphik |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.49 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 65 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #49 — better | #156 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EIICHI KOMINE | YouWorkForThem, Inc |
Customer experience
GradientWallpaper
Designgraphik
In-app purchases
GradientWallpaper
No in-app purchases
Designgraphik
No in-app purchases
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