Blur HQ vs Hide The Notch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blur HQ
Easily create custom blurred wallpapers from your photos. Select an image from your camera roll or take a new one, apply a blur effect with a single step, and save your personalized background.
- Create blurred wallpapers
- Use photos from camera
- Use photos from album
- One-step blur effect
- Save custom wallpapers
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The simplest way, the best blurred wallpaper! Choose or Take a picture -> Blur it -> Save it! Use photo from camera or album, with one simple step, you can make beautiful wallpaper yourself!
Hide The Notch
Customize your iPhone X wallpaper to creatively hide the notch. Use pre-set images or your own photos with various effects to design unique backgrounds.
- Notch hiding wallpapers
- Use own photos
- Apply effects
- Customizable backgrounds
- iPhone X companion
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Your wallpaper is the picture you look at most often in your life. Fifty times a day, a hundred. Someone, a place, a light, a three second memory before you answer a message. And there is a notch in it. This app adjusts your wallpaper to hide it. The top of the screen turns black, the same night as the one already around the camera, the kind only OLED screens can make, and your picture carries on underneath as if nothing had happened. Notch, punch hole, Dynamic Island: whatever your phone calls it, it disappears. You choose your photo, the one that matters, and frame it the way you want. Or you start from a gradient and push it around with your finger until you land on the right colour, the one you would not have found anywhere else. There are several ways to make the notch disappear, and a single setting for each. You try, you see straight away, you keep the one you like. Then the picture is yours. It lands in your photos, at the exact size of your screen. You keep it, you send it to someone, you make another one tomorrow because the light has changed. Free. No ads, no account, no tracking, no subscription. Your photos never leave your phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hide The Notch at 5.0 against Blur HQ's 3.5. Hide The Notch also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). Blur HQ's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hide The Notch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Blur HQ ships an update every 6 months, Hide The Notch weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blur HQ | Hide The Notch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 泉华 官 | Maxime Thirouin |
Customer experience
Blur HQ
Hide The Notch
In-app purchases
Blur HQ
No in-app purchases
Hide The Notch
No in-app purchases









