Blur HQ vs waai
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!
waai
Easily set your favorite images as wallpaper without icons obstructing the view. This utility helps you precisely position your image on a guide screen, ensuring a perfect fit for your device's home screen.
- Custom wallpaper creation
- Icon obstruction avoidance
- Precise image positioning
- iPhone/iPad home screen guide
- Parallax effect toggle
- iPad landscape support
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I want to use my favorite image as wallpaper, but I can't paste it properly because icons are hindering the view... This app will help you out! While looking at the guide image created based on the iPhone/iPad home screen, you can move it around to create an image at a position where it looks good, and set it as the wallpaper. - Parallax effect can be turned on or off. - Supports iPad landscape orientation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: waai at 100% against Blur HQ's 0%. waai also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Blur HQ ships an update every 6 months, waai every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blur HQ | waai |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 泉华 官 | Masahiro Ikeda |
Customer experience
Blur HQ
waai
In-app purchases
Blur HQ
No in-app purchases
waai
No in-app purchases
