Blear vs Wallpaper Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blear
Create unique blurry wallpapers from your own photos or pre-loaded images. Easily adjust blurriness and crop to personalize your device's home and lock screens. Share your creations directly from the app.
- Transform photos into blurry wallpapers
- Adjust crop and blurriness
- Use pre-loaded images
- Action Extension for quick editing
- Save and set as wallpaper
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Transform your photos into stunning blurry wallpapers. Make your Home/Lock screen shine! Drag the image horizontally to change the crop. You get the best result with bright colorful photos, like a handful of jellybeans or unicorns. The app comes bundled with some beautiful photos to get you started. Just shake to get another one. When you have swiped your preferred blurriness, tap the save button on the right. In the Photos app, go to the image you just saved, tap the action button, and choose “Use as Wallpaper”. The app also comes with an Action Extension. So instead of opening the app, you can start by finding a photo in the Photos app, tap the action button, and then choose “Make Blurry Wallpaper”. Blear is open source: https://github.com/sindresorhus/blear
Wallpaper Maker
Create unique bordered wallpapers for your phone's home and lock screens. Easily import photos or use included images, customize border colors and styles, and export your creations to apply them directly.
- Create bordered wallpapers
- Import photos or use included images
- Customize border color, style, and opacity
- Export wallpapers to photo library
- Apply wallpapers from Photos app
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Make your phone shine with custom bordered wallpapers! Notched is a tool for creating cool and distinct wallpapers for your phone. Quickly and easily make wallpapers for your home or lock screen in just four simple steps: - Import any photo from your library or choose from a great selection of included images - Set border color, style (single line, double line, gradient or rainbow) and opacity - Export wallpaper to your photo library - Apply wallpaper to your home or lock screen from the Photos app, via the "Use as Wallpaper" action
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blear at none against Wallpaper Maker's 1. Blear also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (87% vs 68%). Wallpaper Maker's advantage is ratings volume (311 vs 77) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Wallpaper Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Blear asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blear holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 77 and 311 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Blear's written reviews are positive against 68% of Wallpaper Maker's.
Blear ships an update every 3 months, Wallpaper Maker every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blear | Wallpaper Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (77 ratings) — better | 4.4 (311 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews — better | 67.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 77 | 311 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | Armchair Engineering |
Customer experience
Blear
Wallpaper Maker
Bugs and requests
Blear
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Wallpaper Maker
Reported bugs
12 issues- Corners off screen on iPad
- Notch not lining up on iPhone 16 Pro Max
- Extended wallpaper feature causes white blur
- App no longer works after iOS update
- Cannot change phone type after initial selection
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- Border runs under notch and corners
- Watermark makes app unusable
- Wallpaper preview looks good, but effect doesn't apply
- Notched border not present when saved as wallpaper
- Crashes frequently
- Does not align with notch
- App crashes after iOS update
Requested features
11 requests- Update for iPhone 14/15
- Fix double line opacity
- Add border for oval dock/top half
- Increase color scale/add color sliders/hex codes
- Add neon glowing lines
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- Option for triple color
- Exported wallpaper sized correctly
- Lock screen and home screen specific embellishments
- Access to other Photos folders
- Allow browsing photo albums beyond 'moments'
- Support for newer iPhones (12 mini, 12 Pro Max, XsMax)
In-app purchases
Blear
No in-app purchases
Wallpaper Maker
- Notched Unlock$2.99
