Blear vs Chroma Hue
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
Chroma Hue
Easily design unique wallpapers with halo effects for your devices. This tool allows for quick creation of custom backgrounds to enhance your setup.
- Create custom wallpapers
- Halo background effects
- Quick wallpaper design
- Enhance device setup
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Chroma hue is a dope tool to create custom clean wallpapers to make your setup as perfect as can be. Use Chroma Hue now to create a wallpaper in seconds.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blear at 4.8 against Chroma Hue's 4.1. Blear also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (77 vs 25). Chroma Hue's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. Chroma Hue sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Blear asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blear holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 77 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Blear's written reviews are positive against 82% of Chroma Hue's.
Blear ships an update every 3 months, Chroma Hue fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blear | Chroma Hue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (77 ratings) — better | 4.1 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews — better | 82.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 77 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | Winter Bagley |
Customer experience
Blear
Chroma Hue
In-app purchases
Blear
No in-app purchases
Chroma Hue
- Chrome Hue Addless$1.99
- Chroma Hue+$4.99
