Transform Your iPhone HOME Screen into a Work of Art

Finding the Perfect App to Personalize Your HOME Screen

It happens to everyone. Your new iPhone has some default wallpaper that you really dig at first, but after a few weeks it becomes bland and you start dreaming of a home screen bursting of your colorful personality. Android aficionados can tweak every last detail of their phone, but iPhone devotees need no longer be left in the dust – there are a host of customization apps to empower their next move. We scoured through the App Store to rounded up six of the best home screen customization apps out there that can get your iPhone into absolutely pristine cosmetic shape.

Themify: A Wonderland of HOME Screen Customization

Themify is your stylist for your iPhone, and it can transform your home and lock screens with a mind-boggling array of themes, wallpapers and widgets. The defining feature? An alternative universe of stylistic elements. With themes that range from neon playgrounds to complex anime universes, and widgets that go beyond skin-deep decoration and become actual home screen utilities, the free ride gets you into the customization zone, but a premium subscription lets you enjoy all the bells and whistles without the pesky ads.

Wallcraft: A Gallery at Your Fingertips

For those people lucky enough to have a pulse that thumps for devastating wallpaper, Wallcraft is a veritable paradise. With hundreds of options, beautifully sliced and diced into categories that deliver exactly to your taste and your age, the journey to the right wallpaper is vastly simplified. Wallcraft also intelligently provides a suite of visually similar styles based on your chosen wallpaper, to help you get that aesthetic look. For access to a fabulous library of wallpaper, a few adverts here and there is probably the price we must pay. A premium upgrade delivers access to all that glistening goodness without the ads.

ThemePack: Customization Made Simple

Theos distilled customization down to its most basic components. ThemePack takes this further, and while it contains no layer like Pandora’s Box, it still distils customization into basic elements – tabs separated by theme, widget, wallpaper and icons – and it only gets simpler from there. It’s an app that revels in the nature of minimalism, urging you to plunge into categories such as ‘Pure Minimalist’, ‘Mini World’ or ‘Summer Vibes’ in order to take a themnic tour of the best of everything the other apps have to offer. The fun with ThemePack comes from an element of gamification. It allows you to unlock premium elements with ‘gems’ that you can earn as you use the app.

Brass: Chic and Sleek Aesthetics

With almost 200 perfectly designed themes, and each as vibrant as it is different, Brass is the app to turn your home screen into your personal brand. But it’s more than skin deep; Brass also offers a rich design studio where you can tweak themes to your heart’s content. The free version is generous; a subscription unlocks the full suite.

Widgetsmith: Widgets That Work Wonders

Widgetsmith is the highest-rated app in its overcrowded App Store category – and its widgets are almost infinitely varied. Despite the deluge of new home screen image-exchange apps that have entered the fray in the last few years, Widgetsmith is not another photo frame. It’s an ‘on-device tool’ that gives you a way to make your home screen part dashboard, part playground. Again, it’s not a simple way to decorate your not-quite-phone, but a path to finding new ways to use it. It’s true that the most interesting widgets require a subscription to unlock.

PhotoWidget: Customization with a Social Twist

PhotoWidget wins because the customisation process is turned into a social experience, and a community for sharing themes, icons and wallpapers is created within an app. It’s the free elements in a neatly categorised tab that stand out, but there’s no shortage of hidden surprises: the app offers plenty of avenues for getting creative with widgets and icons.

Why HOME Screen Customization Matters

Customizing your home-screen is not just an aesthetic pastime, it’s an endeavour to create a personalised space – a digital home, if you will – that makes your days brighter, more functional and simpler. The apps mentioned above were picked for their scope of popularity, user reviews and finally, and most importantly, for the options they provide in terms of customizations, ensuring that every iPhone user gets their perfect home-screen, regardless of their aesthetic taste or financial constraints.

At the end of the day, your iPhone is your phone, but it’s also your persona, your style, your needs. And in these apps, your home screen can become your canvas, a way of telling the world about yourself, one icon at a time.