There's also a community tab for images uploaded by other users, and the app provides the ability to rate and favorite images you want to return to later.īackdrops is another that lets you set an image to your lock screen, as well as your home screen in one tap too.
If you're happy to spend a little money on your wallpaper habit, Backdrops is well worth a look, and gets a shoutout for its considered UI and image categorization, but there are also plenty of free wallpapers available.Īs well as the now-familiar list of categories you'd expect in a wallpaper app, Backdrops provides an 'Explore' panel, which is a neat way to bring together both free and premium images. As with Wallpapers HD, the app also lets you set an image for multiple destinations, such as the lock screen, home screen or profile images on your phone.īackgrounds HD lets you follow other users and upload your own images.
You don't need to register to download or favorite images, but you will need to if you want to leave comments on other people's uploads, follow people within the app or if you want to upload your own backgrounds.
Popular lets you search by daily, weekly, monthly or all-time. As well as breaking everything down into different categories and providing a search option, images are also organized into Featured, Recent and Popular shots. Wallpapers HD & 4K Backgrounds Backgrounds HD Wallpapersīackgrounds HD is another on this list that lets users submit images of their own (provided you sign into the app) but it has fewer features than 7Fon above, which may appeal to some people. Registered users can also submit images.ħFon is good for searching by color. If you choose to create an account, you can favorite and rate images, which is then shown within the app to give an idea of the popularity of each image. where to store the images and a few other useful controls. Tapping on any of those colors then returns other images with similar colors this might not sound very useful, but if you want a specific color, rather than a specific image, that's not always too easy to achieve via other wallpaper apps.ħFon also has some robust auto-image changing options, which allow you to control options like how often the image changes, whether to download on Wi-Fi or data. You can also tap the palette icon in the top-right of the main app screen. As well as breaking all the images down by category, you can also tap on the information button on any individual image to bring up a color palette from that shot. It's also one of the best wallpaper apps for filtering through a huge selection of different options. © NextPitħFon is the first option in this list that provides the option of signing into an app, but it's not entirely necessary just to use it. Google's own wallpaper app is the newest in this list. If you have multiple wallpaper apps installed, you can view and launch them via the Wallpapers app too. Perhaps the one potential downside, if you're looking for a specific image or item, is that there's no search functionality within the app. Nonetheless, it's a solid choice to consider and it's all free. Another of the advantages of Google's Wallpaper app is that the repository of images is continually updated. Once you've selected your category, you can then either choose a specific image, or select the option to automatically change the wallpaper each day with a new image from that category. You can choose between your photos, on-device wallpapers, live wallpapers, or choose a specific category, like 'Cityscapes' or 'Textures'. Wallpapers by Google isn't the company's best-known app, but it's a solid choice for anyone that wants to have a whole range of different wallpaper options available to them.