The ability to communicate through voice has been around ever since Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, but what made mobile phones so great is the fact that you can personalize them. A large part of this personalization came with Android OS, which continues to allow users to push the boundaries of customization and enjoy a truly personal mobile experience.
Wallpapers are an essential part of this customization experience, which helps you give your Android device a facelift that suits your style. While Android OEMs and Google itself is always keen to include some stock wallpapers with the device, they simply don’t cut it for most of us. This is why there are some of the best wallpaper apps for Android, and we’ve tested the top ones to help you make a smart choice.
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1. Wallpapers by Google
An unlikely contender in the world of wallpaper apps, Google Wallpapers has risen to fame based on its ability to bring you a refreshing piece of scenery every time. You can start off by setting different home and lock screen wallpapers, but what makes the app truly special is the fact that it automatically cycles a daily new wallpaper. In regard to the wallpapers itself, you get to enjoy a mammoth collection of images based on landscapes, seascapes, textures, cityscapes, geometric shapes and even more.
2. Backdrops – Wallpapers
The wallpaper you set on your mobile device is a direct reflection of your feelings, which don’t stay the same all the time. Backdrops is a wallpaper app on steroids that help you achieve this by becoming a hub of the coolest background images you can possibly imagine to find on the internet. The social element of the app allows you to like creations, follow creators, upload your very own high-quality images, and more. With features like Wall of the Day and separate sections for AMOLED, Trinity, Earth, and other types of wallpapers, you’ll never fall short with Backdrops.
3. Microsoft Bing Wallpapers
Microsoft has released a new Bing Wallpapers on Google Play offering users a variety of beautiful images from around the globe that usually get featured on the Bing homepage. You can browse through the app’s wide catalog by choosing which color, category, or location of images you want to set a wallpaper from. The app also automatically changes your wallpaper every morning and supports both portrait and landscape mode. In addition to a plethora of images present in the library, Bing Wallpapers also lets you choose solid color wallpapers with custom colors of your choice.
4. Walli – HD Wallpapers & Backgrounds
If you believe that creating wallpapers is an art form (which it definitely is), then you’re in for a treat with Walli. This wallpaper social media app gives you an entire feed of the coolest visual creations from the most talented designers who bring you millions of wallpapers for free. Similar to social media apps like Instagram, you can follow your favorite creators, like their posts, and scroll through categories such as dark, cartoons, summer, nature, abstract and so many more. There are some non-intrusive ads every now and then, but they’re totally worth it, and participating artists are awarded for their creations too!
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5. Muzei Live Wallpaper
You can have the coolest futuristic designs on the show with wallpapers, but nothing beats the mosaic feel that the most famous artworks from the past offer with the Muzei Live Wallpaper app. Sourcing paintings from around the world in high definition, the artwork blends into the home screen and lock screen of your Android device. The wallpaper artwork is refreshed daily, and while the wallpaper remains blurred and dimmed to help you view icons easily, simply tapping an empty space on the home screen reveals the artwork for a couple of seconds in all its glory.
6. WalP – Stock HD Wallpapers
WalP offers a slew of stock wallpapers that are preinstalled on recently launched and popular smartphones. You can choose stock wallpapers from 30+ brands at high resolution, scrollable and crop functionalities. You can browse through different wallpapers using the Popular, Recent, and Shuffle tabs and also search them through brands and their phone models. Â The app also comes with an Auto Wallpaper Changer option that changes wallpapers after a preset interval automatically and you can get notifications when new wallpapers are added.
7. ZEDGE Ringtones & Wallpapers
Considering that ZEDGE is almost 4 years older than the Android OS itself, it demands a certain amount of respect for being one of the oldest services that have helped millions of users to customize their mobile devices. Apart from the fact that the app comes with a gigantic collection of ringtones for you to get your groove with, you get separate sections for wallpapers and live wallpapers to choose from, with over a dozen categories and a Featured section to find the trending ones right away.
8. Wallpapers HD, 4K Background
One issue that several mobile users face when finding good quality wallpapers is the varying resolutions that they are available in. WallpapersCraft solves this issue completely by automatically detecting the screen resolution of your device and offering only choices based on that. Keeping the interface simple, the HD wallpapers are divided as New, Rating, and Popular categories, where you can simply tap on them to download or set as the device wallpaper right away.
9. Meter
A brainchild of the Google Creative Labs initiative, Meter was created to bring simplified geometric wallpapers that do more than just look pretty. You can enable the Circle (battery), Triangle (Wi-Fi + Cellular), and Square (Notifications), which will then be displayed on your home screen as wallpaper. However, what makes them interesting is the fact that the geometries of each shape will change based on the battery percentage of your phone, available mobile and wireless networks, and the unread notifications.
10. Backgrounds HD (Wallpapers)
Similar to some of the social media wallpaper apps on the list Backgrounds HD comes with one of the largest collection of high-quality wallpapers that are handpicked by the developers. You sign up as a user who not only gets to like, comment, and download wallpapers shared by users, but also upload and show off your very own wallpapers too. While not all of the wallpapers you see in your Feed are high definition, you can browse the best of the best separately under the Explore section and find Daily Popular choices for a refreshing start.
11. AMOLED Wallpapers
While AMOLED displays have existed for years now, they’re finally becoming an industry-standard among Android devices, offering deeper blacks and more vibrant hues. For all the Galaxy smartphones and other devices that pack an AMOLED display, this wallpaper app is the ultimate solution. Making sure that every single wallpaper in their catalog comes with more than 50% black color hex code, AMOLED Wallpapers start at a minimum of 1080p Full-HD resolution, come separated based on categories like Super Hero, Landscape, Minimal and so many more.
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12. Wallrox Wallpapers
Unlike most of the best wallpaper apps we’ve highlighted above, what makes Wallrox Wallpapers different is that it does not come with submissions from the community. After looking closer, we noticed that most of the contributions come from the app developer himself, but that does not change the fact that Wallrox Wallpapers comes with some the most unique offerings out there. Breaking it all down into Trending, AMOLED, Blur, Space and so many more, almost all of the images we came across are enlisted in 4K UHD resolution, so even devices like the Galaxy S9 and S9+ can make the most out of it.
13. Girly Wallpapers & Backgrounds
After noticing an overwhelming number of men-oriented wallpaper apps, we dug in to find this gem that brings a dash of girly and feminine vibe to mobile devices. Girly Wallpapers & Backgrounds comes with more than one dozen categories of wallpapers to choose from, such as Cartoons, Fashion, Quotes, Winter and more. While we love the fact that you can view and set wallpapers with a single click, there’s no way to view resolution of the images (although most of them looked to be 1080p Full-HD resolution).
14. Tapet
Up until now, you’ve had to depend severely on the internet to not only find the best wallpaper apps but load new ones from the contributors. However, Tapet is one app that hopes to change all of this by becoming a wallpaper generator for your Android device. You get to choose from dozens of different free and premium patterns, which can then be customized in an unlimited manner. The app even gives you a Randomize app shortcut which helps you set a different wallpaper design with the tap of a button.
15. Artwalls
Another interesting wallpaper app is called Artwalls. As you guessed, this one is inspired by artistic work from various artists to deliver high-quality minimalistic wallpapers. Top features of Artwalls app include high-quality self-made wallpapers, an ever-growing collection of AMOLED wallpapers, different collections of wallpapers each with different styles, notifications for new wallpapers, and so on.
Which one of these best wallpapers apps for Android is going to be your choice for revving up the display of your mobile phone? We’re looking forward to hearing from you, do hit us up in the comments section down below.
Nice post. Wallpapers by Google doesn’t add much value in the list. There are other awesome apps released (2019) you can update and include them too.
Here are to name a few
WX Wallpapers – Best Wallpaper Collection: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=apps.prathikantam.wxwallpapers
Walpy Wallpapers :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feresr.walpy.
Wallrey: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rey.wallpaper
And a good amount of apps each with unique features.
A can’t write the whole list here.
Check this our for awesome minimal, emoji wallpapers:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sundewapps.wallix
I think this selection is missing a big contender: DiaPop lets your wallpaper be updated by your friends and family instead of having generic photos made by unknown people! Plus the surprise effect when you change the wallpaper of someone else! It is of course free and available at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vmaapps.hdwallpaper
Wallpaper Mover V2 by syscom is the only android wallpaper engine that I have seen that respects the privacy of the user while providing many triggers to change the wallpaper of my device. It even works with my existing launcher and does not request Internet access permission which gives me assurance that nothing of my private info is transmitted over the Internet. If you haven’t tried it yet you are missing something. I really like the real time of day trigger cause I can have a different wallpaper when the sunrises and when the sunsets and at twilight times of my location. The preset interval is good too which transitions to the next wallpaper smoothly at specific intervals settable from 10 seconds to a day. Changing the wallpaper on a fixed time is also possible. Very slick!