Some warnings 8 users report an aggressive ad load. Nothing confirmed. Checked: 80 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 20 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 2.6.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-20 .
The store currently lists version 5.0.0, updated 2026-09-18.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2.6.3, not the version now listed on the store.
The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Turn any video into a Live Photo wallpaper, or pick from hundreds of ready-made ones. Trim one second of any clip, crop it to your Lock Screen and save it as a Live Photo. Press and hold the Lock Screen to play it.
LIVE PHOTO MAKER
- Choose any video from your Photos.
- Drag to pick the second you want. Longer clips up to 10 seconds are supported, but 1 second is recommended for Lock Screen wallpapers.
- Crop to portrait so it fills the screen.
- Save it as a Live Photo, then set it as your Lock Screen wallpaper in Settings or Photos.
READY-MADE LIVE PHOTO WALLPAPERS
Hundreds of Live Photo wallpapers for every mood: flickering fireplaces, aquariums, ocean waves, coral reefs with sharks, forests, galaxies and festive Christmas scenes. Browse New arrivals, see what's Popular, or save the ones you love to Favorites. Search by tag when you know what you want.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 10 reviews we read)
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.
80 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Ads are out of control — Ads are out of control
Ads galore — Way too much ads. Even after purchasing this app!
Not so great — Paid version has many ads but mostly after paying I cannot save the live wallpaper correctly. Lastly the app has now locked up after a few minutes and cannot figure how to undo. Had to remove. Not even worth the $.99
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 2.6.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-20 .
The store currently lists version 5.0.0, updated 2026-09-18.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2.6.3, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
New: Live Photo Maker. Turn any video into a Live Photo wallpaper Ready for iOS 27 and iPhone 18 Hundreds of new Live Photo wallpapers
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
New: Live Photo Maker. Turn any video into a Live Photo wallpaper Ready for iOS 27 and iPhone 18 Hundreds of new Live Photo wallpapers
+ new wallpapers + bug fixes and other improvements
Appworthy
live-photo-wallpaper-makerAssessed 2026-10-20 from 80 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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