If you've ever wondered about or wished you could change how your apps look, well, you actually can. You have lots of options when it comes to switching the color, background, and design of the graphics and text on your apps. Change up the entire look of your home screen on your iPad however often you want with our list of the best iPad apps for customizing a home screen.
The best iPad apps for customizing a home screen
19 Aug 2021, by Cherry Mae Torrevillas
The Widgetsmith app lets you personalize your home screen like never before. Activity widgets require a paired Apple Watch. This iPad app for customizing your home screen starts with a wide collection of highly customizable widgets, which range in function from date, to weather, to astronomy. Each can be adjusted precisely to best fit your desired function and appearance. This set of widgets can then be dynamically scheduled to appear on your home screen following rules you define.
- Personalize your home screen
- Includes a wide collection of tools, such as a weather app, a timezone converter and a calendar.
- Optionally integrates with Apple Health.
- Includes an optional premium subscription
This home screen customizing app for iPad is the #1 choice to customize your home screen with aesthetic themes, icons & widgets! It helps make your own app icons; backgrounds & widgets look aesthetic AF! With over 3 Million users raving about ScreenKit & 10,000+ 5-star reviews, this trendy app icon kits and widgets are a crowd pleaser. With this ScreenKit App Icons Widgets, you can carefully select various themes to customize your home screen design by the icons and wallpapers reflecting your taste.
- 5000+ Aesthetic App Icons
- 500+ Widgets including Date, Clock, Calendar, Bible, Motivation, Battery, Countdown Widgets etc
- 500+ Photo Widgets
- Custom App Icon Maker
- Icon Editor
- Free App Icon Kits
With the FexyHome - Style your home screen app, you can customize & design your home screen of your iPad with custom themes, styles, colors, wallpapers & backgrounds. Choose a unique Home Screen look every day for your iOS device! Enjoy cool themes with stylish frames, awesome color layers, overlays and calendars with the world's best Home Screen customization app for iPad.
- Get 21 unique home screen theme packs
- Enjoy 1000+ unique and creative hand-made designs which look great on your Home Screen
- Use easily with on screen instructions
- Get frames for both top and bottom of your Home Screen
- Add cool overlays to the middle area of the screen
- Use custom home screen calendars every month
Applets bring your favorite services together to create new experiences. Over 600 apps work with IFTTT including Twitter, Telegram, Google Drive, Twitch, Weather Underground, Instagram, Gmail, and devices like Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Nest, Philips Hue, and your iPhone. The IFTTT app also integrates with your iPhone and Apple Watch's Health app, so you can easily track and maintain your habits. IF by IFTTT app review
Download this home screen maker app and:
- Control everything around you with your voice and Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant
- Stay informed about what’s happening from publications like The New York Times and ProPublica
- Always stay prepared for the weather with custom daily forecast notifications
- Stay safe with automated and intelligent home security alerts
- Trigger events based on your current location and receive information of your choice on other matters important to you.
Siri Shortcuts deliver a quick way to get things done with your apps with just a tap or by asking Siri. The Shortcuts app enables you to create personal shortcuts with multiple steps from your favorite apps. Start from hundreds of examples in the Gallery or drag and drop to create your own. Workflow: Powerful Automation Made Simple app review
- Get directions home, send your ETA and start listening to the news, just by asking Siri
- Make PDFs from Safari or any app with a share sheet
- Get directions to the nearest coffee shop in one tap
- Send a message including the last screenshot you took
DockStar Pro Plus lets you customize your home screen wallpaper to make your device uniquely yours. Place color overlays on top of your photos and wallpapers to make them into customized home screen backgrounds with just a few steps. The app adds custom pixels to certain areas of your wallpaper, like the battery area, dock area, service dots, and more). This is a free app and you have to buy certain features but the basics are included and the packages are reasonable. Note that it doesn't change your home screen interface, just the wallpaper.
- Customize your home screen wallpaper
- Color overlays for your status bar, service dots, battery level, and dock
- Does not change the interface
- Easy to use
- Free with in-app purchases
Icon Skins Builder FREE makes it easy to create customized home screens for your iPad. Choose from icon frames, decorations, wallpapers, and more. Select your background, add shelves, add frames, and add decorations to your icons, and you're done. You can preview your home screen and even send it to friends by email. You can import your own images for the background or use ones from the app. You have the choice between 2D and 3D shelves and the built-in store offers tons of options. With all of the choices you have, the opportunity to create unique home screens is endless. Icon Skins Builder FREE app review
- Frames, decorations, and wallpapers
- Preview your home screen
- Send a copy to friends by email
- Import your own image for the background
- Free with in-app purchases
Customize your iPhone or iPad's lock screen down to the finest detail with this app. It comes packd with over a thousand unique and beautiful designs with which to adorn your lock screen. Designs are segregated into 22 different theme packs including horror, nature, romantic, sports, and many more. You can also customize the design by utilizing one of the overlay options or importing your own image. Calendar lock screens are also available, and users can pick out the color palette that appeals to their eyes
- 22 theme packs with lock screens
- Over a thousand unique designs
- Overlay options including images
- Custom lock screen calendars
- Various color palettes
Magic Screen adds magical effects to your photos and creates wallpapers you can use as your lock screen and home screen. You can add text to your image, with over 100 fonts and the ability to move, scale, align, change color, and more. You also get photo editing features like filters, borders, and more. You can customize an unlimited number of photos to use as wallpapers. Change them every day! There are also calendar skins you can choose from to display on your lock screen. Add your signature, your name, your photo, or whatever you want...it's yours! Be unique.
- Adds magical effects to your photos to create wallpapers
- Use as your lock screen and home screen
- Photo editing features
- Add text
- Free with in-app purchases
Status bar one is a cool app that adds a unique status bar to your wallpaper. There are hundreds of designs available. They're sorted into themes so it's easy to browse them and find the one you want to use. Just upload your photo, resize it if you want, choose a topic/theme you want for your status bar, and choose one you love. Save the image to your library, go to your settings, and choose it as your wallpaper. That's it! Right now the developer is offering a free status bar pack if you rate the app and leave a comment.
- Add a cool status bar to any photo
- Hundreds of options available
- Status bars are sorted into themes
- Easy to use
- Free with in-app purchases
Retrofit is a wallpaper, lock screen, and home screen designer with 16 wallpaper makers (four for free) to help you start your design. Choose the one you want to try, tweak your design using the different effects and settings, and then save it to your Camera Roll and set as your wallpaper. There are lots of ways to customize your wallpaper and get it just how you like it. You'll become addicted to making new wallpapers to set as your home screen and lock screen. Your friends will all want to know how you did it.
- Wallpaper designer
- Several free makers to try
- Customize your design
- Lots of effects
- Free with in-app purchases
