Pimp Your Screen Review: It enables you to do just that…
| App Name: | Pimp Your Screen |
| Platforms: | Universal (Optimized for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch) |
| Publisher(s): | Apalon |
| Version Reviewed: | 1.6 |
| Genre(s): | Lifestyle |
| Release Date: | November 9, 2011 |
| Price: | $.99 |
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If you’re at all like me, you change your iPhone’s screen about as often as you change your socks; which is to say, quite a bit.
Now, I’m not exactly the most creative person when it comes to design elements and color schemes. I can’t design anything my mom would want to put up on the refrigerator, and I struggled to comprehend the wonders of MS Paint as a kid growing up. Thankfully, there are a litany of apps out there that help me overcome my creative shortcomings by allowing me to easily customize my iPhone’s home and lock screen with gorgeous photos, drawings, and designs.
Pimp Your Screen might be one of the best. This app offers a broad selection of well-designed wall papers for iOS devices of all sizes, making it easy to customize your new look.
First of all, take a gander through Pimp Your Screen’s arsenal of gorgeous retina display ready wallpapers and find which one suits you best. There are plenty of themes for all kind of occasions, including updated ones for whatever current holiday season you are celebrating. Once you’ve found the one you like best, simply tap SAVE, and the photo will be saved to your device’s camera roll. From there, hop on over to your camera roll, select said photo, then save it as either a wall paper or lock screen item, and you’re good to go. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
If you want more customization, you can customize the wall paper even further by using the Lock Screen and Home Screen Maker feature. This feature allows you to select your preferred wall paper, but also add on overlay shelves, icon skins, and other images over the original. It’s actually very easy to do and gives you even more options to customize your specific look.
Personally, being the OCD freak that I am, I rather enjoy the shelves feature. This theme will give an organized look to your screen by placing a shelf underneath all of the apps, thus making them appear to be resting upon a mantle of some sort. The shelving options are numerous, ranging from mahogany style to a futuristic industrial look. It’s also fun to try and see which shelves couple nicely with certain wall papers, and your customization options are virtually endless.
One thing I particularly liked about the app was that it gave me a preview feature. This feature overlays a set of app icons, or the lock screen, over the wall paper of your choosing so you can take a look at what the proposed job would look like when finished. This saves you the time and effort of going through all of the work yourself, only to get back to your home screen to find out that you don’t really like the look all that much anyway.
The images and previews load rather quickly, so you it doesn’t take a lot of time to get the look you want; that is if you’ve already found the perfect wall paper for whatever your tastes are in that moment, which I’ll talk more about below.
It’s great to have such a huge selection of wall papers, but this ultimately can prove to be a little bit of a problem. There really isn’t a simple, organized way to browse through all of your options. You’re basically left to just peruse through every picture, one by one, until you have found the one you like. But if you want to keep going to see more, you’ll have to keep searching through them in a linear manner, one by one, and do the same if you want to regress back to a previous photo. This disorganization is a minor problem, really, but it would certainly make things much easier if you could browse through via category and themes.
As far as home and lock screen customization apps go, Pimp Your Screen does its job quite nicely. There are already a healthy number of wall paper choices, with more being added on a frequent basis; so if you haven’t found many you’re particularly fond of right off the bat, you’re sure to stumble across one eventually. It’s simple, easy to use, and does its job nicely. What more can you ask for?
And at the price of a cheeseburger ($.99), it’s a more than justified purchase. Besides, we could all use one less cheeseburger.
Our Score: 4.5 Out of 5
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