About Wallpaper Apps

Wallpaper Apps is a solo project by Volodya Avetisyan. The site has two halves: a set of sixteen free, themed wallpaper apps for Android (each focused on one clear subject — a city, an art style, or a category like animals or chess), and a small editorial blog covering the things you actually need to know about phone wallpapers — display technology, composition, colour, and customization.

Neither half exists to pad out the other. The apps are useful on their own; the blog is intended to be readable even if you never install any of them. If anything, the blog is more thorough than most paid wallpaper-app marketing material — I'd rather tell you why a wallpaper doesn't suit your screen than push you to a download you'll uninstall in a week.

Who I am

I'm Volodya Avetisyan, an independent Android developer. I've been publishing apps on Google Play since the mid-2010s and have built and maintained the wallpaper apps on this site directly — no team, no template factory, no third-party content scraping. Every theme page on this site corresponds to an app I wrote and continue to maintain.

My background is Android development and small-team product work. The wallpaper project is something I've kept running on the side because I find it genuinely interesting — the intersection of display technology, visual design, and phone customization is more substantial than the category usually gets credit for, and the blog on this site is an attempt to do that intersection justice.

How the apps are made

• One clear theme per app. A city, an art style, or a category — no scattershot collections.
• Curated, not scraped. Each app's image set is hand-picked and prepared in portrait orientation for tall, high-density phone displays.
• Lightweight. Most apps are under 10 MB installed. Permissions are limited to what's actually needed — internet access for downloads, network state, and the system wallpaper API.
• Free, with minimal advertising. The apps include modest ad placement to cover hosting and development; they don't gate content behind paywalls, and they never display interstitial ads on launch.

How the blog is written

The articles on this site are written by me, edited over time, and updated when something material changes (Android version releases, new display technology, that kind of thing). I write about what I actually use and know — Android, AMOLED panels, Material You, composition for phone-shaped images. When a piece touches on research findings (the biophilia article, for example), I cite the underlying studies and note their effect sizes rather than overstate them.

Three editorial standards I try to follow:

• Specificity over generality. A claim with a number, a name, or a date is worth more than a generic assertion. Where the article has data, the data is real.
• Honest uncertainty. If the effect is small or the research is contested, the article says so.
• No AI-generated padding. The articles are written and edited by hand. They're not meant to be the longest version of themselves; they're meant to be the shortest version that still tells you what you need.

How this site makes money (and why that matters)

Two ways: free Google Play apps with modest in-app advertising, and (pending approval) Google AdSense on this site. Neither is large; the project is genuinely a side project, not a business. I mention this because I'd want to know it if I were reading a wallpaper-and-personalization site, and because it shapes the editorial position: I have no financial relationship with any phone manufacturer, OS vendor, or third-party wallpaper provider. When the blog recommends or criticises something, it's based on what I've actually used.

Get in touch

Suggestions for new themes, feedback on an article, corrections, or a problem to report are always welcome. You can reach me through the contact page, and Google Play reviews on the individual apps genuinely help shape which collections come next.