Stencil app review: create beautiful wallpaper backgrounds with monogramming and parallax options

Introduction

With the iPhone and iPad becoming increasingly available to people from various walks of life, many of us spend more and more time on our devices and are constantly looking at our wallpapers, be it the home screen when looking for an app, or the lock screen to check the time or messages.

Stencil - Monogram Wallpaper Backgrounds Fashion Skins Themes is an app that can help you personalize your phone by enabling you to create DIY wallpapers that you can go on to use for your lock screen or home screen.

Available in the App Store for 99 cents, this app is one of the few paid wallpaper apps that is fairly popular so I deduced that it may provide users with something that free apps and many paid apps don't. Here's what I found.

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Background Designs

Stencil - Monogram Wallpaper Backgrounds Fashion Skins Themes is not a small app by any means, weighing in at 59.7 MB. Once you download and launch the app, however, it becomes clear why it simply cannot be much smaller: there are thousands of wallpaper designs available that can act as your background, with many being added regularly with each of the frequent updates.

Themes range from preppy and trendy to classic backgrounds including the likes of chevron, quatrefoil, anchors, and tribal designs. You can even use your own photograph to act as the background by importing it from your camera roll.

 

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Ultimate Flexibility

There is an unprecedented level of flexibility offered to users so they may configure the wallpaper exactly as they want it. Once you've selected the background you like, you can implement a monogram badge to it. This badge and text can be added anywhere on the screen and moved at a later time in case you find it doesn't look quite as you had expected, opening up a world of possibilities in the type of look you can achieve.

Themed stickers can be added to your monogram. Themes include faith, sorority, 'merica, doodle, love, monogram frames, and many more. Alternatively, use your current photographs to create stickers and use them on your badge instead.

You can also add text to your images to create a meme, a meaningful caption, or simply to have your initials on the wallpaper. I also love the option of adding a calendar to your lock screen so you can see the month at a glance for added functionality.

 

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Pros & Cons

Pros

• Quickly and easily create your own DIY wallpapers
• Apply a monogram that suits and speaks about your style
• Incorporate a customizable calendar into your lock screen for added functionality
• Choose from a huge selection of backgrounds to personalize your screens

Cons

• This app seems to crash sometimes during the application of stencils

 

Final Words

Stencil - Monogram Wallpaper Backgrounds Fashion Skins Themes is a great app to have if you want to personalize your screens or even make wallpapers for your friends. Despite the minor issues with crashing, this is a fantastic app which will enable you to adorn your iPhone or iPad with great ease.