Art & Design
Themed icons, wallpapers and widgets for iPhone, plus custom charging animations, applied in one tap.
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Coordinated icon sets, wallpapers and widgets are the bread and butter of ThemeMe, with charging animations as the distinguishing extra: original artwork that plays while the phone is plugged in. It's for people who want the whole phone to follow one style rather than assembling pieces from different apps. A theme can be applied as a complete package, with every icon, wallpaper and widget changed in a single tap, or you can mix elements and colours to build your own combination. Icons install without going through Shortcuts, which removes the fiddliest part of iPhone theming. The gallery leans towards futuristic cities, landscapes and minimal animations, and there are battery styles too. Full access is a subscription that brings all themes, the charging animations, weekly content drops and no ads, so the free tier does include advertising.
Charging animations are the thing ThemeMe has that its many competitors mostly don't: original artwork that plays on screen while the phone is plugged in. The rest is the expected trio, icon sets, wallpapers and widgets, sold as coordinated packages so the whole phone follows one style.
Themes apply in a single tap, and icons install without a detour through Apple's Shortcuts app, which removes the most tedious step in restyling an iPhone. The gallery leans toward futuristic cityscapes, landscapes and minimal motion. A subscription brings everything, weekly drops and no ads.
Setting up takes one visit: choose a theme, tap once, and icons, wallpaper and widgets change together. After that the app mostly runs itself. The charging animation is what you'll notice day to day, playing each time the cable goes in, and the battery styles sit alongside it. When you want a change, either pick another full package or mix pieces and colours from different sets into your own combination.
Weekly content drops give subscribers a reason to open it again, though nothing forces you to.
Two things: the charging animations, which people see on someone else's phone and go looking for, and the promise of icon installation without Shortcuts. Anyone who has built a shortcut per app by hand knows why the second one matters. The futuristic and landscape artwork gives it a particular visual niche that some searchers want specifically.
The listing describes a gallery of futuristic cities, landscapes and minimal animations, so the visual tone skews cinematic rather than cute, and the five screenshots on the page should bear that out. One-tap application means the interface is likely a browse-and-apply storefront with little in the way of editing screens. Animated content suggests motion plays a bigger role here than in still-wallpaper apps.
Version 2.4 suggests a second major version with a handful of updates, less history than some rivals in this category. The rating is 4.6 across more than 10,000 reviews, which is fine. Estu LLC publishes it, and only the App Store is linked. Weekly content drops are promised to subscribers, and the data here can't say how reliably they land.
Charging screen flair
Original animations play whenever the phone is plugged in.
Skipping the Shortcuts chore
Icons install directly rather than through hand-built shortcuts.
Sci-fi and landscape tastes
The gallery leans to futuristic cities and scenery rather than pastels.
Rated 4+ and free to install, with ads in the free tier; the subscription removes them and adds all themes, the charging animations and weekly drops, but no price is given in the listing. Expect the animations to need the app's involvement when charging, and some wallpapers and widgets may use more battery than static ones, though the listing doesn't address that. No account requirement or region limit is stated. App Store only.
Our take
Go for it if the charging animation is the feature you actually want, since it's the one that sets this apart, and the no-Shortcuts icon install is a real convenience. If you only want icons and a wallpaper, several rivals do that too and the subscription here is paying mostly for the extras. Check the price in-app first.