ThemeMate DIY Themes & Widgets

Review by eFreeware

ThemeMate's pitch is that it handles the whole look of your phone in one place: icons, widgets and wallpaper bundled into themes that can be applied together rather than piece by piece. That coordinated approach is the most distinctive thing about it, and it is the reason I would point it at people who enjoy changing how their home screen looks but don't want to assemble a matching set by hand from several different sources.

It comes from WestPoint Store, it's free to download, and it has been picked up more than 100,000 times since its release in late August 2025. The average sits at 4.7 from 1,761 ratings, which suggests the people who stick with it tend to be satisfied. The app carries ads and offers in-app purchases, so it is worth going in with a clear idea of what the free download gives you and what the subscription adds.

The category is personalization, and ThemeMate sits firmly in the visual-decoration corner of it. If you like the idea of your home screen reflecting a mood or a season, and you're comfortable browsing collections until something catches your eye, this is built for you.

Themes that pull icons, widgets and wallpaper together

The developer leads with the all-in-one theme, and it's the feature that makes the rest of the app make sense. A theme brings icons, widgets and wallpaper into one coordinated design, and the developer says a single tap is enough to apply it. That matters because the usual alternative is hunting down a wallpaper in one place, an icon pack in another, and then fiddling until they look like they belong together.

The library covers a range of styles rather than a single aesthetic. The developer mentions dark mode looks and soft pastel ones, which are about as far apart as you can get, so there's room to change direction when you get bored of whatever you picked last. Because the theme handles all three elements at once, switching is a low-effort way to refresh the phone without rebuilding anything.

What appeals to me here is the reduction in fiddling. A cohesive look is easy to start and hard to finish, and a theme that arrives pre-matched removes most of the finishing work. The trade-off is that you're choosing from what the catalog offers rather than designing from nothing, which is where the theme maker comes in.

Icon packs, wallpapers and the widget shelf

Underneath the themes sit the individual pieces. The icon collection runs to more than 2,000 packs, and the developer describes them as spanning minimalist, neon and cartoon looks among others, with more being added over time. That's a large enough range that most people will find a style that fits, and it also means the theme maker has plenty of raw material to work with.

Wallpapers come in both static and live varieties, in 4K quality. The subjects named include anime, nature, cityscapes and supercars, which is a broad sweep rather than a narrow niche. Live wallpapers are the more demanding option visually, so they're the ones I'd expect to reach for when you want the screen to feel active rather than just decorated.

The widget shelf is the part that goes beyond decoration. There are widgets for time, weather, calendar and quotes, which cover the practical information people usually want visible at a glance. Alongside those sit photo and visual widgets for putting your own images on the screen, and a digital pet that lives on your home screen and needs feeding. That last one is a small thing, but it's the kind of detail that makes a personalization app feel like it has a personality of its own rather than being a pure catalog.

Building your own theme from scratch

The theme maker is for anyone who finds the ready-made sets close but not quite right. It lets you customize each element, mixing icons, widgets and wallpapers into a combination that reflects your own taste rather than a designer's. The app is easy to use, and given that the whole app is oriented around browsing and applying rather than editing files, I'd expect the process to be closer to assembling from a menu than to designing from a blank canvas.

This is where the size of the catalog pays off. With thousands of icons and a wide spread of wallpapers, the combinations available are effectively endless, and you can keep refining a look over time instead of settling for the nearest match. If you have a specific color scheme or a photo you want to build around, this is the route to it.

The practical limit is that everything you mix comes from what the app provides. The theme maker arranges the collection. For most people that's a reasonable trade for the convenience, but it's worth understanding before you start planning something very particular.

Ads, subscriptions and what the app asks of you

ThemeMate is free to download, and it contains ads. It also offers in-app purchases, including an unlimited access subscription that opens up all premium features, available as either a weekly or an annual plan. That's the shape of the cost: you can start without paying, and the subscription is there if you want the full set of features without the limitations of the free experience.

Which plan makes sense depends on how you use it. Someone who changes their theme a few times a year has a different calculation from someone who treats the home screen as an ongoing project. The weekly option is the more flexible of the two on that front, while the annual one is the choice for anyone who expects to keep the app installed long term. I'd suggest deciding after you've spent some time with the free version and know how often you actually reach for it.

The app is rated for Everyone and the install base is large enough that you're not taking a chance on something obscure. The developer's most recent update added more themes and live wallpapers along with bug fixes, so the catalog is still growing rather than sitting still.

Getting the most out of a theme app

The sensible way in is to start with a ready-made theme rather than the maker. Applying one gives you an immediate sense of how the icons, widgets and wallpaper sit together on your own screen, and it tells you quickly whether the styles on offer match your taste. Once you've lived with a couple of them, you'll know which elements you'd want to change, and that's the point at which the theme maker becomes useful rather than overwhelming.

Widgets are worth treating as a separate decision from the visual theme. Time, weather, calendar and quotes are the ones that earn their space by being glanced at, and the photo widgets are the ones that make the screen feel personal. The digital pet is its own thing entirely, and it only makes sense if you find the idea of feeding something on your home screen appealing rather than irritating.

Because the app is built around browsing, it rewards a bit of patience. Rather than grabbing the first theme that looks good, it's worth looking through the icon styles and wallpaper categories to see what's actually there, since the range is the main argument for using a single app instead of assembling a look from several sources. The updates the developer has been shipping mean it's also worth checking back periodically for new additions.

A worthwhile download for home screen tinkerers

ThemeMate is a well-stocked personalization app with a clear central idea: keep icons, widgets and wallpaper in one place and let people apply them as a set. The catalog is genuinely broad, the widget selection covers both the useful and the playful, and the theme maker gives you a way to go beyond what the designers prepared. For a free download with a 4.7 average across a substantial number of ratings, that's a reasonable proposition.

The caveats are straightforward. There are ads, there's a subscription for full access, and everything you build is assembled from the app's own collection. None of that is unusual for the category.

If you've ever spent an evening trying to make a wallpaper and an icon pack agree with each other, this is the app that removes that evening from your life.

What's new in version 1.2.7

- Update more Themes - Update more Live Wallpaper - Bugs Fixed