SwirlWalls becomes free to use, adds new wallpaper styles & features

The innovative Feature Meter and multilayered wallpapers headline SwirlWalls 2.0.

Chris Lacy
ActionWalls
5 min readJul 30, 2021

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With SwirlWalls 1.0, we created a next-gen animated wallpaper app that makes your phone feel more responsive, transforming your 100+ daily phone interactions into subtle yet joyous micro sessions of delight.

With the 2.0 update, SwirlWalls raises the bar with 60+ new & exclusive multilayered animated wallpapers, as well as a new Tap-to-Spin feature.

Best of all, we’re also removing the requirement to purchase the app, allowing everyone to install & use all app wallpapers & features forever, without ever paying a cent.

🆕 SwirlWalls 2.0 — now for everyone

Introducing the Feature Meter (Beta)

The Feature Meter is a flexible, accessible & non-invasive monetization system that allows everyone to unlock 100% of wallpapers and app features for free.

The higher the Feature Meter level, the more wallpapers & features are unlocked.

Like a phone battery, the Feature Meter depletes over time, at which point certain features & wallpapers will lock. But you can top up the Feature Meter at any time by watching a single reward ad & immediately regain access to locked features.

Best of all, once you fill the Feature Meter, it goes into surplus. This allows you to ‘bank time’ with 100% of app wallpapers & features unlocked, without ever paying a cent.

SwirlWalls Prime — a permanently full Feature Meter

For those who’d prefer to permanently fill up the Feature Meter, SwirlWalls Prime has you covered.

SwirlWalls Prime

A single SwirlWalls Prime purchase permanently fills the Feature Meter, unlocking all SwirlWalls app features and wallpapers in perpetuity.

As popularized by Nova Launcher, SwirlWalls Prime is a standalone “license key” app, enabling behavior not possible with in-app purchases such as allowing customers to share their purchase via Google Play Family Library, and also evaluate Prime within Google Play’s refund period.

Note: all previous purchases of SwirlWalls 1.0 will automatically be upgraded to SwirlWalls Prime. See the FAQ for further details.

🆕 Multilayered wallpapers

At its core, SwirlWalls shines by offering gorgeous, custom built wallpapers that don’t just look great, but bring an enhanced level of responsiveness and delight as you use your phone. Swiping between home screens just feels more fun when your wallpaper naturally yet subtly reacts with your gestures.

With SwirlWalls 2.0, we’ve upgraded the ActionWalls Engine (“AWE”) by adding new multilayered wallpapers that allow for even more truly unique home screen experiences.

Here’s a glimpse of the new Fiber Orbit, Hooli Hoops and Holo HUD multilayered walls (note: rotation levels can of course be customized):

GIFs don’t do SwirlWalls justice. For maximum results, try for yourself in the app 😀

Multilayered wallpapers open up entirely new levels of fun and responsiveness. We particularly love the way some Fiber Orbit layers spin in the opposite direction of your finger (trust us on this one!).

SwirlWalls 2.0's new multilayered wallpaper styles, each with 16+ remixes, brings SwirlWalls’ total wallpapers count to over 200.

🆕 Tap-to-Spin

SwirlWalls 1.0 introduced FlickFX, a Wii-remote style gesture allowing you to physically flick your device to spin the wallpaper. Customers likened this to a fidget spinner, and we agree!

SwirlWalls 2.0 doubles down on this quirky sense of fun by introducing Tap-to-Spin — a new feature that spins the wallpaper each time you tap the screen. Best of all, you can chain taps together to increase the spin speed.

FlickFX and Tap-to-Spin combine to bring new micro-sessions of delight to your daily phone usage that are only possible with SwirlWalls.

SwirlWalls 2.0 — building on an amazing foundation

SwirlWalls 2.0 of course includes all the innovative features that launched with SwirlWalls 1.0 including wallpaper remixes, Dark theme support & more.

SwirlWalls 2.0 — now for everyone!

With the 2.0 update, SwirlWalls offers more than 200 gorgeous, handcrafted wallpapers, animated to life via our AWE tech, to offer a truly unique & compelling home screen experience.

And with the Feature Meter, we’re introducing a flexible & accessible business model that makes 100% of wallpapers and app features available to everyone.

We hope you’ll give SwirlWalls a try for yourself!

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Chris Lacy
ActionWalls

Writer of code, words. Responsible for @ActionLauncher.