Best Apps to Customize Start Screen on Windows Phone 8.1

Ever since the option to have a background image was announced, tons of apps has started flowing in with serious creative ideas on how you can make your start screen stand out from the herd. Today in this app roundup, we are sharing some of the best apps you should be using to customize your start screen.

Accent Builder :

This is my personal favorite which I featured few days back. This app allows you to have 3 to 4 background colors, each as vertical stripes for the tiles. You can choose any color from the color picker and make it just look so beautiful. Those who think random background images are just distraction, this is about solid background but still impressive.

Start Screen Customizer:

If you feel solid colors aren’t that cool, check out this app. It allows you to use Accent Image and Gradient colors along with solid ones.  The impressive part is that if you have an image on which there are on few things that needs attention, you can add blur to that and put it in the background.

Battery Alive:

This app has been designed by popular dev. JDB Pocketware and is a classic example how much you can customize a tile. The app displays Battery percentage but can do with a custom background or just over the start theme background you already have. The tile can show a vertical or horizontal fill where the battery percentage indicator can be put on.  You can choose two shades of color to mix and match. If you would love to call the tile as Battery Left, you can do that too.

Group Tiles:

This was being used to create a separator between apps to give an organized look to start screen but with Windows Phone 8.1 you can now create tiles with transparent background or completely transparent tiles

Polyscreen:

Love random shapes? polygons? This app just lets you generate wallpapers like that with colors to make it look super cool. Just pickup the gradient, noise, size and wallpaper would be ready to use. You can also choose the random option which randomize the shapes and if you feel that’s the one, save it to your album and use it as the background.

Start Perfect:

This app is not just for anybody. If you can go complex and yet create a simple start screen to impress, this app can do this for you with so man options that you would forget to count.  It also includes features which are indifferent app making it as one stop app to get your start screen customized.

• Transparency Tiles for OneNote, New Word Document, New Excel Worksheet, Songza, Battery, Moliplayer, Yelp, eBay, and more.
• Lets you change the name of the tiles.
• You can create invisible blank tiles which will automatically give importance to your background image.
• Supports solid color, a gradient, or a custom polyfill.
• You can also choose any background image and add tint effect to it.
• Custom tile with image support for Websites.
• Game tile with your avatar on back of it.

The only thing you need to do to get this is pay 0.99 USD

ZEDGE™ Ringtones & Wallpapers:

Not exactly a a customizer which this is a very popular wallpaper and ringtone service which has an app for Windows Phone 8.1. This means you can get tons of wallpapers for your Start Screen background. A must have app for sure.