Empty Widget vs Minimal Launcher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Empty Widget
Personalize your home and lock screens with customizable widgets. Create invisible spacing, add transparent elements, or use text, emoji, and countdowns to express yourself. Supports multiple sizes and seamlessly blends with your wallpaper.
- Transparent and invisible widgets
- Custom colors and gradients
- Text, emoji, and symbol widgets
- Countdown and clock widgets
- Home and lock screen support
- Multiple widget sizes
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Blank Widget lets you customize your home screen and lock screen with invisible, transparent, and fully personalized widgets. Create clean spacing between your apps, add transparent widgets that blend seamlessly with your wallpaper, or express yourself with custom colors, gradients, text, emoji, symbols, and countdowns. • Transparent & invisible widgets • Custom colors and gradients • Text, emoji, and SF Symbol widgets • Countdown and clock widgets • Home screen & lock screen support • Multiple sizes: small, medium, and large Privacy Policy: https://www.koza.works/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Minimal Launcher
This app offers an extremely minimalist home screen experience, designed to reduce distractions and encourage mindful phone usage. It allows you to curate a select list of essential apps and utilize widgets to break phone habits.
- Minimalist home screen
- Curated app list
- Home screen widgets
- Reduces phone habits
- Encourages mindful usage
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The simplest Home Screen for your iPhone. on point brings your most important apps and actions together in minimal, text-only Home Screen widgets. Add an on point widget to your Home Screen, touch and hold it, and choose Edit Widget to select apps, shortcuts, and system actions. Each widget has its own configuration. Download a matching light or dark wallpaper and arrange your Home Screen around what matters to you. Pro unlocks up to twelve apps and actions per extra-large widget, background colors, alignment, font size, and Rounded and Monospaced styles. Pro is available as a monthly or annual auto-renewable subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Existing lifetime purchases can be restored. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://riedel.wtf/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Empty Widget at 4.2 against Minimal Launcher's 1.0. Empty Widget also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 33%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Empty Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Minimal Launcher sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Empty Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Empty Widget has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Empty Widget's written reviews are positive against 33% of Minimal Launcher's.
Empty Widget ships an update every 3 days, Minimal Launcher every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Empty Widget | Minimal Launcher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (13 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 32.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dogancan Mavideniz | riedel.wtf apps S.L. |
Customer experience
Empty Widget
Minimal Launcher
Bugs and requests
Empty Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Minimal Launcher
Reported bugs
3 issues- Apps disappearing from widget after update
- Shortcuts not working as expected
- Inability to add widgets to home screen
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for more default iOS apps (e.g. Camera, Photos, Clock)
- Allow more widget configurations
- Option to change font size and style
- Randomize app order in widgets
In-app purchases
Empty Widget
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Yearly Premium3 Days trial$29.991 Year
Minimal Launcher
- on point pro$0.991 Month
- one year pro | Minimal Phone$9.991 Year
- on point | lifetime unlock$9.95
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