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 most Simple Home Screen you can imagine. It’s on point: that’s actually the app’s name, it’s just “ . ” a dot – a point. Add your most important + least distracting apps within the app. Download + set the wallpaper. Remove all apps from your dock. And add both the small + large widget to your home screen. It’s super minimalistic. You gonna love it. It breaks your phone habits. Makes you think twice what you actually want to do with your phone. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Pro version purchase options: lifetime unlock or super cheap monthly subscription
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Empty Widget at 67% against Minimal Launcher's 33%. Empty Widget also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 27.0). 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 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Empty Widget ships an update every 3 days, Minimal Launcher every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Empty Widget | Minimal Launcher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 32.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| 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 | 10 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
- on point | lifetime unlock$9.95
Questions
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