Minimal Launcher vs Boost Focus Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
Boost Focus Timer
Enhance your productivity with a customizable focus timer and habit tracker. Utilize a proactive AI agent to assist with goals and tasks. This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools to help you stay organized and achieve your objectives.
- Customizable focus sessions
- Habit tracking
- Goal setting
- Proactive AI agent assistance
- Fully customizable productivity tools
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Start focus sessions, track habits, goals, and get help from proactive AI -- fully customizable productivity app, just ask the AI agent.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boost Focus Timer at 100% against Minimal Launcher's 33%. Boost Focus Timer also leads on rating (3.7 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Minimal Launcher's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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. Minimal Launcher sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Boost Focus Timer sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Boost Focus Timer holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Minimal Launcher's written reviews are positive against 100% of Boost Focus Timer's.
Minimal Launcher ships an update every 2 months, Boost Focus Timer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minimal Launcher | Boost Focus Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | riedel.wtf apps S.L. | Jacob Beauchamp |
Customer experience
Minimal Launcher
Boost Focus Timer
Bugs and 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
Boost Focus Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Minimal Launcher
- on point pro$0.991 Month
- one year pro | Minimal Phone$9.991 Year
- on point | lifetime unlock$9.95
Boost Focus Timer
- Boost Focus Timer Subscription7 Days trial$1.491 Month
- Boost Focus Timer Subscription7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Rocket Timer Animation$2.99
- Battery Timer Animation$2.99
Questions
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