Minimal Launcher vs Elsewhere Reminders
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 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
Elsewhere Reminders
This app helps you set reminders for events happening in different timezones. It ensures you receive alerts at the correct local time for your contacts, no matter where you are. It's ideal for managing international events, family calls, or remote team activities.
- Set reminders in any timezone
- View local and target time before saving
- Daily, weekly, or yearly recurrence (Pro)
- Home Screen widget for next reminder
- Local device storage
- Timezone-anchored alerts
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Elsewhere is a reminder app built for people whose important moments happen in other timezones. Set a reminder for 12:00 AM April 5 in Asia/Kolkata, 9:00 AM in London, or next Friday in Tokyo. Elsewhere keeps the reminder anchored to that original local time and alerts you at the right moment wherever you are. Use it for birthdays, remote-team rituals, family calls, launches, travel plans, and anything else where the city matters as much as the date. What Elsewhere does: - Set reminders in any timezone - See both their time and your local time before saving - Use daily, weekly, or yearly recurrence with Elsewhere Pro - Keep your next reminder visible in the Home Screen widget - Store reminders locally on your device Elsewhere is reminder-first, not world-clock-first. No crowded timezone dashboard. No city grid to manage. Just the moments you care about, scheduled in the timezone where they actually happen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Elsewhere Reminders at 100% against Minimal Launcher's 33%. Elsewhere Reminders also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 27.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Elsewhere Reminders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Elsewhere Reminders holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Minimal Launcher's written reviews are positive against 100% of Elsewhere Reminders's.
Minimal Launcher ships an update every 6 weeks, Elsewhere Reminders every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minimal Launcher | Elsewhere Reminders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | riedel.wtf apps S.L. | Mehak Kalra |
Customer experience
Minimal Launcher
Elsewhere Reminders
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
Elsewhere Reminders
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Minimal Launcher
- on point pro$0.991 Month
- on point | lifetime unlock$9.95
Elsewhere Reminders
- Elsewhere Pro$0.99
Questions
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