Essential Launcher vs BrickPhone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Essential Launcher
This app offers a minimalist home screen experience designed to reduce distractions and limit screen time. Customize your interface with only essential applications to promote focus and productivity.
- Minimalist home screen
- Reduce distractions
- Limit screen time
- Customize essential apps
- Clean, intuitive interface
- Dark and light modes
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Essential Launcher is a minimalist home screen launcher that helps you focus and reduce distractions. Customize your home screen with only essential apps to cut down on mindless scrolling and limit screen time. The clean, intuitive interface is easy to use, and it supports both dark and light modes for a seamless experience. Perfect for those looking to boost productivity and simplify their digital life. Download today and regain your focus. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V2q86lW5MKWbM4hDaeGUx59BKQpUAEE6AX-rF2nNiFo End User License Agreement (EULA): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C3C-AGsoerPLP0E0VjLOxl6qFjQ7DFztrHqGkkEh4t0
BrickPhone
Simplify your phone experience to enhance focus. This app offers a minimal home screen, removing distracting elements. Achieve greater productivity by decluttering your digital environment.
- Minimalist home screen
- Reduced distractions
- Focus enhancement
- Simplified interface
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BrickPhone is an app for turning simplifying your phone to help you focus. It allows you to have a minimal home screen, free of unnecessary distractions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BrickPhone at none against Essential Launcher's 6. BrickPhone also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Essential Launcher's advantage is ratings volume (36 vs 3). On price, rating, 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. Essential Launcher sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. BrickPhone asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Essential Launcher against 4.7 for BrickPhone. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Essential Launcher has 36 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Essential Launcher's written reviews are positive against 100% of BrickPhone's.
Essential Launcher ships an update every 11 days, BrickPhone weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Essential Launcher | BrickPhone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (36 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrik Racskai | Marcelo Monsalve |
Customer experience
Essential Launcher
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In-app purchases
Essential Launcher
- Monthly Discounted$0.991 Month
- Annual Discounted3 Days trial$3.991 Year
- Monthly$3.991 Month
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- Annual3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Lifetime FreeFree
- Lifetime$5.99
BrickPhone
No in-app purchases
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