Comparison

Smile App Launcher vs ScreenLocation

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Smile App Launcher

Transform your iPhone into a minimalist dumb phone with a clean interface and customizable widgets. Quickly access essential apps and reduce distractions to boost productivity and digital wellbeing.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free interface
  • Customizable widgets
  • Quick app access
  • 12 widget types
  • Steps widget integration
  • Transparent widget mode
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Simplify with a dumb phone Tired of cluttered screens and endless distractions? Smile turns your iPhone into a minimal dumb phone: a clean home screen with only the apps you need, launched from widgets you design yourself. Key features - Clean, distraction-free interface - Quick access to your essential apps - Customizable widget layout, fonts and colors - 12 widget types, including Weather, Calendar and Clock - Steps widget: today's step count from Apple Health, read-only, never leaves your phone - Transparent widget mode - Extra-large widgets on iOS 27 and later - Available in 47 languages Why Smile? - Boost productivity: focus on what matters by reducing visual noise. - Improve digital wellbeing: less screen time, more real life. - Simplify your device: a streamlined, friendly interface. - Community-driven: your feedback shapes every update. Join the Discord. Perfect for minimalists, productivity enthusiasts, digital detox seekers, and anyone who wants a simpler phone. Our promise We keep things simple, including our business model. All core dumb phone features stay free. Premium is an optional in-app purchase that unlocks more widgets and supports development. Questions or ideas? Visit https://smileapplauncher.com/support Terms of Use (EULA): https://smileapplauncher.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://smileapplauncher.com/privacy

About

ScreenLocation

Features
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Block the apps you lose time to, at the places you lose it. ScreenLocation notices the places you go, names them using Apple's own map data, and lets you shut distracting apps off while you are there. Block social media at your desk. Block games at the gym. They come back on their own the moment you leave. You never tag a location, name a place, or confirm anything. SET A LIMIT - Pick a place, pick the apps, done - Those apps are blocked while you are there and released when you leave - Turn a limit off for an afternoon without deleting it - Limits follow the place, not a schedule you have to maintain SEE WHERE IT GOES - Screen time attributed to each place you visit - Ranked, so you can see which places actually cost you - Every day charted by place, over any date range - Every place gets a street address, whether or not a business was identified HOW THE NAMING WORKS Home and Work are worked out purely from your own pattern - where your phone spends its nights, and where it spends weekday working hours. Anywhere else, the app asks Apple's map data what business sits at that spot. If nothing is listed, it uses the street name. It will not guess. If two shops sit side by side and a visit cannot tell them apart, it shows the address and offers you the choice. PRIVACY Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-in, no sync, no analytics, no ads, no third parties. The only network use is a single map lookup when a brand-new place is first detected, so that it can be given a name. FREE TRIAL, THEN ONE PAYMENT Everything is unlocked for 7 days. After that, tracking and the limits you have already set keep working. Adding new limits and the Trends tab need a one-time $1.99 purchase - kept for good, on every device signed in to your Apple Account. No subscription. WHAT IT NEEDS - "Always" location access, so places can be detected while the app is closed. It uses Apple's low-power visit monitoring, not continuous GPS tracking. - Screen Time access, Apple's own permission for setting app limits and reading usage. A NOTE ON ACCURACY iOS does not give third-party apps a live running total of usage, so per-place minutes are estimated from usage thresholds and will not add up exactly to the figure in Settings. Time spent travelling between places is deliberately left out rather than assigned to whichever place happened to be nearest. Apple's own exact daily total is shown inside the app so you can always compare.

Screenshots

Smile App Launcher4 screens
ScreenLocation4 screens

Verdict

The call

Smile App Launcher and ScreenLocation are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Smile App Launcher sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and ScreenLocation sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Smile App Launcher versus ScreenLocation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmile App LauncherScreenLocation
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (365 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings365 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEggvelop ApsAndrew Meyers

Bugs and requests

Smile App Launcher

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Phone app shortcut not working
  • Some apps not available in the list
  • Widget disappearing after iOS update

Requested features

5 requests
  • More widget pages/slots
  • Ability to hide widget name
  • Support for iPad
  • More font options
  • Spacer widgets for layout customization

ScreenLocation

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Smile App Launcher

Subscriptions2
  • Smile Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Smile Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Smile Lifetime$23.99
1 purchases

ScreenLocation

One-time1
  • Trends$1.99

Questions

Is Smile App Launcher free?
Smile App Launcher is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScreenLocation free?
ScreenLocation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smile App Launcher or ScreenLocation have ads?
Neither Smile App Launcher nor ScreenLocation shows ads.

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