Comparison

Dimm vs Scheme

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

Head to head
About

Dimm

This app offers a minimalist approach to launching your applications by displaying them as a clean, text-only list on your home screen. Customize fonts, colors, and layouts to create a personalized and distraction-free experience. It prioritizes privacy with no account creation or tracking.

Highlights
  • Text-only app widgets
  • Launch any app via link
  • Customizable fonts, colors, and spacing
  • Scheduled and context-aware layouts
  • Full-screen main screen launcher
  • Private by default, no tracking
Features
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Dimm is a calmer way to open your apps. Instead of a grid of colorful icons, Dimm gives you a widget that's just words: a clean, text-only list of the apps you actually use. Tap a name and it opens. That's it. Quiet by design. Yours to shape. • TEXT-ONLY WIDGETS: App names, the date, the time, a greeting or your own words. No icons, no badges, no noise. Small, medium and large sizes. • LAUNCH ANYTHING: Pick from a catalog of more than 1,000 apps, or add any app that opens with a link. Tap to open, straight from your Home Screen. • STYLE IT YOUR WAY: Choose the font, color, alignment and spacing. Match your wallpaper, or disappear into it. • IT SWITCHES ITSELF: Put a layout on a schedule or pin one to a Focus, and Dimm shows the right apps for the moment: morning, work, wind-down. • A CALM MAIN SCREEN: Choose a Main Screen layout and opening Dimm shows it full screen, ready to launch from. • PRIVATE BY DEFAULT: No account, no tracking, no analytics. Your layouts and apps never leave your device. Dimm Pro, a one-time purchase, unlocks unlimited layouts, scheduled switching, every font, custom colors, matching wallpapers and a custom launch splash. The free version keeps a starter layout plus one of your own, forever. Calm by design. Private by default. Questions? team@snowyghost.com

About

Scheme

Features
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Scheme turns your iPhone Home Screen into something that's unmistakably yours — with real, useful widgets and a coordinated set of themes, wallpapers, and fonts that all match. TERMINAL-STYLE WIDGETS • Apps — your selected apps as a simple text list, not a grid of icons — one tap to open each • Clock — a terminal-style clock: date, time, or both • Calendar — your next events, "Up Next" at a glance • Reminders — what's due, with overdue flags • Scratchpad — a quick note you can edit right from the Home Screen • Weather — current conditions and the day's high/low Every widget comes in multiple sizes, and each one is themed to match the rest of your Home Screen. THEMES THAT MATCH EVERYTHING Choose from 16 hand-tuned color themes — light and dark, drawn from the kind of palettes developers already love. Pick one and your widgets, fonts, and wallpaper all follow it, so nothing clashes. Generate a matching wallpaper in a range of styles — Minimal, Terminal, Gradient, and more — sized for your device and saved to Photos, ready to set in a couple of taps. MAKE IT YOURS • 7 fonts, including JetBrains Mono, Fira Code, and IBM Plex Mono • Tap the Calendar or Reminders widget to open straight into your calendar or reminders — and choose which app it opens FREE TO START Scheme is genuinely usable for free — no trial required: 6 themes, the Apps, Clock, and Scratchpad widgets, 3 wallpaper styles, and 3 fonts. SCHEME PRO Unlock everything: all 16 themes, the Calendar, Reminders, and Weather widgets, the large Apps widget, all 8 wallpaper styles, and all 7 fonts. • Yearly $14.99 with a 7-day free trial • Lifetime $29.99 — pay once, yours forever Family Sharing supported on both plans. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Your calendar and reminders are read on-device only and never leave your iPhone. Privacy Policy: https://vfreitas.com/scheme/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Dimm4 screens
Scheme4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Scheme at 17.0 against Dimm's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dimm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Scheme sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Dimm versus Scheme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDimmScheme
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSnowy Ghost LLCVitor de Freitas

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Dimm

One-time1
  • Dimm Pro$5.99
2 purchases

Scheme

Subscriptions1
  • Scheme Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Scheme Pro (Lifetime)$29.99

Questions

Is Dimm free?
Dimm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scheme free?
Scheme is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dimm or Scheme have ads?
Neither Dimm nor Scheme shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dimm or Scheme?
Dimm ships an update every 9 days, and Scheme every 9 days. Most recently, Dimm was updated on November 5, 2026 and Scheme on October 31, 2026.

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