Comparison

Cartogram vs Elyr

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

Head to head
About

Cartogram

Features
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Turn your photo library into a beautiful map wallpaper. Cartogram reads the GPS locations from your photos and renders a heatmap overlay on a stylish vector map, showing where you've been right on your iPhone. Download Cartogram for free and start with two hand-crafted themes: Cyberpunk and Midnight. Unlock Cartogram Pro with a one-time purchase to get all color themes. Features: - Generates wallpapers from your geotagged photo locations - Free tier includes two themes: Cyberpunk and Midnight - Cartogram Pro unlocks Ember, Ghost, and Moss - Auto-detects your current location or set any place manually - Save generated wallpapers directly to Photos - Privacy-first: all processing happens on-device, no data leaves your phone - No account required, no tracking, no ads iOS: Full-screen preview with pan, zoom, and rotation. Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors, rendered with OpenFreeMap.

About

Elyr

Customize your device's home and lock screens with a wide variety of aesthetic widgets. Display essential information like time, weather, health data, and calendar events with extensive style and typeface options. Personalize your interface without needing an account or sharing your data.

Highlights
  • Customizable home and lock screen widgets
  • Display time, weather, calendar, and health data
  • Eleven styles and fourteen typefaces
  • Light and dark mode support
  • Offline data for moon phases and name days
  • Focus session countdown on lock screen
  • No account or analytics required
Features
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Forty-three widgets for people who care what their Home Screen looks like. Elyr is a widget app built the way a widget should be: one number, one image, nothing competing for your attention. Every widget comes in three sizes, eleven styles and fourteen typefaces, drawn for light mode and for dark. One app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, bought once. WIDGETS THAT KNOW TWO THINGS AT ONCE Today — the clock, the temperature and your next event in one slot. Up Next · Weather — every event carries the forecast for the hour it starts. Body — steps, move, heart and sleep together, on one card. Morning — sunrise, the hours ahead, and what is on today. Duo — pick what goes in each half yourself, from twenty-seven options. ON THE LOCK SCREEN Most Elyr widgets also have a Lock Screen form — a gauge, a line beside the clock, or a full rectangle. A running Focus session counts down there and in the Dynamic Island. WHAT YOU CAN PUT ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Weather — the temperature and one condition glyph, with an hourly strip on the larger sizes. Celsius or Fahrenheit, set once for every widget. Set a city; Elyr never asks for your location. Feels Like, Rain, UV Index, Wind — the readings that change what you wear, from the forecast Elyr already has. Daylight and Golden Hour — how much light is left, and when it's worth going out. Up Next — the next thing in your calendar. Not a list. Just what's next. Reminders and Birthdays — what you told yourself to do, and whose birthday is next. Both read-only; names and dates only. Clock, Date, World Clock — the time, the day and its week, and three places worth knowing the hour in. Countdown, Since, Year, Season — days until, days since, and how far through. Focus, Tally, Streak, Mood, Quotes — focused time, anything you want to count, the days you kept it up, how today went, and 233 lines of Marcus Aurelius, Rumi and Dickinson. All answer a tap without opening the app. Moon and Name Day — tonight's phase and the Romanian Orthodox calendar, both offline. Activity, Move, Heart, Sleep, Bedtime — from Apple Health, with a countdown to the hour you want to be asleep by. Battery, Storage, Music — the level, the free space, and what's playing, with play, pause and skip. Hue — a different colour every day, from the date itself. FIVE FOR THE 8×4 CARD (iPad and Mac) Desk — the clock, the weather and the rest of your day on one card. Week — seven columns, four events deep, starting today, not on a Monday already gone. Agenda — today placed against the hours instead of listed. Meridian — six places, and how far into the day each one is. This Mac — disk, battery and uptime. This iPad, on an iPad. ELEVEN STYLES, FOURTEEN TYPEFACES Glass, Paper, Sand, Clay, Moss, Jade, Mist, Slate, Velvet, Line and Ink, set in SF Pro Rounded, Space Grotesk, Bebas Neue, JetBrains Mono, Anton, Orbitron or eight others. The gallery in the app shows every widget at full size in all of them, before you commit. PRIVACY, PLAINLY No account. No analytics. No advertising. No tracking of any kind. Your health data, calendar, reminders, contacts, music and mood never leave your device. The only things that ever go out are the coordinates of the city you chose, to fetch the weather from Apple Weather, and a purchase receipt. Elyr never asks for your location and cannot work out where you are. Tally counts, mood entries and preferences sync between your devices through iCloud, not any server of ours. ONE PAYMENT Clock, Year, Countdown and Quotes are free forever, in three styles, with no time limit. Elyr Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks the other thirty-nine widgets, every style and every typeface. Not a subscription, and it does not renew. A widget already on your Home Screen can never stop working because a payment failed, and everything added later is included. Requires iOS 17 or macOS 14. The Health, Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and Music widgets ask permission first; everything else works without any.

Screenshots

Cartogram3 screens
Elyr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Elyr at every 3 days against Cartogram's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Cartogram sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Elyr sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cartogram ships an update every 2 weeks, Elyr every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cartogram versus Elyr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCartogramElyr
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCENTAUR LABS OULiviu Iorga

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cartogram

One-time1
  • Cartogram Pro$3.99
1 purchases

Elyr

One-time1
  • Elyr Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Cartogram free?
Cartogram is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Elyr free?
Elyr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cartogram or Elyr have ads?
Neither Cartogram nor Elyr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cartogram or Elyr?
Cartogram ships an update every 2 weeks, and Elyr every 3 days. Most recently, Cartogram was updated on October 24, 2026 and Elyr on October 16, 2026.

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