MiniMonth vs HomeLab Watcher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MiniMonth
Display a monthly calendar directly on your Home and Today screens. Customize themes with separate color settings for light and dark modes. It syncs with your system preferences for the first weekday and shows events from your existing calendar.
- Monthly calendar widget
- Home screen display
- Today screen display
- Dark theme support
- Customizable colors
- System weekday sync
- Calendar event display
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Monthly calendar for your Home and Today screens. It supports dark theme, and separate color settings for both themes. It synchronises with system settings: the first weekday gets displayed accordingly to your preferences, and it also displays events from your calendar.
HomeLab Watcher
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HomeLab Watcher gives you one calm, private glance at the latest known health of the homelab resources you care about. ONE HONEST DASHBOARD • See HTTP services, Beszel machines, and Proxmox VE nodes together • Separate the last successful observation from the latest refresh attempt • Recognize healthy, attention, unhealthy, unknown, aging, and stale states • Refresh all resources or one system directly from your iPhone USEFUL WIDGETS • Small Home Screen status widget • Medium resource overview • Lock Screen status • Interactive refresh without automatically opening the app • Explicit observation age because iOS controls background timing PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No HomeLab Watcher account • No cloud relay or hosted backend • No analytics, ads, tracking, or remote logs • Configuration stays on device • Credentials stay in Apple Keychain • Requests go directly to systems you configure READ ONLY HomeLab Watcher checks status and metrics. It does not start, stop, restart, delete, update, or otherwise administer your infrastructure. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Sample Lab demonstrates every important presentation state without credentials or a reachable homelab. The free app also supports two HTTP or HTTPS resources and the small widget. LIFETIME UNLOCK A one-time purchase unlocks unlimited resources, Beszel, Proxmox VE, and every widget family. There is no subscription. SUPPORTED CONNECTIONS HomeLab Watcher works with addresses reachable from your iPhone over LAN, an existing private network route, or public HTTPS. iOS system certificate trust is required; the app never bypasses TLS security. HomeLab Watcher is not affiliated with or endorsed by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH or the Beszel project.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MiniMonth at none against HomeLab Watcher's 1. MiniMonth also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). HomeLab Watcher's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. HomeLab Watcher sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MiniMonth asks for nothing beyond the download.
MiniMonth ships an update every 4 months, HomeLab Watcher every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MiniMonth | HomeLab Watcher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (20 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 59.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | bronenos | YANCY SHEPHERD |
In-app purchases
MiniMonth
No in-app purchases
HomeLab Watcher
- HomeLab Watcher Lifetime$4.99









