Comparison

Spaceless vs Elements

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

Head to head
About

Spaceless

Discover direct distances to your favorite places, bypassing traditional routes. Save and share locations easily, with a convenient widget and watch app integration.

Highlights
  • Direct distance measurement
  • Save favorite locations
  • Search for places
  • Share locations and distances
  • Widget for nearby locations
  • Watch app support
Features
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Ever wondered the clearance between places instead of a route that gets you there? Just to see how far away it is? Spaceless shows all direct distances to your favorite locations and makes them easy to save. - Easily add your current location to the list. - Search for cities and places around you. - A live compass that points straight at any location. - See everything at once on the world map. - Get a notification when you arrive near a location you pick. - Keep the distance on your Lock Screen with a Live Activity. - Widgets in every size, including a map with your location pinned and the distance on it. - Complications and a full app on your wrist. - Everything syncs across your devices through iCloud. - Share your locations and distances. Icon credits: icons8.com

About

Elements

Features
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Aesthetic widgets that match β€” because you designed them that way. Most widget apps hand you a pile of unrelated widgets. Elements gives you a design system: set the typeface, the accent, the background and the density once, and 32 kinds of widget wear it β€” on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen, StandBy, CarPlay, and on your Mac. 145 designed faces. 206 backgrounds, 118 of them photographs. 12 accent colours, or your own. 180 finished looks you can apply in one tap and then keep tweaking. WIDGETS THAT KNOW SOMETHING β€’ Weather written as a sentence β€” "31Β° now, feels 35Β°. Haze till 6pm." β€’ Your next event, your month at a glance, and how long until the next thing β€’ A groceries list you tick off from the Home Screen β€’ Steps, distance and sleep, read from Health β€’ Sunrise, sunset, the moon's phase, and how much daylight you lost since yesterday β€’ Prayer times, computed on device from five published methods β€’ Currency at the day's published reference rate β€’ Battery, storage, world clocks, countdowns, a verse, a word, your own feeds CUT OUT A SUBJECT AND STICK IT ON YOUR SCREEN Pick a photo and Elements lifts the subject out of it β€” no background, just the thing. Size it, turn it, nudge it, give it a paper edge. Keep a shelf of them and let the widget rotate through. MINI-APPS YOU FILL YOURSELF Habits you check off. Tallies you count. Subscriptions with renewal reminders. A focus timer. A fasting window. Readings your own Shortcuts write into. A canvas you compose from blocks. All of it stays on your phone. FED BY YOUR SHORTCUTS Four Shortcuts actions let your automations write straight into a widget: update a reading, check in a habit, adjust a counter, set a canvas block. State how often your shortcut runs and the widget will say "as of 9:41" when it misses β€” a stale number never poses as a fresh one. CORRECT, OR IT TELLS YOU WHY The most common complaint about widgets is that they go stale, blank, or wrong. Elements treats that as a feature to build, not a bug to apologise for. Every widget knows how fresh its data is and says so. Every failure is named β€” "no location fix", "offline", "not allowed" β€” instead of one shrug. There is a Widget Health screen that shows what actually reloaded today against the system's own budget. NOTHING HERE IS A SCORE No badges. No XP. No streak repairs to buy. No confetti, no leaderboards, no red marks for a day you missed β€” a missed day is an empty dot. The reward is that the number is right and the typography is good. THREE THEMES, LIGHT AND DARK Ink Bento is near-black panes and feather numerals. Dawn Glass is warm paper. Pop is flat saturated colour. Every design can pin its own theme and its own light/dark, so one widget can be dark while another follows your phone. PRIVACY Calendar, Reminders, Health and everything you type stay on your device. Health access is read-only and the widget extension never touches it. Weather sends your location β€” or the place you pin β€” to Apple to get a forecast, and a few widgets fetch public data like exchange rates or the headlines from feeds you add yourself. There are no accounts, no analytics and no tracking. Four finished widgets β€” clock, weather, next event, battery and storage β€” fully styleable, no ads, no watermarks. Elements Pro unlocks the rest of the catalog, saved designs, and the mini-apps. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Spaceless4 screens
Elements4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spaceless at none against Elements's 3. Spaceless also leads on ads (none vs shown). Elements's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 69 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Elements sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Spaceless asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spaceless ships an update every 69 months, Elements every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
Spaceless versus Elements: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpacelessElements
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews0.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 69 monthsEvery 3 days β€” better
AdsNo β€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size9 MB96 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerritterfeld.comTouseef Hassan Nasir

In-app purchases

None

Spaceless

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Elements

Subscriptions2
  • Elements Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Elements Pro Yearly1 Month trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Elements Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Spaceless free?
Spaceless is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elements free?
Elements is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spaceless or Elements have ads?
Elements shows ads; Spaceless does not.
Which is updated more often, Spaceless or Elements?
Spaceless ships an update every 69 months, and Elements every 3 days. Most recently, Spaceless was updated on September 2, 2026 and Elements on September 17, 2026.

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