Clear Spaces Hack 2.0.3 + Redeem Codes

This app does exactly what it says on the tin. The background lines up perfectly for me. The widget customization options are few and fairly simple. It would be cool to have more variety to choose from, but I downloaded this app called “clear spaces” for the clear spaces, and those are solid.

The export widget background feature is great if you wanna use other custom widget apps, though having to save each individual widget background to your phone then opening a new app and uploading these individually is a chore. But that’s not the app’s fault, it’s Apple’s and their archaic widget programming which makes all widgets essentially useless anyway.

One last thing: the custom text feature only lets me type in one message into the app, which then repeats itself across all custom text widgets instead of letting me choose a different message for each individual widget. This is so hilariously useless and should be corrected.

Was 5stars if not more. Today there was an update for customization, now all the widgets have the “cs” logo on the Home Screen. Please remove this again! Love your app. Maybe different calendars? Like a 30 day month calendar, just a suggestion.

If you need a character to be invisible for the widget name, use this Unicode “space” icon. Copy the “space” between the brackets [⠀]. It looks like a space mark, but it is an invisible character. I use it for my folder names. Another suggestion.

But for those interested: This is the best and easiest app, BY FAR, to create transparent widgets. Once they remove the widget name again - oh my, you’ll be in love. Worth it, one of best new apps.

I’ve been using this app for many months now, and really enjoy the clean look. I haven’t really had any problem setting it up or getting it to work properly at all.

That said, the weather widget does not update on its own. I have to force it to update by going into edit mode, then widget gallery, then exit back out. That gets the widget to update to the proper weather. Otherwise it just sits on my screen with old icon and temperature. I wish this would get fixed. It’s been happening for some time now…

I’m screwing around with this thing, and I know I’ll eventually get it to work. But I had to stop here just to acknowledge that this is the worst product documentation I’ve ever come upon for a piece of software. I mean jeez - you can’t even explain how it works? Take a day off to figure it out guys.

OK - so now I’ve gotten it working, and I like the concept a lot. But I can’t imagine using it to tell me the time, if it only knows the time after I run it to tell me the time . . . And yet, for me, on my Home Screen, it’s time at a glance that I’d like to see. Dang.

Wonderful improvements (v 1.2) to the documentation, with snapshots and a coaching approach to getting started. I don’t understand why the digital clock is only current half a dozen times an hour. Are there other iPhone clock apps that don’t tell time?

The app is confusing to setup. Upon installing it it doesn’t add itself as an widget as you would expect, you need to tell the app what wallpaper your using, seriously? looks like iOS doesn’t have API for that, I get that. It gets better, this app is is just hacks piled up on top of that, after you create a clear space widget you need to tell it its position otherwise the wallpaper you told it about won’t be cropped correctly, I mean seriously?

In the end it didn’t work for me, the widget’s cropped wallpaper wouldn’t align with real wallpaper. The wording and the literature that app is using is confusing. The extra things like clock/battery/randomstring overlays on top of a clearspace widget is deviating from what app is supposed to do. Giving a 1 star and refunding, expierience is worse that hacky Linux app written by new developer.

I didn’t realize when I downloaded the app that it was essentially doing what I was doing with color widgets where I take a picture of the part of my wallpaper and use that to give a transparent effect.

It does this in a much easier way than I had to and with updates and the addressing of the only major issue that I ran into, this would be a nice little app.

I think it does say somewhere that the time and/or date updating regularly on the widgets has something to do with the way apple allows apps to do that however I have had any issues with my color widgets app updating the time regularly in the couple years that I’ve used it.

What this means is the large clock that I had set was not updating and was giving me incorrect time which for me is a deal breaker.

If you want to just use this to make spaces on your home screens for custom effects than this is definitely something you’ll want and I can recommend it for. For my use of wanting time and date though I just can’t recommend it.

I typically don’t write reviews and I wasn’t expecting much but this app is AMAZING. I have been constantly trying to make invisible widgets but I use the default apple rainbow wallpaper and was stuck. All you have to do for this app is screenshot your screen both light and dark mode and then you’re done. It’s fast, easy, and looks super clean!!! I also need to mention they have removed the word under their widget which is a super minor thing that makes me the happy person ever, it actually makes the widget full on invisible. So, so happy I spend my money on this.

I've used various "tricks" over the years to customize my iPhone home screen and move icons to the bottom for easy reachability. iEmpty was the first tool I used, then a shortcut tool that did basically the same thing by installing a profile. This was far simpler to use and has the added benefit of being able to use the smart stack widget feature of iOS to hide useful information in plain sight. Best $2 I've spent in quite some time.

Gives the option to “close app on widget tap,” a handy feature since tapping any widget opens its associated app, an inconvenience in the case of an app of this sort. It doesn’t actually prevent the app from opening but does deny it focus, which is something other similar apps don’t offer and earns the price for this feature alone. Developer may want to reword this option so it’s accurate in an update. Works well, and according to an email from the developer, complies with GDPR.

My desire to push my apps down to the bottom of the screen on my 12PM was so great I had to do something! I found this app and it’s worth the $2! There are many reviews saying the name label is there - NOT ANYMORE! It has been updated so they are removed. Great app and does what it says it will do!

The only improvement I personally would like is that they weren’t noticeable when swiping across the Home Screen or unlocking the phone! But this is an iOS thing, not a developer thing.