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1bit: Minimalist Phone
53 days old
Not in any tracked top chart right now.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperNicholas Counts
CategoryProductivity
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 0.0 (0)
Version1.4.0
Age rating17+
First seen by us
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026Installs (est.)100+ worldwide
1bit: Minimalist Home Screen update history & changes
Last change · 8 events since 17 Sep 2026Full timeline ↓📦Updated to version 1.4.0📦Updated to version 1.3.0📈Dropped out of every chart we track🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 8 events
- 📦1bit: Minimalist Home Screen updated to version 1.4.0Your colors. Black and white is still how 1bit comes, but it's now how it has to stay anymore.
Turn the wheel in settings and the whole phone changes with it: seventeen colorful themes, from old handhelds and phones to paper and amber terminals. Mix your own and create a custom 1bit wallpaper to match. Go up to 2-bit or 8-bit, and album art and pictures come in with you. Set the camera to shoot in the theme's colors. Export your theme and share it with a friend or import theirs.
All part of the one purchase. No theme packs.… more - ✏️1bit: Minimalist Home Screen: app got bigger17 MB → 19 MB (+13%)
- 📦1bit: Minimalist Home Screen updated to version 1.3.0The morning paper. Today can now arrive as a front page, once a day at an hour you choose: the weather, your day, and the headlines from the feeds you follow. In the morning, the Today widget on your home screen shows that front page.
Weather. It has its own launcher row and screen, drawn as a little town under the sky, with the day hour by hour and the week ahead. It also comes with new small and medium home-screen widgets.
The gate. Stop your doomscrolling habits in their tracks. Pick the apps you reach for without thinking, and 1bit shows a page before they open. It says how many times you've opened that app today and suggests something better to do. You can go in for a few minutes or turn back. Set it up in settings.
iPhone Duo. Open it and 1bit becomes two pages: the launcher or a list on one side, and whatever you opened on the other. Closed, it fits the outer screen with the click wheel where your thumb expects it.
Also new:
- Import your playlists from the Music app.
- The sleep timer is a keypad now, with -5 and +5 while it runs.
- The browser hides more "get our app" pop-ups, and the scroll locks they leave behind.
- The classic players stay readable at the largest text sizes.… more - 📦1bit: Minimalist Home Screen updated to version 1.2.0Thanks for using 1bit!
In this version we:
- Fixed some bugs
- Added a new retro game - 📈1bit: Minimalist Home Screen dropped out of every chart we trackLast seen 10 Oct
- 🆕1bit: Minimalist Home Screen first spotted by AppInsider#88 in Top Grossing · Productivity · Russia
- 📦1bit: Minimalist Home Screen version 1.1.0Thanks for using 1bit! We've been reading all your feedback.
Hers's what's new in 1.1
- Pin your other apps. You can now add the external apps you still need to the launcher, from settings ▸ other apps. A pin can be a link, a phone number or a Shortcuts shortcut. A short walkthrough shows you how the first time, and your pins can also go in the launcher widget.
- Browser settings. The web start screen now has a settings page. It shows what the browser keeps, lets you clear history, cookies and site data, or everything at once, and can clear all of it every time you leave. Clearing history now really starts you fresh.
- A calmer web. The address bar slides away while you read and comes back when you scroll up. We've also improved popup blocking in the browser.
- Contacts. A contact now shows every number, email and address. Tap one to copy it, or open an address in maps.
- Podcasts. Search now finds shows as you type. Find podcasts now opens on a clean screen. The sleep timer counts down on screen and you can cancel it there.
- Clock. Each alarm in the list now shows its label.
- Maps. Distances now use your local units.
- Lot of other small bug fixes and improvements.… more - 🆕1bit: Minimalist Home Screen released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
0.0 ★
0 ratings
Measured
1bit: Minimalist Home Screen on the App Store
App details
App ID
6806023908
Publisher
Nicholas Counts
On the store since
Sep 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Content rating
17+
1 content note below
Languages
1
EN
Size
19 MB
Also listed in
Utilities
Content notesUnrestricted Web Access
1bit: Minimalist Home Screen downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
0.0 ★
0 ratings
Measured
Ratings
0
Measured
About 1bit: Minimalist Home Screen
You know that feeling. Headphones on, lying in the grass, just you and your music with no distractions. Those ten minutes on the bus with the snake game on your T9 keypad. Blocky photos you took with your first digicam. That is 1bit.
We think the early 2000s got something right. Not just nostalgia. A clear head. No algorithm waiting when you only meant to check the time. No doomscrolling. We don't block apps, we just give you a more fun one. You keep your banking app and your transit pass, all available when you need them. Get the dumb phone experience without buying a second phone that you will put down as soon as you get tired of its limitations.
This is the digital detox you never have to quit.
WHAT IT IS
A gloriously retro phone experience in two colors. Black and white, one grid, every shade a dither pattern on a screen that never pretends to be anything else. Put the launcher widget on your home screen and each row opens into a quiet world with nothing in it pulling you back.
WHAT IS INSIDE
• Music. Add files or play from your library. Gapless, a real peak meter, an optional tactile wheel like your favorite mp3 player had.
• Podcasts. Search, subscribe, queue, download, sleep timer. Stream them or download them.
• Web. Addiction-proof browsing. One page at a time, no tabs. Block ads and scripts. 1bit images or none at all. No videos at all.
• News. Old school RSS reader. Only the feeds you picked, in publish order, plus a read-later shelf.
• Camera. A 1-bit viewfinder that develops into black and white film when you save to your camera roll.
• Maps. A drawn map, search, saved pins, route guidance. No frills.
• Phone and text. Classic dial pad. Your contacts, favorites, and a record of every call you made from here.
• Calendar and reminders. Your real calendars and lists.
• Notes and voice memos. Plain text in a folder over USB.
• Clock. Alarms, timer, stopwatch with Live Activities.
• Games. Solitaire, minesweeper, snake on a drawn keypad, brick breaker on the wheel.
• Widgets. Launcher, clock, today, and a great big shortcut button to any feature you use the most.
Switch any section off in settings. It stays off.
WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT
Nothing here makes up reasons to pull you back. No algorithms trying to learn who you are. No notifications to tickle your dopamine. News ends. Music stops when the album ends. The browser will not autoplay video at you. Alerts stay off until you turn them on.
Pick a retro font. Pick a size. Day, night, or following the sun.
SETTING UP
The guide is in the app. Pop our widgets on the home screen, tuck everything else away, black wallpaper, grayscale with a triple-click to bring color back. Ten minutes.
YOUR DATA
We don't like having our data harvested so we don't collect yours. No account. No server. No analytics. No third-party SDK. Sync uses your own iCloud if you want it.
WHAT YOU NEED
An iPhone running iOS 18 or later.
THE PRICE
Free for fourteen days, everything unlocked. Then one purch
We think the early 2000s got something right. Not just nostalgia. A clear head. No algorithm waiting when you only meant to check the time. No doomscrolling. We don't block apps, we just give you a more fun one. You keep your banking app and your transit pass, all available when you need them. Get the dumb phone experience without buying a second phone that you will put down as soon as you get tired of its limitations.
This is the digital detox you never have to quit.
WHAT IT IS
A gloriously retro phone experience in two colors. Black and white, one grid, every shade a dither pattern on a screen that never pretends to be anything else. Put the launcher widget on your home screen and each row opens into a quiet world with nothing in it pulling you back.
WHAT IS INSIDE
• Music. Add files or play from your library. Gapless, a real peak meter, an optional tactile wheel like your favorite mp3 player had.
• Podcasts. Search, subscribe, queue, download, sleep timer. Stream them or download them.
• Web. Addiction-proof browsing. One page at a time, no tabs. Block ads and scripts. 1bit images or none at all. No videos at all.
• News. Old school RSS reader. Only the feeds you picked, in publish order, plus a read-later shelf.
• Camera. A 1-bit viewfinder that develops into black and white film when you save to your camera roll.
• Maps. A drawn map, search, saved pins, route guidance. No frills.
• Phone and text. Classic dial pad. Your contacts, favorites, and a record of every call you made from here.
• Calendar and reminders. Your real calendars and lists.
• Notes and voice memos. Plain text in a folder over USB.
• Clock. Alarms, timer, stopwatch with Live Activities.
• Games. Solitaire, minesweeper, snake on a drawn keypad, brick breaker on the wheel.
• Widgets. Launcher, clock, today, and a great big shortcut button to any feature you use the most.
Switch any section off in settings. It stays off.
WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT
Nothing here makes up reasons to pull you back. No algorithms trying to learn who you are. No notifications to tickle your dopamine. News ends. Music stops when the album ends. The browser will not autoplay video at you. Alerts stay off until you turn them on.
Pick a retro font. Pick a size. Day, night, or following the sun.
SETTING UP
The guide is in the app. Pop our widgets on the home screen, tuck everything else away, black wallpaper, grayscale with a triple-click to bring color back. Ten minutes.
YOUR DATA
We don't like having our data harvested so we don't collect yours. No account. No server. No analytics. No third-party SDK. Sync uses your own iCloud if you want it.
WHAT YOU NEED
An iPhone running iOS 18 or later.
THE PRICE
Free for fourteen days, everything unlocked. Then one purch
Latest updates
1.4.0
Your colors. Black and white is still how 1bit comes, but it's now how it has to stay anymore.
Turn the wheel in settings and the whole phone changes with it: seventeen colorful themes, from old handhelds and phones to paper and amber terminals. Mix your own and create a custom 1bit wallpaper to match. Go up to 2-bit or 8-bit, and album art and pictures come in with you. Set the camera to shoot in the theme's colors. Export your theme and share it with a friend or import theirs.
All part of the one purchase. No theme packs.
1.3.0
The morning paper. Today can now arrive as a front page, once a day at an hour you choose: the weather, your day, and the headlines from the feeds you follow. In the morning, the Today widget on your home screen shows that front page.
Weather. It has its own launcher row and screen, drawn as a little town under the sky, with the day hour by hour and the week ahead. It also comes with new small and medium home-screen widgets.
The gate. Stop your doomscrolling habits in their tracks. Pick the apps you reach for without thinking, and 1bit shows a page before they open. It says how many times you've opened that app today and suggests something better to do. You can go in for a few minutes or turn back. Set it up in settings.
iPhone Duo. Open it and 1bit becomes two pages: the launcher or a list on one side, and whatever you opened on the other. Closed, it fits the outer screen with the click wheel where your thumb expects it.
Also new:
- Import your playlists from the Music app.
- The sleep timer is a keypad now, with -5 and +5 while it runs.
- The browser hides more "get our app" pop-ups, and the scroll locks they leave behind.
- The classic players stay readable at the largest text sizes.
1.2.0
Thanks for using 1bit!
In this version we:
- Fixed some bugs
- Added a new retro game
Store changes
What 1bit: Minimalist Home Screen changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
App got bigger
17 MB → 19 MB (+13%)
