Clear Spaces

A blank patch on an iPhone home screen is the point of Clear Spaces: transparent widgets let icons sit in a layout shaped around the wallpaper. By our assessment, that makes it a focused tool for people who care about arranging their home screen, rather than a general-purpose utility. The appeal is visual control without giving up the usual app icons. The trade-off is setup: the layout depends on matching the widgets to the wallpaper, so changing the background can mean doing that work again. It also does not add much if the default grid already feels tidy. Compared with ordinary widget apps, its distinguishing job is creating empty-looking space. Each layout still has to be arranged around the wallpaper and icon grid.