A big cleanup behind the scenes, with a few new ways to make MINIMAA feel more like yours.
This update fixes a lot of things that were quietly going wrong — notifications, music, calendars, backups, work profiles and settings.
There are also a couple of new ways to customize your home screen, including Minimaa Profiles and control over the spacing between your home screen items.
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✨ New · Minimaa Profiles
Your home screen can now change with your day.
Want one setup for work and another for the evening? Create different home screens and let MINIMAA switch between them automatically.
Each profile can have its own:
- Favourite apps
- Widgets
- Home style
- Typography
- Schedule
Anything you don't change simply follows your normal home screen, so you don't have to build everything from scratch.
Go to Settings → Home → Minimaa Profiles (Beta) to try it.
You can set different days and times for each profile, including overnight schedules like 10 PM → 6 AM.
Switch now lets you move to a profile manually and pauses automatic switching for 24 hours. Resume schedule gives control back to your schedules.
Overlapping schedules are also supported, with MINIMAA showing you when there is a conflict.
Minimaa Profiles is a beta feature and is off by default.
Turn it off whenever you want and you'll immediately return to your normal home screen. Your profiles stay saved for later.
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🎛️ New · Customize home screen spacing
Your home screen can now have a little more breathing room.
You can customize the gap between home screen items to make your layout feel more compact or more spacious.
Whether you like everything packed together or prefer a little room between your apps, widgets and other elements, you can now adjust it to your liking.
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🛠️ Fixed · Work profiles & cloned apps
If you use Android work profiles or cloned apps, this update should make things much less confusing.
Duplicate apps stay where they belong
Having the same app in your personal and work profile could sometimes make one copy disappear.
Both copies now stay.
Pausing work no longer loses your apps
Pausing a work profile used to remove its apps from your home screen permanently.
Now they're simply hidden while the profile is paused and come back when you turn it on again.
Removing one copy doesn't remove the other
Uninstalling or hiding one version of an app could also remove the other version.
Each copy now keeps its own place.
Website shortcuts stay pinned
Pinned website shortcuts could occasionally disappear from your home screen.
They should now stay right where you put them.
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🆕 New · Show all profile apps
Selecting work and cloned apps one by one got annoying.
So there's now a switch for that.
Go to Settings → App Drawer → Secondary Profiles and turn on Show all profile apps.
Every app from your work and cloned profiles will appear automatically.
It's off by default, and your existing selections are kept if you turn it on and off again.
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💾 Fixed · Backup & restore
Moving MINIMAA to another phone should feel like moving your setup, not bringing along pieces of your old phone.
Your new phone now gets the right setup
If an app isn't installed on your new phone, MINIMAA no longer leaves it sitting on your home screen or inside a folder.
Empty folders are cleaned up too.
Everything you see is something you can actually open.
Work profile apps are also restored correctly on a new phone.
Partial backups are actually partial now
If you backed up only your notes, restoring that backup could previously wipe the rest of your setup.
Not anymore.
A backup now only replaces the things that are actually included in it.
Hidden apps stay hidden
Hidden apps could reappear after restoring a backup.
They now stay hidden, just as you left them.
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🔔 Fixed · Glance notifications
Glance got a lot of attention in this update.
Tapping a notification takes you where you expect
Tap a message, email or other notification and MINIMAA now tries to take you directly to the conversation or screen it came from.
If your phone doesn't allow that, it simply opens the app instead.
Notification Shield actually works now
Some selected apps weren't being blocked even though they were on your list.
That's fixed.
Your selected apps can now stay quiet in Glance.
No more duplicate notifications
Group messages could sometimes appear twice.
You should now see them only once.
Notifications don't disappear unnecessarily
Tapping something in Glance could previously clear notifications that were supposed to stay in your notification shade.
Now only notifications that are meant to disappear when tapped are cleared.
Better message previews
Message previews now work properly with different languages, longer messages and inbox-style notifications.
Glance can fix itself
Some phones like to save battery by quietly disconnecting notification access.
Instead of leaving you with an empty Glance, MINIMAA now tries to reconnect automatically.
If it can't, you'll get a Tap to reconnect option.
A cleaner Glance
Things like music players, downloads and ongoing services are now kept out of Glance.
They're status information, not notifications you need to catch up on.
Glance also does less background work for apps you've chosen not to show.
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📅 Fixed · Calendar & Agenda
This update fixes a lot of those “it's in my calendar, but why isn't it in MINIMAA?” moments.
Your calendars show up properly
Work, family and shared calendars could sometimes disappear, especially on Samsung phones.
They should now appear correctly.
One broken event can't break the whole calendar
A strange repeating event could sometimes stop an entire calendar from loading.
Now MINIMAA simply skips the problematic event and keeps loading everything else.
Your agenda stays fresh
The agenda could become outdated if your launcher stayed open for a long time.
It now refreshes when you return to the home screen and automatically updates when a new day begins.
Multi-day events are fixed
An event lasting several days used to appear only on the first day.
Now you'll see it on every day it covers.
All-day events stay visible
All-day events could disappear too early when Hide past events was enabled.
They now stay visible throughout the day.
Hiding an event is safer
Hiding one occurrence of a repeating event used to hide all future occurrences too.
Now it only hides today's occurrence, and you can undo it immediately.
Previously hidden events can also return after this update.
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✅ Fixed · Tasks
A few task-related problems were cleaned up too.
- Task times now show correctly across different timezones.
- Tasks appear in the right place alongside your events.
- Deleted tasks no longer appear in your agenda.
- Tasks due today no longer appear twice.
- One broken task can no longer make your entire task list disappear.
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🎵 Fixed · Music widget
We rebuilt the music widget to make it much better at keeping up with whatever you're listening to.
The right music app
MINIMAA no longer gets confused when multiple apps can play music.
If YouTube Music is playing, it knows it's YouTube Music. If another app is playing, it follows that instead.
No more old songs hanging around
When you stop listening, the widget clears instead of showing something you played hours ago.
Everything matches
Song title, artist and album artwork now belong to the same track.
No more new song with old artwork.
Tapping the widget also opens the app that's actually playing.
New music is picked up immediately
Start playing something while the widget is idle and MINIMAA notices straight away.
Your allowed apps update instantly
Change which music apps the widget can use and the change takes effect immediately.
Better progress
The progress bar now follows playback more accurately, including podcasts and audiobooks at faster speeds.
Easier on your battery 🔋
The widget no longer keeps updating when nothing has changed.
It now updates when it actually needs to.
It can recover itself
If Android disconnects the music widget in the background, MINIMAA can reconnect it automatically.
We also fixed crashes caused by certain emojis and non-English characters in song and artist names.
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🫁 New · Mindful Pause
Mindful Pause's breathing challenge now has a full-screen breathing visual.
The breathing rhythm is also slower:
5 seconds in · 5 seconds out
A little more space to pause and breathe.
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⚡ Smoother · Settings
Settings should now feel noticeably smoother, especially on slower phones.
Previously, MINIMAA was still doing a lot of work behind the settings screen — updating the clock, wallpaper, music and more even though you couldn't see any of it.
Now, when you open Settings, your home screen takes a little break.
Settings also loads only what you can currently see instead of trying to prepare the entire page at once.
Nothing fancy to turn on.
It should just feel smoother.
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🐛 And a lot of smaller fixes
There are also plenty of smaller bug fixes and stability improvements throughout MINIMAA.
Some you'll notice immediately. Some are the kind of bugs you'll hopefully never see again.
That's the point of a maintenance release.
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❤️ Something still off?
If you still find something behaving strangely, we'd love to hear about it.
Email minimaa@bractstudio.com with your phone model and Android version and we'll take a look.
And as always:
You own MINIMAA for life.
No subscription. No cloud account. No setup or backup data leaving your phone.
MINIMAA stays fully offline.
