A neat and convenient launcher without icons.
About this app
The home app (the launcher) to replace ugly home apps that are too colourful, distracting, inefficient, and full of non-sensical icons.
Clarity by efficient and elegant design based on text. With configurable quick access to apps, shortcuts, or contacts via a list or by gestures.
Supports app shortcuts, both static and dynamic.
Search function optionally integrates the contact list, and includes a configurable web search.
Tries to have enough configurability without making testing corner cases tedious, to ensure functionality and robustness.
Weather info (uses network and location services, if necessary).
New app developed from scratch. Takes inspiration from Unlauncher (a fork of Slimlauncher), and Nolauncher, and also feedback of users.
Features:
- uniform and elegant text-based design - configurable quick access and gestures on home screen - shortcut support (long click on app by default) - hide/show apps (but keep searchable) - apps can be renamed and reordered - good search function for apps - integrated contact list search - integrated, configurable web search - clock options - date format options - weather forecast options (via open-meteo.com) - configurable colour scheme - can use system wallpaper as background - free open source software - no icon set support (no need: no icons at all) - no widget support
Licensed under BSD-2-Clause, by Henrik Theiling.
What's New in v2.1
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Feature release.
- - allow copying of weather location ('New' radio button)
- - add swipe sensibility control
- - display current weather
- - fix rendering problem of weather table
- - translation: Polish (thanks to Julian Nowaczyk)
Version history
Jul 11, 2025 · 2.3 MB · Android API 24–34 · code 8
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Feature release.
- - allow copying of weather location ('New' radio button)
- - add swipe sensibility control
- - display current weather
- - fix rendering problem of weather table
- - translation: Polish (thanks to Julian Nowaczyk)
SHA-256 ce557d6c9e260f04386972d1be12591e3c2a412eab622be95be553bda291888f
Jul 1, 2025 · 2.3 MB · Android API 24–34 · code 7
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Bug fix release.
- - updated crash report
- - fix: search engine config reset to default for no obvious reason
- - improve: if same weather loc is re-selected, then reload
- - improve: add FAQ on how to hopefully avoid missing screen updates in scrolling
- - fix: notification counter was too large (from group summaries) [Github#14]
SHA-256 5be466b88c711a564c91d1573cf5cffca4ee9293a693ae98202cab76593531c3
Oct 27, 2024 · 2.3 MB · Android API 24–34 · code 6
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Feature release
- - Notification dot/badge support
- - Improved sorting of weather location search results
- - Exception handler to help debug crashes (composes a bug report text message: please send by email)
- - More default search URLs: Map location, Wikipedia
SHA-256 80b1b5bc61afa7d07b9c956d7e590d8df5b039543b3513e1f6b66fb35573d397
Will it run on your device?
73%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- ABI coverage is focused on newer 64-bit devices.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
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ce557d6c9e260f04386972d1be12591e3c2a412eab622be95be553bda291888f
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