Nova Launcher - Customizable home screen

Nova Launcher is a dynamic and adaptable alternative for your home screen that can be tailored to suit your preferences. It offers advanced features to elevate the functionality of your home screens while still being user-friendly for all. Whether you want a complete transformation of your home screens or a sleeker, faster launcher, Nova has got you covered.

A powerful and elegant launcher

Nova Launcher is a powerful and elegant launcher that lets you customize aspects of your home screen, icons, and folders.

One of the features that stands out and makes a difference in Nova Launcher is its outstanding graphic quality. Even the simple action of sliding your finger to switch desktops shows an elaborate transition in three dimensions.

Besides aesthetic matters, Nova Launcher allows you to customize the gestures you use on your device. You can even set up shortcuts to make your Android device shake. Some of the features are included in the paid version only.

Besides all this, you can also customize the icons on your different desktops and make backups of your settings to import them to other devices. This means that if you like the style on your mobile phone, you can easily put it on your Android tablet as well.

Nova Launcher combines versatility with elegance to offer a different home screen full of new possibilities. A real treasure for lovers of Android customization.

What can this app offer:

✨ Latest Additions:

Nova incorporates the most recent Android launcher features across all devices.

🖼️ Personalized Icons:

Choose from countless icon themes on the Play Store. You can also customize icons to match a specific shape for a consistent appearance.

🎨 Extensive Color Scheme:

Opt for Material You colors from your system, or create your unique color palette for a personalized touch.

🌓 Tailored Light and Dark Themes:

Sync with dark mode based on your system settings, sunrise/sunset schedule, or set it permanently in your preferred mode.

🔍 Robust Search System:

Search for content within apps, contacts, and various platforms. Moreover, access instant Micro Results for calculations, conversions, package tracking, and more.

📁 Customizable Features:

Personalize your home screen, app drawer, and folders with options like icon size, label colors, scroll orientation, and search bar placement. Additionally, innovative customizable cards can display relevant information when needed.

📏 Grid Precision:

Snap icons and widgets precisely between grid cells for an exact layout that's challenging to achieve with other launchers.

📲 Backup and Restore:

Easily switch phones or experiment with new home screen setups using Nova's backup and restore function. Backups can be stored locally or in the cloud for effortless transfers.

❤️ Support Network:

Reach out to support directly through the app or engage with the active Discord community at https://discord.gg/novalauncher.

🎁 Explore Further with Nova Launcher Prime:

Unlock enhanced features with Nova Launcher Prime, including customizable gestures, app drawer groups, app hiding capability, custom icon swipe gestures, and more scrolling effects and notification badges.

Add a personal touch to Android with an extremely effective launcher

Nova Launcher is a speedy app launcher (which means it modifies the basic interface of your phone or tablet somewhat, changing the user interface you use to browse and launch apps in the process).

It mostly focuses on bits and pieces of functionality that fit right in with what's already there, such as infinite scrolling along your Home screen, meaning you can scroll left or right and loop through all of your apps and widgets, or color controls, meaning you can organize your folders or other items by color.

A swipe to the left, and you're ready

Nova Launcher is not feature rich, but it makes up for this by having each feature count. You can organize your apps into "subgrids" on the Home screen, letting you place them more easily and usefully. It improves scrolling both on the Home screen and elsewhere. And it includes both themes and widgets.

The Prime version of Nova Launcher provides a few extra features, and chief among these are gestures. You can set swiping, double-tapping or pinching on your Home screen, among others, to launch apps of your choice. You can also have those same apps do specific things if you swipe over their icons. In a sense, Prime embodies the Phrase "world at your fingertips": it reduces the need to use the app drawer to near zero.

This conflicts a little with one of its other features, the ability to hide unused apps in the drawer and organize the drawer further, but that doesn't mean the option to do that is unwelcome.

As familiar as possible

Nova is as usable as possible on its own, and the features it provides (like swiping over apps to do specific things with them) will improve the usability of your other apps, as well.

The only potential problem the launcher faces is that when starting your phone or tablet, it will generally take two or three seconds longer than the default launcher to display your icons and allow you to launch apps. This is not a large increase, but it is noticeable. Fortunately, as previously discussed, the launcher is very fast outside of booting (which a phone at least will not do often).

The way a home screen should be

Overall, Nova Launcher only provides a handful of features, but all are welcome and none overstay that welcome. It's as fast if not faster than the default launcher and many other launchers besides, provides functionality that feels natural like infinite scrolling, and it has widgets, if you find yourself wanting more functionality.

The Prime version adds to its existing utility a variety of swipe features and ways to organize your app drawer.

Icon Credits:

• OneYou Icon Pack by PashaPuma Design

• OneYou Themed Icon Pack by PashaPuma Design

Permission granted by the respective creators for icon usage in screenshots.

Permissions Usage:

Accessibility Service permission enhances system accessibility with desktop gestures (e.g., screen off, Recent Apps screen). Nova will request this only if essential for your configuration, as no data is collected.

Device Administrator permission enables optional screen off/lock functionality.

Notification Listener is employed for optional badges on icons and media playback controls.