I bought and paid for Nova Launcher like 15 years ago and it’s been my go-to for that time; however, over the last year or so it’s been abandoned and is a buggy mess.
What ship should I jump onto? (stock google launcher is giving me the ick)
A trebuchet
Niagara at the moment. There’s a lot I’d change about it but it’s the best I’ve spent the time to learn the ins and outs of so far.
It’s so good. Cuts out so much crap.
I also recommend Niagara, it’s an excellent launcher
I also switched to niagara launcher since I’m also on an old device and need something minimal. Big question though: which launcher other than nova has the most shortcut options? Not just swiping on folders, but double tapping, double tap +up etc. That’s the basic thing I miss from nova.
I find the stock Samsung launcher for one ui 3 pretty comfortable, but if I were to pick a different launcher, I’d probably just grab fossify launcher, since it’s pretty dang lightweight, especially on my old hardware.
Lawnchair
Stock GrapheneOS
I used to spend a lot of time configuring different launchers (including Nova Launcher) but since I’ve switched to GrapheneOS, I’m actually quite happy with the stock launcher. It has everything I need — multiple home screens, widgets, folders. And I use App Search as dedicated search and secondary launch app that I’ve set up as digital assistant for gesture invocation.
A search-focused, free and open source launcher for Android
Another Kvae user I see.
Niagara. It’s simple and clean. All I need is an app drawer and a few favorites, and that’s basically what it provides.
Same here. It’s very smooth. I wish there were a few other customization points, I’d rather use my own weather app than the built in one, and I do, but then end up with different forecasts as they use different sources.
Minor complaints, but still a little friction that could be solved.
They actually fixed my minor complaint which was allowing folders on the home screen so big props to Niagara for that one.
Agreed. They have steadily added new features that don’t bloat the experience. It’s just a little too constrained for my tastes, but the rest of the Polish makes up for it.
Lawnchair. An improved Launcher3 that I use in place of Lineage’s built-in launcher.
I don’t really like text-only “simple” launchers as the icons help with quickly figuring out what app does what. Some of the features the AOSP Launcher3 lacks are present in Lawnchair/(mainly more customization over existing features).
I tried Lawnchair the other day and found it severely lacking.
Niagara, nice simple clean
Surprised I had to scroll this far for a Niagara recommendation. Been on it since Nova sale and it’s fantastic
Niagra is the bees knees
I use μLauncher, its a quite different foss launcher based on swipe actions. It works well for me. Check it out, its intresting.
Nova got sold and now it’s a tracking-laiden pos. That’s why is gone terrible.
Bought nova, too. And regret. Now it is lawnchair, with a finally good update solution through obtainium, because of their confusing alpha, beta releases.
Two votes for lawnchair, thank you.
You folks are not concerned that it requires a bible of permission s and has a google search bar (aka tracker bar).
I’m actually a single person… a solitary ‘folk’ if you will.
What ever comes pre-installed on the device. I stopped caring around the time when they stopped making cool new smarphones. It has became just a tool since.
I want to try Mako and Olauncher, but I’m afraid of malware and data collection. Any advice?
