Stario Launcher

Răzvan Albu

About this app

Inspired by the minimalist phone concept, a decluttered experience brought to the quotidian smartphone, Stario aims to keep functionality and productivity at their peak in a simple and elegant format. Oh, and by the way, it is all free!

FEATURES
• Material You support
• Built-in media player
• Built-in note-taking
• RSS reader
• Widget support
• Responsive app and web search
• App categories

PRIVACY
Stario fully respects your privacy. It does not collect app usage or personal data, and it may very well protect your data better than yourself!

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE
Stario's Accessibility Service is used exclusively to let you turn off your phone's screen with a gesture. It is optional, disabled by default and doesn't collect or share any data.

Ratings and reviews

This Launcher has the best idea for a Minimalist launcher. However, it lacks in some ways. It doesn't have stackable widgets for example. One has to swipe all the way to the top to get to the 9th widget. Icon size can't be resized either. Also, the default widgets on the home screen could be slicker if not adjustable, especially the 'Now Playing' media widget which looks kinda big. As it keeps improving, I'm certain that someday, this will be the best minimalist launcher. Even ahead of Niagara

i love this launcher. right now i only have one gripe with it: i want to be able to customize the header on the home screen, where it says "good afternoon!" etc. I just think it would be nice to have some more options there like disabling the words and changing the style. Other than that it's amazing for me. I also think there's great potential to add other pages other than just briefing and notes, like an alarms page or something. Or being able to disable certain pages.

It works and looks nice, but it has a few issues. For starters, uninstalled apps won't disappear from the app drawer/list, and I have to restart the launcher to fix it. And speaking of restarting the launcher, this causes some app icons to disappear, though the apps are still in the app drawer; it's basically just a blank space next to the app name. These are the most notable problems I have. Otherwise, I like this launcher. I just wish these issues were fixed.

What's new

• Category quick launch support.
• New category and pager animations.
• Replaced Neeva search engine with Yandex.
• Small light theme tweaks.
• Changed application font to DM Sans.
• Stability improvements.