KISS Launcher

Neamar

About this app

Start programs from your new home screen by typing in a few letters.

The app adapts to how you use it, making finding what you want even faster.
Your data never leaves your device, and you can expect to save battery life
and speed up your device compared to complex and bloated launchers.
KISS is just 250 KB and never connects to the Internet.

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93% of users that try KISS for a week are still active users after 3 years.
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GPLv3+ copylefted libre software means everyone can use, see, change and share at will, with all.
GitHub.

Help, customizations and screenshots.
Website.

This app makes use of Android Accessibility API to allow "double tap to lock" feature. No data is accessed or stored in the process.

* Usable privacy
* Speedy simplicity
* Functional beauty

Ratings and reviews

1.The app icons of certain apps from time to time goes missing, though everything works mormally. After a restart this is resolved. Please work on this. 2. While using high intensive apps such as Camera, i have noticed that the launcher crashes. So, again i would have to wait a few seconds for it to become normal. p.s the concept of this launcher is quite brilliant. People should try it at least once to get a taste.

REPLY- Thank you for responding! I am aware of the tags option, personally I find visual folders easier to work with (in the app drawer). Grids are better than lists IMO. But, that's not a big issue for me. I did realize one other thing missing, and this is more important, that is quick actions app shortcuts. Hope to see those in the future. FIRST- It seems very promising. I REALLY appreciate the lack of network permissions and the non-invasive requests overall. I adore the overall look and feel + the straight to search on pressing the home key. However, I am waiting for more widget and general customization options (font & icon size, number of icons on favorites bar, folders in app drawer, etc.) I understand your focus on simplicity, but there's 2 kinds of simple, and one does not necessarily equate with easy. Anyway, I am excited to see and enjoy more good work from you dev Neamar. Thanks for sharing your project!

This launcher set the standard for other launchers for me in terms of having easy access to the keyboard to open apps, shortcuts, and settings + doing away with auto-categorization (e.g. Smart Launcher 5). But KISS is not quite as polished as I hoped, with confusing settings, reverse ABC order, and a fast scroll that's hard to reach with one hand. Edit: with the "display keyboard on start" option, I'm using this as an app search now on another launcher until Android 12. Works very good actually!

What's new

* Fix use of broken icon packs
* Fix flickering shortcut icons
* Speed up adding of 'Exclude ...' settings
* Allow widgets to fit better into KISS
* Add operators '×x÷' back to the calculator
* Fix popup menu position for widgets using whole screen
* Fix reset of custom app name
* Fix listening on package changes