Olauncher. Minimal AF Launcher

Digital Minimalism

About this app

Are you using your phone, or is your phone using you?

Olauncher is a minimal AF Android launcher with just enough features. By the way, AF stands for AdFree. :D

🏆 Top 10 Android launchers of 2024 - AndroidPolice
https://www.androidpolice.com/best-android-launchers/
🏆 8 best minimalist Android launcher - MakeUseOf
https://www.makeuseof.com/best-minimalist-launchers-android/
🏆 Best Android apps released in 2020 - AndroidAuthority
https://www.androidauthority.com/best-android-apps-2020-1187974/

Please check out our user reviews to learn more.


FEATURES YOU MIGHT LIKE:

Minimalist homescreen: A clean homescreen experience with no icons, ads or any distraction. It helps you reduce your screen time and increase productivity.

Customizations: Resize text, rename apps, hide unused apps, show or hide the status bar, app text alignments, etc.

Gestures: Double tap to lock screen. Swipe left or right to open apps. Swipe down for notifications.

Wallpaper: A beautiful new wallpaper, daily. No one said that a minimalist launcher has to be boring. :)

Privacy: No data collection. FOSS Android launcher. Open source under GPLv3 license.

Launcher features: Dark & light themes, dual apps support, work profile support, auto app launch.

To maintain the simplicity of such a minimalist launcher, a few niche features are available but hidden. Please visit the About page in settings for the complete list.


FAQs:

1. Hidden apps - Long press anywhere on the home screen to open settings. Tap 'Olauncher' on the top to see your hidden apps.

2. Navigation gestures - Some devices do not support gestures with a downloaded Android launchers. This can only be fixed by your device manufacturer via an update.

3. Wallpapers - This Android launcher provides a new wallpaper daily. You can also set any wallpaper you want from your phone settings or Gallery app.

Our About page in settings has rest of the FAQs and several other tips to help you make the best usage of Olauncher. Please check it out.


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

P.S. Thank you for checking out the description till the end. Only a few very special people do that. Take care! ❤️

Ratings and reviews

(Edit: they've put up a more consistent genre of background photos recently, all geared towards nature/historic landmarks in nature. I love that.) Love it. It's so simple and free and immediately turned my phone minimalistic. Very easy to use and customize. My only wish would that, with their random selection of background photos (which is optional) I'd be able to pick the genre or style of photos I wanted. One day I have the Eiffel tower, the next a forest, so it can be a bit confusing.

I've used several, including paid ones, and this is my favorite. Simple, intuitive, and I completely forgot about the rest of my apps. The keyboard automatically pops up with the list, so it's easy to find them when you have one in mind. In combo with this, I only use youtube on Firefox so I can use an extension to block suggested videos, comments, thumbnails, etc. Those two switches halved my screentime in a much more sustainable way