ABC (Home Launcher)

artArmin

About this app

Discover a fast, customizable, and ad-free Android home launcher that puts your apps at your fingertips. ABC (Home Launcher) is all about simplicity and speed. It is a lightning-fast app drawer that keeps your apps neatly organized in a clean alphabetical grid.

⚡ Fast and simple

- Near-instant app list that loads from a local cache and refreshes in the background
- Vertical list or horizontal pager; smooth animations and a translucent status bar
- Quick search to find any app in a tap

⭐ Your apps, your way

- Sort alphabetically, by install time, or by last update
- Customize icon scale and corners; choose your wallpaper
- Set the side and row gaps between icons with two new sliders, and see the result live
- Long-press any app: favorite, app info, open in Google Play, hide, or uninstall

🧩 Widgets, one swipe away

- A dedicated widgets page, one swipe left from your app list
- Add any of your installed home-screen widgets: clock, calendar, music, and more
- Resize each widget to small, medium, or large, then reorder or remove
- Clean and tidy, staying out of your way until you need it

🔒 Ad-free and privacy-friendly

- No ads. Ever.
- Your favorites, hidden apps and app list are encrypted on your device, with the key held in the Android Keystore
- No account, and your launcher settings stay on your device
- Only standard, anonymized analytics and crash reporting (encrypted in transit)
- Lists the open source software it uses, with the full license text for each

🎮 Works everywhere

- Wide device compatibility, including handheld gaming devices
- Multi-input: mouse, keyboard, and game controllers
- Right-to-left (RTL) support, and works with TalkBack and other screen readers

Free, with no paid features. Made with love, in Amsterdam.

Ratings and reviews

Works like a charm. Gotta luv that horizontal screen scroll. One of the best out of many that I have tried. It's clean, simple and very lite weight. And there lies the small, personal preference of it being too simple. I seek more customization possibilities. Maybe, if it came with a few wallpapers, too? Oh! Just remembered (bumping it to 5 * 's), it's not intrusive or annoyingly littered with ads! 'Nuff said.

Pointless launcher with no intuitiveness or helpfulness. A home screen with large icons and writing, default app logos and sorted in alphabetical order for easy browsing, but it doesn't look good, it isn't styled well, personalised or thought out at all. Removing apps is easy and effortless compared to others and there's no ads, compared to other launchers that are excessive with the amount of ads, but I'd rather deal with ads than an ugly phone. Uninstalling this. Next.

i loved the launcher. it is absolutely minimal. but when i arrange apps and then home screen shows only some apps. it not showing whole apps list. i think it is hidden. but when it is checked, it not hidden. a bug occurred. so i turn back to default launcher. i tried many ways. but failed to solve this issue. app drawer / home screen only shows 20 apps if there is 60 apps in phone. i can't find the other apps when this launcher is set as default.

What’s new

- Icon Spacing: Two new sliders set the side and row gaps between icons, with a live preview.
- Open Source Licenses: The About page now lists the software the app uses, with the full license text.
- Encrypted on Your Device: Favorites, hidden apps and the app list moved into an encrypted database; the old data file is then deleted.
- Smoother: The app list relabels right away when your device language changes, and icons redraw when the display size changes.
- Performance improvements.