Before Launcher | Go Minimal

⎋ Before Labs

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About this app

⚡️Stay focused using the minimal launcher with style and functionality.
✶Open your phone 40% less.✶
✶Reduce distractions with our notification filter. 80% of all notifications don’t warrant interruption.✶
✶Focus on what matters.✶

❌ Zero ads, never a subscription
✶No ads, EVER✶
✶No subscriptions, EVER✶
✶Lifetime purchase for ALL of your devices✶

Before Launcher gets your time back, by giving your phone a minimal look. This minimalist launcher provides many useful features including:

Minimal homescreen
Quick launch of your most important apps. It’s configurable, too!

Customize the look, make your own clean style
Choose from our large list of photo, gradient and solid themes or create your own.

Fast access to your favorites and everything else
Fast access to all your apps in a scrollable, sortable & searchable list.

Favorite, folder and hide your apps
Group apps into folders. Pin apps to the top of your apps list. Hide unwanted and distracting bloatware (available in pro version)

Hide less important notifications
Our filtered notification drawer is unique. Less important notifications don't interrupt you with vibrations or noise. They won't clutter up your notification bar. But you still receive them and they are accessible with a quick swipe.

Notified but not distracted
Focus on what is essential. Important notifications still notify you, so you don’t miss anything.

Built to be private
We are not in the business of capturing or selling your data. We don't track any data that identifies you. We even allow you to turn off our anonymous analytics.

No required permissions = more privacy/security
Many other launchers want 10 or more device permissions. (the notification filter asks for one access but you can turn it off that feature).

Take control of your phone
Before Launcher sorts apps by their size, their installed date and the last time you used them. Uninstall the ones that take up too much space, or you never use.

Style your app icons
Add our own styles and also add 3rd party icon packs

Easy set up
Our guided process helps you get Before Launcher set up in no time.

Selected as one of Fast Company's best new apps of the year in 2019.

The minimalism movement inspired our work! This includes books like Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price and Indistractable by Nir Ayal. (2) Products like the Lightphone.

The Before Launcher app, with your consent, uses Android's Accessibility Service API to enable the double-tap gesture to quickly turn off your device’s screen. Your use of this feature is optional. The accessibility service in Before Launcher is disabled by default. Your consent is required to allow the accessibility service to be used by the Before Launcher and when consent is granted it is only used for the double-tap feature. You can revoke your consent at any time. The feature and the service do not collect or share any data.

NOTE: We would love to hear from you. Our roadmap includes future support for gestures, custom fonts, and more.

Ratings and reviews

love this so much! It hides things just enough to not want to click on them. I was searching so hard for something like this but literally almost everything else wanted you to subscribe to their app for a stupid amount of money. It makes it sooo hard to try and digitally disconnect without getting rid of the essentials like texting and calling. This is the closest I could get to what I was looking for without the subscribing. and if you want more options you can pay one time which is reasonable!

I was looking to get away from constant doom-scrolling and incessant distractions to the point that I was looking into the Light Phone 2 and similar over-the-top, drastic solutions. But realistically, I need accurate/efficient Maps, Authenticators, and various other functions that those phones charge a premium to Not have. Then I stumbled upon this app and I've been using it and thriving for about 3 months now. It is EXACTLY what I didn't even know I was looking for. Cannot recommend enough.

this launcher hasn't stopped me using my phone entirely, but man if it doesn't cause me so much less anxiety to look at my notification bar now. I love that I can have my less important notifs to the side so I can still see them but they're not a forefront thought. The only thing I miss from the core launcher is the ability to search the web without opening a browser. I can do without but if there's anyway to integrate something like that I would lose it

What's new

🚀7.16.1
🆕 New setting to always show keyboard on apps list screen
🔧 Update translations
🐞 Bug fixes & performance improvements