Octopi Launcher • Home Screens

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About this app

Octopi Launcher is a brand new home screen launcher for Android, with a few cool features:

Features:
- (Auto scrolling) widget stacks
- Float/ pin a widget on top of home screens
- Glass widgets
- Display drawer icons as tiles
- App drawer folders and favorite apps
- Organize apps using tags
- Launch different apps using swipes on an icon
- Have different layouts in portrait and landscape mode
- Foldables support - have totally different layouts on each screen
- Icon pack and shortcut support
- Resize individual home screen icons
- Index bar and reachability mode for drawer
- Option to hide status and navigation bars
- Notification badges
- Private space and work profile support
- Lock home screen layout

Unlock additional features using a one-time payment, now at a special price for this launch period.

This app uses the AccessibilityService permission, to enable screen off functionality. This app does not use this AccessibilityService for collection of any data

Ratings and reviews

Very good launcher, completely replaced Nova launcher for me. The free version even offers some Nova Premium features, such as Hide Apps, Draw Folders. There are some serious bugs, though. One example: it worked well on my modern phone and tablet, but on my spare phone running Android 8, the auto rotate cannot be set up: touch this option once, the Octopi immediately falls apart and can not be recovered. I have to delete data and cache, and restart the setup process.

App is pretty good but has some room for improvement and refinement. With the most recent takeover/sale of Nova launcher and the inclusion of ad tracking there, the dev on this app has an opportunity to grab some market share if they can implement some of the things people love about Nova. You could also bump your pro license fee a couple of bucks as I think many people would pay $4.99 for the pro version, especially as you don't have ad trackers. Keep working on it and good luck!

So far I like what I see. I don't seem to have any control over the order of icons in home screen folders though. Otherwise, great start! Changing to 5 stars. Developer had a VERY quick response to show me where to find the option to arrange folder icons. Looking forward to future with this launcher. This really seems to be the Nova Launcher replacement we've been looking for.

What’s new

v1.727:
- Custom icons are now backed up

v1.726:
- Experimental option to choose a custom image for icon
- Fixed unable to drag drawer icons onto new dock/panel
- Try to fix icon pack names showing as their internal names
- Try to fix cases where dock/panel folders may appear on top

Pro is at a special price for this promo period