Nova Launcher

Nova Launcher

About this app

Nova Launcher is a powerful, customizable, and versatile home screen replacement. Nova brings advanced features to enhance your home screens, but still remains a great, user-friendly choice for everyone. Whether you want to completely overhaul your home screens or are looking for a cleaner, faster home launcher, Nova is the answer.
• The Newest Features: Nova brings the latest Android launcher features to all other phones.
• Custom Icon Themes: Nova supports thousands of icon themes available in the Play Store.
• Night Mode and Dark Theme: Have night mode come on automatically at a specific time, or just leave it on for a dark theme.
• Customizable App Drawer: Vertical or horizontal scroll, page effects, and card or immersive options are just a few of the things you’ll find available for the app drawer.
• Subgrid Positioning: With the ability to snap icons and widgets in between grid cells, it’s easy to get a precise feel and layout with Nova in a way that’s impossible with most other launchers.
• Backup and Restore: Moving from phone to phone or trying new home screen setups is a snap thanks to Nova’s backup and restore feature. Backups can be stored locally or saved to the cloud for easy transfers.
• Speed: Nova is highly optimized, with smooth and snappy animations that will even older phones a fast and fluid feel.


Do more with Nova Launcher Prime
Unlock Nova Launcher’s full potential with Nova Launcher Prime:

• Gestures: Swipe, pinch, double tap, and more on the home screen to execute custom commands.
• App Drawer Groups: Create custom tabs or folders in the app drawer for an ultra-organized feel.
• Hide Apps: Remove apps from the app drawer without uninstalling them.
• Custom Icon Swipe Gestures: Assign swipe gestures to home screen icons or folders for custom actions.
• …and more. More scrolling effects, unread counts, and others.


This app uses the Device Administrator permission for optional screen off/lock functionality.

Ratings and reviews

I've used Nova since 2017, across 3 different phones from 3 different manufacturers. That might well have been more for the consistency than its actual functionality, but that's pretty good too. The killer feature of Nova for me is the search bar in the app drawer that can be set up to activate with a swipe down; this lets me start searching without reaching all the way to the top of the screen, which has only gotten further away with each phone.

I've been using this for years. It's brilliant, does everything you need. Almost sad .... Once you've set it up, you just forget it. Yet it's so powerful it feels one should constantly exploit it's capabilities. The reason 4 stars, not 5, is simply that it is sooo configurable that it really needs a better settings interface. So many options, but it's often hard to find some if the simpler settings. Nevertheless , they're there. Which can't be said of other apps. Genuinely excellent app

I have been using Nova for over a year and right from the get go, my phone had functionality I didn't know it could have. Nova allows your phone to have a cleaner look, while retaining the fundamental parts of what a phone should do. The amount of customisation is unmatched and let's you have your home screen the way you wish. After over a year, I have nothing bad to say about this app.

What's new

Fixes for Android 12L
Bug fixes and optimizations