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 icons
Nova supports thousands of icon themes available in the Play Store. Plus, reshape all icons to a shape of your choice for a uniform and consistent look.

🎨 An extensive color system
Use Material You colors from your system, or choose your own colors for a personalised feel that's unique to you.

🌓 Custom light and dark themes
Sync dark mode with your system, the sunrise and sunset, or keep it on permanently. The choice is yours.

🔍 A powerful search system
Nova allows you to search for content in your apps, your contacts, and other services with integrations for your favorite platforms. Additionally, get instant Micro Results for calculations, unit conversions, package tracking, and more.

📁Customizable home screen, app drawer, and folders
Icon size, label colors, vertical or horizontal scroll and search bar positioning just scratch the surface of customization for your home screen setup. The app drawer also adds innovative customizable cards to give you the information you need, right when you need it.

📏 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.

❤️ Helpful support
Quickly get in touch with support through a convenient option in the app, or join our active Discord community at https://discord.gg/novalauncher

🎁 Do even 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: Hide apps from the app drawer without uninstalling them.
• Custom icon swipe gestures: Swipe up or down on your home screen icons to become more productive without taking up more home screen space.
• …and more. More scrolling effects, notification badges, and others.

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Icons used in screenshots
• OneYou Icon Pack by PashaPuma Design
• OneYou Themed Icon Pack by PashaPuma Design
Icon packs used with permission from the respective creators.

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This app uses the AccessibilityService permission for optional support of making certain system functions more accessible, such as with desktop gestures. For example screen off or opening the Recent Apps screen. Nova will automatically prompt you to enable this if it is necessary for your configuration, for many cases it is not! No data is collected from the AccessibilityService, it is merely used to invoke system actions.

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

This app uses a Notification Listener for optional badges on icons and media playback controls.

Ratings and reviews

Used to work great, now it randomly freezes the view (you can still aimlessly scroll and click on the app icons where they should be, even though the display will only show the screen as it was last seen). Did the latest updates improve anything? Else, there's no need to make changes that could ruin it. It feels like that familiar point in which an excellent app gets sabotaged in favor of a paid one.

Having the same problem numerous other people report. When I try to open applications or folders, there's no response. Icons do not appear. Screen locks up and have to reboot the phone in order to use it. Also noticed significantly slower processing and response times. Lots of my regular apps now also frequently don't work at all. I'm not using this anymore until I hear it gets fixed.

Been using for a few years now, never had any issues. I only put 4 stars currently as with the Android One UI 6.0 update, theres an issue with the app drawer swipe up motion. I can swipe to get the app drawer up, but the screen doesn't change from my home screen. I'm still able to tap anywhere on my screen randomly, and it will launch whatever app is in that location. EDIT: I don't have a PC so I'm unable to do that, but I've made a reddit post and will try get others to do so! Thanks for reply

What's new

Fixes crash on Android 14 QPR2
Other minor fixes
Check out the new features we're building in the beta at https://novalauncher.com/beta
And on Discord at https://discord.gg/novalauncher