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

Great overall. Please expand the wallpaper scrolling feature. There is no way to set it so that the entire image is used no matter how many pages there are on the home screen, so if I only have 4 pages, I won't be able to see the entire image when scrolling. Or alternatively, having a separate image for each home screen page would be nice, too. Other than that, it works just nice with no stuttering, performance hit and enables neat customizations.

When I change my wallpaper it continually moves to one side, cutting most the photo. Regardless of where my homepage was the wallpaper was to the left. It was so ugly and I've had to do such a rubbish fix (cropping photo massively and more on one side via trial and error), it's been the same for 4 years with no proper fix. Otherwise brilliant app, very disappointing, would not download again if I'd have known this before I started. Avoid, plenty of GOOD options out there.

I love the ease of use and customizability of this free UI. Sooooo much more intuitive than Samsung's. It will alphabetize your apps so you can easily find them, unlike other ones that go by order they were installed, which I can't remember. There's easy app search, it's easy to move apps to home screens, and optional animations. Widgets are easy to add to screens you can customize the grid size of apps on a home screen, so I ahace a 8x5 icon grid with folders with a few apps for quick access.

What's new

Fixes for Android 12L
Bug fixes and optimizations