Yin Yang Minimalist Launcher

QuietMind Creations

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About this app

A minimalist launcher that helps you use your phone less.

Yin Yang replaces your home screen with a clean, simple one, in grayscale or full color. Built in: a short pause before the apps you choose, daily app limits, focus sessions, and a clear view of your screen time. Your notes, to-dos, and widgets sit one swipe away.

Because Yin Yang is a minimalist Android launcher, these tools are there every time you pick up your phone. That makes it a distraction-free launcher that helps you reduce screen time and stop doomscrolling. You can switch back to your old launcher anytime.

🏠 Home Screen: A clean, minimal launcher

• Grayscale or color: start with calm grayscale icons, or switch to full color, tints, and third-party icon packs whenever you like
• Two home layouts: clock-first Classic, or a minimal text launcher with your apps as a quiet list
• Clocks, fonts, and wallpapers: static, gradient, dynamic, or live, with light and dark themes
• E-ink ready: an e-ink launcher with black and white themes and clean typography for paper-like screens
• Edit Look: restyle home, drawer, and My Space with a live preview
• App drawer: text-only or icons, A to Z sections, recent apps, and Work Profile apps with a work badge. Hide apps you'd rather not see.

🌿 Mind Space: Less screen time, more focus

• Pause before you scroll (Mindful Pause): A calming breath before the apps you choose open. A soft moment to ask: do I really want this scroll? Six in ten pauses end in a walk-away.
• App timer (Mindful Timer): Give the apps that eat your screen time a shared daily limit, then open each one for a session you choose. When time's up, a gentle cooldown.
• Focus Mode: Hide everything except the apps you allow. Start anytime, or set schedules. Soft sessions let you leave early. Strict sessions hold the line.
• App blocker (Mindful Break): Block a distracting app for 1, 3, 7, or 30 days, a real digital detox. It stays visible but faded, with your reason and the date it comes back.
• Screen time tracker: Daily screen time, pickups, and what you reach for after each unlock, for your eyes only.

📌 My Space: Notes, to-dos and widgets, one swipe right

Yin Yang doubles as a productivity launcher with widgets: calendar, weather, app folders and your Android widgets sit next to your notes and to-dos, so your home screen stays clean.

• Third-party widgets like Google Calendar, Spotify, and Google Keep, in color or monochrome

🧠 An ADHD launcher that lowers the noise

• Grayscale screens lower visual noise, and notes, to-dos, and calendar sit one swipe away, so nothing has to live in your head.

🌙 A gentler digital detox

Set it up as a dumb phone launcher: the Minimal layout keeps a short text list of the apps you choose, and everything else waits in the app drawer. A minimalist phone that still has the apps you need, for a phone detox and digital minimalism at your own pace.

💚 What Pro adds

Pro is a yearly or lifetime upgrade. It adds the full clock, font, and live wallpaper collection, icon packs, Pause and Timer on more apps, Strict Focus, Mindful Break, and every widget.

No ads, ever. Download Yin Yang Minimalist Launcher and use your phone less, starting with your home screen.

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Accessibility Service
Yin Yang uses Android's Accessibility Service for two optional features, and nothing else. Double-tap to lock: detects your double-tap gesture on the home screen and turns the display off. Mindful Timer: notices the moment a monitored app comes to the foreground so your session timer starts right away. Both are off by default, and Yin Yang works fully without enabling Accessibility. We never read screen content, notifications, messages, or any other personal data, and nothing is collected or shared. You can turn it off anytime in Android Settings.

Ratings and reviews

I started wanting to give this 2 days to fully experience it. It bleed into several weeks using it and I became very comfortable with it. I like it a lot. My few complaints are the unfair decision of some of its features behind a pro subscription like the mindful timer or blocking features. But the basics are covered, they work great. However, I've decided to delete it due to a notification of how high consumption this launcher is as a precaution. Would try again.

Updated perfect. they added a simple line icon pack that changes with the theme. I have been on the fence about paying $30 for lifetime but I knew I wanted it after that release. keep up the good work. Original Almost perfect. I think the only thing it's missing for myself is the ability to set icons. it would be cool if I could change icons. it would be cooler if I can change them with the theme so I can do a black white setup. this is still my main launcher now.

I like it in general, but I'm not paying $30.00 for a launcher, and definitely not a subscription. It's not a subscription app. I'm also very angry that the developers think I should pay them to use my own wallpapers on my own device, that's absurd! Already looking for a replacement. They should've asked for a one time payment of $10.00 instead.

What’s new

🧩 Classic dock now holds up to 5 apps
📁 Drawer folders: group your apps, see them right on the folder icon
🎨 System colours now follow your new wallpaper right away
🛠️ Several stability improvements and bug fixes