Grid - Windows Phone launcher

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About this app

A home screen for Android, inspired by Windows Phone.

Grid puts your apps, contacts, and live information on a simple grid of tiles. Tap to open. Long-press to edit. Drop one tile on another to make a folder.

home screen
‣ Four tile sizes — 1x1, 2x2, 4x2, 4x4 — on an endless vertical grid.
‣ Drag-and-drop edit mode with smart grid snapping.
‣ Android widgets sit alongside tiles, on the same grid.
‣ Folders by dropping one tile onto another.

at a glance
Some tiles update in place, so you can see what's happening without opening the app. The time. Upcoming calendar events. Recent messages and the contacts behind them. What's playing right now. Notification counts animate quietly on the icon.

make it yours
‣ Six preset accent colors, plus a hex field for any custom color.
‣ System, light, and dark themes.
‣ Per-tile color, transparency, and icon overrides.
‣ Third-party icon pack support — Nova, ADW, Atom, KISS — plus Android 13+ monochrome icons.
‣ Any image from your gallery can be a tile icon.
‣ Wallpaper shown in full, blended behind tiles, or blurred.

apps
‣ Search every installed app from the drawer.
‣ Alphabetical A–Z sections and a recently installed row.
‣ Work profile apps alongside personal apps, each with their own badge.
‣ Pin Android app shortcuts via long-press.
‣ Hide any app you'd rather not see.

fast
‣ Smooth animations for edit mode, tile taps, and page transitions.
‣ Kind on your battery.
‣ Back up and restore your layout as a ZIP file, automatically or on demand.

A home screen that stays out of your way. Optional premium features — denser 6 and 8 column grid layouts and folder creation — help support continued development.

Grid is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation.

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely the best WindowsPhone/Metro-style launcher on the market. Smooth, intuitive, and somehow has no ads of any kind. I'd love too see an option for the user to set a custom font and accent color; those two options would allow for so much more customization for the users. Other than that, an amazingly solid product that I recommend to anyone looking for a Metro/WP-style home screen.

I wanted to love it but was bummed that widgets don't really work since they can only be resized from tiny to small. I was expecting to be able to size them however I wanted. with such little area per widget most widgets are useless. I was paying for the pro version too but that didnt change much. uninstalling and carrying on in the search

This launcher is probably the BEST grid-based Windows Phone launcher to date, it just looks, feels and works amazingly. There are a couple issues/requests though, 1) the icon pack I'm using incorrectly themed a couple apps, and I have no way to manually change them, so being able to edit individual apps would be nice (as well as per-tile coloring), and 2) Almost every widget I've tried adding to the home menu just crashes the app, so a fix for that would be nice. Other than that, great launcher!

What’s new

0.0.147
- Better folder support, now with proper title sizes
- Support for work profiles

0.0.139
- Smoother edit mode transitions, recent apps section
- Bug fixes for the tile controls on the Grid
- Support for a new 4x4 tile

0.0.133
- Fixes for horizontal scrolling from application list to home
- Fixes for Customization options not working

0.0.130
- Fixes for personalization UI

0.0.126
- You can now individually customize icons using Icon Packs or custom Images.