Ruthless Launcher

Shubbyy

About this app

Ruthless Launcher is a lightweight, yet feature-rich launcher based Amir Zaidi's Shade Launcher.

Important:
Visit https://github.com/shubhchan/Ruthless-Translation if you want to translate Ruthless Launcher in your language or contact me.

Features:

Parity with the latest Play Store release of Shade. Everything, including Grids, Accent Colors and Smart Unread are all included.



Supports Adaptive Icons Packs

Choose from the thousands of icon packs to customize your Home Screen. Make it truly yours.



A smarter way to display your most important notification

Smart Unread displays your topmost notification right in the Glance widget. It also displays weather information as well as music track information and you can skip tracks by double tapping the track



Customisations? Fam, we got you covered

Change everything from fonts, icon shapes and sizes, app launch animations, custom grids, swipe gestures and more.
Oh, you live for that minimal aesthetic? Disable whatever components you don't need and enjoy that awesome wallpaper.
Absolutely love your setup and want to share it around? Backups, what's not to love about them.



Love News Feeds? We do as well

A simple swipe to the right and BAM! For Google's Feed you'll need the Pixel Bridge add-on: https://telegra.ph/Googles-News-Feed-Addon-08-02
Also, other custom News Feed apps like Homefeeder are supported too.


Have prying eyes snooping around? 👀

You can hide apps by long pressing an app's icon in the app drawer and by dragging over to the top right corner.
Want to quickly access your hidden apps?
Just type in the word 'HIDDEN' et voila!
Still want more? Secured Vault allows you to lock sensitive apps with your on-device biometrics. (Hardware compatibility varies between devices)

Don't like ads?

We got you covered, this free app contains no ads and no feature is hidden behind any sort of pay wall.

Ratings and reviews

Came from Lawnchair and I stumbled across this amazing launcher. It is much faster, simple, and "just works". There are a few features I wish were included such as folder customization, and more integration with search bars rather than using search widgets already on the device. Also the app locking feature was really well done other than the fact that it doesn't ask for your fingerprint if you are redirected to a locked app from another app, which is important for an app lock.

I had to switch away from Nova after the Android 12 update broke split-screen apps. This is the best replacement I've found, it's simple and functional, though I have a few complaints. There is some bug with moving widgets that makes it very annoying to position them correctly (they always move up and to the left of where I dropped them). Also, there's no way to rearrange pages, or choose a default page besides the left-most one. Besides these minor issues I've been happy with this launcher.

Polished and stable. That's what we all want in a launcher. Ruthless has achieved this. After trying countless launchers with weird quirks or sluggish performance, it is nice to see someone out there still knows how to code. I LOVE that this works in landscape rotation! No ads too!? That said, why does this only swipe right? It does nothing to swipe left of the home screen. Why is a third-party bit of software needed (you have to download outside the ap store) to get a news feed on the left??

What's new

- Added three font values.
- Added widget overlap option.
- Added a new accent color Vivid.
- Updated French translation.
- Option to disable auto categorization on uncheck (App category -> three dot menu -> "hidden search keyword" - > Disable auto categorization )
- Removed unused code and reduced size of app.
- Bug fixes like dock bar changing on theme change and improvements.
This update took a bit long due to various stuff IRL.