Nova Launcher
Highly flexible Android launcher offering advanced home screen customization, support for color and icon themes, scrollable docks, custom app drawer, backup and restore, widget overlapping, gestures, hidden app options, and bulk desktop management.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
Features
- Application Launchers
- Launcher
- Home Screen
- Material design
- Ad-free
- Support for Gestures
- Swipe dock
- Dark Mode
- No registration required
- Works Offline
Tags
- scrolling
- Backup and Restore
- Gestures
- launchers
- android-launchers
- Android Applications
- Android Launchers
- Android
Nova Launcher News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Nova Launcher
Nova Launcher is shutting down as founder departs and open source plans are canceledNova Launcher, one of the most widely used customizable home screen launchers for Android, is being...
- Danilo_Venom published news article about Nova Launcher
Nova Launcher faces uncertain future after the company Branch slashes its development teamThe future of Nova Launcher has become uncertain following significant layoffs by its parent compan...
- Maoholguin published news article about Nova Launcher
Nova Launcher 8.0.7 beta: New card-style widgets, enhanced search, and improved UXThe new 8.0.7 Beta version of Nova Launcher, the widely used Android launcher, has been released wi...
Recent activities
- POX updated Nova Launcher
- POX updated Nova Launcher
justarandom added Nova Launcher as alternative to LeanbackLauncher- kiro598 liked Nova Launcher
- dbriggs updated Nova Launcher
Rolet added Nova Launcher as alternative to Yin Yang Minimalist Launcher
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What is Nova Launcher?
Nova Launcher is an highly customizable, performance driven, home screen replacement for Android 4.0+
FEATURES • Color Themes • Icon Themes • Scrollable Dock (Keep all your favorite apps on the dock, with up to 7 icons per page and up to 3 pages.) • Customizable App Drawer • Change scrolling style, choose between horizontal paginated or vertical continuous • Scroll Effects • Infinite Scroll • Folder Icons • Backup/Restore • Widgets in dock • Widget Overlapping • Add multiple apps to the desktop or a folder at once • Select hidden activities from your favorite apps
Nova Launcher Prime Features (Paid version):
• Drawer Groups:
• Unlimited custom tabs
• Gestures
• Hide Apps
• Dock Swipes
• Unread Counts (it works with 
Tesla Unread)
Nova Launcher information
Developed by
TeslaCoil Software Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0 + free version with limited functionality.Rating
Average rating of 3.8Alternatives
69 alternatives listedNews
4 news article related to Nova LauncherSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Highly configurable. Best launcher of the many I have tried.
Nova launcher was good but its been since brought out by a shady analytics company Branch
https://www.makeuseof.com/nova-launcher-branch-is-it-still-safe-to-use/
I really like Nova Launcher which allows you to configure and customise Android to your heart's content, allowing you to make your device truly your own. Though I'd like to have a bit more assistance with organising installed apps. Maybe some AI. My first and only launcher. However, I am considering if I can continue with this as it was acquired by an analytics company and a lot of staff have been let go.
I love Nova Launcher, honestly. It was my first launcher and is still in my arsenal, the customization alone is worth 4 stars . It's only 4 stars though because there is 1 thing that just... Makes my eye twitch when think about. App Management... Yes it has custom folder and tabs which is excellent, but as far as I'm aware, it's all manual management. Now, if your one that is on top of that kinda thing, your good. Get this launcher you'll love it. But if your like me where once a week I go on an app bender of things I want to try, then life happens and next thing I know I have 190 apps out floating freely and unorganized. I'm absolutely not manually one by one placing those apps... No. So I switched to a launcher that had auto app organizing, and lemme tell you.. It's top priority important to me. If they get an A.I. organizer or bare minimum, a really easy bulk app management system... I would certainly give it a shot and 5 stars!
Acquired by analytics company Branch in 2022.
Highly customizable and feature rich. It would be better if it was completely free though. Some features are locked behind a paywall. Unfortunately the software is also now owned by a data analytics company called "Branch".
Acquired by a data analytics company in 2022.