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 icons
Nova supports thousands of icon themes available in the Play Store. Plus, reshape all icons to a shape of your choice for a uniform and consistent look.
An extensive color system
Use Material You colors from your system, or choose your own colors for a personalised feel that’s unique to you.
Custom light and dark themes
Sync dark mode with your system, the sunrise and sunset, or keep it on permanently. The choice is yours.
A powerful search system
Nova allows you to search for content in your apps, your contacts, and other services with integrations for your favorite platforms. Additionally, get instant Micro Results for calculations, unit conversions, package tracking, and more.
Customizable home screen, app drawer, and folders
Icon size, label colors, vertical or horizontal scroll and search bar positioning just scratch the surface of customization for your home screen setup. The app drawer also adds innovative customizable cards to give you the information you need, right when you need it.
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.
Helpful support
Quickly get in touch with support through a convenient option in the app, or join our active Discord community at https://discord.gg/novalauncher
Do even 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: Hide apps from the app drawer without uninstalling them.
• Custom icon swipe gestures: Swipe up or down on your home screen icons to become more productive without taking up more home screen space.
• …and more. More scrolling effects, notification badges, and others.
Free or paid:
- Paid with one-time purchase
Accessibility and User Comments:
Nova Launcher is hands down the best customization app for Android, with the ability to customize literally every aspect of your home screen and make it truly yours. It supports accessibility actions for both apps and folders to move around your home screen or app drawer.
It lets you auto sort your apps by allowing Nova to list your installed apps and organize them within relevant folders. E.G., all your banking apps in finance and all your music and audio-related apps within the entertainment folder. Navigating within the Nova settings can be tricky at times since it uses live previews, and choosing and adjusting colors is not really screen reader friendly. But those customizations are no deal breakers for a totally blind person. State of Some of the check boxes is not announced bby screen readers for some visualization related options therefore it is not easy to tell whether they are enabled or disabled.
I love the built-in Nova Search, and I find it a huge upgrade to the Finder search of the Samsung's default One UI. You can add more apps to search within, e.g., your contacts, Spotify library, Wikipedia, shortcuts of the whole installed apps, and many more. E.G. If you search for private, you can find InPrivate browsing of Edge and can launch it right away. If you search for a contact, you also can see the contact-related options, like calling the contact, messaging, or calling through WhatsApp or Telegram. The search query also brings up some web search options and tapping on any of them launches DuckDuckGo search page on your default browser. As mentioned in the app description, you can also convert units directly from the Nova search. This is really useful as I often need to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice versa for the weather.
Some of the launcher gestures get conflicted with the screen reader in use, but I still can utilize Nova Search by swiping down with two fingers. Swiping up with two fingers brings up the app drawer. The clockwise and counterclockwise gestures also work, but no functions are added to them by default. I, however, added the ASR voice recorder and Google Keep quick note-taking widget, respectively. The good part about the app drawer is that you can choose to display the frequently used apps, searches, and shortcuts at the top of the list, and you can also see the rows like recently installed and recently updated.
The Nova Launcher Prime addon is required to enable notification badges and is a one-time purchase through Google Play.
Last Tested App version and Android version:
8.1. Android 14
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