Nova Launcher

4.4
1.32M reviews
50M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

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.

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Icons used in screenshots
• OneYou Icon Pack by PashaPuma Design
• OneYou Themed Icon Pack by PashaPuma Design
Icon packs used with permission from the respective creators.

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This app uses the AccessibilityService permission for optional support of making certain system functions more accessible, such as with desktop gestures. For example screen off or opening the Recent Apps screen. Nova will automatically prompt you to enable this if it is necessary for your configuration, for many cases it is not! No data is collected from the AccessibilityService, it is merely used to invoke system actions.

This app uses the Device Administrator permission for optional screen off/lock functionality.

This app uses a Notification Listener for optional badges on icons and media playback controls.
Updated on
18 May 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
App activity and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
1.25M reviews
Murat Karakaya
29 July 2024
I have searched for a bunch of launchers and this one by far was the best for me. It is very easy for beginners, but you still have a lot of freedom when it comes to customizations. However, although this app is pretty much perfect for me it might not be for you for two reasons: 1. It has a bunch of google apps built in. For example, it comes with shortcuts for google play and google assistant. Which might bee a problem if you value your privacy from google. 2. It doesn't have dynamic notifications badge for apps in the free version of the app. So you have to pay for it. Both of them don't really bother me because I will still use the Google apps like search, play and assistant either way and I simply don't care about the notification badges. So I am giving it a five star.
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Finley Vail
11 September 2024
Used this all the time on my Motorola and it worked great. Not sure if it's been updated or if it doesn't work well on Google Pixels, but it's very glitchy. Takes a bit to load the home screen, last used app icon becomes invisible, the app drawer is open but the screen doesn't display it, sometimes the drawer can't scroll. Locking and unlocking fixes most of these. Not sure where these issues lie, a couple years ago I would have given this an easy 5 stars. For now, I'm trying something else.
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Marc Joanisse
4 September 2024
In technology years I'm really old. I never knew you could change the UI from my Samsung phone. I've been using Nova Launcher for less than a week and I have no intention of going back... Ever. This launcher covers everything you can think of to make your own. Works perfect. Customization is just incredible. No hesitation in purchasing pro key. Thank you.
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What's new

Add a toggle to show a single row of app search results (Nova Settings > Search > Limit apps to one row)
Prevent Bixby from taking over Google Assistant/Gemini
Dock placement improvements on large screens
Restore the vertical dock background
Restore the ability to open search from the swipe indicator
Nova Settings visual improvements
Various bug and crash fixes
Update translations