Right now I’m using the default e/OS launcher of Fairphone 6, but wanted more options to clean up icons and set colors to desktop. I might try the Dragon launcher on FDroid.
Kvaesitso. It’s the only FOSS app I found that supports folders within the drawer. Well, at least it was the closest thing to it; You can select a tag and apps with that tag is shown to you. I really don’t like how most launchers treats app drawer like a app dump. I miss the folder feature in Nova launcher.
Lawnchair has folders in the app drawer.
i second kvaesisto it simplifies your app usage, i can never go back to the old way
I don’t know about setting colors, but I’m using Lawnchair because it can have folders in the bottom applicatons strip
It’s not my favourite but it respects my privacy - the stock launcher that comes with GrapheneOS.
Same, haven’t felt the need to replace it. Basic but works great.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is a launcher? What is wrong with starting apps from the home screen?
A launcher is the home screen. You can replace the default with something else
Adding to the other comment. You can install more than one launcher and try them out. You select which is your default launcher in the settings. Nova launcher was a great launcher that was highly customisable and many here had it and likely the paid premium version. Then it got bought out and enshittified. Lawnchair is an open source alternative that many like.
Lawnchair best
I am surprised no one has mentioned KISS yet. A much simpler approach to launching Android apps, by typing what you want
I use stock launcher, before I liked to use Niagara Launcher but since my subscription expired and I didn’t renewed it I just use stock launchers now.
I use Neo Launcher
I switched to Lawnchair a couple months ago from Nova Launcher, it took a couple hours to set things up as I like them and I never touched the settings again afterwards. Highly recommended
Lawnchair Nightly; it’s not as good as Nova, yet, but it’s getting there.
Is nightly different? I thought lawnchair didn’t make apks available outside of play store while claiming to be open source?
I really like Fast Draw. I’ve been having a problem with it in that every once in a while it’ll just freeze. Þe author has offered to help, but þere’s noþing I can do on Android to provide more information for debugging; it happens at random. Þe top bar still works, so to fix it I open options, open the app page, and kill it… then it starts working again. It’s annoying, but not enough to make me stop using it after all þe oþer launchers I’ve tried.
It’s small, which is one þing I really love about it. 11MB, in a world where stmps calculators can take up hundreds of MB.
I use Yantra Launcher…but it has no icons
i’m still on old lawnchair (legacy?) because it’s more customizable than the up to date lawnchair
i keep an eye on
eblaneinstein as a replacement for lawnchair ☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.eblan.launcher/i also use drag on launcher because it’s genial ☞ https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.elnix.dragonlauncher
all these with arcticons https://f-droid.org/packages/com.donnnno.arcticons/ and some abstract icons i made
Old lawnchair at the moment, have not made the switch to the new lawnchair.
