Nova Launcher

4.1
1.32M reviews
50M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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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

4.1
1.26M reviews
Christianna Bonk
13 November 2024
Upgraded to a Pixel 9 Pro XL and Nova is still my go to! I love how easy and tough it is. HOWEVER, "hide clock" is nowhere to be found under Look and Feel, and I use a different app for my date and time display. I would very much like the real estate that the persistent notification is taking up back to make room for other notifications I want on my upper bar. Will an update be fixing the missing option to hide the clock?
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Nicholas W
17 November 2024
Homepage sporadically but frequently freezes when returning to the homepage from an app. The screen can be interacted with but does not update. Locking and unlocking the phone seems to unfreeze the homepage. This is obviously very inconvenient and annoying. This has been a reoccurring problem for some time now. The device is a Pixel 8.
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Bruce Buzalski
30 August 2024
I'm a long-time user of Nova and have loved it. Recently you changed home screen icons so I can no longer drag and drop links to make collections. I can add apps but it takes much longer, and I can't drag and drop web links the same as an app. Can you please return the drag and drop function to a folder. To be honest with you I'd like to have imbedded folders but your current design doesn't allow this either. My home screen is currently a mess because of your changes. No way around it.
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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