Nova Launcher

4.2
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.

āœØ The newest features
Nova brings the latest Android launcher features to all other phones.

šŸ–¼ļø 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.

šŸŽØ 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.

šŸŒ“ Custom light and dark themes
Sync dark mode with your system, the sunrise and sunset, or keep it on permanently. The choice is yours.

šŸ” 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.

šŸ“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.

šŸ“ Subgrid positioning
With the ability to snap icons and widgets in between grid cells, itā€™s easy to get a precise feel and layout with Nova in a way thatā€™s impossible with most other launchers.

šŸ“² Backup and restore
Moving from phone to phone or trying new home screen setups is a snap thanks to Novaā€™s backup and restore feature. Backups can be stored locally or saved to the cloud for easy transfers.

ā¤ļø 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

šŸŽ Do even more with Nova Launcher Prime
Unlock Nova Launcherā€™s full potential with Nova Launcher Prime.
ā€¢ā€ƒGestures: Swipe, pinch, double tap, and more on the home screen to execute custom commands.
ā€¢ā€ƒApp drawer groups: Create custom tabs or folders in the app drawer for an ultra-organized feel.
ā€¢ā€ƒHide apps: Hide apps from the app drawer without uninstalling them.
ā€¢ā€ƒCustom icon swipe gestures: Swipe up or down on your home screen icons to become more productive without taking up more home screen space.
ā€¢ā€ƒā€¦and more. More scrolling effects, notification badges, and others.

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Icons used in screenshots
ā€¢ā€ƒOneYou Icon Pack by PashaPuma Design
ā€¢ā€ƒOneYou 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
May 3, 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

4.2
1.25M reviews
Steven D
May 5, 2024
From what I can see, the recent main update only made things worse, in my opinion. Can't change the page indicator colors, they're stuck on blue for me, and changing them in the Legacy settings does nothing. Folder backgrounds behind the folder card is stuck in a light blue. Can't change that either. And if those features weren't ready yet, then why push this update that took away features?
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Nova Launcher
May 6, 2024
You can change both the home screen page indicator and immersive folder scrim colour in Nova Settings > Style > Home screen > Surface/Accent. If something seems wrong, get in touch through Nova Settings > Contact support, and we'll help you out.
Juanito Billanes
May 5, 2024
I did purchase the paid version and I'm glad I did. I enjoying this launcher and lots of features that I was looking for. I like the fact I can rename the app not only the home screen but also in the drawer. So far has not experienced slowness, hang or locking. Keep up the good work... I wish you can merge cell in home screen icon with long name so it does not get cut specially when your making the grid much smaller and closer to each other.
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Josephine Lee
May 2, 2024
Nova was working well for the past 6+ years I've used it until today. I got a notification about a beta being released and now the number for the unread messages bubble doesn't show up on any of my apps. The bubble appears, just not the number within it that indicates how many unread messages you have. So annoying, when this is a built-in feature for iOS.
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Nova Launcher
May 6, 2024
For a small number of people, the notification badge text color changed to transparent after updating from v7. This has now been fixed as of 8.0.17. You can change the colour yourself in Nova Settings > Style > Notification badges > Text. If something seems wrong, get in touch through Nova Settings > Contact support, and we'll help you out.

What's new

Nova 8.0
Material You Theming
Redesigned Nova Settings
Shortcut and Contact search
API Integrations to expand Search
Additional Search More providers
Swipe left/right desktop gestures
Cards in App Drawer and Search
- Media Player
- Weather
- (Beta) Map Locations