Nova Launcher

4.3
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
Dec 13, 2023

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

4.3
1.25M reviews
RoyalGuinness
March 9, 2024
I love this app, and it's so useful for organizing and customizing my apps and screens! I also seriously appreciate the lack of ads. It works very seamlessly with my phone, and even other apps that have app icons and backgrounds. I had this launcher on my last phone (Moto Z4) and it worked perfectly, but on my new phone (Google Pixel 8 pro) it has some issues, like freezing my screen or not allowing me in the app viewer. I love it enough for it to not bother me, but it would be nice if fixed.
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Robert Carbonell
March 16, 2024
This is still happening as of 3/16/24 fix it. Hello, Nova Launcher dev team! I recently upgraded my Pixel 6 and Pro to version 14, and for the last few days I have noticed that my folders with apps inside are not working. The only way around it is to power off the screen and open it again. Once I do this, I can open the apps within the folders. I removed Nov Launcher, but before I did that, I cleared the cache and storage and reinstalled it, and it is still happening.
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Salty Rice
March 13, 2024
Old Nova, maybe 2-4 years ago was great. Super smooth. Now, for the past maybe 6 months, I get random freezes, super glitchy. Sometimes the app drawer doesn't work and I have to turn my screen off and on again until it works. The app responsiveness is super slow. I hate the new nova. I'm going to another launcher.
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What's new

Fixes crash on Android 14 QPR2
Other minor fixes
Check out the new features we're building in the beta at https://novalauncher.com/beta
And on Discord at https://discord.gg/novalauncher