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Nova Launcher, savior of cruft-filled Android phones, is on life support
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
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I still use it. Where did you move to?
I was using the pro version, but later switched to Lawnchair. Still using Lawnchair, it's great.
https://lawnchair.app/
"This app is not available for your device because it was built for an older version of Android."
Pixel 7 here, am I missing something?
The Play Store link (Lawnchair v2) has not been updated in years. There is a ground-up rewrite (Lawnchair v14) which is being worked on slowly but is currently only able to be sideloaded from their site, and is apparently still missing most of the features from v2.
From what I gather, though, development is happening at a snails pace with "when I feel like it" updates.
Lawnchair hasn't had a new release in like 6 years.
Personally, I'm using Kvaesitso (available on fdroid). https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso
It's the best I've found for me post-nova
Lawnchair is being updated it is just only being updated on its Github page.
This launcher is not as good as Nova.
It was my go to launcher for years, but this weekend I decided it was time to see what else there was. I ended up on Niagara Launcher and have been liking it! Took about a day to get used to it- it's definitely different. There's not really an app drawer, and as far as I can tell there's only one home screen and one place for widgets (you can have more than one, but you flip through them). I like how simple it is and how quickly I can get to everything.
I loved Niagara when I used to use it. Just wish the premium version didnt swallow my whole wallet... God damn that price is steep for a launcher...
I feel that! I ended up buying the premium license. I figure if I use it as long as I use Nova, it'll pay for itself. Also will hopefully help the creator and prevent them from selling it to some advertising firm.
I thought Niagra's premium was a monthly or yearly subscription.
They must have changed it! There was the option for a monthly subscription as well as a lifetime purchase.
https://help.niagaralauncher.app/article/104-price-of-niagara-pro
I'll take a look again. Thanks!
I agree. At first I chuckled that the App literally asks you to give it a week with Premium to get used to it. They were right though, once I let go of comparing it to Nova, I got pretty used to making folders and widgets. They have a good product and they earned my money/support for the lifetime price.
I went back to action launcher which I really like.
I basically have one home screen with links to my most used stuff.
It has covers which I believe originated here but was later possible on Nova. Basically you make folders of apps that you can tap to open, but you can set that to swipe instead so that the tap just opens the first app in the folder
So for example I listen to podcasts way more often than music from my phone, so I have a folder for audio where I can tap to open podcasts or swipe to open the folder and get to music.
I then have a slide in drawer that has the weather and my calendar and that's basically it. Very rarely need to go to the main app list once this is set up. I will likely never change this as I don't really use that many apps regularly.
I switched to smart launcher and bought lifetime cause I feel like its actually a really great option I never heard of or tried until I stopped using nova. Lawnchair is good too but for now im sticking with smart launcher.
I used to use nova and switched to Niagara a couple of months ago. It very different but super sleek
Kvaesitso. It's a great search based launcher