Now Launcher: Minimal Home

Start with the apps you choose. Now Launcher replaces the icon grid with a simple text-only Android home screen. Keep essential apps close, give them names that make sense to you, and set your own schedule or Wi-Fi rules for different parts of the day.

YOUR HOME, YOUR CHOICES
• Display apps as a plain-text list, without icon grids, widgets, badges, or feeds.
• Choose the number of apps shown and show or hide the clock, date, mode name, and search button.
• Create modes with selected apps and schedule or connected Wi-Fi triggers.
• Tap the mode name to see why it is active.
• Select a mode manually for one hour, until midnight, or until you change it.

FIND AND MANAGE APPS
• Swipe up or tap Search to find apps by name or initials.
• Long-press a search result to rename it, keep it on home, hide it, view app information, or request uninstall through Android.
• Custom app names are saved on your device and used on home and in search. Reset a name whenever you like.
• Enable an optional confirmation before opening selected apps. Choose to open the app or cancel and return home; no written reason is required.
• Access Android Private Space on supported devices when Now Launcher is your default home app. Private apps appear in a separate search section only while the space is unlocked.
• Swipe left for Camera and right for Phone by default. Change either shortcut in Search and gestures settings.
• Swipe down to open notifications on supported devices. Hold an empty area of home to open settings.
• Tap the clock to open your Clock app, or tap the date for Calendar.

PRIVACY AND PERMISSIONS
Launcher settings, rules, and search ranking based on launches through Now Launcher are stored on your device. There are no ads, analytics, launcher accounts, or cloud sync.

Optional location permission is used to read the connected Wi-Fi network name for Wi-Fi rules. Now Launcher does not request GPS coordinates or background location. Other home and search features work without this permission.

Now Launcher does not hold the Internet permission. Optional one-time contributions are processed by the Google Play Store through Google Play Billing; payment processing uses Google Play's services.

All launcher features are available without a contribution. There are no subscriptions or paid feature unlocks.