Flow Metro — Tile Launcher

Miss Windows Phone? So did we. Flow Metro brings the Metro Start screen back — faithfully — as a fast, modern Android launcher.

LIVE TILES, DONE RIGHT
Your Start screen is a wall of live tiles that actually live: the clock ticks, the weather tile shows the forecast, photos play across the tile, the People tile shuffles your contacts in a mosaic, and app tiles flip to show their notifications the moment they arrive. Music and video turn into a scrolling Zune-style ticker with transport controls. Even an active phone call lives on your Phone tile with the caller's photo and a running timer.

ARRANGE IT LIKE WINDOWS PHONE
Four tile sizes. Drag anywhere — tiles slide out of your way in real time and land exactly where your finger says. Drop a tile onto a same-size tile to swap places. Group tiles into folders with big Metro lettering. Everything animates with the signature WP cascade and turnstile.

GLANCE & LOCK SCREEN
Wake to a Nokia-style glance screen — a faint Metro clock, date, and your notification icons on black. Tap through to a full lock screen with your photo or a fresh Bing image of the day, then swipe up to unlock.

ACTION CENTER
Swipe to a real WP 8.1 action center: quick toggles for the whole device, brightness and volume sliders, media controls, and your notifications with WP-style toast banners over any app.

MAKE IT YOURS
The full Windows Phone accent palette, light and dark themes, background photos with parallax, transparent tiles, per-tile colors, icon packs (Nova/ADW/Apex), your own fonts, and adjustable columns.

NO ADS. NO SUBSCRIPTION.
The core launcher is free, forever. One optional Metro Pro purchase — one-time, not a subscription — unlocks extra columns, animated weather, widgets on tiles, call metrics, backup and restore, quiet hours, and deep customization.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your tiles, photos and contacts stay on your device. No account, no sign-up. Anonymous usage statistics and crash reports (Firebase) help us fix bugs.

Bring your Start screen home.

Accessibility service disclosure: Flow Metro is a home-screen launcher. When you turn on the optional Windows-Phone navigation buttons, the hardware volume-key panel, or the top-edge Action Center swipe, Flow Metro uses Android's AccessibilityService API — the only API that lets an app draw these controls over other apps, receive the volume-key events, and detect these global gestures. It reads only the current window state to place the controls; it does not read, collect, store, or transmit your screen contents, text, messages, passwords, or any personal data. Everything stays on your device.