Nova Launcher

Nova Launcher

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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 Icon Themes: Nova supports thousands of icon themes available in the Play Store.
• Night Mode and Dark Theme: Have night mode come on automatically at a specific time, or just leave it on for a dark theme.
• Customizable App Drawer: Vertical or horizontal scroll, page effects, and card or immersive options are just a few of the things you’ll find available for the app drawer.
• 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.
• Speed: Nova is highly optimized, with smooth and snappy animations that will even older phones a fast and fluid feel.

Do 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: Remove apps from the app drawer without uninstalling them.
• Custom Icon Swipe Gestures: Assign swipe gestures to home screen icons or folders for custom actions.
• …and more. More scrolling effects, unread counts, and others.

This app uses the Device Administrator permission for optional screen off/lock functionality.


App Review

Thanks to the Android, an open source software, almost everything can be customized in the Android OS and it includes the launcher segment as well. If we set 9 Pie aside, all other versions of Android OS didn’t provide much of the options to customize the home screen and other widgets.

Even in Android 9, there are many restrictions that don’t allow to make changes beyond a certain point and here comes the role of Android launchers. Nova Launcher is one such customization app for Android that is around since 2011.

With time, Nova launcher has been packed with all the new updated features and it rightly catered to the needs of the users and for the same reason, Nova Launcher is considered as one of the best Android launchers of its league.

The 2018 version of Nova Launcher was an absolute gem, as it was integrated with an ultra-customizable version of the interface of Google’s own phones.Nova Launcher is an Android launcher app with unending customization options. Once the user gets going, there is no dearth of options which can be used to shape the Android device home screen.

Notable features of the Nova Launcher Android app:

  • Masses of customization;
  • Custom icon themes;
  • Night mode and dark theme;
  • Customizable app drawer;
  • Subgrid positioning of snap icons and widgets;
  • Highly optimized for smooth and snappy animations. 

All in all, the further you go into the app, the more options will be there to explore. For example, Nova launcher has a Night Mode feature which comes into action according to the time of the day, elements color, icon shapes, and customization of font spacing and size.

The user can change the layout of the app drawer from horizontal to vertical style, with a further option of stacking it in a Google-style arrangement and a longer alphabetical list.

How To Get Started With Nova Launcher

Upon downloading the Nova Launcher app, the user needs to pick whether to set the app drawer with the swipe or a button and then comes the option of the light or dark theme. But before that, the user is greeted with a short set up tutorial of the Android launcher app that assists the user in grasping the basic characteristics and help him to get started. Once the choices are made related to the theme colors and app drawers, it can be altered later on in the menu. Then comes the plethora of options to customize the home screen, which generally has much empty space and can be arranged accordingly. Furthermore, apps can be stacked in folders and the option to add desktop, widgets, and more. To go to the Nova Launcher Settings, tap and hold on the screen and Settings menu will pop up. There in the Nova Launcher Settings menu, the following are the options that can be utilized:

  • App and Widget Drawers
  • Dock
  • Folders
  • Look & Feel
  • Night Mode
  • Gestures & Inputs
  • Notification Badges
  • Backup & Import Settings 

Nova Launcher Prime

Nova Launcher Prime is altogether a different app, but it is indeed an extension of the popular Nova Launcher app that has many new features, apart from the exciting feature of the primary Nova Launcher app.Nova Launcher has its Prime version available that can be unlocked by paying a fee and as the prime version, it packs some additional features like app hiding and gesture shortcuts.

Nova Launcher Prime Subscription Fee: 1.43 United States Dollar

Nova Launcher Prime is an excellent customizable and versatile home screen replacement that brings in advanced features to enhance your home screens. Nova Launcher Prime is an ideal pick to completely overhaul the home screen and for a cleaner, faster home launcher. 

Notable features of Nova Launcher Prime version of the app: 
  • Gesture controls: 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: Remove apps from the app drawer without uninstalling them.
  • Custom Icon Swipe Gestures: Assign swipe gestures to home screen icons or folders for custom actions.
  • Scrolling effects: New effects can be added for the scrolling function. 

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