Comment by Semaphor
5 hours ago
Well, that sucks. When the sale was announced, I tried several launchers, free and paid, and none of them were as good as Nova :/ Guess I’ll do another round.
5 hours ago
Well, that sucks. When the sale was announced, I tried several launchers, free and paid, and none of them were as good as Nova :/ Guess I’ll do another round.
I've been using Niagara for a few years and I love it.
Niagara Launcher is like Niri among the other Linux Window Managers. It is highly unique, and yet still gets the job done, if not better.
Completely different style of launcher though.
Yes, and it does exactly what a launcher should do. It is not designed to show a dozen widgets spread over five workspaces.
Priced at 15 eurobucks (back in the day) it's the most expensive piece of Android software I have ever bought. I have felt no buyer's remorse whatsoever.
Edit: looks like the perpetual license costs EUR 40 nowadays.
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Smart Launcher is the one I settled on after my last round of testing. Not perfect, but closer than most.
Please update here if you find any good alternative? I'm stuck in the same place
Lawnchair has been good enough for me, get a recent development build, they don't release very often.
Lawnchair is the best open source launcher IMHO. It's feature reach but it does have one problem: the defaults are the opposite of sane lol.
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I’ll be trying out Hyperion now as default launcher, list of stuff I checked quickly:
Kvaesitso (FLOSS) and AIO: Different style of launcher that I don’t want, so out.
Action: Felt weird to use, didn’t find a setting for auto search in app drawer
Smart launcher: The most expensive one at 25€, and no proper app drawer search either.
Lawnchair (FLOSS): Annoying animations, widgets don’t work properly (many widgets require Yx2 sizing that should work as Yx1)
Octopi: Slightly better widgets than lawnchair, but still sizing issues. Without that I’d probably have gone with it first.
Hyperion: This is what I’ll be testing for now. The only Nova feature I’m missing is showing recently installed apps in the drawer, but that’s extremely minor. Apparently support is bad and updates rare, but neither is an issue for me.
I've been having fun with Kvaesitso after it was recommended here. There are some things I'd change, but it's nice.
https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso
I highly recommend Octopi launcher. Simple, does exactly what it should. Works great on foldables, as well.