A private, on-device Android launcher that learns your habits — without sending them anywhere.
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What it is
NoveLauncher replaces your Android home screen. It ranks and groups your apps
based on how you actually use them — what you open, when you open it, and how
often — so the things you need are already in front of you.
The ranking runs entirely on your device. No account, no server, no
analytics, no ads. Your usage data never leaves your phone.
Features
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| 🧠 Suggestions that learn | Apps ranked by recency, frequency, time of day and category; "Recommended now" also learns from which suggestions you actually tap — all computed locally |
| 📁 Smart folders | Automatic grouping into 11 categories, no manual sorting |
| 💼 Work profile & Private Space | Work apps with their badge and a pause switch; Android 15's Private Space in its own lockable section, never mixed into suggestions and hidden from search while locked |
| ⚡ App shortcuts | Long-press an app for its own shortcuts — a new message, a saved route — straight from the home screen |
| 🔍 Smart search | Apps, contacts and settings from one box. Hebrew ↔ English matching ("וואטסאפ" finds WhatsApp), typo tolerance and initials ("gm" → Google Maps), plus a calculator and unit conversion |
| 🕯️ Jewish calendar & Shabbat mode | Hebrew date, holidays (Israel or diaspora schedule), candle-lighting and Havdalah times calculated on the phone; Shabbat mode hides distracting suggestions and badges from candle lighting to nightfall |
| 🖼️ Wallpapers | Your own photos or built-in gradients — one for everything, per page, by hour, by weekday, or your system (live) wallpaper — with brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, blur and vignette |
| 👆 Gestures | Swipe up for apps, swipe down for notifications, double-tap to turn the screen off |
| 🎨 Deep theming | 12 colour presets, Material You dynamic colour, custom colours, 16 fonts, 12 icon shapes |
| 🧷 Icon packs | Apply any Nova / ADW / Lawnchair-compatible icon pack; apps it doesn't cover keep their own icon |
| 🔒 App lock | PIN, password, pattern or biometric lock on individual apps, plus a private folder and hidden apps |
| 🌍 7 languages | Hebrew, English, Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish, German — fully RTL-aware |
| 📰 News feed | Built-in sources plus your own custom RSS feeds |
| 💾 Backups | Local or your own NAS/WebDAV, on a schedule, optionally password-encrypted |
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Privacy
This is the whole point of the project, so it's worth being precise:
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Nothing is collected. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting is
enabled in shipped builds, no account, no ads.
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Usage data stays local. App usage is read from Android's own usage
statistics and processed on your device; what the suggestions learn is kept
in a local database. None of it is uploaded.
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Four features use the network — nothing else does:
- Weather — asks Open-Meteo for the current
conditions. It sends your approximate coordinates only if you grant
location permission; without it, it asks for a default city.
- News — the News page fetches the RSS feeds you have enabled, directly
from each publisher.
- Backups — only if you choose a NAS: your own server, over HTTPS.
- Update check — off by default. When you turn it on, the app asks
GitHub's releases API for the latest version at most once a day. Nothing
about you or your device is sent, and nothing is downloaded automatically.
Everything else stays on your device.
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Backups are yours. On the phone or on your own NAS. Exports can be
encrypted with a password only you hold.
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The Jewish calendar is computed on the phone. Holiday, candle-lighting
and Havdalah times use your approximate location if you allow it (a default
city otherwise), and are never sent anywhere.
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The gestures helper reads nothing. Double-tap to turn the screen off uses
an optional accessibility service that performs exactly two actions (screen
off, open notifications) and cannot see what's on your screen.
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