NoveLauncher

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

🧠 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:

• Nothing is collected. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting is enabled in shipped builds, no account, no ads.

• 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.

• 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.

• Backups are yours. On the phone or on your own NAS. Exports can be encrypted with a password only you hold.

• 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.

• 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.

Full detail: Privacy Policy · Terms of Service

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