PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company
PSA: Nova Launcher is owned by an analytics company
Since a few folks seem unaware of this, I'm posting anew for visibility.
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I use Smart Launcher. I'm surprised there aren't more users of it.
I've been using it on all my phones and tablets for years now. Doesn't matter what type of Android phone I use, they mostly end up being the same feel with Smart Launcher
Same, been using Smart Launcher since I heard they were getting bought. No lie, I miss Nova's customizability, and some of Smart Launcher's quirks annoy me; but I vastly prefer it to being data harvested. Smart Launcher is good enough for me, and leaps and bounds better than ANYTHING else I tried.
Same here. There are quirks by I think I'm really use to them now. I tried Nova, Lawnchair and some others over the years but I think my long term Smart Launcher still fits me like a glove.
Overall, Smart Launcher is great. The things that annoy me are mainly things like: Not being able to add multiple app screens and have home in the center, lack of gestures(compared to Nova), and there was also something to do with setting the wallpaper.
My only near dealbreaker is that it's not open source.
I can't wait to see what they come up with next, feature wise, though.
While you're at it, check out their other product, Icon Pack Studio. It's the last icon pack you'll ever need.
I will. I've been using the neon colored Azure icon pack for many years now. I could probably go for an update.
Correction Outline icon pack is what I've been using. The Studio icon pack is pretty good. Thanks!
I love Outline
hey, a fellow IPS user! still the only app i bought the pro version of.
I used smart launcher right up until they pushed an update one day that made my phone basically unusable. The launcher would just error whenever I went to my home screen, making the launcher (and thus home screen completely unusable).
After that I changed my 5 star review to 1 star, uninstalled, and there is absolutely nothing they can do to ever get me to trust them again.
Failing that hard at QA on something as critical as a phone launcher is completely unacceptable to me.
If you want evidence, look at reviews from Jan 2022 on smart launcher 6.
That really sucks. It would be brutal to get that sorted. I've been lucky. I do recall once there was a botched update that reset all my custom settings on all of my devices. I was really choked but I had a old backup that restored it halfway. Reminds me to do another one now.
My huawei devices keeps reseting my launcher to theirs which is s really annoying but I think that is a Huawei thing.
Google fails that hard on QA all the time. Perhaps iOS would work for you?
They really don't though.