Lean Launcher

4.1
8.44K reviews
500K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

*** Please note the launcher is no longer maintained. It is left active so that existing users can still find it easily, and use it on their older devices. Thank you for your understanding! ***

An open source, lightweight, customisable, lean launcher. The source code can be found at the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/hundeva/Lean-Launcher

This app uses the Device Administrator permission. This is required for double tap to secure lock your device.

Search UI
- bottom search bar
- app search bar
- app suggestions
- voice search shortcut

Look & Feel
- light, dark, or automatic theme based on your wallpaper
- optional black colors for dark theme
- changeable grid counts
- changeable icon sizes
- optional swipe indicator

Edit apps
- hide apps from your drawer
- hide app name from the desktop or your drawer
- changeable icon shape on android 8.0 or later
- basic icon pack support
- adaptive icon support for legacy apps, with optional dynamic background color
-- optional two line app labels

Gestures & Actions
- one finger swipe down for notifications
- two finger swipe down for quick settings
- double tap to lock, with either timeout or secure lock
- customisable home button action on your home screen

Shortcuts
- optional static shortcuts
- dynamic shortcuts from android 7.1 or later

Other
- home screen rotation
- optional physical animations
- optional transparent navigation bar in your drawer
- lockable desktop
Updated on
Oct 9, 2018

Data safety

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Ratings and reviews

4.1
8.22K reviews
A Google user
September 6, 2019
I love how much I can customize and clean up my home screen and app drawer. One thing that's been irritating me though is how tapping on an empty space in the home screen causes a light up effect. When you combine that with the double tap to lock feature, you get this feeling of it being buggy. It's such a nit picky thing, but it really messes the minimalist aesthetic up. I can't find any way to remove it, and with an all black background it becomes especially noticeable and irritating.
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A Google user
January 2, 2019
The app has a lot of customization from what I could tell in trying it out. However, there is a fundamental flaw in that the amount of real estate on screen isn't completely used. There is a definitive space/buffer on all sides of each page. In launchers like Nova, this buffer can be shrunk down or removed. It presents a problem because when you swipe left or right to change pages, the swipe will not register if it is inside the buffer. You have to place your thumb much higher to change pages.
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A Google user
January 28, 2020
I've been using this for a few months on my Android 8 Oreo phones and it's hands-down the best launcher I've tried. Memory usage seems to be on par with the stock launcher. For some reason when I first installed it would not recognize touch-and-hold, so I couldn't drag any icons around. I spent half an hour trying options and searching on the Internet. Rebooted phone and now it works. Maybe one more time it's done this. It's been very reliable.
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What's new

1.1.9: for the full change log, please visit https://github.com/hundeva/Lean-Launcher/releases/tag/lean-1.1.9

- Removed Feed and native At A Glance related options from the release version. Please see the GitHub release for the reasoning behind this decision.