A clean Pixel-style home screen with At a Glance. Built for foldables.
Nook Launcher keeps your phone’s home screen clean and calm, in the spirit of Google Pixel design, and adds what power users and foldable owners ask for.
At your own rhythm
Open a folder, pull up the app drawer, choose a wallpaper. Familiar actions give your phone a new character.
A compact folder keeps your home screen in view
The folder unfolds from its icon into a small window. Wallpaper, widgets and the dock stay visible; tap outside to fold it back.
Motion connects your actions
A swipe opens the app drawer, and search helps you find what you need.
Your colours bring it together
Themed icons and surfaces pick up the mood of your wallpaper.
What the film shows
- 00:00A familiar phone. A new feeling.
- 00:03A folder opens as a compact window: widgets and the dock stay visible. Tap outside to close it.
- 00:09Moving an icon makes room; apps come together in a folder.
- 00:14A swipe opens the drawer; search finds a contact, a setting and a shortcut.
- 00:20One layout changes its palette with the wallpaper.
- 00:25At a Glance shows the weather, an event and a timer.
- 00:31Returning from an app to its original icon.
- 00:36Two home-screen panes on a foldable phone.
- 00:41Your home screen: privacy, settings and a saved layout.
What gives Nook its Pixel feel
The familiar feeling comes from specific details: the home-screen layout, the look of the icons and the way the interface responds to touch.
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A dock and a pill-shaped search bar
Your favourite apps stay at the bottom of the screen, alongside a rounded search bar with a voice-search button.
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At a Glance at the top
The date, weather, your next calendar event and a running timer come together in one compact home-screen block.
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A shared Material You palette
The search bar, folders and interface elements pick up colours from your wallpaper. The home screen stays visually consistent when you change the background.
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Round themed icons
Monochrome symbols and a shared palette bring your apps together. You can also enable themed styling for apps that do not provide their own monochrome icon.
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Folders in a small window
A round preview opens into a compact card of icons. The home screen remains visible around it; tap outside to close the folder.
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An app drawer opened by a swipe
Swipe up for an alphabetical grid with search and fast scrolling by letter. Search finds apps, contacts and settings.
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App shortcuts and notification dots
Long-press an icon for app shortcuts and app information. With notification access enabled, dots on the icons show new notifications.
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Smooth unfolding and rearranging
Folder miniatures become full-sized icons and fold back when you close the folder. As you drag an icon, neighbouring icons smoothly make room.
Features
At a Glance on the home screen
- Date, current weather and your next calendar event in one tidy block
- A running timer from the Clock app
- Adjustable text size, width, background and the app that opens on tap
Home screen
- Grids from 3×3 to 7×7, set separately for the outer and inner screens of foldables
- A dock with 3–7 icons and a Material You search bar with voice search and Google Lens
- Widgets can shrink below their default size; 1×1 widgets line up with icons
- An extra screen on the left: another page of icons or a news feed from your RSS sources
- Gestures: swipe down for notifications, double tap, swipe up on the search bar
Icons
- Adaptive icons and Material You themed icons, shapes, icon and label size
- Themed icons even for apps that do not provide them
- Icon packs in the standard format
App drawer
- Search across apps, app shortcuts, contacts and system settings
- Frequently used apps on top, hidden apps, app lock with fingerprint or PIN
- Work profile and Private Space, just like the system launcher
Built for foldables
- A two-pane home screen on the inner display
- Folding and unfolding keeps state: open folders, the app drawer, search
- Flex mode: half-open on a table, the home screen stays in the top half
And more
- Back up and restore your layout and settings to a file
- 17 languages and an in-app language picker
- Works without Google services
No accounts, ads or tracking
The app needs no account, shows no ads and contains no analytics or tracking. The developer receives no user data.
Weather comes from Open-Meteo based on your approximate location, accurate to the district. Requests also go to the RSS sites you add to the feed yourself. Calendar, contacts, notifications and the app list stay on the device.
The “Nook Launcher: screen lock” accessibility service is used only to lock the screen with a gesture.
Download Nook Launcher
Free. Android 8 and later. Download the APK and open it on your phone. Version 0.2.66.