Best FOSS alternative to Nova Launcher? - eviltoast

Would really love a launcher that can format icon shapes so that they’re all uniform in shape, like Nova Launcher …but open source.

  • sudotstar@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s not like Nova Launcher, but I’ve been really enjoying Kvaesitso. It does support icon transformations (better than Nova does IMO) but provides a very different interface that’s focused on search.

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      1 year ago

      I love Kvaesitso! It’s my current pick as well. I like that it does its own thing and provides a very different UX from the rest of the Android launchers, which are always variations on either AOSP or the iPhone launchers. And it does it very well, with a very good looking UI!

      For these reasons though, it is not similar to Nova at all.

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      1 year ago

      On a similar note, I have been enjoying the KISS launcher and made it work for me. Had I looked at Kvaesito before that may have been my choice instead. Its a weird concept at first but works well.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been on this for a couple months and have enjoyed the experience as well. I imagine some of the overall issues encountered are more about my phone being nearly 6 years old than the launcher itself, but is the default weather widget broken for you as well?

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        1 year ago

        I wasn’t a fan of the built-in weather widget so I immediately replaced it, so I have no experience with it being nonfunctional, sorry.