Guess it's time to find a new launcher then. Suggestions?

I've been using lawnchair, and I like it's simplicity. They're latest "real" released version is from 2018, but not long ago they jumped from Version 14-beta3 to 15-beta1. I can't say I understand their development philosophy, but the product is pretty decent with an occasional issue. I have had some intermittent problems with widgets on this latest beta.

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair

Everyone has different needs, so all these recommendations without any explanation are frustrating.

My reason to use Nova before was:

- REMOVE search bar from home screen, unlike the Pixel launcher

- Have the usual, customizable row of quick launchers across the bottom

- Have basic app drawer and background apps gestures pull up from bottom

- Add a couple basic widgets like Calendar and clock to home screen, or other app shortcuts

- Minimal permissions, no ads, no network-based features

Based on this, I just started trying out Fossify Launcher Beta, installed from F-Droid. It seems OK so far. My only complaint is that there seem to be multiple gestures that open up a Launcher menu, and I wish this was limited to just long press on the home screen background.

I like Niagra.

I'm bummed Sesame got bought by these guys and stopped updating for no ultimate reason.

Kvaesitso! I've been using it for about two years. It takes a little bit getting used to a search based launcher but once you've gotten used to it, everything is so quick. Speed up animation speeds to 0.5x in dev settings and man it's like doing kung fu with your finger tips.

https://kvaesitso.mm20.de/

Long time KISS user. Highly recommend, as it makes my app use far more intentional.

I've been using the ultra-minimal pie menu launcher for ~1 year: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.markusfisch.android.pielaunc...

Makes opening go-to apps faster, but opening anything else slower. Worth it imo

I've been using the super minimalistic 0launcher (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.olauncher&...) for about a year now.

Besides being a good, very simple, minimalistic launcher, it's also Open Source (https://github.com/tanujnotes/Olauncher), ad-free, and collects and shares no data.

https://kisslauncher.com/

Once you get used to it, you'll never get back to classic launchers.

Any recommendations for a launcher close to the original android one, but that supports grouping? I find it so much more useful to group my apps by category. I use search most of the time, but sometimes I can't remember a name but I do remember the category and it comes useful. Also means recently apps are unclassified and can easily be separated.

I looked at several yesterday. I landed on Action Launcher because it has a scrollable dock and infinite scrolling homepages. It lacks tabs in the app drawer, but it does let you create folders there.

Hyperion seemed to have all necessary features, but the UI was unintuitive and the documentation non-existent.

I also liked Lynx, but that would be a major change for me.

I use Square Home. Because I still miss my Lumia 920, and this makes me feel a little better about it.

I use Square Home which looks like the old Microsoft tiles in windows 8 phone. I always found the the MS tiles worked really well on a phone and actually had it installed on a old android phone.

I like Lynx launcher, and would switch to Kvaesito if Lynx wasn't available.