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alex_herrero Dunno, I only switched over to Nova Prime a few months back but I haven't been asked to reconfirm yet. Honestly I don't think you'll be asked to reconfirm unless you reinstall the app, and persnonally I wouldn't even worry too much if I had to grand network access for 2 min every half year or so.

Nova I a great launcher and I haven't looked back since I switched over. You'll get 90% of the way the free version, Only paid features I really missed was notification badges and custom swipe shortcuts.

trilogy6202 Personally I wouldn't even worry too much if I had to grand network access for 2 min every half year or so.

If one is worried about an app maybe leaking information, blocking the app from communicating most if the time is very different from really blocking it, because an app can buffer up whatever data it might want to leak and send it out whenever it can communicate.

de0u fair point. For Nova Launcher I don't think it's necessary to provide network access again after initial registration of the Prime key.

Personnaly, I use unlauncher (I tried Nova, Kiss and Niagara), reproduct a dumphone interface very well, satisfied overall.

Xtreix

Unlauncher looks great. I used Olauncher for quite a time, it's also nice - simple and clean.

Murcielago clean launchers are nice, but only a small fraction of people is willing to put up with non-existence of widgets and shortcuts and thererefore most don't use them.

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I agree with that. I finally changed the Laumcher because I love shortcuts. But I always like to switch to Olauncher from time to time.

Finally, Lawnchair published its new version as beta: https://lawnchair.app/blog/lawnchair-14/ It works well for me, so I recommend trying it out if you like a pixel like launcher.

Michiel Thanks for the info.
I was using / testing with the unofficial v14 beta builds from https://github.com/Goooler/LawnchairRelease, but had to much issues. I'll give Lawnchair a new chance somewhen, maybe, but there were too much show stoppers to me.

E24 They changed the package name (see https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/releases), so that may be the cause of the installation failure. I deleted the old version, rebooted the phone and then I could install the beta.

lz-numn-rnn I will just say that lawnchair isn't fully open source and requires some proprietary blobs and stuff to work librechair addresses this if you are curious

Guysinhowr librechair

Something to try, thanks for mentioning it.

Lawnchair still not working properly on my phone, black screens now and then, as usual.

I'm am using OpenLauncher (it's like lawnchair but without the google stuff) from fdroid on my P7

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.benny.openlauncher/

TRInvictus
Did you try librechair? Would be interesting to hear on the state of the art.

Are there real alternatives in 2025 sufficient enough to replace the main one? from what I've read in here Lawnchair,Neo but Libre the most sounded like something to possibly look at.

Unfortunately couldn't find Librechair in Accrescent.

TGOS
Librechair - This repository has been archived by the owner on Apr 28, 2021. It is now read-only.
Last release - May 16, 2020

Lawnchair 15 nightly supports Private Space.
Also, Smart Launcher. Not FOSS but you can deny it Network permissions.