A calmer home screen, drawn in dots.

Sense Launcher is a minimalist Android launcher that shows only the apps you choose, finds any app in one slide of your thumb, and keeps a few small widgets close. No accounts, no ads, no tracking.

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Private by designNo ads. No accounts. No tracking. Your habits, steps and app list never leave your phone.

Android 8.0 and newer.

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Find any app in two moves

Press the wheel and slide round the rim: A at the top, Z at the end. The letters pop out under your finger and the list jumps to every app starting with it.

Sense Launcher's rotating dial open over a mountain lake photo, with the letter D lit in orange

Home is one slide away

Slide into the little house in the middle to jump straight back to your favourites. The list slides away and your favourites slide in. It also returns by itself after a pause, but never while you are scrolling.

Home screen with the cassette player above a list of apps in dots, over a misty fern photo, with the dial icon at the bottom

Not a wheel person?

Use a strip down the edge, a row along the bottom or a rotating dial. Same idea every time: slide to a letter.

Bottom alphabet row along a mountain lake photo, with the letter D lit in orangeVertical alphabet strip down the right edge of a blue home screen, with the letter D lit in orange

Now playing, with a cassette

A halftone of the album art and a cassette whose reels spin at a new speed on every track. Skip and pause from the home screen, recolour it and fade its background.

Now playing card with halftone album art and a cassette animation, above a short app list on a black and white photo

Swipe left for the small stuff

Habits, water, steps, a to-do list and a timer on the Tracker page, with little fidgets one swipe further. Tap the settings button at the bottom to reorder or hide cards, and to change the colour, transparency or goal of each one.

Tracker page with a habit ring, weekly habit progress and a step counter, with a Tracker and Fidgets switch at the top

A tiny saucer to keep you company

A little flying saucer made of dots drifts about its box, pulls faces and perks up when you pat it. Pick it up and the box turns into a space run: steer through the stars, dodge the rocks and alien UFOs, grab stars for bonus points and beat your best. Its energy follows your real battery, and it can never die.

Fidgets page with the dot-matrix saucer pet hovering in its box above a coin flip card

Make it yours

Accent colours, text size, high contrast, reduced motion, wallpaper and a dot-matrix background maker, all in Settings.

Settings screen on the Widgets tab with orange switches for each card

The details.

Just your apps

Choose the apps on your home list. Tap to open, hold and drag to reorder, hold and release for Uninstall or App info.

Glanceable top bar

Network, clock, weather and battery in dots. Tap the weather to flip between the forecast, sunrise or sunset, and the moon phase.

Network dots

The top arc is the signal of whichever connection is carrying your data, the bottom arc is Wi-Fi on its own, and the middle dot glows orange when your hotspot is on.

Battery ring

A ring of 20 dots fills clockwise as you charge. When the middle dot glows orange, you are plugged in.

Missed notifications, tidied

One card for everything you missed. Slide to see the rest, tap to open, swipe up to dismiss.

Two gestures, both optional

Swipe left for your widgets page and down for quick settings. Turn either off in Settings.

Your phone, your data.

Habits, to-dos, steps, settings and your app list stay on your device. Sense Launcher has no accounts and no ads, and it doesn't track you. The only thing it ever sends is a weather request.

No accountsNothing to sign up for.
No ads or trackingNo analytics or advertising code inside.
On-device dataNot uploaded, not backed up to the cloud.
You're in controlEvery permission is optional and explained.

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Questions about Sense Launcher.

Does Sense Launcher track me?

No. There are no ads and no analytics or advertising code inside the app. Your habits, to-dos, steps, settings and app list stay on your device. The only thing it sends is a weather request.

Do I need an account?

No. There is nothing to sign up for. Install it, pick your apps and go.

Which Android versions does it support?

Sense Launcher runs on Android 8.0 and newer.

How do I find an app quickly?

Press the rotating wheel and slide round the rim: A at the top, Z at the end. The list jumps to every app starting with that letter. If you prefer, use a strip down the edge or a row along the bottom instead.

What can I customise?

Accent colours, text size, high contrast, reduced motion, wallpaper, and a background maker. You can also recolour the music player and the widget cards.