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Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] skribe@piefed.social 24 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I just switched to Octopi. For me, it's an almost perfect replacement. Plus it's a local developer.

[–] jotaro__@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can confirm, only one that had feature parity for most of my nova setup

[–] skribe@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago

I showed my wife the before and after of my home pages. She said, "They're the same."

Happy.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is this open source?

(I couldn't find it)

[–] banana@lemy.nl 6 points 5 days ago

If you want FOSS, check KISS launcher. Its feature rich, light on resources, and available through F-droid.

[–] nerdschleife@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Awesome app, replaced Lawnchair. Development simply moved too slowly on LC

[–] winni@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

thanks for this table!

Nova is rated as advanced customisability, and in this table Bridge Launcher is the only FLOSS launcher that has advanced customisability and is not discontinued, but based on the app page it's basically a programming platform, not an actual launcher :c