Slate

com.slate.launcher

Minimal text-only Android home screen. No icons. No analytics. Zero network.

Republished from GitHub / F-Droid by the Zapstore main account.

Slate is a minimal text-only Android home screen built for focus. Most launchers want to keep you on your phone. Colourful icons trigger recognition without thought, notification badges create artificial urgency, and recommendation widgets are optimised for engagement, not intent. Slate removes all of that. Apps are presented as plain text, the same way a to-do list presents tasks. You open the app you meant to open, not the one that looked most appealing. APPEARANCE * Two homescreen layouts: Flow (apps wrap like text, sized by usage) or Minimal List (one app per line with optional alphabetical fast-scroll) * Fully customisable background and text colours with a live colour picker * Follow system theme: switches automatically with system dark mode * Apply background colour to the lockscreen for a uniform look * Per-app colour overrides to highlight what matters * Notification highlight: app names change colour when an app has a pending notification * Typography control: font family (Google Fonts plus import your own), weight, line spacing, word spacing * Font size scales with usage in Flow view INTERACTION * Swipe up to search apps * Configurable single-finger swipe gestures (any app, notifications, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, location, camera, more) * Double-tap to lock screen (via accessibility service) * Long-press an app to pin, hide, rename, recolour, uninstall, or move to a folder * Pin apps to the top regardless of sort order * Sort alphabetically or by most used * Custom folders: each folder is a text label with a marker (chevron, slash, bullet, brackets, count, or plain). Tap to expand inline. Long-press to rename, recolour, or delete QUICK TOGGLES STRIP An optional row of text widgets at the top or bottom of your home screen. Choose from Clock, Date, Next alarm, Battery percent, Charging, Time to full, Battery temperature, Uptime, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Mobile data, Airplane mode, DND, Volume, Ringer mode, Torch, Brightness, Location, NFC, and contact tap-to-call or tap-to-text shortcuts. Off by default. Pick widgets, position, and typography from Settings. CONTROL * Lock orientation to portrait * Optional persistent search bar on the home screen * Optional contact search: turn it on to surface contacts inline with apps when you type. Read at search time, never stored. Google-only sub-toggle skips duplicates from WhatsApp, Telegram, SIM * PIN-lock the hidden apps list (4 to 8 digits, PBKDF2 hashed) with optional biometric unlock. Hidden-app launches stay out of Android Recents, with an opt-out * Work-profile apps are listed too, marked with the profile name and grouped into a folder on first sight * Export and import all settings as a JSON backup. Hidden-apps list and PIN are omitted by default. Opt in via Settings, with an in-memory PIN check on import PRIVACY Slate does not collect, transmit, or share any data. No analytics, no crash reporting, no network activity. All preferences are stored locally. App usage counts never leave the device. Each Android permission Slate declares is requested only for the specific feature that uses it. Full details in the in-app privacy policy. OPEN SOURCE MIT licensed. Source at github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher

First release: Aug 17, 2026, 3 total releases.

Most recent release: Oct 15, 2026.

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Releases

Oct 15, 2026 1.6
Oct 2, 2026 1.5

[Add a setting to PIN-gate long-press menus](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/6a15a48c9f80aeff6f3947e923351eafb060f1d4) [Highlight folders that contain a notified app](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/4a6dd672f0331abaa1c13f9cbf19ebe401a69828) [added screenshot for minimal list homescreen view to readme](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/d5e9a18b7af99f00899c44ebfa4ee0c2291b73c3) [Add a homescreen layout picker to onboarding](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/6c1525aaa8c5a2860af7ad6c1a4871468f34bb3f) Preview: <img width="280" height="550" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2b7275b3-0c03-4891-9b06-987f5d79f8a0" /> [Add a default text color setting for folders](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/76ffc40eb90f235bcf3ddf7f612b94da55414fe2) Preview:

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<img width="250" height="500" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9705d927-4345-4457-827f-9aac98b27d02" /> [Remember custom colors as swatches in the color picker](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/e2010e9929fb749156181f37342e05ce1c58fadb) [Fix Back not leaving folders when the search bar is shown on home](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/6b2cd711dbc12ff7702835bcaad3d10935e267bb) [Added change logs and bump build version](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/b538c02c0c49ca61c0050190d408f5f2729f86be)
Aug 17, 2026 1.4

Docs: [Add F-Droid download button to hero and closing CTA](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/dd035254fdbd0f0990479de239782d79ac6afbaf) [Add work profile section to the privacy policy](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/b5289845a873d3b3ada50d9155eae27799b581a1) Features: [Implemented app shortcuts](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/c2235db2b828068d0048503f1f0ae1f275e91314) [Add enabled-count hint and enabled-first sort to the shortcut app picker](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/508f7dab0b28ffbf566b53e82adf2532b7e8c28b) [Add direction toggle for most-used sort (top/bottom)](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/51226987cf9a011a5d878f50bfac9f0d387c1ab0) [Add custom TTF import to the Quick Toggles font picker](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/fbefcd1ae5c34e928b26ca2c84746bbc7b99f6c0) [Allow folders to be pinned to the top of the home screen](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/cf3aeb9542e066a7efdbee67c3e84a2acc0d46d0)

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[Add setting to ignore silenced notifications when highlighting apps](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/d11582162602cff8812ac66492423a95a669f686) [Add opt-in setting to keep hidden apps in Recents](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/8212d63d1245b524952468c2af6132210ea75b36) [Work profile apps](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/daa5bc776d33119a3b6eb6733f56ea17966a346a) [Add a marker style picker for work profile apps](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/e3d47d14991d2e90411f3d81268606171c306182) Fixes: [Fix crash on API 26-27 from calling TextView.isAllCaps() getter (requires API 28)](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/51b0c76c7dbf240f183dcabe1701f86d40e157a3) [Fix back gesture not exiting folders by removing shadowing callback in MainActivity](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/33ce055e0733b0be1f2d263bd9cbbd89b97f8249) [Fix stale-cache and locked-profile hazards in work app grouping](https://github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/commit/e06672a3add4a17c14c1965afd4752bf6a10a0cc)