Victoria Launcher

dev.victorialauncher
by Zapstore _@zapstore.dev

An open source Niagara Launcher alternative — a minimal, list-based home screen

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

Victoria Launcher is a minimal, list-based Android home screen, and an open source alternative to Niagara Launcher. The home screen holds a short list of favorites and nothing you did not put there. Everything else lives in an alphabetical app list you reach by swiping in from the edge of the screen, with an A-Z strip for jumping straight to a letter. A clock and date widget is included and any other widget can be added. Favorites can be folders, or the apps you open most, kept for you. Layout, alignment, icon pack, icon and text size, spacing, font and colors are all adjustable, and the settings screen has a search box over the whole of it. There is an optional search box in the app list, optional notification counts on icons, optional Now Playing controls, and per-app renaming, icons and hiding. Work profiles are picked up automatically, and Android 15's private space is supported. No ads, no tracking, and no network access — the app holds no internet permission at all.

First release: Sep 9, 2026, 25 total releases.

Most recent release: Nov 3, 2026.

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Releases

  • Nov 3, 2026 0.92.0
    New: * Apps that can't open right now are greyed out, like on the stock launcher. That's an app whose app timer has run out, or a work app while the work profile is paused. * Brazilian Portuguese translation, thanks to elspeth00. Fixed: * Opening a folder near the bottom no longer moves the list a moment later. It now scrolls while the folder opens, so you don't tap the wrong app.
  • Nov 2, 2026 0.90.6
    Fixed: * Widgets with a setup screen can be added again. On Android 14 and newer the setup screen never opened and the widget was thrown away.
  • Oct 31, 2026 0.90.5
    Fixed: * A damaged settings file no longer makes the launcher crash at every start. It keeps every setting it can still read and starts normally.
  • Oct 29, 2026 0.90.3
    Fixed: * The height buttons for a widget in a folder work again. The edge that opens the app list was taking their taps. * With the status bar peek set to 0, the status bar now also hides at once when you come back from an app. Changed: * Swedish translation is complete again.
  • Oct 28, 2026 0.90.2
    Fixed: * The Now Playing buttons in a folder work again. The edge that opens the app list was taking their taps. Changed: * With the status bar peek set to 0, the status bar now hides at once instead of fading out. * Updated German, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Swedish translations.
  • Oct 27, 2026 0.90.1
    Changed: * The left and right swipes that open an app now also work at the bottom of the screen, even when your favorites reach down there.
  • Oct 27, 2026 0.88.0
    New: * Notification text on the home screen now lists up to 3 notifications per app, one per line. Tap a line to open that notification. * Size setting for the notification text, under Settings → Notifications.
  • Oct 26, 2026 0.87.0
    New: * Optional notification text on the home screen. Turn on "Notification text on home screen" in Settings → Notifications, and an app with a notification shows its newest one under its name. Off by default.
  • Oct 24, 2026 0.86.0
    New: * Folders can hold widgets. Long-press a folder and pick "Add widget". It shows at the top when the folder is open.
  • Oct 24, 2026 0.85.1
    Fixed: * The app list could stutter for the first few seconds after opening.
  • Oct 8, 2026 0.84.1
    Fixed: * Picking a second custom font could leave letters missing until the launcher restarted. * Turning on "Hide private space" in Android's settings now hides it in the list right away, not only after the next lock.
  • Oct 6, 2026 0.82.0
    New: * Apps can be kept out of the Most used favorites without hiding them from the A-Z list. Remove on a favorite now does this, and Settings > Apps lists what is kept out so you can let one back in. Fixed: * Remove on a favorite did nothing while Favorites was set to Most used.
  • Oct 5, 2026 0.80.1
    Fixed: * "Leave room for the back gesture" did nothing at any setting. The strip moved inward but Android was still told to keep its back gesture out of the edge. * Renaming an app to something starting with a number left it filed under its old letter instead of moving to "#".
  • Oct 2, 2026 0.77.1
    New: * Tapping the weather on the clock widget opens an app of your choosing, picked in the widget's own settings. Fixed: * The weather sat tight against the date.
  • Oct 1, 2026 0.75.0
    New: * The side of the screen can open the app list only beside the A-Z letters instead of all the way down, so it stays out of the way of a widget. Off by default, under App list. Fixed: * "No favorites yet" stayed on a home screen deliberately kept empty. It now goes once you have had a favorite. * The handles for setting the A-Z strip range sat on top of the first and last letters.
  • Sep 29, 2026 0.74.0
    Fixed: * With only one or two favorites, the A-Z strip shrank to their height and the whole alphabet had a row to share. It now keeps enough room for every letter to be worth aiming at. Changed: * Now Playing stays put in Edit layout whether or not anything is playing, so its height and spacing can still be set. * Setting the A-Z strip range draws the letters inside it, so you can see whether a range is too short before committing to it.
  • Sep 27, 2026 0.73.2
    Fixed: * With "every letter on the same line" on, only the very last letter reached the line. The four or five before it stopped wherever their own apps ran out. Every letter that needs the room to get there now gets it.
  • Sep 24, 2026 0.71.0
    New: * Favorites can show your most-used apps instead of a list you keep. * Separate icon switches for favorites and the app list. * Notification counts on icons, off by default. * Letter headings in the app list can be turned off. * Set where a picked letter lands, for tall phones. * Folders can close themselves after you open something in them. * Enter in the search box launches the first result. * HOME returns the home screen to the top and the first widget.
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    Fixed: * Tapping a switch in settings could toggle it and toggle it straight back. * Edit layout was unreadable over wallpapers that are light on one side. * The app list shifted sideways when the A-Z strip was set to both edges, and an always-on strip sat on top of the favorites.
  • Sep 20, 2026 0.70.1
    Fixed: * Dragging on a scrollable widget was hit and miss. The direction was settled a few pixels in and stood by, so a swipe that started slightly across went to the home screen instead of the widget. It now keeps reading until the drag is clearly one or the other. * Swiping between stacked widgets needed too precise an angle, for the same reason in reverse.
  • Sep 19, 2026 0.62.2
  • Sep 17, 2026 0.58.0
  • Sep 16, 2026 0.56.0
  • Sep 15, 2026 0.54.0
  • Sep 12, 2026 0.48.2
  • Sep 9, 2026 0.48.1