Keyboard Launcher Pro is a minimal launcher for Android with no app grid, no badges and no feed. Home is a calm screen of grey text with one accent colour, and every app is still two letters away. Made for keyboard phones, and it works on any Android phone.
A minimal launcher should make your phone quieter without making it slower. This one takes the icons away and gives you a keyboard to reach everything instead.
>_ Any Android phone
It was drawn first for square screens and real keys, and it fits a tall touchscreen just as well, with twelve tiles and a Tap to type bar.
No icons, no feed, no badges. Just your day in plain text, the way a minimal Android launcher should look.
Most minimal launchers leave a clock and a list of names. This one keeps the few things worth a glance: the hour bar down the side, the next event and to-do with a count beside each, what is playing, and tiles for what you open every day.
Everything is grey text on dark with one accent colour, so nothing on the screen pulls at you.
Turn the clock up to 120 per cent and centre it, with the date and weather beneath, and home becomes a quiet clock face. It can take your accent colour or stay white.
A minimal launcher should not mean giving up widgets. Here they live on a page of their own, one swipe across, so the weather, your music or your inbox are there when you go looking and nowhere else.
Badges are what pull you back to a phone. Here every notification waits in one Hub, a swipe from home.
Home never shows a pile of badges. Messages, calls, email and everything else collect in the Hub, sorted into tabs, and you look when you choose to.
Chats open as conversations you can answer, and anything else opens on a clean page of its own.
Each person's emails are one thread, with quotes and signatures folded away so you only read what is new. Replies go out through the mail app you already use, so there is no account to add.
With no app grid, you get to things by typing. Two letters open an app; a name finds a person.
Taking icons away is the easy part of a minimal launcher. Getting to the app you need without them is the hard part. Here you type a few letters from home and the best match is first, apps and people in the same list.
On a touchscreen phone, tap the Tap to type bar and your own keyboard comes up.
Put a symbol first and the line goes where it belongs: @ messages someone, * adds an event, - a to-do, ! a note. Fewer apps to open means less time on the phone.
Swipe up for every app as a plain list with a letter rail. No folders to sort and no pages of icons to scroll.
>_ Choosing one
Minimal launchers for Android tend to fall into three groups. Keyboard Launcher Pro is a fourth: as bare as a list, but you type instead of scroll. The text launcher page goes further into typing, and the dumbphone launcher page into cutting distraction.
Swap the grid for a plain list of app names. Calm, but you still scroll to find things.
Add timers, greyscale and app limits to cut screen time. Strict, and some people want exactly that.
Keep the grid but tidy it with matching icon packs and fewer rows. Familiar, still a grid.
Calendar, to-dos and notes inside the launcher, so you need fewer apps on the phone.
Events reads the calendars already on your phone and shows the month, a list or just today, in the same grey text as home.
Type - and a task on home and it is saved, with a due time if you add one. Tap to tick it off.
Type ! and a thought and it is a note. Personal, Work and Private, with checklists, and private notes locked to your fingerprint.
Dark or light, one accent, one typeface. The whole launcher follows and nothing competes with it.
Choose a theme, an accent colour and a typeface, including a monospace one that makes the phone feel like a quiet terminal. Your own photo can go behind it, darkened so the text stays readable.
Instead of a screen of icons, a handful of tiles. Each can open an app, a shortcut, a chat or a website, with an icon you pick.
>_ Set up
Changed your mind later? Pick your old launcher under Default apps in Android's settings and you are back where you started.
Install from Google Play, press home and choose Keyboard Launcher Pro, then Always.
Dark or light, one accent colour and a typeface. Everything on the screen follows.
Contacts, calendar and notifications are each optional. It works without any of them.
>_ Minimal on the inside
No account of any kind, so nothing to forget or reset.
Contacts, calendar and messages are read on the device and never sent anywhere.
Nothing paying for it but you, so nothing in it asking for your attention.
Buy it once on Google Play. Updates arrive free for as long as it is made.
It never asks for your texts or call log. The Hub reads notifications instead.
A small app from illuminati Apps in the UK, shaped by what its users ask for.
Pay once on Google Play. No ads, no account, free updates.
A launcher is the app that draws your home screen. A minimal one swaps the grid of icons and badges for something calmer, usually plain text, so the phone is less of a pull every time you pick it up.
Yes. There is no app grid and no wall of icons on home, just grey text with one accent colour. You open apps by typing or from an A to Z list.
No. Every app on your phone is still there. You reach them by typing a few letters, from the list, or from a tile you set up.
Yes. It was built on keyboard phones like the Titan 2 Elite and works on ordinary touchscreen phones too, with a Tap to type bar and twelve tiles on tall screens.
Yes. Widgets sit on their own page one swipe from home, so home stays plain.
It removes the bright icons and badges that pull you in, which helps a lot of people. It does not block apps or set time limits; for that, use Android's Digital Wellbeing alongside it.
No, it is a one-off purchase on Google Play with free updates. There are no ads, which is part of what keeps it minimal.
Open Android's settings, find Default apps, then Home app, and pick the launcher you had before. Nothing else changes.
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