What's your favorite launcher for Android-based OS that values privacy? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Right now I'm using the default e/OS launcher of Fairphone 6, but wanted more options to clean up icons and set colors to desktop. I might try the Dragon launcher on FDroid.

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[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Is nightly different? I thought lawnchair didn't make apks available outside of play store while claiming to be open source?

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's available on F-droid through the Izzy repo

[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah i saw it's releasing some updates. But it's the old version that lacks quite a few features compared to v2. And v2 is not open source.

But I thought v1 was dead, good to see active development on it.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not sure what the deal with a v2 is, as far I can find I have the latest version (15 beta 2). Can't find any reference to a separate version, beside a dead github page for v1 and a second website that appears to be an older version of the app.

I downloaded the play store version, and it was the same version number as Izzy. At a quick glance it looked the same.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/app.lawnchair

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair

this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026

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