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Nova Launcher Gets More Android 11 Icon Shapes in Latest Beta

Tim September 2, 2020 21

Members of the beta for Nova Launcher will be greeted to a few new adaptive icon shapes this week, with Flower, Pebble, and Vessel being added from Android 11. When customizing app icon appearance in Nova's settings menu, these options will now be available,...

Latest Nova Launcher Beta Includes Android 11 Icon Shapes

Tim May 19, 2020

If you fancy yourself someone who enjoys trying things before they're made available to the general public, then you're likely part of the Nova Launcher beta group. If you're not, no worries, you can join here. Once entered, you can enjoy version 6.2.13, the...

Nova Launcher Prime is $0.99 Right Now, Time to Buy if You Haven’t

Kellen December 21, 2019

Nova Launcher Prime, the paid version of one of the most popular 3rd party launcher apps in Android history, is rarely discounted. It's such a good app that its developers don't need to drop its price. But every so often (typically around the holidays), we see...

Android Q’s Gestures Won’t Play Nicely With 3rd Party Launchers for a While (Updated)

Kellen July 10, 2019

We're only another beta away from Android Q being stable and I'm not sure that Google has fully decided what its gesture navigation should look like. Google is still adding or tweaking the way it works, like how they just added a new bottom corner swipe that...

Nova Launcher Adds 3 Different Color Choices for Night Mode

Tim June 17, 2019

Rolling out in stable form over the weekend, Nova Launcher now offers 3 different darkly-colored choices for its Night Mode. To me, the options appear to be Dark, Darker, and Darkest. If you're not aware of how Nova's Night Mode works, users can enable it to...

Nova Launcher Update Brings Darkness to Google Discover, Other Goodies

Kellen April 12, 2019

Nova Launcher picked up an update to finish off the week that introduces features first seen in the beta a month ago. We're talking features like a dark theme in the Google Discover feed, numeric dots on app icons for notifications, and some bug fixes. For the...

Nova Launcher 6.1 Beta Includes Numeric Dots and Dark Mode for Google Discover

Tim March 6, 2019

Nova Launcher, still one of the best 3rd-party launchers available on Android, is back again with an updated beta. Labeled as version 6.1, this beta includes numeric dots for notifications, as well as a Dark Mode for the Google Discover page on your home...

DEAL: Nova Launcher Prime is $0.99 Right Now, 80% Off

Kellen December 22, 2018

This doesn't happen often, so if you have not yet made the investment in Nova Launcher Prime, the paid license of Nova Launcher that unlocks all of its features, now is the time. As of this moment, Nova Launcher Prime is just $0.99. That's an 80% discount from...