Before Launcher - Minimalist launcher & focus

⚡️Maintain your focus with a stylish and functional minimalist launcher.

🔥Top 10 minimal launchers

✶Recognized by Mrwhosetheboss and Copper vs Glass for its pioneering role in Android minimal launchers✶

✶Reduce phone usage by 40%✶

✶Minimize distractions using the notification filter. A staggering 80% of notifications aren't urgent enough to disrupt you✶

✶Concentrate on what’s important. Simplify your activities both at work and during leisure time✶

❌ No advertisements, no subscription fees

✶No ads, EVER✶

✶No subscriptions, EVER✶

✶One-time purchase for all your devices✶

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The Before Launcher enhances your productivity by simplifying the appearance of your phone. This minimalist launcher includes practical features such as:

✅ Streamlined homescreen

Quickly access your most used applications. It is customizable according to your preferences!

📱Personalize the design to reflect your unique style

Select from a wide variety of photo, gradient, and solid themes or make your own.

🚀 Swift access to your favorites and other apps with a single swipe

Easily browse through all your apps in a sortable, scrollable, and searchable list.

⭐ Organize, pin, and conceal your applications

Arrange applications into folders, highlight important ones at the top of your list, and hide unnecessary bloatware (*available in pro version)

⛔ Dismiss insignificant notifications

Our unique filtered notification drawer ensures that trivial alerts won't disturb you with sounds or vibrations. They won’t crowd your notification bar, but you can still access them with a quick swipe.

🔕 Receive notifications without distractions

Focus only on critical matters. Notifications deemed important (as determined by you) will still alert you, ensuring nothing vital is overlooked.

🤝 Designed with privacy in mind

We do not engage in data collection or selling. Personal data tracking is absent, and you have the option to disable anonymous analytics.

🔒 Fewer required permissions = enhanced privacy/security

Many competing launchers demand numerous device permissions. (The notification filter requires one access, which can be turned off).

🎯Gain control over your device

The Before Launcher allows sorting apps based on size, installation date, and last usage time. Remove apps that occupy excessive space or that you rarely use.

⚙️Collection of widgets focused on well-being

Engage in mindfulness with our complimentary widgets designed to cut down screen time. Monitor date and time, battery status, weather, and track your average screen unlocks for the day and week.

🦄 Customize your app icons

Add your own styles and incorporate third-party icon packs as well.

💯Quick and easy setup

Our step-by-step process facilitates a swift setup for Before Launcher.

❤️Human support for your inquiries

We are available to assist with any questions or concerns regarding the launcher.

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Mentioned among Fast Company's best new apps of 2019.

The minimalist philosophy has greatly influenced our creation! This includes notable works like Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price, and Indistractable by Nir Ayal.

The Before Launcher application may utilize Android's Accessibility Service API with your permission, allowing a double-tap gesture to swiftly turn off your device screen. Engaging this feature is entirely voluntary. The accessibility service within Before Launcher is turned off by default, and consent is necessary for its activation. When permission is given, it is solely to enable the double-tap function. You can withdraw your consent whenever you wish. This feature does not collect or share any data.

What is a launcher?

Another name for an Android launcher is "Home App" and if you use an Android smartphone you are already using a launcher... it’s the Home screen and the app drawer. Most people are just using the standard launcher supplied by the phone manufacturer.

How does it work?

There are plenty of other launchers. But, we are different. Our core mission is to preserve our customer's attention & focus. Our product transforms your smartphone, making it less distracting and less addictive, without crippling it, or making the phone less usable. Our launcher has a notification filter, which keeps notifications from your less important apps from distracting you. Users of the Before Phone Launcher tell us their screen time is now more focused and overall interruptions are dramatically reduced.

What is Before Launcher Pro?

Before Launcher Pro is an in App Purchase that offers additional productivity and customization features like the ability to group apps into Folders, Pin apps to the top of your apps list, hide bloatware and much more. It is a one time purchase that costs less than many monthly subscriptions. Watch this video to learn more about Pro.

Will it work on my phone?

Yes -- if your phone is Android version 7 or later.

Just download and install from the Play Store.

If you don’t know the version of your Android phone go to your smartphone’s “Settings” app and use the search there using these terms: Android version or About Phone

If your phone has an Android version less than 7 you can try manually updating. We found this wikihow link helpful

‍This doesn't work on an iPhone. Apple iOS doesn't support these kinds of products, so it is unlikely we will offer a similar iOS product.