Lynx Launcher - Customizable home screen & navigation

Lynx Launcher serves as a customizable alternative for your home screen 📲, offering a streamlined, clean, and non-intrusive user interface.

Drawing inspiration from the Gnome Desktop Environment™ on Linux, Lynx Launcher provides all the features one would expect from a modern home screen while maintaining simplicity and minimizing distractions.

Features:

🔶 No distractions or unnecessary functions

Every feature included has been selected with care to avoid crowding the launcher with superfluous elements, ensuring a tidy appearance. Additionally, you can conceal applications that can't be uninstalled but you'd prefer not to display.

🛠️ Customization options

You have the ability to adjust the dock's location, text size, desktop grids, visibility of the search bar, notification dots(*) and more.

👆 Swift navigation and gestures

Accessing applications, favorites, searches, and the desktop is just a single swipe away. Want to activate a shortcut, a setting, an app, or view a contact using a gesture? It’s simple!

💚 Easily access your favorite applications and contacts

The favorites screen consolidates all your preferred applications and contacts for quick and easy access.

🔍 Advanced search features

The built-in search allows you to look for apps, contacts, shortcuts, and settings, as well as function as a calculator or initiate a web search through your chosen search engine.

🎨 Theme customization for launcher and icons

Select your preferred icon theme from Google Play, modify the shape of adaptive icons(*), or even alter the entire theme of the launcher.

🌙 Support for dark mode

Decide if Lynx Launcher should operate in dark or light mode, or set preferences for when dark mode activates. You also have the option to customize dark mode settings for different sections of the application.

Lynx Launcher is under active development. Check out the roadmap for insights into upcoming features.

* Certain functionalities are exclusive to the Pro-Version.

Note: This application may need access to Accessibility Services to enable the notifications shade or lock the phone screen.

1. I have bought the Pro-Version but nothing happened. How can I use it?

It seems that there was a problem with your purchase, therefore the Pro-Version was not unlocked. Please try the steps described here:

Problems with in-app purchases

Payment is still pending

It is possible that the payment is still pendig, e.g. due to a slow credit card approval. In this case please wait until your payment is processed.

Payment was cancelded

If the payment did not went through and was canceled you will have to try again to buy the Pro-Version. If any money had been debited from you for the canceled purchase, it will be refunded automatically. To found out why your purchase was canceled, you can visit: Fix payment issues on your account

Verification is pending

Any purchase that is made in Lynx Launcher has to be verified on an external server before the Pro-Version is unlocked. Please make sure that you are connected to the internet, to be able to reach the server. In some rare cases it is possible that the Server is not available, in this case please wait for a short time and try to verify the purchase again from the settings.

If you are still unable to unlock the Pro-Version, please contact support@lynxlauncher.de with your Purchase ID so the problem can be investigated.

2. I have the Pro-Version but it stopped working? Do I have to buy it again?

No, you do not have to buy the Pro-Version of Lynx Launcher again!

The Pro-Version can be used indefinitely on as many devices as you want, as long as you are logged in with the same Google Play account.

So, what is the problem?

Most of the time this problem occurs when you use more than one Google Play account on the same device. Every in-app-purchase is linked to a single account. If Lynx Launcher is installed or updated when the other account is active, it can happen in rare cases that it will be linked to this account and will not see your purchase.

You can perform the following steps to try to solve the problem:

1. Make sure you can see your purchase in your active Google Play account:

To do this you can take a look at your order history.

If you don't see the purchase in your active account continue with step 2. If you see the purchase go to step 4.

2. Make sure Lynx Launcher is linked to the correct Google Play account:

Sign in with the account you used to purchase the Pro-Version of Lynx Launcher.

Clear the cache of the Google Play app.

Restart your device.

Ensure that you see your purchase in the Google Play account that is now active.

Check if you have access to the Pro-Version in Lynx Launcher.

If you still cannot use the Pro-Version, continue with step 3.

3. Remove second Google Play account

If all the above options did not work, try to remove the Google Play account that does not have the purchase of the Pro-Version of Lynx Launcher and restart your device afterwards.

Attention: This will delete data that is linked to your secondary account including contacts and messages.

4. Restart your device

Sometimes rebooting the device or restarting the app can already solve the problem.

5. Clear the app data of Lynx Launcher

If none of the above methods worked, it might be that some of the data of Lynx Launcher has been corrupted. In this case you can try to delete all data from Lynx Launcher.

To delete all data go to the Lynx Launcher settings in your device ➜ Storage & Cache ➜ Clear storage

Attention: This will delete all data from Lynx Launcher and it will start as it was just installed. Before you delete the data create a backup to restore your launcher to its previous state.

If you are still unable to unlock the Pro-Version, please contact support@lynxlauncher.de with your Purchase ID so the problem can be investigated.

3. The notification badges do not work correctly. What should I do?

Many smartphone vendors use very agressive battery saving strategies that stop Lynx Launcher from receiving updates about notifications after some time.

As a short remedy you can reload the notifications from the settings. To solve the problem however, you have to whitelist Lynx Launcher from the Battery saving of your phone. See your devices manual to see how to do that.

You can also visit www.dontkillmyapp.com to see which devices are affected by this problem and find possible solutions.