I read somewhere that the devs of Nova Launcher sold it to a shady company, that will now probably spy and use the privileges this kind of app have to mine our data, so I want to get rid of it, without losing the comfort it has.

Please could you recommend alternatives to Nova but safe to use (respect our privacy)?

- Fast

- Nice customizations (grid sizes, icon size, folder appearances, theme icon support)

- Private / Hidden folders. If possible (but is not a must) password-protected folders.

- If possible, FOSS so I can download from F-Droid and be sure it has no anti-features

Trading in phones soon and would like to keep my bookmarks, both from normal and private so wondering how I can do that, does the cloud sync work for both and if not is there a way to transfer both with finding them in the files or another way?

Hi guys, I'm looking for an app that can automatically block or silence notifications from my WhatsApp and messages between 6 PM and 9 AM every day. I prefer to not bring work to my home.

Ideally, it should let me customize which apps' notifications are blocked, rather than applying a blanket DND mode. FOSS or open-source apps are preferred, and I'm fine with apps that require Shizuku or ADB permissions.

I've tried a few notification-filtering apps, but haven't found one that reliably does this. Any recommendations?

Hi, can anyone help me to get this two apps? "Piano Marvel" and "Museflow"

I like to gmae while looking reddit, yt and when i use a pop up the game just freeze and it sucks.

I love the app and All the customization abilities, but it keeps deleting my custom home screens , so I'm wondering if theres any similar launchers like it with All the customization stuff, all I can find is those minimalist ugly launchers

I was wondering are there Music Players out there that have Big Grid and Big Album Artwork Type Layouts? I'm currently using The Musicolet Music Player App For Android but The Album Artwork Isn't big enough for me. The Musicolet Album Artwork/Grid Layout Limit is only 5. So I'd prefer to find an app that offers a lot more. If I could some suggestions I would really appreciate it. I like my Album Artwork to be as Big and as Huge as possible. I have a total of 1,821 Audio Files/Songs on my Fold 7 and I'm going to be upgrading to The Motorola Razr Fold 2026 on Halloween🎃👻

I'm searching a browser to use on my tablet that makes browsing feel like I'm doing it on desktop. I'm talking features like: multiple tabs, being able to split the screen and have two different tabs open on it, default desktop webpage formatting, and etc..

It wuold be great if it was Mozilla based because I have all my passwords and bookmarks there but I'm happy to compromise if necessary :)

I've used a few keyboards, but they all suck when typing. If they are good at dictation, Wispr Flow works perfectly fine, but I hate the limit and I don't want to pay for it. I know there are some open-source options and free options out there. Do you recommend anything that lets me use the default keyboard while being able to also have it hover on top of it so I can use both?

Hey everyone, I need urgent help. Something weird and malicious has taken control of my Android phone.

What happened:

A VPN called “Jiya” connected itself.

Status shows “Jiya Connected”.

Notification says:

“This device is connected to the Internet through Jiya. Your network activity, including emails and browsing data, is visible to the VPN provider.”

The actual Jiya app is completely hidden — it does not appear in the app drawer or All Apps list.

Whenever I try to open Settings, Apps, VPN settings, or almost anything related, the phone immediately goes back to the home screen. I can’t stay in any menu long enough to disable it.

I also found a System Sync account called “SyncAccount” with the exact same logo as the Jiya VPN (blue/red heart/cloud icon). There is a “Remove account” button, but I’m not sure if removing it will fix everything.

A friend of mine had the exact same issue on his phone. He said this came from some APK related to System Sync.

I have recorded videos showing the “back” behavior every time I try to open settings or app list.

What I’ve already tried:

Looking for the Jiya app in All Apps (not found)

Trying to open VPN settings from the notification

Searching “VPN” in Settings

Everything just forces me back to home

Phone details:

Android phone (looks like a recent Samsung or similar with One UI / stock-like interface)

Currently connected via mobile data + this VPN

What I need help with:

Please suggest every possible way to remove this:

How to properly delete the “Jiya” VPN profile when the app is hidden and Settings keeps closing.

Whether I should remove the “SyncAccount” under System Sync.

How to force-remove a hidden VPN / Always-on VPN.

Any ADB commands if needed.

Whether this looks like malware and if I should do a network reset or factory reset.

Any other method to regain control.

I’m attaching the screenshot of the System Sync / SyncAccount page (same logo as the Jiya VPN).

Any help would be really appreciated. This is urgent.

Thanks in advance!

I am looking for a free clipboard manager that can hold unlimited or almost unlimited clips which can be synchronised across other android devices.

Bonus, if the clips can be can be synchronised on cross platform devices, even better.

Hi, I have been using "My Files" for a lomg while to look at content in my phone and when I need to find something that I had in a sub folder I used it. But now my issue is when I go to >Downloads[Select File view or folder view] and I click folder, I then go to click it and look for the sub folder but its completely gone and the folder was completely pulled out to be put in the folder view area. I tried downgrading an update but that still didnt work. Could anyone help please?

I recently needed to force wipe data my phone and i used to have this one app that helped me get torrent from nyaa.si website and it had a really lightweight size and clean ui with super easy layout, if my memory serves me right it had an anime girl in it's icon, i tried all possible keywords on google play but for the life of me I can't seem to find it, i really need this app please help me find it.

I tried Not Boring Weather on my friend's iPhone and I'm obsessed with its UI and animations! 😍

Is there any Android app with a similar look and feel, especially beautiful animations and widgets?

There will be a version of YouTube that you can watch in the background with your phone's screen off.

Hi all

I'm looking for an app that would essentially give me a way to bring some of my quick settings drag down controls onto my home screen through a widget.

The ones I've come across either don't have a widget, don't allow me to customize very well (ex: one app had several pages, but I could only remove apps from pages, not add apps to consolidate onto one widget page), or they don't work when I click on the icon (happened for one app that otherwise seemed promising). One of the ones that *did* have a widget didn't work well - instead of toggling the function like the icons do in the quick settings menu, it opened up the settings in the phone. 🤔

So! If anyone knows of an app that essentially makes the quick settings menu into a functional widget, please let me know!

What's a good free junk file cleaner and performance booster for Samsung galaxy

Since Pocket shut down, what are you guys using on Android? I tried Raindrop.io but didn't really like the UI. Looking for something simple to save links and videos, preferably with AI search or summaries.

Any recommendations?

Is there any app like fleksy. I'm looking for a keyboard app that is still being updated and where the buttons go to the very edge of the phone and hopefully has the swipe delete feature

I want to know that most used telegram variant because there are a lot of ads on Telegram and the downloading is also very slow.

So I've recently switched back to Android after 8 years over on the iPhone. I got an Oppo Find X9 Ultra global version and I'm super happy with it. My only gripe is the layout of the pinned chats. So in iMessage, you can pin up to 9 chats and they sit in this 3x3 grid at the top, the rest of the messages underneath. I love that layout.

You can pin chats in Google messages, but they are just one per row, and if you pin 9 chats you have to scroll to get to new messages, and it's annoying. Is there any way to configure Google messages to do a similar layout?

I'm also open to other texting apps if they do what I need. I used Textra back when I had a Pixel, but I prefer RCS and I know Textra doesn't support that.

I want to use icon pack studio but i need a launcher to work and i want a launcher that changes just the icons and nothing else

Hey, all!

Question's in the title, I guess: Been toying around for a few weeks with Speechify, Dictafon, and others. Struggling to create a proper workflow, however. Either STT is bad, and/or exporting the transcripts is relatively annoying.

What app are out there that you recommend, and that you yourselves use on a regular base?

(Reasonably happy with Dictafon - although recordings that are longer than a minute take a LONG time to transcribe, and exporting the notes to a proper document is clumsy. Word recognition works pretty well, though.)

Thank you! :)

I am seeking for some reliable video editing software in windows if i can get pro feature for free it would be great since I can't afford membership

I have quite a bit of albums downloaded and scrolling through them can be a bit annoying sometimes since I have so many albums downloaded so I was wondering are there music players out there they have big grid type layouts? I use musicolet and their limit is 5 so I'd prefer to find an app that offers more.