Total Launcher

Total Launcher puts your home screen under total control

Total Launcher is a highly flexible launcher designed for people who want their home screen to look and work exactly the way they imagine. Rather than offering a fixed grid and a handful of presets, it turns your interface into a canvas where almost every element is editable.

The core experience revolves around a simple idea: press and hold anything to edit it. Icons, widgets, text labels, layouts, and panels can all be resized, moved, restyled, or removed. This makes it incredibly easy to build anything from a minimal single-page layout to a dense dashboard with folders, shortcuts, and information panels. Despite its depth, the app remains fast and lightweight, even on older devices, which is impressive given how much it lets you change.

Where Total Launcher really shines is in how “smart” you can make your home. You can assign actions to gestures, create multi-page setups for work and leisure, and tweak animations and transitions so the interface feels personal rather than generic. It can also integrate screen lock and recent apps actions, though this is why it requests Device Admin and Accessibility permissions. These are optional and used specifically for those launcher functions, which is reassuring for privacy-conscious users.

The flip side of this freedom is that it can feel overwhelming for newcomers. If you just want a basic, no-fuss layout, some of the deeper options may be more than you need. However, the default setup is usable out of the box, and you can gradually refine it as you learn.

For enthusiasts, power users, and anyone frustrated by rigid home screens, Total Launcher is an impressive playground where nearly everything is up for customization.