Lean Launcher

An open source, customizable launcher.

Total ratings

4.06 (Rating count: 8,434)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Lightweight and good performance on low-end devices
  • Customizable interface with various options
  • Close to stock Android experience
  • Minimalist design and clean aesthetic
  • Low memory footprint
Cons
  • Issues with custom wallpaper settings and cropping
  • Delay when opening the app drawer
  • Certain features lack responsiveness or are buggy
  • Inability to disable Google search bar
  • Lack of folder options in app drawer
Most mentioned
  • Customization options
  • Minimalist design
  • Performance on low-end devices
  • Issues with wallpaper settings
  • Bugs and glitches in certain functions
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Recent rating average: 3.80
All time rating average: 4.06
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Date Author Rating Comment
2022-08-04
Mayu Ri		 This is the launcher I was looking for. Something without all the bells and whistles the others have. However I just wish the Lean Settings window would reflect dark mode like everything else. One other option that'd be nice is the ability to hide the notification bar on the home screen. Everything else seems great so far.
2022-03-28
Mihkal Jouste		 From trying this out seems to work great. Lots of nice customization options. One thing I couldn't find is how to set one page as default, such that pressing home button again would snap to it. Another issue that seems to affect all 3rd party launchers on galaxy A50 is that widgets have a larger font size than on the default launcher which makes them hard to read.
2021-09-24
Huy Pham		 Very good lightweight and basic launcher which is based off of the stock Google launcher. It's a good launcher for low end phones with little RAM and storage. It works just the same as a stock Google launcher. I appreciate that it doesn't have data collection unlike most launchers, and it only uses 7MB. My only complaint is that you can't disable the Google search bar, please include an option to turn that off!
2021-04-21
David A Leija		 Ive used the stock Pixel Launcher on my Pixel 5 for the past few months. I think its great it's just the size of the At-a-glance widget started bothering me. With Lean Launcher I finally found the perfect replacement. Looking at the home screens it's hard to tell which one is which. And with the added customization features that come with Lean Launcher... It really is the perfect substitute. Only downside is not being able to customize the folders but small price to pay for overall benefits
2020-01-28
A Google user		 I've been using this for a few months on my Android 8 Oreo phones and it's hands-down the best launcher I've tried. Memory usage seems to be on par with the stock launcher. For some reason when I first installed it would not recognize touch-and-hold, so I couldn't drag any icons around. I spent half an hour trying options and searching on the Internet. Rebooted phone and now it works. Maybe one more time it's done this. It's been very reliable.
2019-12-03
A Google user		 Pretty good with decent options. A few oddities: can choose any icon from any pack which is great but I don't see how to apply an entire pack at once; home search bar keeps Google icon even when using another engine; app drawer search has same icon even though it's not a web search; no option to disable labels on home, though can edit each one manually.
2019-09-06
A Google user		 I love how much I can customize and clean up my home screen and app drawer. One thing that's been irritating me though is how tapping on an empty space in the home screen causes a light up effect. When you combine that with the double tap to lock feature, you get this feeling of it being buggy. It's such a nit picky thing, but it really messes the minimalist aesthetic up. I can't find any way to remove it, and with an all black background it becomes especially noticeable and irritating.
2019-03-29
A Google user		 It's a pretty great launcher which has low memory footprint and has just enough features for homescreen customisation, but the thing that bugs me, is its non responsiveness for certain elements that become un-clickable after applying a certain setting, say after setting on Generate Adaptive Icons, I am unable to go to Lean Settings by long pressing on home screen. Various other glitches just turn me off.
2019-03-07
A Google user		 Dev please read: Setting custom wallpaper ihas been a real dent in my overall UX. I have this on a device running Marshmallow, and its great. But on this Oreo device, the wallpaper 1) has major image cropping issues, effectively making the customization process useless because 2) The image looks terrible when cropped due to no screen ratio- it's always zoomed in and pixelated even with high res images, 3) The wallpaper ALWAYS JUMPS AND MOVES upon switching to the home screen!
2019-01-02
A Google user		 The app has a lot of customization from what I could tell in trying it out. However, there is a fundamental flaw in that the amount of real estate on screen isn't completely used. There is a definitive space/buffer on all sides of each page. In launchers like Nova, this buffer can be shrunk down or removed. It presents a problem because when you swipe left or right to change pages, the swipe will not register if it is inside the buffer. You have to place your thumb much higher to change pages.
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