I use KISS Launcher, so it’s just a giant searchable list os apps

Yeah, I use folders. Makes sense to me, but everyone’s different.

I have everything in folders on my home screen, I don’t like swiping

I have three folders in the home screen so it can have Safari and look balanced. For apps not in the folders I use search.

I use Niagara launcher, so all of my apps are in a single scrollable list.

This isn’t a screenshot of my own phone, but this is essentially what it looks like. There’s an A-Z list on the right that you can use to jump to a specific letter, or just scroll down the full list on the left. You can keep a small list of favorites at the top. It does support folders, but I don’t use them.

I find it far easier to swipe to themed screens, each with a combo of widgets and apps.

I have one folder for car parking apps and so on, which I use less often.

I only have widgets on my home screen, but only for stuff i deem important enough (Auxio, Breezy Weather & Clock). I have my important apps for which i don’t have an appropriate (and fitting) widget (Signal, Element, Firefox, Obsidian) in my dock organized using folders based on category. In the app drawer i use Lawnchair’s caddy layout, which sorts my apps based on their category. Despite this i mostly just use the search bar for looking for apps.

Folders for apps.I hate and can’t get rid of. Screens for everything else. Android 10 Samsung has this horrible feature where every new app gets created on a new page at the end instead of filling the empty space on my previous 3 screens.

I’ve got 12 folders on my homescreen, but each of those can be swiped up, down, left or right to launch my most frequently used apps. I do have a second screen, but it’s just used for a couple of calender widgets.

I haven’t used my all apps screen in months. I just use a search based home screen. My home screen is just a clock and weather widget.

Yes

I’ve been using μLauncher (github) for probably 6 months or so on my Pixel 8a.

I like it. I like trying a bunch of different apps for different things so I do a lot of Favorites/App management daily. Its also just a nice minimalist launcher. I’ve recently started taking more advantage of all the gesture options to quickly open apps as well from the home screen.

Edit: Forgot to mention μLauncher doesn’t show apps on the home screen. Instead you get the app drawer, a favorites “drawer” and a whole lotta gesture options you use from the home screen.

@RecursiveParadox Absolutely no sorting into folders. Especially not manually sorting.

Back when Aviate! was an Android launcher, before it was acquired by Yahoo and then ruined, it did the most logical thing: auto-group apps by category, location based, messenger, games. Best of all, it did not change the home screen much. Swiped right it showed the (four? five? don’t remember) most recently used app per square. All most recently used apps were always on the same screen, no opening of folders to see them, and always (after the swipe right) just a single tap to start the app. A tap on the category would open it to see others of the same category. With Aviate sorting manually was exposed as a total waste of time.

Today, Niagara Launcher “sorts” apps by the few favourites you define, and the rest is sorted by “the alphabet” with the side bar thing that zikzak025 shows. That too eliminates manual sorting, but I think folders are possible.

Home screen is a bunch of folders, but each folder is just apps with a particular colour of icon. Red folder, green folder, blue folder… Rainbow folder (that’s mostly googly apps plus slack)

Because I don’t easily remember apps by themes but I usually know the colour of the app I’m looking for. Super efficient

Everything is in folders in the menu