Simple. Elegant. Lightweight. Free and contains no ads.

Ruthless Launcher is a lightweight, yet feature-rich launcher based Amir Zaidi's Shade Launcher.

Important:

Visit https://github.com/shubhchan/Ruthless-Translation if you want to translate Ruthless Launcher in your language or contact me.

Features:

Parity with the latest Play Store release of Shade. Everything, including Grids, Accent Colors and Smart Unread are all included.

Supports Adaptive Icons Packs

Choose from the thousands of icon packs to customize your Home Screen. Make it truly yours.

A smarter way to display your most important notification

Smart Unread displays your topmost notification right in the Glance widget. It also displays weather information as well as music track information and you can skip tracks by double tapping the track

Customisations? Fam, we got you covered

Change everything from fonts, icon shapes and sizes, app launch animations, custom grids, swipe gestures and more.

Oh, you live for that minimal aesthetic? Disable whatever components you don't need and enjoy that awesome wallpaper.

Absolutely love your setup and want to share it around? Backups, what's not to love about them.

Love News Feeds? We do as well

A simple swipe to the right and BAM! For Google's Feed you'll need the Pixel Bridge add-on: https://telegra.ph/Googles-News-Feed-Addon-08-02

Also, other custom News Feed apps like Homefeeder are supported too.

Have prying eyes snooping around? 👀

You can hide apps by long pressing an app's icon in the app drawer and by dragging over to the top right corner.

Want to quickly access your hidden apps?

Just type in the word 'HIDDEN' et voila!

Still want more? Secured Vault allows you to lock sensitive apps with your on-device biometrics. (Hardware compatibility varies between devices)

Don't like ads?

We got you covered, this free app contains no ads and no feature is hidden behind any sort of pay wall.