Slate

about

description

Slate is a minimal text-only Android home screen built for focus. Most launchers want to keep you on your phone. Colourful icons trigger recognition without thought, notification badges create artificial urgency, and recommendation widgets are optimised for engagement, not intent. Slate removes all of that. Apps are presented as plain text, the same way a to-do list presents tasks. You open the app you meant to open, not the one that looked most appealing. APPEARANCE * Two homescreen layouts: Flow (apps wrap like text, sized by usage) or Minimal List (one app per line with optional alphabetical fast-scroll) * Fully customisable background and text colours with a live colour picker * Follow system theme: switches automatically with system dark mode * Apply background colour to the lockscreen for a uniform look * Per-app colour overrides to highlight what matters * Notification highlight: app names change colour when an app has a pending notification * Typography control: font family (Google Fonts plus import your own), weight, line spacing, word spacing * Font size scales with usage in Flow view INTERACTION * Swipe up to search apps * Configurable single-finger swipe gestures (any app, notifications, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, location, camera, more) * Double-tap to lock screen (via accessibility service) * Long-press an app to pin, hide, rename, recolour, uninstall, or move to a folder * Pin apps to the top regardless of sort order * Sort alphabetically or by most used * Custom folders: each folder is a text label with a marker (chevron, slash, bullet, brackets, count, or plain). Tap to expand inline. Long-press to rename, recolour, or delete QUICK TOGGLES STRIP An optional row of text widgets at the top or bottom of your home screen. Choose from Clock, Date, Next alarm, Battery percent, Charging, Time to full, Battery temperature, Uptime, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Mobile data, Airplane mode, DND, Volume, Ringer mode, Torch, Brightness, Location, NFC, and contact tap-to-call or tap-to-text shortcuts. Off by default. Pick widgets, position, and typography from Settings. CONTROL * Lock orientation to portrait * Optional persistent search bar on the home screen * Optional contact search: turn it on to surface contacts inline with apps when you type. Read at search time, never stored. Google-only sub-toggle skips duplicates from WhatsApp, Telegram, SIM * PIN-lock the hidden apps list (4 to 8 digits, PBKDF2 hashed) with optional biometric unlock. Hidden-app launches stay out of Android Recents, with an opt-out * Work-profile apps are listed too, marked with the profile name and grouped into a folder on first sight * Export and import all settings as a JSON backup. Hidden-apps list and PIN are omitted by default. Opt in via Settings, with an in-memory PIN check on import PRIVACY Slate does not collect, transmit, or share any data. No analytics, no crash reporting, no network activity. All preferences are stored locally. App usage counts never leave the device. Each Android permission Slate declares is requested only for the specific feature that uses it. Full details in the in-app privacy policy. OPEN SOURCE MIT licensed. Source at github.com/roufsyed/Slate-Minimal-Launcher

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-10-03T00:38:17.536103+00:00

last event

2026-10-15 16:59 UTC

website

https://roufsyed.github.io/Slate-Minimal-Launcher/

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

topics

#launcher

source & build

repository

not published

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

2 releases indexed; latest 1.6.

version	channel	released	event
1.6	main	2026-10-15 16:59 UTC	81f3a343…
1.5	main	2026-10-04 22:22 UTC	9c3e8955…

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

1.6 — com.slate.launcher_7.apk

sha256

fc3fe8f2323e78ca6ed9708a7a2067fa8fc21fe3ad90c8c14adeba27fea16a28

size

2.6 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

7

apk cert sha256

12035293daabc95bba142e0deebab9ec36dfcb85e30a0f1f83bd7005cdea41f6

download

com.slate.launcher_7.apk

1.5 — com.slate.launcher_6.apk

sha256

b8430d4a018ce38e0ce48260203f99345966654472abd512be883c1a437c45a5

size

2.0 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

6

apk cert sha256

12035293daabc95bba142e0deebab9ec36dfcb85e30a0f1f83bd7005cdea41f6

download

com.slate.launcher_6.apk

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