folio
Folio Launcher: a clean, iPhone-style (iOS) Home Screen for Android foldables like the Galaxy Z Fold, with jailbreak-inspired tweaks. Free, open source, no root.
Details
- External ID
- 1371658402
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- folio
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 37
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7669741224698949
- Tags
- android, android-launcher, foldable, foldable-devices, galaxy-z-fold, home-screen, ios, ios-launcher, iphone-duo, iphone-launcher, jailbreak, jetpack-compose, kotlin, launcher, one-ui, open-source, samsung-galaxy
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ios-style home screen launcher for android foldable phones
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating standard Android launcher UIs in Jetpack Compose is manageable, but properly handling fold angle hardware sensor predictions, multi-display continuity, and replicating iOS Dynamic Island/dock behaviors within unrooted Android permission constraints is technically tricky.
What it would actually take: The project requires Kotlin and Jetpack Compose alongside Android Jetpack WindowManager APIs (FoldingFeature) and custom sensor fusion to predict hinge angles. It must implement the Android Launcher3/Home app lifecycle, custom app icon parsers, and system overlay services via accessibility/window manager APIs. The tricky part is smooth real-time hinge angle extrapolation, dual-screen layout state preservation during rapid folding, and system-level gesture interception without root.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 152 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 153 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
- DuoLauncher · github · 2026-09-10 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Folio · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- duo-open · github · 2026-09-11 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- focus-launcher · github · 2026-09-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Husk · github · 2026-09-12 · 92 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Focus · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- FrostFold · github · 2026-09-10 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DuoFold-Android · github · 2026-09-12 · 137 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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