Char Launcher
A calm, minimal home screen for Android
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Details
- External ID
- 1278297
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Char Launcher
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Android, Productivity, Privacy
Description
Char replaces grids of icons with one quiet, numbered list of your apps. The app in the center is large and clear, the rest fade away, so your phone feels less like a slot machine. • Pages for each part of your day, with time-based switching and focus hours • A private news feed that learns what you read, on your phone • Your week: see how often you open each app • Colors, fonts, widgets and favorites, per page No accounts, ads or tracking. Free, with a one-time Pro upgrade.
Enrichment
- Niche
- application and game launchers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- minimalist home screen launcher for android
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An Android launcher with a minimal text-based list, focus modes, and an RSS/custom news feed is directly buildable in Kotlin/Jetpack Compose using standard Android launcher APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 99 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 100 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Intento — The mindful Android launcher · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Threshold - A Minimal Focus Launcher · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- literally Strict Focus Launcher · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Fewer · ph · 2026-09-26 · 126 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Launcher Two Android Homescreen Launcher · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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