Phosphor
Your Android home screen as a retro CRT terminal
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Phosphor turns your Android home screen into a retro terminal. Everything is drawn with text characters on a glowing CRT style display: a pixel clock, weather as a pixel landscape, system gauges, notifications, radio and ten whole looks.
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PH · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Android
- Linux
- Design Tools
- GitHub
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Yes A custom Android launcher that renders text-based CRT visuals, with weather and system stats from public APIs, is achievable with standard Android development.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 237 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #139 of 238 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hyprtile · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Winos Launcher · ph · 2026-09-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- konnect-tv · github · 2026-10-19 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- detent · github · 2026-10-17 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- TV Box Tools · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- webos-homebar · github · 2026-10-22 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- RetroMac · ph · 2026-06-27 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- CRT-Screen-Off-Animation · github · 2026-10-15 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.45