I use KISS Launcher, so it’s just a giant searchable list os apps

Folders for things I use daily. For everything else I just search.

@RecursiveParadox Absolutely no sorting into folders. Especially not manually sorting.

Back when Aviate! was an Android launcher, before it was acquired by Yahoo and then ruined, it did the most logical thing: auto-group apps by category, location based, messenger, games. Best of all, it did not change the home screen much. Swiped right it showed the (four? five? don’t remember) most recently used app per square. All most recently used apps were always on the same screen, no opening of folders to see them, and always (after the swipe right) just a single tap to start the app. A tap on the category would open it to see others of the same category. With Aviate sorting manually was exposed as a total waste of time.

Today, Niagara Launcher “sorts” apps by the few favourites you define, and the rest is sorted by “the alphabet” with the side bar thing that zikzak025 shows. That too eliminates manual sorting, but I think folders are possible.

Yes

Home screen is a bunch of folders, but each folder is just apps with a particular colour of icon. Red folder, green folder, blue folder… Rainbow folder (that’s mostly googly apps plus slack)

Because I don’t easily remember apps by themes but I usually know the colour of the app I’m looking for. Super efficient

Everything is in folders in the menu

I’ve been using μLauncher (github) for probably 6 months or so on my Pixel 8a.

I like it. I like trying a bunch of different apps for different things so I do a lot of Favorites/App management daily. Its also just a nice minimalist launcher. I’ve recently started taking more advantage of all the gesture options to quickly open apps as well from the home screen.

Edit: Forgot to mention μLauncher doesn’t show apps on the home screen. Instead you get the app drawer, a favorites “drawer” and a whole lotta gesture options you use from the home screen.

I use one main page with only the home row of 5 apps, and one other page to hold my calendar and budget widgets. I use the default app tray to open apps instead of scattering them across screens. Pixel 8 Graphene OS.

I have all of my main apps on my home screen, and then the rest of my apps are on the app screen in automatically sorted folders by type of app. I use smart launcher

I use Niagara launcher, so all of my apps are in a single scrollable list.

This isn’t a screenshot of my own phone, but this is essentially what it looks like. There’s an A-Z list on the right that you can use to jump to a specific letter, or just scroll down the full list on the left. You can keep a small list of favorites at the top. It does support folders, but I don’t use them.

I have everything in folders on my home screen, I don’t like swiping

I have three folders in the home screen so it can have Safari and look balanced. For apps not in the folders I use search.

Kvaesitso

One page of favourites, then search-based for other apps.

I find it more practical to seperate by things you uses frequently vs things you use occasionally. Frequently used things get a place on the home page where it’s easy to get to, everything else is dumped into a few broad catagories.

I have 4 folders, “stores(&bank stuff)” “games(&entertainment)” “utilities(&misc)” and “work”.

It’s all sorted alphabetical.

Neither - I use KISS, which means a click on the first letter of an app brings every app starting with it, ordered by frequent use. With 6 shortcuts at the bottom I’m good, never more than 2 clicks away from anything.