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Nova Launcher could soon introduce Nova AI, a built-in AI assistant complete with a chatbot, and a new Nova Plus subscription tier

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[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I was still using it because I was too lazy to migrate things over to another.

And then I saw this post, so I guess it was time. Only took half an hour to figure out how to get Lawnchair doing basically what I wanted it to.

[–] Pzulu@lemmy.world 17 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

Octopi Launcher is damn near a replacement. Learn nothing new, muscle memory for swiping up or down on dock icons to open other apps.

Those were my requirements and it nails it.

[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 2 points 48 minutes ago

Whahahaha motherfucker you just made my day!

[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 1 hour ago

Its a shame its not FOSS. Just checked it for trackers, and according to this site, there are none.

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.otp.octopilauncher/latest/

[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago

Never heard of it but this thing looks fully featured and very polished. I'm surprised I haven't heard of it before since I've gone looking for decent launchers!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otp.octopilauncher

[–] HejMedDig@feddit.dk 2 points 1 hour ago

That was why I settled on Octopi

[–] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Switched to Octopi as well and had to configure it a little to get it setup but now I almost forget that I even switched

[–] Giblets4all@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

The one feature I use most of all on Nova is swipe down on the screen to search. I has that all the time and would be tough to give up. I also really like the ability to swipe up on a folder and have it launch the first app in the folder.

I'll give Octopi a try on an older phone and hopefully it has some of these same features.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

lawnchair is what I swapped to a few years back. I do want to warn.. be careful updating it. Always make a backup of lawnchair prior to allowing it to update because ive had it fail to update twice now and have had to restore the backup on the new version.

[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah I switched to lawn chair a few months ago because I kept seeing these stories about Nova's parent company. I like it just fine—i haven't had the issues you have (thankfully)—but there are a few features I miss from nova. Oh well, I'd rather have the peace of mind than the minor feature.