Pre-release channel
Latest stable: v1.0.6.
New in this drop
- Look › Custom's Tint adds your accent colour from any Look, Clear and Mist included, and Hue picks primary, secondary or tertiary.
- Look › Custom's Frost slider runs the glass from clear to frosted in one move, in place of Blur and Grain; a new Vibrancy slider makes what shows through the glass more or less colourful, and Edge runs the glass edge from no fringe to a bold coloured edge. Margin and Corner radius are on the Layout page only.
- Look › Custom's keyboard card has a Keys slider for how solid the keys are, from clear to opaque; the key labels stay readable at every setting.
- Glass edges show the same outline on frosted and solid glass as on clear glass.
- Clear, Mist and Tint sit on the Frost slider's curve now, so Clear is a touch blurrier with finer grain and Tint has much less grain; an install on a Look keeps that Look.
- Glass edges catch the wallpaper's own light instead of a white line, brightest at the top left, and keep the wallpaper's colour over a pale sky; each surface wears one edge, not a line on top of it.
- Changing the wallpaper keeps the Appearance editor open on the page you were on, and the X11 display keeps showing its apps; new terminals still find the display (#83).
- Changing the wallpaper or switching dark mode no longer crashes the launcher when app widgets are on Home (#83).
- The herdr theme template goes see-through over the launcher glass, with its sidebar, text and accents in your wallpaper's colours.
- Settings › Keyboard › Adaptive touch accuracy now learns the space bar too: aim for space and land at the bottom of the row above, and it types a space once it has learned your taps. Swipes and Ctrl or Alt shortcuts always keep the key under your finger, and Settings shows whether it is learning, active or paused.
- The welcome message in a new terminal is a rounded card in your wallpaper's colours, with Apps, Packages and Setup sections that fit the pane's width and a tap-to-open link to the guide.
Experimental
These may change or be dropped before they reach a stable release.
- Settings › About & help has an Ask on Discord row, Documentation opens the website guide, and the help panel's support link goes to Discord (#58).
- Settings › Backup & restore saves your launcher settings and config files to one file, and your downloaded AI models to a folder, and restores both on this phone or a new one (#40).
- Pressing a pinned app on a glass dock, or a glass card in a sheet, lights the glass under your finger for a moment (#75).
- Glass edges catch the wallpaper's own light instead of a white line, brightest at the top left, on every glass surface on Android 13 and up (glass plan 2026-10-16, Round 1, always on).
- Scripts and agents in a pane can place, size, inspect, wait on and close panes and windows through launcherctl:
pane open --from --direction --size,pane resize,pane wait,window list|focus|close, andlauncherctl <group> --help(#66). - Pictures travel through the terminal clipboard: programs that speak kitty's clipboard protocol (OSC 5522) can read a picture from Android's clipboard and copy one to it, pasting a picture into a shell or an agent pastes it as a file path under
$PREFIX/tmp/clipboard, and pictures inserted from the keyboard land the same way (#61). - A screenshot you just took can be pasted from the keyboard's paste key, which shows a photo while it or a copied picture is waiting; plain paste (paste with a modifier) keeps the clipboard. Screenshots need the storage permission (Settings › Permissions & services › Files and media, or
termux-setup-storage). - Terminal programs that ask for touch events receive your taps, long presses and swipes.
- Settings › Keyboard › Layouts lets you edit, reset and create keyboard layouts, each row sliding its buttons open beneath it.
- Pinned app icons go bigger: the Icon size slider reaches further on both dock styles, and icon packs draw as big as stock icons.
- Pinned apps fill the dock when it holds nothing else: the icons grow into the bar, and the bar sheds some of the space above and below them, at every Icon size.
- The Appearance editor's Cursor trail menu has an Off entry, and the Mouse mode key reads out the state it switched to.
- The window bar names terminal-browser in full, with a globe.
- Dictation cleanup now writes what you meant from the whole passage, fixing misheard words and broken sentences rather than only dropping fillers; Polished keeps its paragraphs and lists.
- Dictation cleanup is about twice as fast and leaves what you said alone where nothing needs fixing: "uh" and "um" are always removed, only sentences that need it are rewritten, it no longer turns other languages into English, and it keeps your spelling.
- Cleaned-up dictation is ready a moment after you stop: on phones that run cleanup on the graphics chip (or with a remote model), it tidies your words at natural pauses while you talk.
- With a multilingual Whisper model, Voice language Auto-detect listens for the language you speak instead of assuming your keyboard's, and the dictation card names it when it differs.
- Tap the text on the dictation card to fix a word with the keyboard before you insert or copy it, and the words the cleanup fixed stay highlighted while you edit.
- On-device models load with less free memory than before, and one that would fill the phone's memory is stopped instead of freezing it.
- Settings › Keyboard › Adaptive touch accuracy learns where your taps land, the space bar included, and pauses itself if typing gets less accurate.
- Look › Custom's glass controls work from any Look: Frost (clear to frosted), Tint with Hue, Vibrancy, Edge and the keyboard's Keys, with Custom remembering your setup; the wallpaper can change under the editor and the X11 display (#82).
- The welcome message in a new terminal is a rounded card in your wallpaper's colours, with Apps, Packages and Setup sections that fit the pane's width.
Editions
Nothing is exclusive to an edition.