Your home should be comfortable, and so should your home screen. With an Android launcher, you can replace your phone or tablet's boring factory settings with themes, widgets, and other customizable options to make your home screen more homey. Here are top seven picks to help you renovate your Android experience....


Google Now Launcher

Google Now Launcher is one of the most direct ways of getting the original Android home-screen experience. First introduced with the Moto X phone, the Google Now Launcher preserves the visual experience of KitKat for those with custom-themed versions of Android, and it comes with an always-on listening mode that detects Google voice commands.

Nova Launcher

Want to customize every incremental aspect of your Android home screen? Then Nova Launcher is for you. Nova lets you edit icons, set the grid size, and enable overlapping widgets, so that you can fit more on one screen than Google envisioned. For even more detailed control, you can define screen animation, system fonts, and bar colors.

Go Launcher EX

Around since the early days of Froyo (Android 2.2), Go Launcher has come a long way. The community boasts over 10,000 custom theme packs, and Go Launcher lets you change other areas of your phone -- including the dialer, contacts, and even the lock screen -- through its ecosystem of custom widgets and add-ons.

Buzz Launcher

Customizing your Android home screen is great, but what if you want to share your perfect version? With Buzz Launcher you can upload your setups so that other people can download the setup and arrange their home screens in the same way. Buzz uses its own compressed format, Homepacks, to let you download and share custom home-screen designs, as well as discuss and rate them online.

Smart Launcher 2

Sick of your current setup but don't want to deal with lengthy customization? Smart Launcher is a refreshing take on the traditional grid-based home-screen setup of Android. It comes with minimalistic icon designs and an interface that gives quick access to the most frequently used apps. Apps are intelligently sorted into preset categories, so you don't have to search in the default order.

Dodol Launcher

Dodol Launcher has a design-centric community of theme artists. In addition to the standard options for custom lockers, passcode screens, and dialers, Dodol Launcher comes with utilities like memory cleaners and quick-access settings to keep your phone running lean. Dodol Launcher has an active user base that frequently contributes themes, custom wallpapers, icons, and designer fonts.

Yahoo Aviate Launcher

Yahoo Aviate Launcher automatically sorts your apps and shows contextual information based on time of day and location. It doesn't offer complete customization control like Nova, Go, or Buzz, but does support some icon packs for Nova. Despite its customization limitations, Yahoo Aviate is strong in making the information you need immediately accessible from the home screen. If given a chance to adapt to your schedule, Yahoo Aviate is a comprehensive solution for hands-off users who don't want to deal with shuffling through multiple apps and menus for common uses.

So which launcher is on your home screen now...

Which of them is less resources demanding

I'm for Nova anyway