Questions about Pageless

Pageless is a minimalist Android launcher, the app that runs your home screen. It lists your apps by name, sorts them into categories you make yourself and keeps your favourites at the top. It has no feeds, no account and no ads.

Any phone or tablet with Android 10 or newer. It works with apps in a work profile too, and shows when the work profile is paused.

Open Pageless after installing it. Setup takes about a minute: pick up to eight favourites and a layout, and on the last step tap Choose Home app and pick Pageless in Android’s dialog. If you skip that step, it’s in Pageless’s Settings too.

In Android’s Settings, go to Apps, Default apps, Home app and pick the other launcher. Nothing is uninstalled, and Pageless keeps your favourites and categories in case you come back.

English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

You create categories such as Work, Social or Travel, name them and put them in the order you want. Each app belongs to one category, and you can move it at any time. Categories are free: in the List layout they appear as tabs across the top.

No. You decide where each app goes. When you install a new app, it stays uncategorised until you place it, so your categories never change behind your back.

Up to eight, and they stay at the top of your home screen. Each layout can have its own favourites, or you can copy them from another layout.

A bar of four more apps, always one tap away, for the apps you open without thinking, such as the camera or phone.

Yes. Hidden apps disappear from your home screen but stay installed, and they still show up in search.

Yes. Search finds installed apps and your saved links as you type, and suggests the apps you open most. You can put the search button at the top or the bottom of the screen.

Five: List, Categories, Now, Folders and Shelves. They all share the same apps, favourites and categories, so you can switch any time without setting anything up again. See them all with screenshots.

Yes. There are four styles: Minimal and Glass in light or dark, Modern (always light) and Futuristic (always dark), with accent colours. Pro adds six one-tap themes, such as Smoked glass and Sage ceramic, a built-in gradient or your own background photo. You can also choose between four fonts.

Yes. If you allow rotation in Settings, turning the phone gives you a landscape layout.

No. Pageless keeps the home screen to your apps, shown with their own icons. If you rely on widgets or icon packs, another launcher will suit you better. Our launcher comparison can help you choose.

It can show a dot on apps with unread notifications. Android asks you to allow Notification access for this. Pageless only looks at which apps have notifications, never what they say.

Share any web page from your browser to Pageless and it’s saved in a group next to your apps, with its title and icon. Tap it to open the page.

The Basic version is free and stays free. It includes the A–Z list, your own categories, favourites, quick actions, search, hidden apps, notification dots and the Minimal style in light or dark.

The Categories, Now, Folders and Shelves layouts; the Modern, Futuristic and Glass styles with accent colours; your own background photo or a gradient; saved links and “Save to Pageless”; and backup export and import.

No. Pro is a single purchase in Google Play that unlocks it for good. The price is shown in your local currency in the app.

Yes. Everything is unlocked for the first 7 days after you install Pageless, and the app shows how many days are left. No payment details are needed for the trial.

Pageless goes back to the List layout and the Minimal style. Nothing you set up is deleted: your categories, favourites and links are still there, and they come back as they were if you buy Pro.

Sign in to the same Google account and tap Restore purchase on the Pageless Pro screen. Pro works offline once it’s unlocked.

No. Pageless has no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Your setup stays on your phone. It never asks for usage access or your contacts. Read the privacy policy.

Only to fetch the title and icon of links you save, straight from those sites. If you turn saved links off, Pageless makes no internet requests at all.

Android’s own phone backup includes Pageless, so restoring a new phone from your Google account brings your setup back. With Pro you can also export your layouts, categories, favourites, links and settings to a file and import it on another phone.