6.6

January 2026

New features

  • Dock: A brand new dock system that supports multiple rows and columns, widgets, and multiple dock pages.

  • Liquid Glass theme: A new visual style based on light refraction, creating a more realistic sense of depth and transparency. The effect is fully customizable, letting you control its intensity and look to better match your setup.

  • Advanced gestures: New two-finger gestures like pinch and rotate, plus improved gesture consistency across all home pages.

  • Flexible page system: Home pages and extra pages are now unified, allowing smoother navigation and consistent gestures everywhere.

  • Customizable default page: You can choose which page opens by default, including using the app drawer or search as the central page.

  • Foldable and landscape layouts: Support for separate layouts on foldable inner screens and in landscape mode, with automatic setup guidance.

  • Your Feed evolution: New reading mode, topic browsing, provider filtering, bookmarks, and better RSS handling for broken or complex feeds.

  • Infinite scroll: Turn your home pages into an infinite carousel, so you can reach any page from any direction.

  • Swipe up to open folders: An option that lets you quickly launch the first app in a folder with a tap, while still being able to open the folder with a swipe up.


Improvements

  • Animations and interactions: New physics-based home return animations and smoother drag and drop interactions across the launcher.

  • Customization depth: Added many new icon shapes, more dock pages, adjustable blur and vibrancy, and better icon pack color support.

  • Enhanced search capabilities: Search now supports abbreviations, unit conversions, shipment tracking, and faster direct website opening.

  • Large screen support: Several settings screens were redesigned to work better on tablets, foldables, and large displays.


Other changes

  • Nova Launcher backup import: You can import backups from Nova Launcher to quickly migrate your home screen layout, icons, and basic setup into Smart Launcher.

  • Updated platform support: Target and compile SDK updated to the latest Android version, preparing the app for future system changes.

  • UI refinements: Improved spacing, proportions, and Material You color usage across several parts of the app.

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