Android launcher,
plain and simple.

A modern, lightweight FOSS Launcher3 fork delivering an enhanced stock Android experience, providing a familiar AOSP feel out of the box, with some sprinkles on top :3

Offers a minimalistic yet polished interface with essential customization options, with zero bloat.

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What it has to offer

Built on AOSP Launcher3, Murine keeps things clean while adding a little touches here and there.

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Modern UI

Built on the foundations of modern Launcher3, and enhanced with AOSP Material Expressive settings ported from LineageOS

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Blur Effects

Frosted glass and MICA-style translucency effects on the app drawer and search bar. Supported on Android 12+ with compatible OEM/ROMs.

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Customised QuickSearchBox

Can look great without needing Google; disable the Lens button, choose your preferred search engine, or disable it alltogether if it's not your thing.

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Lightweight

Very close to its AOSP source, with some enhancements but no bloat. Very tiny, very light, very demure.

Designed by a mouse

Are you tired of apps designed by humans? This one was built by a mouse, no (excessive) desire for money, will not sell out or sell you out, mice only deal in cheese and crumbs.

Free & Open Source

Fully open source, licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. No tracking, no ads, no data collection, no internet access.

See how it looks

Screenshots from the latest release. Scroll to explore.

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Compatibility

Murine Launcher supports Android 8 (Oreo) and above.

Blur effects require Android 12+. Some OEMs or ROMs may hide or disable window-level blurs - check for an "Allow window-level blurs" option in Display or Developer Options.

On rooted devices, you can try enabling the enable-blurs Magisk module.