Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

4recommend
6warn against
Jan 19, 2026first mention
Feb 22, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
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Why people recommend it

“Nova remembers app locations when I change phones.”

“Nova carried me for almost a decade, and I'll miss it.”

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“I would honestly have stayed in version 6 of Nova”

“Nova really made the perfect product.”

Caveats and dissent

“moved back to the stock Samsung launcher when Nova started having issues with widgets not refreshing”

“Nova got unstable after a Pixel upgrade and I noticed it hadn't been updated in years”

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“Nova Launcher had a really annoying 0.5-1 second delay every time you went back home.”

paid Nova user for about 10 yearson “Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher”

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Who recommends it in their own words

All comments 14

“Nova remembers app locations when I change phones.”

“I've been using Nova for years now, across multiple devices.”

“moved back to the stock Samsung launcher when Nova started having issues with widgets not refreshing”

“Nova got unstable after a Pixel upgrade and I noticed it hadn't been updated in years”

“Nova Launcher had a really annoying 0.5-1 second delay every time you went back home.”

paid Nova user for about 10 yearson “Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher”

“Nova carried me for almost a decade, and I'll miss it.”

“I would honestly have stayed in version 6 of Nova”

“Nova really made the perfect product.”

“knew this day was coming after the sale and layoffs”

“Sounded like shenanigans and time to pull the ripcord on nova.”

“I initially thought that switching to a lighter launcher like Nova would make my phone-apps launching faster.”

Threads where it came up

Data: nova-launcher.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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