Might be a bit wrong on the piracy instance, but I never regretted paying for the Square Home Launcher (one-time purchase). I just absolutely love the Windows Phone style layout so much more than what other launchers offer.

Similar to what @azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com described for the Total Launcher, adding or editing stuff requires you to enter a special “Edit mode” and it might seem unnecessary at first to ever leave this mode. It’s just so nicely customizable and thanks to cube-“folders” and regular folders nested into the cube sides, I have about everything I regularly use on one page.

I moved from Niagara to Kvaesitso - my subscription lapsed and there were no Google Play free credits available to renew it. The renewal price was silly anyway, was almost triple the previous amount.

Kvaesitso is quite different but like it generally. Only thing I miss is the contextual calendar events shown under the clock - the equivalent space in Kvaesitso currently shows either the date, time until your next alarm, or some other misc stuff, so hopefully shouldn’t be too difficult for a dev/contributor to implement contextual calendar events if they choose.

The search is much more capable than the one in Niagara. You can optionally tag your apps too, so if you search “nfc”, all your NFC apps show up, or “sysadmin” to show all your sysadmin/homelab apps etc.

I’ve customized mine quite a bit so it looks very different from stock, home screen is also much emptier than it was before. Took almost an entire day to get it just right for me

I am paying member of Niagara Launcher. Just recently I switched to Unlauncher. Similar concept, limited, open source, but I am liking it

neo launcher is good

I’ve been using T-UI for like ever. Best version is the f-droid or GitHub version. The Google Play one is super nerfed. I doubt many people want a command-line launched, though

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ohi.andre.consolelauncher/

I’m 2020 I paid a one time fee for a lifetime of Pro. Is that definitely not still an option?