{"id":254401,"date":"2026-05-24T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/3-reasons-to-stop-using-nova-launcher-on-your-android-phone\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T22:25:08","slug":"3-reasons-to-stop-using-nova-launcher-on-your-android-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/3-reasons-to-stop-using-nova-launcher-on-your-android-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons To Stop Using Nova Launcher On Your Android Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2176778\/reasons-stop-using-nova-launcher-android-phone\/\">3 Reasons To Stop Using Nova Launcher On Your Android Phone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2176778\/reasons-stop-using-nova-launcher-android-phone\/\">https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2176778\/reasons-stop-using-nova-launcher-android-phone\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-24 18:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bgr.com\">www.bgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Maor_Winetrob\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For years, Nova Launcher was viewed as one of the best third-party Android launchers thanks to the sheer amount of customization it offered users. However, last year many users started to migrate away after the beloved launcher was deemed &#8220;dead&#8221; by the community.<\/p>\n<p>This followed an announcement by\u00a0the sole developer at the time, and the original creator, that he was stepping away from Branch, the company that purchased Nova Launcher back in 2022.\u00a0The launcher\u00a0was then purchased by another company, Instabridge, which released an update promising to maintain the beloved launcher and find a way forward for it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a few months since that acquisition, and while Nova Launcher remains available to download on Google Play for free, the launcher&#8217;s average rating has dropped to 3.1 stars based on over 1.37 million reviews, a far cry from the app&#8217;s previous highly-rated days. Each day, more and more Nova users appear to be walking away.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">Ads have infested the home screen, app drawer, and more<\/h2>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/3-reasons-to-stop-using-nova-launcher-on-your-android-phone\/ads-have-infested-the-home-screen-app-drawer-and-more-1778530479.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2176778\/reasons-stop-using-nova-launcher-android-phone\/\" data-post-id=\"2176778\" data-slide-num=\"1\" data-slide-title=\"3 Reasons To Stop Using Nova Launcher On Your Android Phone: Ads have infested the home screen, app drawer, and more\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"doordash ad showing in settings for home screen when using Nova Launcher\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">BGR<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite its popularity over the years, Nova Launcher remained ad-free, with a premium&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2176778\/reasons-stop-using-nova-launcher-android-phone\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Reasons To Stop Using Nova Launcher On Your Android Phone https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2176778\/reasons-stop-using-nova-launcher-android-phone\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-24&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/3-reasons-to-stop-using-nova-launcher-on-your-android-phone\/l-intro-1778530477.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-254401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254405,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254401\/revisions\/254405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}