Kvaesitso

A search-focused, free and open source launcher for Android

AppID:	de.mm20.launcher2.release
Author:	U. N. Owen
License:	GPL-3.0-or-later
Donation:	Webpage
InRepoSince:	2023-01-21
LastRepoUpdate:	2026-01-26
LastAppUpdate:	Unknown
LastVersion:	1.39.3-fdroid
Categories:	Launcher, System, Theming
APK source:	Github
Google Play:	Check if it's there

Kvaesitso is a launcher application for Android which replaces the device's default home screen. It has been built from scratch, meaning it is not based on the AOSP launcher (like many other third party launchers) nor does it try to recreate this launcher. Instead, Kvæsitso follows its own concepts.

The main feature is a global search which does not only let you search on device for apps, contacts, and calendar events, but also on web services like Wikipedia or your Nextcloud Instance. Additionally it includes some useful tools, for example a calculator and a unit converter. You are looking for a document or an information? Just search for it and Kvæsitso shows you the fastest way to it.

Hint: This app is available in both, F-Droid Main and IzzyOnDroid repos. For details on this, please see here.

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NonFreeNet (this application promotes/depends a non-Free network service):
⇒ App uses a third party service for currency exchange rates

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Version 1.39.3-fdroid (2026-01-26)

Android Versions:

Target: 16.0
MinVer: 8.0
ABIs: arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86, x86_64

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AIDLBridge (Utility)
requires 2 permissions: android.permission.INTERNET, android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED
integrates Google News Feed into launchers.
Android Support v4 (Development Framework)
The Android Support Library is not actually a single library, but rather a collection of libraries that can roughly be divided into two groups: compatibility and component libraries. For details, please see Understanding the Android Support Library.
AndroidX Activity (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
Android Jetpack Annotations (Utility)
library that contains the annotations for Android Jetpack.
Arch (Utility)
helper for other arch dependencies, including JUnit test rules that can be used with LiveData.
AppCompat (Utility)
support newer Android features on older Android versions.
Browser (Utility)
display webpages in the user's default browser.
Android Support Library collections (Utility)
standalone efficient collections.
Jetpack Compose (Development Framework)
a framework to define UIs programmatically with composable functions that describe its shape and data dependencies.
Concurrent (Utility)
AndroidX library to help move tasks off the main thread with coroutines and take advantage of ListenableFuture.
Constraint Layout Library (Utility)
library to reduce the number of nested views needed.
Androidx Core (Utility)
a static library that you can add to your Android application in order to use APIs that are either not available for older platform versions or utility APIs that aren't a part of the framework APIs.
AndroidX Cursor Adapter (Utility)
static library support version of the framework's CursorAdapter.
Android Support Library Custom View (UI Component)
a module to implement custom views. Part of the Android Support Library.
DataStore (Development Aid)
stores data asynchronously, consistently, and transactionally, overcoming some of the drawbacks of SharedPreferences.
Android Emoji2 Compat (UI Component)
core library to enable emoji compatibility in Kitkat and newer devices to avoid the empty emoji characters.
Exifinterface (Utility)
a library to read and write image file EXIF tags.
AndroidX Fragment (UI Component)
AndroidX library to encapsulate part of the user interface or behavior into reusable components.
Androidx Graphics (Utility)
leverages graphics facilities across multiple Android platform releases.
Interpolator (UI Component)
AndroidX library to use animation interpolators on older platforms.
Lifecycle (Utility)
perform actions in response to a change in the lifecycle status of another component, such as activities and fragments.
Loader (Utility)
library to load data for your UI that survives configuration changes.
Androidx Navigation 3 (UI Component)
provides the building blocks for a Compose first Navigation solution that easily supports extensions.
Androidx Navigation Event (UI Component)
provides APIs to easily intercept platform navigation events, including swipes and clicks, to provide a consistent API surface for handling these events.
Palette (Utility)
AndroidX library to extract representative color palettes from images.
ProfileInstaller (Utility)
AndroidX library that enables libraries to prepopulate ahead of time compilation traces to be read by ART.
Room (Utility)
a persistence library that provides an abstraction layer over SQLite to allow for more robust database access while harnessing the full power of SQLite.
Recyclerview (Utility)
display large sets of data in your UI while minimizing memory usage.
Android Activity Saved State (Utility)
provides the base Activity subclass and the relevant hooks to build a composable structure on top.
AndroidX Security (Utility)
AndroidX library to safely manage keys and encrypt files and sharedpreferences.
Sqlite (Utility)
library that contains abstract interfaces along with basic implementations which can be used to build your own libraries that access SQLite.
Startup (Utility)
AndroidX library to implement a straightforward, performant way to initialize components at app startup.
Tracing (Utility)
AndroidX library to write trace events to the system trace buffer.
Vectordrawable (UI Component)
AndroidX library to render vector graphics.
Android Jetpack VersionedParcelable (Utility)
Provides a stable but relatively compact binary serialization format that can be passed across processes or persisted safely.
Viewpager (UI Component)
AndroidX library to display Views or Fragments in a swipeable format.
Jetpack WindowManager Library (Utility)
enables application developers to support new device form factors and multi-window environments. The library provides a common API surface for API versions 14 and later. Especially provides additional functionality on foldable devices.
WorkManager (Utility)
an API that makes it easy to schedule deferrable, asynchronous tasks that must be run reliably .
Coil (Utility)
an image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
String Similarity for Kotlin (Utility)
Kotlin multiplatform library offering various algorithms to measure string similarity and distance.
Android Launcher (Utility)
the AOSP launcher/homescreen. Several launchers build on top of this.
CrashReporter (Utility)
a handy tool to capture app crashes and save them in a file. This library captures all unhandled crashes and saves them locally on device, not on some remote server.
svg android (Utility)
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) library for Android.
FasterXML Jackson (Utility)
a fast and compliant streaming JSON parser/writer with a StAX-like API and support for marshalling/unmarshalling POJOs via annotations.
Mustache.java (Utility)
an implementation of mustache.js for Java.
Accompanist (Utility)
a collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose.
Google Core Libraries for Java 6+ (Utility)
a set of core libraries that includes new collection types (such as multimap and multiset), immutable collections, a graph library, functional types, an in-memory cache, and APIs/utilities for concurrency, I/O, hashing, primitives, reflection, string processing, and much more.
Tink (Utility)
a multi-language, cross-platform library that provides cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly, and hard(er) to misuse.
Smartspacer Client SDK (Utility)
a customisable widget that can upgrade the built in At a Glance on Pixels - without root.
OkHttp (Utility)
OkHttp is an HTTP+HTTP/2 client for Android and Java applications.
osm-opening-hours (Utility)
Kotlin multiplatform library to parse OpenStreetMap opening hours.
Haze (UI Component)
a blurring modifier for Compose.
Ktor (Development Framework)
framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort.
Kotlin (Utility)
The Kotlin Programming Language
Immutable Collections Library for Kotlin (Utility)
immutable collection interfaces and implementation prototypes for Kotlin.
kotlinx.coroutines (Utility)
library support for Kotlin coroutines.
kotlinx-io (Utility)
a multiplatform Kotlin library providing basic IO primitives.
Kotlin serialization (Utility)
Kotlin cross-platform / multi-format serialization.
OkHttp okio Framework (Utility)
A modern I/O API for Java to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.
Apache Commons (Development Framework)
an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components.
IntelliJ IDEA (Utility)
development helper: integration for the IntelliJ IDEA IDE.
jsoup (Utility)
a Java library for working with real-world HTML. It provides an API for extracting and manipulating data, using the best of DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods.
KOIN (Utility)
a small library to lets you write dependency injection in a concise and pragmatic way.
MathParser.org-mXparser (Utility)
a highly flexible parser of mathematical expressions provided as text.
commons-suncalc (Utility)
calculate sun and moon times in Java.
Simple Logging Facade for Java (Utility)
abstraction for various logging frameworks (e.g. java.util.logging, logback, log4j) allowing to plug in the desired logging framework at deployment time.
Android Address Formatter (Utility)
library for formatting data in the OpenStreetMaps address field generated by the Nominatim API.
SnakeYAML (Utility)
a YAML processor for the Java Virtual Machine.

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Version 1.39.3-fdroid (2026-01-26)

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Version 1.39.2-fdroid (2025-12-31)

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