Mars Interactive/Aurora - Minimalist & Intentional Launcher
Hi, welcome to Aurora Launcher!
App Description (Last Update: October 25, 2025)
📱 Available Platform: 🤖 Android
📅 Initial Release Date: November 14, 2025 (Play Store link)
Aurora Launcher is a minimalist Android launcher that helps you use your phone intentionally.
No icons cluttering your home screen. No dopamine-driven scrolling or app grids. Just smooth, mood-based spaces designed around what truly matters throughout your day.
Instead of burying you in endless lists of icons, Aurora organizes them into moods: Work, Focus, Social, Evening… You decide. Each with its own color, feel, and handpicked apps. You swipe between moods to match your context, not your impulses.
Built on a simple idea:
Your attention deserves better than being fragmented by your phone. Your phone is a tool that serves you, not the other way around.
Key Features
Mood-Based Navigation
- Organize your apps into moods like Morning, Workday, Brain work, or Rest.
- Each mood shows a central app with up to four apps orbiting it.
Gesture-Driven Experience
- Swipe left or right to move between moods.
- Hold the wallpaper to view all moods in an elegant overview.
- Swipe up to open a search drawer.
Search-First Philosophy
- Instead of browsing icons, type what you need: Aurora requires intent.
- Discover how much calmer and more deliberate phone use can feel.
Smart Notifications (Optional)
- Aurora can make icons glow softly to show unread notifications. No badges, no noise.
- Notification access is optional, processed entirely on your device.
Total Privacy
- No accounts.
- No tracking.
- No analytics.
- 100% of your data stays on your device.
Aurora's Philosophy
- Deliberate phone usage — You open what matters, when it matters. Aurora is intentionally "inconvenient" at first, until you realize what was actually inconvenient before it was how an app grid was messing with your dopamine levels.
- Less clutter, more calm — Focus on contexts, not icons.
- Privacy by design — Your moods and usage patterns belong only to you.
Aurora Launcher is built to reclaim your attention with elegance, clarity, and respect.
I'm Timothé, a solo developer operating under the nickname Mars Interactive for my development endeavors. I'm building tools for fun and to impact people' lives positively (hopefully). Aurora is my second app, and I built it with zero guidance and assistance. Aurora is 100% free, ad-free, offline, and private to your device alone.
If you're enjoying it and want to support ongoing development, you can Buy Me a Coffee here!
Note: Mars Interactive is not a registered legal entity, it is only a developer nickname used informally. The legal entity and owner of Aurora, this document, and all included files is Timothé Ameline.