Globe
Apps are spaced by the golden angle, so nothing clumps at the poles. Drag and the surface tracks your finger 1:1; flick it and it keeps rolling.
- Facing you
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- Hidden behind
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HoneyCrisp Launcher swaps Android's flat app grid for Globus UI: every app on a glass globe you can fling, flatten into a honeycomb, or stand up as a ring. The phone on this page runs the launcher's own projection math, so what you touch here is what you get.
Apps are spaced by the golden angle, so nothing clumps at the poles. Drag and the surface tracks your finger 1:1; flick it and it keeps rolling.
Flattens the globe into a watch-style grid. Icons near the edge shrink into the bezel instead of getting cut off, so you can pan across everything without losing your place.
Stands your 15 most recently used apps on a vertical ring down the right edge and keeps the left side for your clock. Spin it hard and the ring stretches outward, then settles.
Each gem in the pill at the bottom of the screen holds a group of favorites. Tap one and those apps lift off the globe and hover in a honeycomb while the rest fall away. Tap the same gem again, or double-tap empty space, to land them.
Icons past the horizon are skipped every frame, which is why the launcher stays smooth with a full app drawer on screen.
– icons skipped in the last frame
On a phone, the highlights on each glass bead track the tilt sensor. Here they follow your pointer. Their color shifts with the time of day, from golden hour to moonlight.
– right now
Every frame reuses the same memory and pre-rendered glass, so there are no garbage-collection stutters mid-fling. This web version follows the same rules.
– ms of work per frame
HoneyCrisp is in open testing on Google Play. Testers get every build first and a direct line to the developer.
Requires Android. The demo above works on any device.