Everything the launcher does, in plain words. Where the live demo can show you, there's a button to try it.
Start here
First launch
There's no setup wall. Install HoneyCrisp, press Home, and you land straight on a working home screen: a welcome splash where a mini globe catches its first apps, then a short showreel of the glass and light.
You start in demo mode, so you can look around before you grant anything. When you're ready, HoneyCrisp asks for a few things, each explained on a Post-it note first:
Calendar
Your next event on the home screen.
Notifications
Charging status and reminders from HoneyCrisp.
Weather
Temperature and sunrise lighting for where you are. Uses your approximate location, rounded to about 11 km.
Headphones
Shows when your Bluetooth headset is connected. This stays on your phone.
Usage Access
Lets HoneyCrisp fill Flow State with the apps you use most, in one tap, and sort apps by use.
Notification Access
Optional. Puts unread counts on your icons and fills the notification wing.
Decline any of them and you stay in demo mode. Finish setup any time from Settings, Home Screen, Finish setup. Last, HoneyCrisp asks to be your home app, so the Home button brings you back to your globe.
The guided tour and gesture tips
HoneyCrisp offers a hands-on tour of Orbit State or Flow State. Each step shows you a gesture, then waits for you to do it yourself: spinning the globe, calling up a panel, search, the A–Z edge, the ▲▼ state orbs, moving an app, pinning to the dock, panel wallpaper and drawing. If you moved apps during the tour, it asks at the end whether to keep your changes or put your layout back.
Along the way, gesture tips appear on peel-off sticky notes, like "Double-tap empty space to land". Tap Got it to hide one for good. All three live in Settings, Gestures & Menus: Guided tour, Gesture tips and Show all tips again.
Demo mode
Want to show HoneyCrisp off? Settings, Gestures & Menus, Demo mode plays a 15-second showreel of the glass, light and motion. Tap to stop it.
Language
HoneyCrisp is available in English and Spanish (Español). It follows your phone's language. On Android 13 and later you can choose a language for HoneyCrisp alone in Android Settings, Apps, HoneyCrisp, Language.
The home screen
The globe (Orbit State). All your apps on a sphere you can spin. Tilting your phone moves the light on the glass and lets you look into it.
The dock. A glass pill of panel gems, one per panel. Apps you pin to the dock sit between the gems, and the Recent apps and AI mic gems can sit here too.
Side panel pull tabs. Calendar, SketchPad, Whiteboard and Telemetry slide out from the screen edges.
The notification wing. Apps with unread notifications, with a red count.
Search orb. Tap to search, hold for Settings. Tap again to close search.
State orbs. Tap ▲ or ▼ to step between Panel, Orbit State and Flow State.
Three states: Panel, Orbit and Flow
HoneyCrisp has three places to be, stacked top to bottom:
Panel
A row of ordinary home-screen pages (Panel 1, Panel 2 and so on) for apps, folders and widgets. Each panel has a gem in the dock.
Tap the floating ▲ or ▼ orb. Each tap moves one step. An arrow dims when there's nowhere further to go.
Long swipe down on the globe to reopen the panel you were last on, and long swipe up on a panel to go back to the globe.
Draw a V to switch between Orbit State and Flow State.
On a panel, swipe left or right to flip between panels. After your last panel comes the 3D app drawer, if it's on, then the Hidden apps page, if that's on.
Two small glass orbs float above the dock in every view. Search sits bottom-left: tap it to search, tap again to close, or hold it to open Settings. The twin ▲▼ State orbs sit bottom-right. Drag either one anywhere your thumb likes it.
Each has its own switch in Settings, Gestures & Menus, Floating buttons: Search button and State switch button.
App names
App names show under your icons on panels, in the Honeycrisp lens and in the Flow State drawer, and beside the icons on the Flow State ring. Turn them on or off in Settings, Icons: App names on panels and App names in Flow State. Both switches are also on the long-press sheets for panels and Flow State.
Home and Back
Home first closes whatever is open, such as search, hovering apps or a peeking widget. With nothing open, it takes you to your home screen: your home panel, or the globe if you turned on Start in Orbit State in Settings, Home Screen.
Back closes one layer at a time: menus, search, hovering apps, side panels, then the panels themselves, which returns you to the globe.
Gestures
Draw the V and the ^ in one quick stroke, so slow panning never triggers them by accident. They're ignored while apps are hovering. Every gesture on this page can be switched off in Settings, Gestures & Menus, Built-in gestures.
Tap an app
Opens it.
Hold an app
Opens its menu (App menus). Keep holding and slide past the dashed line to pull the app off the menu and move it.
Hold empty space
On a panel, opens that panel's sheet: widgets, pages, wallpaper, doodle, app names and a tile into all of Settings (see Panels and widgets). On the globe, hold still for a moment to open the Orbit State sheet of quick controls.
Swipe down on the globe
A long swipe down reopens the panel you were last on.
Swipe up on a panel
A long swipe up closes the panel and brings the globe back.
Two-finger swipe down
Opens search. As you type, the globe spins straight to the first match. The Search orb does the same with one tap.
Two-finger hold
Rest two fingers on the globe without moving them to open the quick globe controls, with a live mirror of your globe. Back closes them.
Two-finger twist
Twist clockwise (about a sixth of a turn) to open Clock mode. Twist back the other way to close it. See Clock mode.
Hold the screen edge
Hold the edge until a letter bubble appears, then slide up or down. The globe spins to apps starting with that letter. Slide inward to lock it in and pick a second letter, and once more for a third. Tap ✕ on the edge to clear. The list sits on the right by default; switch it to the left in Built-in gestures, A–Z list side.
Draw a V
A quick down-then-up stroke switches between Orbit State and Flow State.
Draw a ^
In Flow State, a quick up-then-down stroke switches between the vertical ring and the Rotary Dial.
Hold the dock
Opens the dock's glass and image sliders without going into Settings. Hold a gem instead to recolor it.
Drag past the last panel
Hold an app at the right edge of your last panel and a new panel appears for it.
Double-tap while apps hover
Lands the hovering group onto its panel and switches to panel view.
Clock mode and alarms
Clock mode replaces the globe with a sun at the centre and your apps as planets orbiting on separate rings for hours, minutes and seconds.
Tap the Set Alarm orb.
Slide one finger left or right to dial the hands to the time you want.
Tap the orb again to save the alarm.
Switch gestures off
Keep triggering something by accident? Settings, Gestures & Menus, Built-in gestures has a switch for each one: hold empty space, two-finger hold, two-finger swipe down, draw a V, draw a ^ in Flow State, swipe up for the app drawer, double-tap to land, hold the screen edge, long swipe for panels, hold the dock and drag past the last panel. All are on by default. The floating orbs cover the most common ones if you turn their gestures off.
Orbit, Flow and lenses
A lens is the shape your apps take. Classic Globe and Honeycrisp are Orbit State; Vertical Ring and Rotary Dial are Flow State. Change it in Settings, Orbit State, Lens mode. Each card shows a live preview, and the switch animates as your apps scatter and regroup.
Classic Globe (Orbit State)
Every app on a sphere. Drag to spin it in any direction; flick and it keeps rolling. Icons stay flat against the sphere as they turn past the edge, and icons on the far side are hidden until they come round.
Turn on Planet core (Settings, Orbit State) for a sun-tinted planet inside the globe. Your icons hover over it like UFOs and cast shadows onto its surface, lit from the same direction as the glint on the glass. Planet colour lets you pick its colour, with a reset back to the default.
Flattens the globe into a watch-style hex grid, with app names under the icons. Icons near the edges shrink into the border instead of being cut off, so you can pan across everything.
Fifteen apps on a vertical wheel down the right side, with their names beside them: the ones you used most when the ring was first set up (alphabetical if there was no usage data). The list is saved, so it doesn't reshuffle as you use your phone. Spin it hard and it stretches, then settles, with a swipe sound that follows your finger.
The space to the left is the Flow State panel. Hold an empty spot on it for its sheet: widgets, drawing and app names.
Hold the screen edge for a letter list of every app. Drag or flick to scroll it, and tap an app to open it.
Swipe up on the left side, away from the ring, to slide up a drawer with all your apps. Swipe down from its handle, or press Back, to close it.
Settings, Flow State, Background picks what sits behind the ring: grey, a colour, a photo just for Flow State, or your wallpaper.
Grayscale Flow State icons shows the ring in black and white.
Needs Usage Access. If it's missing, HoneyCrisp takes you to the setting. The dock hides in Flow State, so panel gems and UFO hover aren't available.
The same apps as Vertical Ring, laid flat in a circle that you turn side to side like a dial. Draw a ^ in Flow State to switch to it, and again to switch back.
Each gem in the dock is one of your panels. Tap a gem and the globe turns to that panel's apps; they lift off and hover in a honeycomb in front of the rest, which dims away. Tap any hovering app to open it.
To land them, do any of these:
Tap the same gem again.
Press Home or Back.
Double-tap empty space. This lands the group onto its panel and switches to panel view.
Tapping a different gem swaps one group for the other. With a group hovering, the ▲ orb lands it on its own panel.
A gem in the dock that hovers your last five apps, plus anything you just installed, the same way a panel gem lifts its group. Turn it on or off in Settings, Dock, Recent apps gem.
The AI mic gem
One tap opens your assistant of choice: Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Bixby, Grok or your phone's default. Pick it in Settings, Dock, AI provider, or hide the gem with AI mic gem.
Bypass hover
While a group is hovering, a small Bypass hover switch appears above the dock. Turn it on and panel gems fly their group straight onto its panel instead of stopping to hover. The same switch is in Settings, Orbit State, and on every panel's sheet.
Turn off Group flight animation entirely and a gem opens its panel instantly, with no globe animation.
Customize a gem
Hold a panel gem for its sheet:
Set panel as home page
Home brings you to this panel.
Choose gem icon
Pick an icon from a searchable grid of mini gems. Remove gem icon goes back to a plain gem.
Gem color
Recolor the gem. The Home Screen carousel in Settings shows each panel with its gem's color and icon.
Hide from globe / Show on globe
Takes this panel's apps off the globe without removing them from the panel.
Widget peek
If a gem's panel has a widget on it, that widget slides up from the bottom while the apps hover, so you can glance at it without opening the panel. Press Home to put it away.
Organizing apps
Move an app
Hold an app until its menu opens, keep your finger down and slide past the dashed line. The menu lets go and the app comes with you.
Onto a panel: drag an app off the globe and the panels slide open. Let go anywhere on the glass to pin it there.
Onto another panel: drop it on that panel's gem.
Into the dock: drop it on the dock bar, between the gems. Docked apps are one tap away everywhere.
Into a folder: on a panel, drop one app onto another to make a folder. Tap the folder's name to rename it.
Prefer no menu at all? Set Long-press menu to Drag only (Settings, Gestures & Menus) and a long-press picks the app straight up.
Remove or uninstall
While you're dragging, two drop targets appear:
Remove (top)
Removes the item from your layout. The app stays installed.
Uninstall (bottom)
Opens Android's uninstall screen for that app.
Panels and widgets
A panel's sheet
Hold an empty spot on a panel. A sheet of glass tiles opens with everything for that panel, the same tiles you'll find under its name in Settings, Home Screen:
Add Widget, Auto Arrange Apps (sorts the panel alphabetically) and Remove all widgets.
Bypass hover, since panels are where hovering groups land.
App names on or off.
All settings, which opens the full Settings.
Tap outside the sheet or press Back to close it.
Widgets
Add Widget opens HoneyCrisp's own widget picker: tiles with previews, each with its app's name, and a search box that finds widgets by app too. The first tile is HoneyCrisp's 3D clock: a glowing sun with planets orbiting for the hour, minute and second.
Widgets work the One UI way:
Long-press and lift a widget: its resize frame and menu appear together. Drag the handles to resize, and tap the frame when you're done.
Long-press and drag picks the widget straight up to move it.
The menu has Remove, Opacity for the glass behind it, the widget's own settings if it has them, and clock settings for the 3D clock.
Special pages
Dashboard page
An always-on system dashboard page with its own panel color and opacity. Turn it on in Settings, Home Screen.
3D app drawer
A globe of every app as the last swipeable page. Flatten it into a Honeycrisp grid if you prefer. Turn it on in Settings, App Drawer.
Hidden apps page
A page after the drawer for apps you hide from the long-press menu. Turn it on in Settings, App Drawer.
Grid and sorting
In Settings, Home Screen, choose a Grid size (Spacious 4×5, Standard 5×6, Dense 6×7, Matrix 5×8 or Matrix 8×5). Snap to grid locks icons you move into straight rows and columns. Smart sort orders apps by how often you use them.
The top of the Home Screen page is a carousel of your panels, each shown with its gem's color and icon. Tap one to open its settings.
Panel wallpaper and doodles
Every panel can have its own photo behind it and a drawing on top. Both are set per panel: hold an empty spot on the panel to open its sheet.
Give a panel its own wallpaper
Hold an empty spot on the panel and tap Choose Image.
Pick a photo. Android's photo picker opens, so HoneyCrisp never needs access to your whole gallery.
Use Wallpaper Dim to darken the photo so icons stay readable. It updates as you slide.
Turn Panel Wallpaper off to go back to glass. The photo is kept, so turning it back on is instant. Tap Change Image to swap it. With Parallax depth on, the photo shifts as you tilt your phone, and Panel icon shadows lets your icons cast shadows onto it.
Tap Draw on Panel (or Edit Doodle once you have one). The panel stays put while you draw: swiping, icon taps and drags are paused until you finish.
Under icons / Over icons
Two separate drawing layers. Under sits between the wallpaper and your icons, like a sticker on the glass. Over sits on top, for circling or labelling apps. Tap the chip to switch.
Pen, Highlighter, Eraser
The highlighter is wider and see-through. The eraser only removes from the layer you're on.
Color and size
Eight quick colors, a hue bar for any other color, and a size slider. Your last tool, color and size are remembered.
Undo and Clear
Undo steps back one stroke at a time. Clear wipes both layers, and Undo can bring it back.
Tap ✓ to save. Pressing Home or Back, or switching apps, also saves. Cancel asks before throwing away what you drew in that session.
Show Doodle hides the drawing without deleting it. Doodles work on glass panels and on panels with a wallpaper.
The Dashboard page keeps its own color and opacity settings instead of a wallpaper.
Saving a profile in Settings, Backup & Reset saves each panel's photo and drawing with it, so loading the profile brings them back together.
Removing a page deletes its wallpaper and doodle, so a new page starts as plain glass.
App menus
Holding an app opens its menu. Choose the style in Settings, Gestures & Menus, Long-press menu: 3D fan, Simple list or Drag only. Each choice shows a live preview.
3D fan (default)
Wedges fan out from the icon, tilted to match it on the globe.
Up to six wedges show at once. If there are more actions, the last wedge becomes More; tapping it turns the fan to the next set.
Wedges with more options inside have a small bar along their outer edge.
Rest your finger on a wedge and a label appears, so you know what it does before you let go.
The menu stays on screen near the edges, and long labels scroll so you can read them in full.
Simple list
A plain vertical list that drops down over the screen, for when you'd rather read than aim.
Live menu items
With Live menu items on, the menu also shows the app's status, its latest notifications, its shortcuts and its widgets. Actions like Pin to dock, Unpin and Uninstall are always there.
Notifications
The notification wing
Apps with new notifications appear in the wing on the left edge with a red count. Tap one to open its sheet: the conversation thread, with a reply box at the bottom for apps that support replies. Swipe a card sideways to clear it.
Park a bubble over the globe
Drag an app's icon out of the wing. It grows into a bubble the size of a globe icon; let go anywhere to park it there. HoneyCrisp remembers where you put each app.
Tap a parked bubble and a speech bubble pops out beside it with its tail pointing at the bubble. The newest message sits next to the tail, older ones scroll.
Type a reply straight into the speech bubble. It slides up with the keyboard instead of hiding behind it.
Swipe a message sideways to clear it.
Drag a bubble anywhere to move it, or drop it back on the wing to return it. The speech bubble also has a button to send it back.
Chat heads over other apps
Turn on Chat heads in Settings, Home Screen and your parked bubbles follow you out of the launcher, floating over whatever app you're using. Replies you type there send right away. Notification orbs on home controls whether new notifications float by the top corner until you open or park them.
Side panels
Four drawers slide out from the screen edges. Turn each one on in Settings, Side Panels; a dot on its tile shows it's on. Drag its pull tab to open it, or turn on Tap to open.
The four panels
Calendar
A month view with your upcoming events, plus two widget slots, top and bottom.
SketchPad
Quick doodles and notes, with pen, marker and eraser and a palette of neon inks.
Whiteboard
A big canvas for planning. Share a link, text or photo to HoneyCrisp from any app and it lands here. Links get a preview image from the page.
Telemetry
Live hardware monitors: battery, RAM, storage, volume, brightness, weather and the Energy Dashboard. Add more from the panel's ⚙️, and turn on Lock monitor layout so they can't be dragged around by accident.
Panel options
Each side panel has the same options: its position (top left, top right, bottom left or bottom right), its color, the pull tab shape, and Transparent glass, which blurs and reflects what's behind it.
Custom gestures
Record a gesture
Open Settings, Gestures & Menus, and tap Record a gesture.
Draw any shape in one stroke.
Pick what it does: open an app, a phone action (notifications, quick settings, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, battery saver, voice assistant) or a launcher action (search, open panel view, slide out the whiteboard).
Saved gestures
Saved gestures shows each shape you've drawn and what it does. Tap one to delete it.
Music visualizer
Your icons react to whatever is playing on your phone, from any music or video app.
Turn it on
Open Settings, Music & EQ.
Turn on Music visualizer. Picking any EQ style also turns it on.
Android asks for permission to record audio. Allow it.
HoneyCrisp reads the sound your phone is already playing to its speaker or headphones. It doesn't use the microphone, but Android puts both behind the same permission.
What happens when music plays
The globe pulls back a little so the icons have room to move.
With a classic style on the Globe, the globe turns slowly. It pauses while you touch it and for a moment after.
Fluid styles hold the globe still so each hop is easy to see. Icons rise straight out from the sphere and glow green when resting, orange mid-hop and red at the peak.
With Quick chip on, a small chip appears in the top-left corner with five live bars, from deep bass to treble. Tap it to jump straight to Music & EQ.
About a second and a half after the music stops, icons return to their normal glow and the chip hides.
EQ styles
Choose a style in Settings, Music & EQ. Each card shows a live preview.
Style
What it looks like
Native Bands
Frequency columns in each app's own color.
VU Meter
Classic green, amber and red level bars.
Master VU
The whole globe rises with the volume.
Ripple
Beats ripple outward from the centre.
Sweep
Beats wash across from left to right.
Rise
Bass hops low, treble hops high.
Core
Bass hops in the middle, treble on the edge.
Subwoofer
Each kick drum rings outward from the centre, and every icon wobbles as it passes.
Speaker
All icons move as one speaker cone: punch out on the kick, pull back after.
Storm
Crimson storm clouds roll in behind the globe. Lightning strikes on the beat, and the icons it hits flash white and bounce. Huge hits light up the whole sky.
Storm draws its full clouds on Android 13 and later. Older phones get a lighter version of the same storm.
A full battery dashboard: how long your charge will last, how fast you're charging, and how worn your battery really is.
Open it
Tap the Energy Dashboard monitor in the Telemetry side panel.
Plug in your phone. The dashboard opens by itself (you can turn this off).
Tap the charging notification, if you've turned it on.
The four tabs
Discharging
How long your current charge will last, drain with the screen on and off, how much of the screen-off time the phone spent in deep sleep, and which apps used the most battery.
Charging
Live current and watts, voltage, temperature, charge speed and time until full. If the phone is using more power than the charger supplies, it tells you.
Health
Measured capacity against the battery's original capacity, charge cycles (where your phone reports them), and a chart of capacity over time.
History
Every charge and every stretch on battery: how long, from what level to what level, and how much energy went in or out.
Per-app usage needs Usage Access and is measured while the phone is on battery with the screen on. Turn on Battery drain rings (Settings, Icons) to see which apps use the most power right on their icons.
How battery health is measured
Each time you charge by 15% or more, HoneyCrisp reads exactly how much energy went in from your phone's fuel gauge and works out the battery's real capacity. That becomes one point on the health chart.
The health figure uses the middle value of your last five measured charges, so one odd reading can't swing it.
The yearly wear trend appears after at least three measured charges spread over two weeks or more.
The original capacity comes from your phone's profile. If your phone doesn't report it, the dashboard marks it as estimated.
Recording keeps running when you're in other apps and survives restarts. If your phone's battery saver closes HoneyCrisp, it checks back in about every 15 minutes and fills in any charge or unplug it missed from the fuel gauge.
Charging options
Open Settings, Charging:
Setting
What it does
Open on plug-in
Shows the battery dashboard when a charger connects while you're on the home screen.
Show it when I get home
Plugged in while in another app? The dashboard opens when you come back home, within 10 minutes.
Pop up for: Wired chargers, Wireless pads, Docks
Choose which chargers open the dashboard. Turn off wireless pads if you charge on a nightstand.
Charging notification
A quiet notification while plugged in, with live current, speed and time to full. Swipe it away to hide it until the next charge. Off by default.
Your pet
Turn on Settings, Orbit State, Adopt an alien pet and an egg hatches inside one of your icons on the globe. Release your alien removes it.
Looking after it
Feed it, play with it, turn the lights off when it's tired and clean up its goo. It notices your phone habits too: drain the battery too low, leave it on the charger at 100% or spend all day on screen, and it lets you know.
Growing up
Every egg is a surprise: a blob alien, a little grey, a bobble-head chihuahua or a hot-headed fighter. It grows from baby to teen to adult, into a Normal, Radiant or Cursed form depending on how it was raised, and levels up its battle stats as it goes.
Games
Play tic-tac-toe, rock-paper-scissors and memory with it.
Settings
Settings is a grid of liquid-glass tiles. Hold the Search orb to open it, or use the All settings tile at the end of any long-press sheet.
Finding your way around
Tiles with a chevron open a page. Tiles with a switch turn something on or off. Pick-one tiles light up the option you've chosen. Red-rimmed tiles do something you can't undo, and always ask first.
Type in Search settings to find any setting by name, in English or Spanish, such as "opacity", "lens" or "charging".
Pages that change how something looks show a live preview at the top: a mirror of your real globe, a mini dock, or the icon and menu styles in motion. The preview stays pinned under the header while you scroll.
Sliders only move when you grab the knob, so scrolling past one never changes it by accident.
On first run, a Start here tile tracks your progress through the basics. Tap Got it, hide this when you're done.
Master pages
The first three tiles gather the controls you reach for most from across Settings. They mirror the real settings, so a change in either place shows in both.
Master toggles
Every on/off switch in one place: frosted glass, Chameleon tint, Transparent phone, Liquid gel dock, icon gravity, grayscale, glint, lens flare, group flight and more, grouped under their home pages.
Master sizing
Icon, glow, globe, Flow State ring, dock gem and grid sizes.
Master icon
Style, finish, glow and glass for every icon.
Orbit State
Setting
What it does
Lens mode
Classic Globe, Honeycrisp, Vertical Ring or Rotary Dial, with live previews.
Globe size, Globe icon size, Flow State icon size
How far apps spread across the sphere, and how big their icons are on the globe and the ring.
Planet core, Planet colour
A sun-tinted planet inside the Classic Globe with icons orbiting over it, and its colour.
Glass sphere
Opacity of the glass bubble over the globe.
Grayscale Flow State icons
Black-and-white icons in Vertical Ring and Rotary Dial.
Icon gravity
Icons swing as you tilt your phone. Off saves battery.
Slow rotate, Rotate speed
The globe turns gently on its own when idle.
Swipe to open sensitivity
How long a swipe on the globe has to be to open your panels.
Swipe sound, Swipe volume
The sound that follows your finger as you spin.
Group flight animation, Flight speed
Panel groups fly in from the globe. Off: a gem opens its panel instantly.
Bypass hover
Gems fly a group straight onto its panel instead of hovering.
Flow State
Background picks what sits behind the ring: Grey, Colour, Image (a photo just for Flow State) or Wallpaper.
Music & EQ
Music visualizer, EQ style and Quick chip. See Music visualizer.
Icons
Setting
What it does
Icon style
Spheres (polished glass beads), Tiles (liquid-glass tiles on your panels and the Flow State ring) or Etched (icons carved into your wallpaper, tinted from each app's colour or one of your own). The full liquid-glass look needs Android 13 or later.
App names on panels, App names in Flow State
Names under icons on panels, in Honeycrisp and the Flow drawer, and beside the Flow State ring.
Icon size
Size of app icons on your panels.
Glow size, Glow brightness
How far and how bright the glow behind each icon is.
Battery drain rings
Rings on icons show which apps use the most power.
Panel icon shadows
Icons cast shadows onto panel photos, drifting with tilt when parallax is on.
Appearance & Lighting
Setting
What it does
Theme
Dark (obsidian glass), System (follows your phone) or Light (frosted milk glass). Applies to tiles, etched icons, folders and menus.
Change wallpaper
Pick an image or live wallpaper. Live wallpapers scroll as you swipe between panels.
Plain black background
Hides the wallpaper for a pure black screen.
Transparent phone
Shows your rear camera behind the home screen, as if the phone were see-through. Nothing is recorded. Uses more battery.
Grayscale, Chameleon tint
Strip all color, or tint panels with colors from your wallpaper.
Frosted glass, Etch depth
Frosted tile icons instead of clear crystal (spheres always stay crystal), and how strongly menus echo inside the frost.
Legacy glass, Crystal thickness
Classic bitmap spheres instead of real crystal optics, and how thick the crystal looks.
Dock frost
From polished crystal to satin-frosted dock glass.
Glint, Lens flare
3D highlights sweeping across the glass, and bright catchlights on its edges.
Freeze reflections
Stops reflections following tilt. Saves battery.
Compass light
Reflections face the real sun as you turn, worked out on your phone from the time and your location.
Parallax depth
Tilt to look into the phone: the globe, wallpaper and panel photos move by depth.
Starfield
Stars deep inside the phone, behind the globe.
Home Screen
Setting
What it does
Panels
A carousel of your panels. Each opens its own page of settings (wallpaper, doodle, widgets, Set as home, Remove page).
Grid size
Spacious 4×5, Standard 5×6, Dense 6×7, Matrix 5×8 or Matrix 8×5.
Snap to grid, Smart sort
Line icons up in rows and columns, and order apps by how often you use them.
Start in Orbit State
Home goes to the 3D globe instead of a panel.
Dashboard page
Adds an always-on system dashboard page.
Notification orbs on home, Chat heads
New notifications float by the top corner, and parked bubbles float over other apps. See Notifications.
Finish setup
Picks up the permissions you skipped while in demo mode.
Dock
A live mini dock at the top shows your changes. Finish picks Glass or Liquid gel (a thick, wet silicone look that bends light). Dock glass and Dock image set the opacity of the dock body and the image inside it, and Panel gems sets the gems' opacity. Gem size sizes the whole row with one slider. Recent apps gem, AI mic gem and AI provider control the extra gems. Hold the dock for the glass and image sliders without opening Settings, or hold a gem to recolor it.
Side Panels and App Drawer
One tile per side panel; see Side panels. App Drawer has 3D app drawer and its Honeycrisp grid option, plus Hidden apps page; see Special pages.
Status, notifications, shortcuts and widgets in the app menu.
Built-in gestures
A switch for every home gesture, plus A–Z list side (left or right). See Switch gestures off.
Floating buttons
Search button and State switch button on or off.
Guided tour
A hands-on walkthrough of Orbit State or Flow State.
Demo mode
A 15-second showreel of the glass, light and motion.
Gesture tips, Show all tips again
Short sticky-note hints, and a way to bring back the ones you dismissed.
Performance
Setting
What it does
Render quality
Auto starts at full 3D and steps down one level at a time if frames drop. Ultra 3D keeps everything on. Pre-baked glint pins the light but keeps crystal glass and gravity. Performance is flat glass, fixed light and no gravity or EQ, the smoothest. Your own toggles come back exactly as you left them.
Performance overlay
A small stats box with FPS, frame time, CPU, GPU, memory and battery. Drag it anywhere on your home screen.
Backup & Reset
Setting
What it does
Save layout to a file, Load layout from a file
Export your panels, dock and globe to a JSON file, or import one.
Save a profile, Switch profile
Snapshots of your layout, look and gems under a name, including panel photos and doodles. Loading a profile replaces your current layout and look.
Clear home layout
Removes apps and widgets from panels and the globe. Settings stay.
Reset settings
Colors, sizes and modes back to defaults. Your layout stays.
Erase everything
Layout and settings, like a fresh install.
Troubleshooting
The launcher crashed and shows a recovery screen
A broken third-party widget can crash the layout. When that happens, HoneyCrisp stops on restart and shows a recovery screen instead of crashing again. Choose Safe Recovery: it removes widgets and keeps your apps, layout and settings.
Flow State won't open
Flow State needs Usage Access. Open Android Settings, search for Usage access, select HoneyCrisp and turn it on.
No notification counts on my icons
Turn on Notification access for HoneyCrisp in Android Settings.
A V or ^ didn't work
Draw it in one quick stroke, with both legs about the same length. Land any hovering apps first; strokes are ignored while they're up. Check that it's still on in Built-in gestures, or use the ▲▼ orbs instead.
Swiping down on the globe doesn't open a panel
It needs a long swipe, about a third of the screen (or a quick flick). Land any hovering apps first. Panel swipes don't apply in Flow State. You can also make the swipe easier with Swipe to open sensitivity, or tap the ▲ orb.
Tapping a gem opens the panel instead of hovering the apps
Bypass hover or Group flight animation is set that way. Check both in Settings, Orbit State.
I can't find a setting
Hold the Search orb to open Settings, then type a word into Search settings. Every setting is searchable, including the ones on long-press sheets. Developer settings are hidden: tap the Settings title seven times to show them.
A panel lost its wallpaper or doodle after loading a profile
Profiles saved before this feature existed don't include panel images. When you load one, HoneyCrisp keeps your current panel images instead. Save the profile again to include them.
The visualizer doesn't react to music
Check that record-audio permission is allowed for HoneyCrisp. Audio cast to a TV or speaker doesn't play through your phone, so there's nothing to react to. A few phone makers block access to the phone's audio output entirely; on those phones the visualizer can't work.
Battery health says it hasn't been measured yet
Health needs at least one charge of 15% or more. Charge from low to high once and check again. If your phone doesn't report its fuel gauge reading, health can't be measured, but the other tabs still work.
The battery dashboard pops up every night
In Settings, Charging, turn off Wireless pads (or Docks), or turn off Open on plug-in.
Battery drains faster than I'd like
In Settings, turn off Icon gravity, Slow rotate and Transparent phone, and turn on Freeze reflections. Turning off Lens flare and Parallax depth helps a little more, and Settings, Performance, Render quality set to Performance is the lightest of all.
