I install a personal list of favorite Android apps whenever I use a new Pixel, and one of the first apps to go is the default launcher. The Pixel Launcher is an app I’ve tried to love over the years, tweaking it as much as I could to best suit my needs. It wasn’t enough, though.

While I take issue with Pixel Launcher’s rigid design, my colleague Rita El Khoury doesn’t mind it. As she writes in a recent opinion piece: “It’s the smoothest and most reliable launcher I’ve used on my Pixel phones, and each time I came back to it, it felt like I was home.”

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