Be nice

Be nice is a home screen launcher for Android. It takes over the screen you land on when you press the home button, presenting your installed applications and handling how you move between them. Replacing the launcher that shipped with a phone is one of the more visible changes you can make to Android without rooting the device, and it is reversible from the system settings.

The stated emphasis is on contemporary visual design rather than on piling up configuration options, so it suits someone who wants a plainer home screen more than someone assembling an elaborate grid of widgets and gesture bindings.

Thomas Künneth publishes the project under the Apache-2.0 licence, which permits use, modification, and redistribution, including in closed-source work, provided the notice requirements are met. It is an Android-only application; as a launcher it depends on Android's home screen mechanism and has no equivalent on desktop systems.