Help & Documentation

Set up Tree Launcher as your Android home screen: make it your default launcher, build your first pages, add apps and notes, and learn the swipe gestures.

An Android launcher is the app that runs your home screen. What launchers do, what you can change, and why people replace the one their phone came with.

Pages are the core building block of Tree Launcher. Create pages within pages for every area of your life, and swipe right to go deeper, left to go back.

Everything you can add to a Tree Launcher page: apps, contacts, notes, tasks, reminders, links, images, dividers and sub-pages, and when to use each one.

How to add, edit, move, reorder and delete items on your Tree Launcher pages using edit mode, so each page holds exactly what you need.

Write notes on your home screen with Tree Launcher: text blocks, headings, bullet and numbered lists, and blockquotes, all formatted right on your pages.

Keep a to-do list on your Android home screen: create tasks with completion tracking, reminders with notifications, and recurring items in Tree Launcher.

Track reminders and events with dates and times in Tree Launcher, and see everything coming up across all your pages in one Scheduled view.

Add app shortcuts, contact shortcuts and Android settings shortcuts to any Tree Launcher page, so the apps and people you need sit next to your notes.

Add images to your Tree Launcher pages and use dividers to break pages into clear sections, so your home screen stays organized and easy to scan.

Add one-tap shortcuts to Android system settings, plus app shortcuts, to any page in Tree Launcher so the settings you change often are always close.

Find anything in Tree Launcher with search across all your pages, organize items with tags, pin what matters, and capture ideas fast with the inbox.

Share links and text into Tree Launcher from other apps, import from your clipboard, and export your pages as Markdown to use anywhere else.

Back up your entire Tree Launcher setup to Google Drive and restore it on a new phone or after a reset, so your pages, notes and themes are never lost.

An overview of how to personalize Tree Launcher: themes, colors, backgrounds, text, layout, icons and headers, and where to find each setting.

Apply a ready-made look to your home screen, build your own theme in Tree Launcher's full-screen editor with live preview, and share themes as files.

Choose light or dark mode, an accent color, and a background image, color or gradient for your Tree Launcher home screen, plus status bar options.

Change your home screen font in Tree Launcher, plus text size, weight, color and shadow, and adjust row spacing and side margins to fit your style.

Set icon size, pick an icon style, shape icon backgrounds, use icon packs, and change the icon of any item on your Tree Launcher home screen.

Style the header at the top of Home and any page in Tree Launcher: layouts, frames, clock, date, weather, typography and widgets.

Everything Tree Launcher Pro adds to the free app: widgets, weather, RSS feeds, AI content generation and PIN protection, explained in one place.

Widget pages give Android app widgets their own space in Tree Launcher, so you keep widgets without cluttering your pages. Widgets are a Pro feature.

Follow news and websites on your Android home screen with Google News and custom RSS feeds, right inside Tree Launcher. RSS feeds are a Pro feature.

Show weather forecasts and current conditions directly on your Tree Launcher home screen and page headers. Weather is part of Tree Launcher Pro.

Generate structured content on your pages with AI in Tree Launcher: recipes, itineraries, outlines and more, ready to edit. A Tree Launcher Pro feature.

Fixes for common Tree Launcher problems on Android, with step-by-step solutions to get your home screen working the way it should again.

Answers to frequently asked questions about Tree Launcher, the Android launcher that organizes your apps, notes and tasks into nested pages.