Key Launcher Help Center
Welcome to the Key Launcher Help Center! Here you will find official documentation, step-by-step guides, and advanced configurations for Key Launcher — the minimalist, T9-keyboard-based launcher for Android.
Key Launcher is designed to help you regain control of your digital life by introducing healthy friction and removing visual distractions.
Get Started
Explore the documentation sections to master Key Launcher:
- Getting Started: Understand the core philosophy, set up the launcher as default, and configure essential permissions.
- T9 Keyboard & Search: Master typing with the 9-key grid, look up contacts, and use Universal Search for calculations, files, and settings.
- Keyboard Configurations: Tune the keyboard surface theme, colors, opacity, size, layout, and sound/vibration feedback.
- Quick Glance: Personalize the center clock, integrated media player with synced lyrics, and Quick Glance widget stacking.
- Super Focus (Focus Mode): Turn your phone into a distraction-free desk companion with Pomodoro timer, photo slideshow, and Auto DND.
- Agenda Sheet (Calendar): A unified timeline of calendar events, lunar dates, and contact birthdays pulled live from your device.
- Home Organization: Organize your home screen with the pinned grid, folders, and custom app drawer categories.
- Edge Panels: Slide out a Widget Center, stacked widgets, a Notification Center, and an ad-free Discover Feed.
- Settings & Customizations: Themes, fonts and language, status bar, swipe gestures, weather, and lunar calendar.
- Advanced Features: Secure apps in the Private Vault, configure Super Shortcuts, back up your setup, and go Pro.
What's New
Documentation last updated 28 July 2026, covering app changes through 27 July 2026.
| Area | What changed |
|---|---|
| Long-Press Actions | New page — assign Calculator, Super Focus, or the new Ringer mode toggle to *, 0, or # |
| Keyboard colors | One Theme row replaces the separate key/background pickers, with 12 named color presets (Pro) and a Swap-colors flip |
| Keyboard surface | Skeuomorphism gained an adjustable corner-radius slider; the old Curved theme folded into it |
| Quick Actions | New page — promote an app's own shortcuts (and contact speed dials) into searchable items with the + button |
| Contact Tap Action | New page — make a contact tap call, message, or open Zalo / Viber / WhatsApp, with per-contact number memory |
| Fonts & Language | New page — the typeface manager with custom .ttf / .otf uploads and variable font weight, plus a launcher display language independent of the system (25 languages, including Urdu) |
| Showcase Your Setup | New page — frame a capture of your home screen and share it |
| Keyboard: Size & Layout | 4-column keypad layout; option to hide the hint icons on *, 0, and # |
| Universal Search | Its own settings page — toggle result types, pick a search engine (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Ecosia); Open-URL row; Internet section with YouTube and Maps |
| Position Management | Reorder or hide the top-area pages (Widget Stack, Clock, Music Player) |
| Notification Center | Per-app grouping, expandable content, mute for 30 min / 1 h / 2 h, hide individual notifications, and a panel settings screen |
| Super Focus | Auto screensaver style — clock while music plays, photos otherwise |
| Icons | Force themed icons recolors apps that never shipped a themed icon (on by default) |
| Quick Glance | Status bar options (icons, order, position, size, color) merged into one scrollable section |
| Folders | Combined notification badge on folder tiles; folders survive app updates and Private Space lock states |
| Discover Feed | Custom topics for your own RSS sources, plus editing existing feeds |
| Weather & Calendar | Brazilian Holidays calendar |