Concepts: the Zenith mental model

Zenith doesn't work like other launchers, and that's on purpose. Before you learn any single gesture, it helps to picture how the whole thing fits together. Once you have that picture, the rest of the guide clicks into place.

Everything in Zenith happens on one screen — the sky, your home screen. There are no pages to swipe through and no grid of icons. Your apps rest out of sight until you reach for them, then come to your finger. Almost every feature is a different way of using that one open surface.

This part builds the picture one idea at a time. You'll meet the small vocabulary Zenith uses, see how your apps live on the sky, and learn the single gesture the whole launcher is built on. You don't need to memorize anything — every page glosses its terms as you go.

Start with the metaphor map for the words, then read the concept pages in order.

See also. The metaphor map · The sky — your whole home screen · The ring engine · Zenith in 5 minutes — your first sky