The metaphor map
Zenith is a home-replacement launcher: once you set it as your default, it becomes your home screen. Everything you do lives on one surface, reached by touch rather than by hunting through pages.
To keep that surface simple, Zenith names its parts after a night sky. The names are a flavor, not a puzzle — each one stands for a plain, ordinary thing. Here is the whole core vocabulary in one place. You don't need to learn it now; every page in this guide glosses its terms the first time they appear.
The words you'll meet
- The sky is your home screen — the whole open surface you touch.
- A star is an app, folder, or shortcut you've placed on the sky.
- A region is a zone of the sky that groups stars, a bit like a page or a category.
- The ring is the wheel of your apps that blooms under your finger when you hold the sky.
- An orbit is how far a star sits from the center of its ring.
- A comet is a notification, drifting across the sky so you can catch it.
- A talisman is a gesture shortcut — you draw a shape to trigger an action.
You'll also meet the veil, a privacy cover for when the screen sleeps, and ask the sky, the built-in AI assistant. Those come later, where they're used.
How it fits together
The sky is the stage. Your apps are stars, and you gather them into regions. When you reach for them, they bloom into a ring under your finger. Notifications arrive as comets you can catch, and you can teach the sky your own shortcuts as talismans.
That's the entire model. The next pages take these one at a time — the sky itself, the stars and regions on it, and the ring that brings them to your hand.
See also. The sky — your whole home screen · Stars, nodes & regions · The ring engine · Glossary