The sky — your whole home screen

In most launchers your home screen is a grid of icons spread across pages you swipe between. Zenith works differently, and understanding that one difference makes everything else click.

The sky is your whole home screen — a single, open surface. There are no pages to swipe through and no fixed grid. What looks like empty space isn't wasted: it's the surface your apps bloom onto when you reach for them. Hold anywhere and your apps come to your finger, instead of you hunting across pages to find them.

Everything in Zenith happens on this one sky. The ring of apps, the groups you make, the notifications that drift by, the panels and settings — they all open onto the sky and settle back into it. There's no separate desktop behind it all; the sky is the whole stage.

You can make the sky yours. Set a solid color, drop in your own wallpaper, or — with Zenith Gold — turn on my sky, a live view of the real night sky above your actual location right now. With my sky on, two fingers let you roam it: pinch to zoom, drag to pan, twist to tilt, and three fingers to recenter.

Once you picture the home screen as one open sky rather than a wall of icons, the rest of Zenith follows naturally: apps are stars you place, groups are regions, and the whole thing is reached with a single hold.

See also. Stars, nodes & regions · The ring engine · Backgrounds & My Sky