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Jevie as your phone's home screen

Make Jevie your Android home screen: open any app in a few letters, ask anything from one bar, and keep live widgets and pinned answers on the day's wallpaper.

FreePhoneThe Jevie app on Android

Choose an example to copy it, then try it in Jevie.

Use it Set it up How it works Limits Where it's kept

Use it

The bar

swipe up anywhere on the home screenJevie's bar, to search: your apps, your Mac's files, live cards, and answers to anything
a question typed in the bar and ↵Answered right there in the bar, over the home screen; the app does not open. Back clears it
Ask Google over the field, or a Google rowGoogle's own page opens over the home screen; Back closes it, and a link to another site opens in your browser
a file or folder of your Mac's in the barTap it: its words, its picture (a PDF's first page) or its list show right there; Open on Mac opens it on the Mac, In Jevie opens the app's full preview
Ask Claude over the field (your coding agent, whichever you chose)Asks it the words, answered in the bar
tap Jev in the barHe listens right on the home screen; what you say fills the field and is sent when you stop. The answer is said aloud and he listens again, a conversation, until you tap him or say nothing
text mom on WhatsApp saying I'm lateplay my discover weekly in Spotifyon my phone, …Typed or said on the home screen, done in that app by Jevie's hands (Phone hands); set an alarm for 7, flashlight on are done by the phone at once
a few letters you opened an app from beforeIt opens by itself, no ↵, when no other app starts with them
spotopen mapslaunch whatsappThe app opens
spo once, then spo aloneOpens Spotify as you type, no Return needed
web history bookmarks clipboard That list alone, narrowed as you type
Ask Google, Search Google, or a page from your Mac's history, bookmarks or tabs in the barThe page opens inside the bar, from your Mac's own browser, with the home screen behind it; ⤢ makes it full screen, × (or Back, or Esc) closes it, and new words typed in the field take its place
a file of your Mac's in the bar, tapped or heldIts preview opens inside the bar, with Talk, Attach, Save and On Mac under it; ⤢ makes it the full preview
one of your Mac's apps in the bar (Safari)It opens on your Mac
a search shortcut in the bar (GitHub Repositories)Its name is typed into the field; type what to search for after it
hold Jev in the barSpeak, let go, and the words are written in the bar to send; a tap talks to Jev
uninstall slackkill photos mapsrestart spotifyApps managed by name
uninstallThe apps you can remove, the longest unused first, each saying when it was last opened; Android's own apps are left out. Allow Usage access (the row under the heading) for Android's record; without it only what you opened from Jevie counts. Your Mac's apps are listed above, under their own heading, in the Mac's order; tapping one asks the Mac, which shows what goes before a yes

The home screen

hold an app or a card and dragIt lands on the home screen
hold an appIts own shortcuts (Maps' Home, a recent chat), App info, Uninstall
drop an app on anotherA folder
Widget in editTo do, Weather, Today, Habits, Journal, Notes, live; or any app's widgets
a widget starts as its icon, one cell; tap it to open it whole, or make it bigger in edit. Habits opened ticks today's, and starts a new one: name it, tap its days (none is every day), Add. Today and Coming up with nothing in them take one down, and Today offers Plan my day
a widget made small, by its corner or its size button in editOne cell is its icon (a count on it), one row high is its icon and a line: To do's, Notes' and Habits' line writes one down there and then (a habit every day); tap the icon and it grows where it stands into the whole widget to scroll, tick and write in; ×, Esc or a tap elsewhere makes it small again
pick widgets in edit (tap each), then GroupA thin row with an arrow goes over them, naming what it holds; tap the arrow and they fold away, the rows under them coming up; tap again and they are back where they were
a swipe over a widget turns the page, pulls down notifications or raises the bar as anywhere else; to scroll a widget's own list, hold it a moment, then moveHeld still a moment longer it is picked up to move as before
gridPick a grid size from 4×5 to 6×8
pages side by side, a dot each: swipe left and right between them (the home screen never scrolls up and down); swipe down anywhere for Android's notifications, up anywhere for Jevie's bar; hold an app at the screen's side while moving it to take it to the next page
Home under a file's or a folder's preview (Work's Files, a search, an answer)It lands on the home screen and the app's Home as a tile, your Mac's or a linked computer's; tapped, its preview or the folder's list opens, read from that computer; Unpin there takes it off
hold an app, then drag one of its shortcuts (a chat, a search) out of the menuIt lands as its own cell
arranged by default: your apps in a row, Home's sections under them as in the app; Arrange Home moves or hides them
Grid (in Arrange Home), or gridEverything placed and sized in cells instead; Arrange in the grid's edit goes back
in the grid's edit, tap apps and widgets to pick themMove to top puts them first and closes the gaps, Take off removes them all, Group makes the apps one group, and dragging one of them moves them together
a group is one cell: tap it to open it in place (its name to change, its apps to open or drag out), ⌃ or a tap elsewhere to fold it
the app's Home tab is drawn the same way, and your Mac keeps the choice and the grid: a change on one is on the others
today's cardOne thing worth knowing today: a trial about to charge, a birthday

iPhone

add the Jevie widgetYour pinned cards and answers, and Ask Jevie, on the home or lock screen

Set it up

In Jevie: menu → All apps → Use under Make Jevie your home screen.
Android asks once; say yes.
To go back: Settings → Apps → Default apps → Home app.

How it works

The launcher is the Jevie app itself, so one install is both. Your apps are ranked by name and by how often you open them; an app opens without Return only when your letters can mean nothing else. The home screen reaches your Mac through the Jevie app in the background, even when you have swiped the app away, so your Mac's files and answers show in the bar without the app open.

Your layout is kept on the phone and shows the same with or without your Mac; each change is also sent to your Mac, which keeps the newest, so the app's Home and another phone show the same grid.

Limits

The home screen is Android only (9 and later); an iPhone gets a widget instead.
Uninstalling, stopping and restarting apps by name are Android only: iOS lets no app list, close or remove other apps.
kill ends only what Android lets a launcher end.
Android's widgets update only while Jevie is in front, and show only on the page in view; seven screens' worth of grid at most. The app's Home shows where they are, not the widgets themselves.
Your layout and most-opened apps stay on this phone; clearing Jevie's storage clears them.

Where it's kept

More: daily wallpapers and phone and Windows.

In Jevie, help launcher answers from this page as you type.

Updated 7 November 2026 · Something wrong or missing? Tell us