Launcher

A simple Android home screen that puts the time, your calendar, your loved ones and your photos front and center.

Launcher installs on your device (Windows and Android) and opens with your Prophetix account, the same one as for the web applications.

Launcher replaces the home screen of an Android phone. It shows the time, the next appointments in your calendar, contacts within easy reach and a photo carousel, with an app search, a Favorites folder for everyday apps and a Tools button (calculator, web browser). You choose which sections to show and in what order, place widgets, and decide which notifications to let through.

The desktop version, on Windows, is the counterpart of the launcher for the installed modules: it presents them as tiles, connects to the Prophetix account and offers their updates. For now, it is not distributed with the other Windows applications.

Launcher is in preparation. It will join the Prophetix subscription catalogue when it is released.

Every feature of Launcher

78 features in 12 areas

Home screen

Replaces the home screen of an Android phone with a simple one with large buttons, designed for readability.
Displays the time and date in large type.
Shows the day's calendar: the next appointments, all-day events and the number of appointments beyond the first three.
Displays notifications, the Bluetooth status, favorite apps, widgets, a photo carousel and favorite contacts.
Chooses which blocks to show and arranges them in the desired order with arrows.
Adds an index bar on the right: touch a letter to jump to the favorites or to a block.
Keeps a fixed block at the bottom: Silent, Vibrate and Ring buttons, Applications and Settings.
Places widgets from other apps, with a choice of their size.
Offers a bottom bar: Contacts, Phone, Messages, Calls, Tools.
Groups everyday tools behind the Tools button: calculator, web browser, camera, photo gallery, files and downloads.

Apps and compartments

Searches for an app by name, ignoring accents and capitalization.
Lists all apps or only the favorites, with a star to add or remove a favorite.
Arranges apps in a Favorites folder on the home screen.
Creates compartments ("Games", "Bank", "Health"...) with their name, color and icon, and reorders them.
Automatically fills a Prophetix compartment with your installed Prophetix apps.
Uninstalls an app from the list, through the system dialog.

Contacts and photos

Displays favorite contacts on the home screen, with their photo or their initials if there is no photo.
Searches for a contact by name, and switches between all contacts and favorites.
When you touch a contact, offers to choose a number and then to call or send an SMS.
Marks a contact as a favorite with one gesture, from the home screen or the list.
Scrolls through recent photos in a carousel, with previous and next, and opens them full screen (pinch, drag, double tap, share).
Takes a photo of your choice as the wallpaper, frames it by dragging and pinching, and chooses the color that fills the edges.

Phone and calls

Becomes the phone's Phone app, with its own screens for incoming call, ongoing call and keypad.
Answers, ignores or hangs up with one large button; mutes the microphone and turns on the speaker; displays the call duration.
Chooses which output to listen to the call on: speaker, earpiece or Bluetooth.
Adjusts the call volume and raises the ringtone to maximum while it rings.
Dials a number on the keypad or from a contact, and erases digit by digit.
Lists recent calls with their time and offers to call back.
Shows missed calls and voicemail messages above the notifications, with marking as seen.
Filters calls: everyone, contacts only, or favorites only; the others are rejected without ringing, if you allow it.

Ringtone, vibration and sounds

Switches from a button on the home screen to silent, vibrate or ring mode, with a small vibration or beep as feedback.
Rings incoming calls loudly, at a level you choose, never below the volume already set.
Rings incoming SMS loudly for a few seconds.
Respects the chosen mode: in silent mode nothing rings, unless you turn on "Ring even in silent mode" and grant Do Not Disturb access.
Adds vibration and a flashing light to the ringtone, with adjustable intensity; also flashes the light when a notification arrives.
Turns the screen on when a notification arrives, if you ask for it.
Adjusts the ringtone and notification volumes, and chooses the ringtone and the notification sound.
Sends the call sound to the connected Bluetooth device, if you ask for it.
Offers a Try button to hear and see the effects before a real call.

Messages

Opens the list of SMS and MMS conversations in the launcher, with search for a name, a number or a text.
Writes a new message to a name or a number, and sends SMS from the launcher.
Reads photos, attachments, audio messages, business cards and appointments received; sends a photo or an attachment.
Offers, in the bottom bar, a Messages button that groups SMS and the installed messaging apps (WhatsApp, Snapchat, Telegram, Teams and others).
Hides messages from unknown senders (number not in the contacts): they leave the banner and the home screen, without sound, but remain readable in the messaging app.
Goes through the phone's messaging app (Samsung Messages on a Samsung) to reply to instant messaging conversations (RCS).

Notifications

Displays notifications on the home screen, with the sender's photo, and opens them with a touch.
Dismisses a notification from the home screen, with or without removing it from the phone's status bar, depending on your setting.
Filters notifications app by app: immediate, deferred or blocked.
Reveals deferred notifications at set times (09:00, 13:00 and 18:00 by default, can be changed).
Turns on Minimalist mode with one gesture, which defers all apps except SMS, phone and calendar.
Remembers notifications that have already been dismissed so they do not come back.

Appearance and readability

Chooses the text size: small, normal, large or very large.
Adjusts the transparency of the background and of the buttons.
Chooses the color of the buttons; icons and text turn white on dark colors.
Places the texts on the wallpaper so that they remain readable.

Bluetooth and phone settings

Shows the Bluetooth status and the connected devices, with an Enable or Disable button.
Opens Android's Bluetooth settings to pair, connect or forget a device.
Locks the notification shade at the top of the screen to avoid accidental gestures.
Restarts or powers off the phone from Settings, through the system power menu.
Uninstalls the launcher from its own settings, with confirmation.

Business telephony (Connect)

Enrolls the phone in Connect with a code, if your organization uses Connect.
Passes on to the organization, only if it has enabled this, the number, direction, time and duration of calls; never the sound or the messages.
Permanently reminds you that monitoring is active, with a notification and an indicator during the call.
Excludes calls from contacts you mark "never report".
Displays the policy received from the organization and lets you read it again.
Unenrolls at any time: the token is erased and the calls waiting to be sent are deleted.

On Windows: module hub

Presents the Prophetix modules installed on the computer as tiles and launches the one you choose.
Refreshes the list of modules.
Checks for and installs module updates.
Opens My Prophetix space, signs out of the account or releases the computer.
Displays a warning banner when the license is nearing its expiry date.

Good to know

The launcher is a home screen and a Phone app: Android asks you to grant several permissions (notifications, contacts, calendar, SMS, calls).
Several recent functions (loud ringtone, light, call filtering, voicemail, messages) have not all been verified on a real phone.
The detection of voicemail messages is a first approach, to be adjusted depending on the phone.
The launcher is not the default SMS app: the "read" marks and the deletions made in the launcher are not written to the phone's messages.
Business telephony (Connect) has not been proven on a real phone or against a real server.
The launcher is not yet published on Google Play; the Windows version is not distributed with the other applications.
There is no web version, and the Android launcher has no connection to a Prophetix account.