File Manager
Open Kwiq's File Manager as a standalone activity from any launcher. Browse, copy, move, rename, extract ZIPs, edit text, and manage media without leaving your current home screen.
Fast Android launcher
Everything on your Android, within reach.
Kwiq combines universal search, a capable file manager, desktop and gaming modes, an offline keyboard, and deep Material You customization in one launcher.
- Platform
- Android 8.0+
- Approach
- Local-first
Overview
A launcher that adapts to the way you use your device.
Kwiq can be a focused home screen, a file workspace, a compact desktop, or a controller-friendly game hub. Each feature remains configurable from the launcher settings.
Modular by design
Each feature works on its own — or together.
Kwiq is not just a launcher. Every major feature is a standalone Android component that can be used independently, with or without Kwiq as your home screen. Mix and match what works for you.
Gaming Mode
Launch Gaming Mode directly — a fullscreen, controller-friendly hub for Android games and ROMs. Connect a gamepad, browse your library, and play without Kwiq as your default launcher.
Desktop Mode
Turn your phone into a desktop workspace on landscape or external displays. Floating windows, taskbar, Start menu — all available as a standalone activity from any launcher.
Keyboard (IME)
Enable Kwiq as your system keyboard and use it everywhere, in every app, regardless of your launcher. Offline suggestions in PT, EN, ES, with privacy-focused anonymous mode.
Live Wallpaper
Activate the Kwiq Live Wallpaper from the Android wallpaper picker. It runs as a system WallpaperService independently of the Kwiq launcher, with slideshow, slots, and battery liquid indicator.
Wallpaper Picker
Set static wallpapers for Home, Lock, or both screens from any launcher. Kwiq's wallpaper picker activity works standalone, with crop and source selection.
Universal search
Find, calculate, launch, and act from one field.
Live results
Search apps, shortcuts, contacts, calendar events, files, and launcher settings with debounced fuzzy matching that ignores accents and spaces.
Smart actions
Recognizes math, URLs, email addresses, and phone numbers. Open links, compose email, call, send SMS, save a contact, or message through compatible installed apps.
Search destinations
Send a query to the browser, Google, Google Play, YouTube, Spotify, YouTube Music, or Google Maps. Voice input is available from the device microphone.
Search from the Home gesture
Choose Kwiq as your Android personal assistant, then long-press Home to jump straight into its global search from anywhere.
Home and organization
Your favorites, context, and categories in one place.
Personal dashboard
Use the large clock, weather, most-used apps, recent installs, favorites, recent files, starred contacts, agenda, and app shortcuts as the building blocks of Home.
Widgets and notes
Pin Android widgets and Markdown notes, then edit their position and size. Pinned notes can also be used as keyboard paste templates.
Flexible categories
Create, edit, hide, delete, and auto-complete color-coded tags. Apps can belong to multiple categories, with configurable icon borders and alphabetical grouping.
Files and media
A file manager made for browsing and doing.
Browse and organize
Navigate device storage with common-folder shortcuts; use list, grid, gallery, or media-player views; sort by name, modification date, creation date, or type.
File operations
Select multiple items to copy, cut, move, rename, delete, share, inspect, create folders or notes, create ZIP archives, and extract ZIP or 7z archives.
Media and metadata
Read and edit text or Markdown, inspect image EXIF and audio metadata including album art, browse media galleries, and manage a playback queue.
Styled folders
Give folders a custom color and badge icon. Dot-prefixed files and folders stay hidden until you enable their visibility.
ROM Patcher
Choose a ROM and patch, optionally validate checksums, and save the result. IPS/EBP, UPS, and BPS are applied natively; detected formats without a decoder are clearly reported.
Internal storage on desktop
Desktop mode displays the device's internal storage directly, giving you access to all your files without needing a dedicated folder.
Tools and convenience
Useful controls without leaving the launcher.
Quick tools
Show, hide, and reorder every quick tool in the footer. When there is not enough room, simply scroll the bar horizontally.
Search
Tap to open Kwiq's global search. Long-press to open your recent search history.
Flashlight
Tap to toggle the torch. Long-press for a compact strobe slider with Off, 5 Hz, 15 Hz, 50 Hz, 90 Hz, and On; every setting except Off turns on the light.
Caffeine
Tap to keep the screen awake or return it to normal. Long-press to choose how long Caffeine should stay active.
Screen recording
Tap to start or stop local MP4 recording. Long-press to configure quality, frame rate, audio, facecam, and shake-to-stop.
Gaming
Tap to enter Gaming. Long-press for the five most recently used Android games and ROMs, using the same recents list as the Gaming home.
Camera
Tap or long-press to open an available camera app on the device.
Lock screen
Tap to lock the device. Long-press to open the permission settings used by this action.
Settings
Tap to open Kwiq settings. Long-press to open the Android system settings.
Wallpaper
Tap to manage wallpapers. Long-press to advance to the next wallpaper in the active list and restart the automatic slideshow timer.
Notifications and battery wallpaper
With notification access, Kwiq shows active notifications. Its Live Wallpaper can optionally fill the screen with the current battery level.
Weather
Display weather on Home using configured coordinates and a refresh interval chosen in settings.
Backup and restore
Export preferences and Kwiq-managed wallpapers to a .kwiqbkp backup, restore them with confirmation, or restart the onboarding flow.
Personalization
Material You, wallpapers, and choices that stay yours.
Theme and icons
Choose light, dark, or system theme; use a dynamic or manual accent color; pick circular or rounded icons; and enable themed adaptive icons.
Wallpaper system
Set separate wallpapers for light/dark and portrait/landscape modes, plus gaming and lock-screen slots. Each slot supports multiple images, cropping, overlays, and slideshows.
Wallpaper sources and presets
Use the built-in library, gallery, solid colors, or supported online providers. Create, share, import, export, and apply wallpaper presets; some providers need your own API key.
Live Wallpaper
A dynamic wallpaper system that adapts to you.
The Kwiq Live Wallpaper turns your device into a dynamic canvas with context-aware slots, configurable slideshows, online sources, and a battery liquid indicator — all managed through XMP metadata stored right in each image file.
4 context-aware slots
Assign different wallpapers for Light Portrait, Light Landscape, Dark Portrait, and Dark Landscape. Kwiq automatically picks the right one based on your theme and device orientation. When a slot is empty, it falls back intelligently through the remaining slots.
Slideshow with per-image timing
Each wallpaper in a slot can have its own display duration (5 seconds to 1 hour). The slideshow loops automatically, and you can advance manually at any time. Every image remembers its place in the sequence and its crop settings.
11 wallpaper sources
Choose from Kwiq's bundled library, your device gallery, a solid color, or online providers: Wallhaven, Unsplash, Pixabay, Pexels, Safebooru, Wikimedia Commons, Openverse, Picsum Photos, and LoremFlickr. Some providers support additional filters like category, purity, image type, and orientation. Unsplash, Pixabay, and Pexels require your own API key.
Full preset system
Save complete wallpaper setups as presets — all four slots with their images, metadata, and crop settings. Presets are stored as folders in your device storage, making them easy to back up, share, import, and export as ZIP files.
Battery liquid indicator
Turn your lock screen wallpaper into a subtle battery gauge. The liquid fill type, color, and wave animation reflect your current battery level — a beautiful way to stay informed at a glance.
Static wallpaper picker
Use the standalone picker to set traditional static wallpapers for the Home screen, Lock screen, or both. Crop, zoom, and pan each image to fit perfectly before applying.
XMP metadata — self-describing images
Every wallpaper carries its own settings embedded as XMP metadata: sequence position, overlay opacity (0–100%), display duration, pan offset, and zoom level. This means wallpaper folders are fully portable — copy them anywhere and the settings travel with the images.
Backup and restore
Wallpaper presets and battery liquid preferences are included in Kwiq's backup system. Switching devices or resetting your phone? Restore your entire wallpaper setup from a single .kwiqbkp file.
Desktop and external displays
A compact workspace for landscape and larger screens.
Desktop mode uses landscape orientation and a smaller visual density, with a compact taskbar, category-based Start menu, desktop items, and active-notification bell.
Taskbar and Start menu
Open apps and tools from a compact taskbar. The Start menu follows your launcher categories and alphabetic app ordering; leave desktop mode from its dedicated taskbar control.
Internal windows
Kwiq supplies movable, resizable, minimizable, and maximizable internal windows for its file manager and text viewer/editor. Other apps follow the Android windowing support available on the device.
External display modes
Choose normal, desktop, or gaming behavior for a connected secondary display. Landscape auto-entry into desktop mode is configurable.
Gaming mode
A controller-friendly library for Android games and ROMs.
Gamepad-aware
Use OTG or Bluetooth gamepads, open Gaming with BUTTON_MODE, diagnose controller input, or automatically open the mode in landscape when a controller is connected.
Library and emulators
Browse Android games and ROMs by platform or category, configure detected emulators, run an auto-setup assistant, and manage recent games, favorites, search, and ordering.
Artwork and metadata
Assign local artwork, edit metadata, and optionally search IGDB or TheGamesDB. Those metadata services require credentials supplied by you.
Cloud and remote play
Open Xbox Cloud Gaming and discover compatible remote-play apps already installed on the device.
Kwiq Keyboard
A private, offline Android input method.
Offline suggestions
Enable Kwiq as a system keyboard for Portuguese, English, and Spanish dictionaries, local word learning, suggestions, and autocorrect.
Input controls
Use haptics, long-press character variants, symbol and emoji pages, Markdown shortcuts, optional arrow/WASD keys, and analog-stick navigation.
Personal preferences
Switch language from the spacebar, select a long-press delay, tint keys, turn on anonymous mode, and use pinned Markdown notes as paste templates.
Permissions and services
Features activate only with the access they need.
Contacts, calendar, files and media, microphone, camera, notifications, usage access, widgets, accessibility, and screen capture are requested only for the feature that needs them. Online providers require a connection, and some require a personal API key.