Sorbet Apps / Android

Sorbet Launcher

Most elegant launcher ever

A home screen built around soft colour. Sorbet pairs pastel icon plates with your favourite icon packs, widgets that take on your colours, and motion that makes every app feel at home.

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For Android 8.0 and later · Coming soon to Google Play.

No ads
No analytics
No sign-in
Optional one-off Plus

Sorbet home screen with pastel app icons, a weather card, calendar agenda, search bar and five-app dock

Icon plate shapes: 28
Built-in symbols: 228
Opening / closing styles: 8 / 6

Small details. Big difference.

A launcher with range.

Start with a look you love, then change as much or as little as you like. Sorbet’s defaults are considered; its settings run deep.

Your icons, your rules

Choose Sorbet, Liquorice, Original or an installed icon pack. Mix 28 plate shapes, per-app names, 228 built-in symbols, themed icons and up to three letters.

Icon packs are always free.

Colour beyond the icons

Six palettes range from Sorbet and Macaron to Mint Choc and Allsorts. Colour by row, column, diagonal, checkerboard or each app’s own brand colour.

Custom colours and extra patterns are Plus.

Widgets that belong

Weather, calendar, clock and search sit naturally beside your apps. Widgets can blend through the colours of every grid row or column they cover.

Add and resize standard Android widgets too.

Motion with a little flavour

Open with Bloom, Circle, Rise or Ripple; close into the icon, bounce or send a wave home. Sorbet follows Android’s animation setting and offers Instant.

Eight opening and six closing styles.

Find it. Work it out. Open it.

Fuzzy app search understands initials. Quick answers handle sums and unit conversions on the phone. Sort by name, install date or locally stored launch counts.

Web and Play searches are always your choice.

Bring your home screen with you

Preview and copy pages, folders and the dock from another launcher. Export your layout and settings as JSON, restore them later, and undo a layout copy.

Layout copy and backups are free.

A taste of Sorbet

Make yourself at home.

Switch between Sorbet plates, Liquorice and original icons. Then select an app to see its colour bloom across the screen.

Sorbet screenshot showing an app opening through expanding pastel colour panels

Apps open in their own colour.

Sorbet’s Bloom grows the icon’s plate into a full-screen wash of colour while the app starts. Choose Sorbet, Liquorice or Original for your icons; use a preset palette or make your own.

Turn on JavaScript to try the interactive colour and motion preview.

Up close

Made to feel like yours.

Pair your favourite icon pack with pastel plates, keep your schedule on the home screen, and open every app in colour.

Bring your icon pack

Use ADW, Nova and Lawnchair-compatible packs as they come, or put their glyphs on Sorbet plates. Shown here with the open-source Arcticons pack.

Sorbet calendar widget showing a detailed agenda with times, places and an optional weather line — Your day at a glance
See events from calendars already on your phone. A one-cell date icon becomes a detailed agenda when you give it more room.

Sorbet app-opening sequence with overlapping pastel panels expanding from an icon — Apps open in their own colour
Bloom carries an icon’s colour and shape into the screen. Other choices include Circle, Rise, Ripple, Zoom, Reveal, System and Instant.

No subscription

Free at heart. Plus when you want more.

The free launcher is complete on its own. Sorbet Plus is an optional one-off purchase that unlocks the deeper customisation, not a recurring bill.

Sorbet

The essentials are free.

A polished home screen without ads, an account or a feature timer.

Sorbet, Liquorice and Original looks
Installed icon packs and eight Classic shapes
Six palette presets, row colours and a single-colour option
Widgets, widget colour blends and notification counts
App drawer, fuzzy search and on-device quick answers
Layout copy, JSON backups and restore
Bloom, System and Instant openings

Sorbet Plus · one-off

Go a little further.

Keep your Plus settings in backups, even before you unlock them again.

20 more Geometric and Playful icon shapes
Built-in symbols, letters and a unique shape for any app
Editable palettes, custom colours and extra colour patterns
Page effects, infinite scroll and additional gestures
More opening and closing animations and speed choices
Medium, condensed and light label fonts
No subscription; Google Play handles the purchase

Privacy in plain English

Your home screen is personal.

Sorbet has no ads, analytics, sign-in or cloud account. Only the features that need the network connect: weather forecasts, Google Play purchases and searches you choose to open.

Read the complete privacy policy

Everyday data stays in the app

Layouts, settings, custom names and launch counts are stored on your phone. Calendar events and quick answers are processed on-device by Sorbet.

Connections are specific

Weather sends your chosen place or coordinates to Open-Meteo. Play Billing checks Plus with Google. A web or Play Store search opens that provider with your query.

Permissions are your choice

Calendar and notification access are optional. Two accessibility services have separate, narrow jobs and stay off until you enable them.

Support is a conversation

Suggestions and requests open your email app with an editable draft. App and device details are included for context, but nothing is sent until you choose to send it.

Good to know

A few quick answers.

Which phones can run Sorbet?

Sorbet supports Android 8.0 (API 26) and later. Some motion details depend on your Android version and navigation mode; Sorbet follows the system animation setting.

Do I need Sorbet Plus to use an icon pack?

No. Icon packs are free in every copy of Sorbet. You can use a pack across the home screen, place its glyphs under Sorbet or Liquorice plates, or choose an individual icon from it.

Can Sorbet copy my current launcher?

Sorbet can read another launcher’s visible home-screen layout after you start a copy and enable its separate layout-copy accessibility service. You see a preview before replacing anything and can undo the copy. Widgets are listed for you to add again rather than copied automatically. Pixel Launcher is tested; results can vary elsewhere.

Does Sorbet need my precise location?

No precise-location permission is requested. The weather card starts with Sydney and sends those coordinates to Open-Meteo when weather is used. If you search for another place, your typed search and the selected coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo to provide weather.

Where can I download it?

Sorbet is coming soon to Google Play for Android 8.0 and later.

Built by Sam Russell with a fondness for thoughtful software and a well-arranged home screen.

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Weather data by Open-Meteo, under CC BY 4.0. Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google LLC. Other product names belong to their owners; compatibility does not imply endorsement.