It’s pretty popular with GrapheneOS users because on GrapheneOS, you can install any app entirely without network permission, or disable the permission afterwards. It might be my favorite feature of GrapheneOS.
I personally use Lawnchair, and while I really like it, it has one big flaw - app drawer folders. It does have them, but you have to create and manage them in settings and it’s really slow and annoying. I have around 260 apps, and sorting them this way would be almost impossible.
I was looking into other launchers, including Nova, but then I found JINA. It’s an app drawer, not a launcher, and it has tons of features - nested folders, tags, filters… No in-app purchases or ads, even though it’s not FOSS. It’s ugly, but exactly what I needed.
And now the best part: Lawnchair has an option to open an app on the swipe up gesture instead of opening the drawer. That way I replaced it’s drawer with JINA without switching to another launcher like Nova.
cool!