Introducing Escape launcher 2.0 🥳🥳🎉🎉
I'm happy to announce that Escape launcher is finally out of beta and ready for use with our biggest update yet!
Caution
Important: Before installing Escape 2.0, please clear the data and uninstall any previous installations to avoid crashes.
Here's how:
- Long-press the Escape app in a different launcher (e.g., Pixel Launcher, OneUI home).
- Tap App Info → Storage → Clear Storage.
- Uninstall the app.
- Install Escape 2.0.
Release Notes
- Completely redesigned UI with new paged home screen that uses swiping instead of a button
- Redesigned onboarding screen when you first open Escape to improve your setup experience
- 12 new themes
- Improved widget functionality (note this is the one part of the launcher that still has a few issues)
- Redesigned, more organised settings
- Better UI for alignment options in settings
- Different fonts to choose from
- Built in screen time tracking including
- Screen time on home page
- Screen time next to each app
- Screen time tracking dashboard
- Percent of average waking hours spent on phone
- Percent higher than we recommend
- New logo and branding
- Teal green colour
- New door logo to represent "escaping and the path you're taking"
- Support for private space in Android 15 (note: this feature is only supported by Google on pixel phones currently)
- Non-intrusive analytics to improve future app updates
- Haptic feedback across the app
- Two line clock
- Support for en, fr and jp languages
- Pretty much an entire rewrite of the backend for improved performance and easier updating in the future
Thanks for using escape!
Happy new year, enjoy the update 🎉. If you find any bugs, we'd appreciate if you reported them on the issues tab. We’re excited to hear your thoughts!