Changelog

Mur 1.0

Mur reaches 1.0. We sharpened nearly every corner of the launcher and added a lot on top: a new Simple way to theme, search that now reaches the rest of your phone, instant answers in the search bar, a rebuilt backup-and-restore flow, layouts that fit foldables, and contacts right on your home screen — all on a launcher that starts noticeably faster and scrolls smoother. Here's the full rundown.

Theming gets a Simple mode — and per-app colors

The theme editor is still there in full, but you no longer have to touch every dial to get a great look. A new Simple mode lets you start from a preset and shape the whole feel in seconds, and you can now give individual apps their own color.

You can now:

  • Start from one of seven hand-built presets — Liquid, Material, Metro, Glass, Brutalist, Soft, Neon — each with its own shapes, colors, depth, and motion
  • Shape the entire look with a handful of Simple-mode sliders: roundness, density, inner padding, depth, shadow softness, shadow tint, and motion
  • Pick separate display and body fonts from a searchable browser, with a size scale to make text smaller or larger everywhere
  • Watch every change land instantly in a live preview across Home, Library, Search, and Categories before you commit
  • Drop into the Full editor any time for fine-grained control over every color, shape, space, font, and animation — now better organized

Search now reaches your whole phone

Search did apps and the web before. Now one bar reaches across your device and answers more on the spot, with filter chips to zero in on exactly what you want.

You can now:

  • Find photos, videos, and music on your device (with Media Access) and tap straight through to open them
  • Get web suggestions as you type, powered by Brave, and jump straight to results
  • Tap source shortcuts to send your query to YouTube, Wikipedia, Google Play, Maps, or Translate
  • Narrow results with filter chips — All, Apps, Contacts, Calendar, Settings, Web, Media — that only show up when there's something to filter
  • Speak to search with voice input, and re-run any of your recent searches from quick chips (or clear them all with one tap)

Some questions don't need a results page. Mur now answers them inline the moment you type.

You can now:

  • Convert units on the fly across length, weight, volume, temperature, area, speed, and time — just type something like "5 km in miles" or "32°F to °C"
  • Run quick math straight in the search bar

Backup and restore, rebuilt

Backup is more reliable now, and restoring no longer means hoping for the best — there's a real, guided flow for moving your setup to a new phone.

You can now:

  • Export a complete backup — tiles, folders, widgets, shortcuts, and all your customizations — to Downloads or a folder you choose
  • Restore with a clear confirmation that spells out exactly what's about to be replaced before anything changes
  • See a restore summary with the count of tiles, folders, and widgets that came back
  • Re-add widgets that need permission through a guided "Re-add widgets" step, while the rest restore automatically
  • Share a backup straight to another device right after you export it
  • Rely on a more dependable Auto-Backup (Premium) that saves to a folder you pick, on a steady schedule

One Mur, tuned for every screen

Foldables get a layout that fits both states instead of one stretched compromise.

You can now:

  • Choose one layout everywhere, or set independent layouts for the folded and unfolded screens
  • Tune grid columns and app-drawer columns separately for Folded and Unfolded modes

A more flexible App Library

The drawer picked up several new ways to organize, browse, and reach your apps.

You can now:

  • Split personal and work apps into tabs so the two never get tangled
  • Scroll faster with the new drag slider with a floating letter and haptics
  • View your apps as a grid, stacks, or a clean list
  • Turn categories into folders automatically, and rename categories
  • Add app shortcuts to your home screen from an "Add to home screen" sheet — drag the preview onto a tile, or tap "Add automatically" to drop it in the first open spot

Put the people you text most on your home screen

The new Contacts extension turns a tile into a living grid of the people you reach for most.

You can now:

  • Drop a Contacts tile on your home screen that shows your favorite people as an animated, shuffling grid
  • Choose Circles for a clean uniform look or Shapes for a playful mix of decorative cutouts
  • Show your starred contacts automatically, or hand-pick exactly who appears

Other improvements

  • Much faster cold start — Mur now prewarms apps, grids, colors, and your theme before the first frame, so your home screen shows up themed and ready instead of flashing through placeholders
  • Smoother scrolling and live tiles — icon loading, image rendering, and tile updates were reworked to cut jank, so lists and live content stay fluid
  • Settings reorganized into clearer sections — Layout, Behavior, and Tile Sizes — with dedicated settings menus for Search, App Library, and Categories
  • Full search on side pages (Premium) — optionally bring contacts, calendar, web, and shortcut results into search from the App Library and Categories pages

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue that could cause some apps to fail to launch
  • Fixed folder notifications not appearing in folder details
  • Fixed the Google Feed pane not attaching on a cold start
  • Fixed tile sizing glitches when dragging and dropping
  • Smoothed out home-screen enter animations