Omalauncher puts Omarchy’s themes, Arch Linux and coding agents on your Android home screen
Simon Schubert’s launcher runs Arch Linux ARM under proot without root, opens Claude Code or Codex from the search bar, and ships with a reviewed widget store that now has an approved Omarchy plugin on the desktop side.
Image: Simon Schubert, omalauncher README (GitHub)
If you have ever wished your phone looked like your Omarchy desktop, Simon Schubert has gone a lot further than a wallpaper. Omalauncher is an Android home screen with the look of Omarchy, and, optionally, a full Arch Linux ARM system running next to your phone apps. According to the README, the launcher runs that system under proot, with no root required, and acts as its Wayland compositor: every Linux window opens as its own Android task, with its own card in Recents. The repository was created on October 2, 2026, is written in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, and the app is on Google Play as dev.omalauncher, with no account, no ads and no tracking.
The theming is the obvious hook. The README lists all 22 Omarchy themes, with their wallpapers, applied both to the launcher and to the Linux apps, plus the community themes from omarchy.org/themes or your own dropped into ~/.config/omarchy/themes. Widgets are written in OWL, a small declarative language you can edit on the phone itself. The Linux side is optional: without it, the launcher still has the themes, wallpapers, Android apps and any widgets that don’t run commands. With it, you get pacman and the AUR, Linux apps in their own windows, terminal widgets, a file manager, and opt-in GPU acceleration on Mali and Adreno 6xx+ GPUs. You need an arm64 phone on Android 10 or newer, and the Arch tarball is an 830 MB download.
The bar at the bottom is where the “agentic” part lives. Per the README, it’s the one input on the home screen: focusing it lists your Linux and Android apps, short queries that name an app open it, and sentences go to a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, opencode and others), which opens in a terminal. Hold the mic to talk, and speech is recognized by Android, so only text reaches Linux. Hardware keyboard users get Omarchy-style shortcuts: Super+Enter for a terminal, Super+Space or Super+A for the bar, Super+1..9 for home pages, and Super+W to close a Linux window.
Widgets, faces and apps come from a reviewed store, omarchy-widgets. Its README explains that everything in widgets/, faces/ and apps/ has been reviewed, that CI publishes the index to GitHub Pages when a pull request is merged, and that the launcher shows every command a widget or app runs and every package it installs before you accept, checking the download against the reviewed file’s SHA-256. Faces are whole home pages, like a watch face; apps are full-screen OWL views that open from the app drawer. Publishing is a long-press and a tap: your coding agent forks the repo and opens the pull request for you.
That store is also how Omalauncher reached the Omarchy desktop. On October 16, 2026, Simon submitted omalauncher-omarchy-plugin to the marketplace; issue #11855 was closed the same evening with the validated, listed and approved-and-verified labels, in the Widgets category. Simon posted on X that day that you can “create and share your widgets directly from Omarchy via the just approved Omalauncher Omarchy plugin.” The plugin README describes it as Omalauncher’s mark in the bar, opening your OWL widget board in a panel at the phone’s six columns, with the store a click away, agent-driven publishing by pull request, and sharing a widget as a QR code that opens straight in the phone’s launcher. It installs with omarchy plugin add https://github.com/SimonSchubert/omalauncher-omarchy-plugin.git --enable as io.github.simonschubert.omalauncher, and outside Omarchy there is an omarchy-widgets package on the AUR.
Releases are coming fast. The v0.9.0 notes, published October 18, 2026, introduced faces (“whole home screens left of page 1, like a watch face”), styled text, gradients, frosted glass and popup menus for widgets, and Owl 10 for widget makers, alongside fixes for foldables. Simon said on X the same day that “user generated apps are live on Omalauncher,” with “native UI performance, powerful linux infrastructure, easy to share and edit with your agent.” Then came v0.10.0, published October 19, 2026: “The app drawer is now a widget file you or your agent can edit,” the home layout is a file too, “so an agent can move, resize and reorder your pages,” and Owl 11 brings swipe panels, lazy lists and screen reader labels.
The project is clearly striking a chord: it sits at 398 stars and 90 forks at the time of writing, less than three weeks after the repository was created. And it isn’t the only Omarchy-flavored launcher around: Bjarne Øverli, who is building his own called Detent, wrote on X on October 17, 2026: “All the OmaLaunchers are really cool, but I need something that does not try to steal my attention.” He added that all the launchers people are making are cool, “including the ones making entire Android OS!”
One note on licensing and affiliation, straight from the README: Omalauncher’s own code and artwork are MIT, while the bundled proot, talloc and libandroid-shmem binaries prebuilt by Termux are under GPL-2.0, LGPL-3.0 and BSD-3-Clause; GitHub lists the repository’s license as “Other.” And Simon is explicit that Omalauncher is an independent project, “not affiliated with or endorsed by Omarchy, Arch Linux, or the makers of the coding agents it installs.” Independent or not, an Omarchy phone that runs foot and Claude Code in a proot Arch is the kind of thing this community was bound to build.
