For over 30 years now the main interface of a computer has been a grid of icons. Little pictures that represent an app and all the information it contains. While our computers have changed from a big beige box to a little rectangle in your pocket, that grid of icons has stayed the same.

30 years of icon grids

We think our battery powered touchscreen supercomputers deserve something new. It’s time to reconsider what the best interface for a smartphone might be, and to demand much more than a grid of little icons.

Today we’re announcing our project to rethink the modern phone home screen on Android. We’re calling it Flow Home:

And here’s an idea of what it looks like right now:

We’ve been using it as our full time home screen for a few months now and we couldn’t imagine going back.

Since we are a small team and this is a big project, we expect to be at this for a while. People interested in early access and influence over future direction of the project can download the beta at http://flowhome.co. You can follow us here or @flowhomeapp for updates and invites to the beta program.