A home screen that looks like mission control.
Everything is built around one idea: your apps in orbit, with system telemetry always in view.
Orbit dial
Eight favourite apps orbit a battery hub. Drag around it to spin and flick for momentum. Device, uptime, RAM and storage sit beside the clock.
3D All Apps orbit
Tap the centre: every app on three rings. Drag to spin and tilt in 3D, swipe for pages, pinch to zoom.
Neon icons
Every icon is redrawn as a glass orb with a glowing glyph in one of six accent colours, or as a colour orb. You can also keep the originals.
Your profile
Your name, logo and a time-aware greeting right next to the clock.
IT Tools built in
Fifteen tools one tap away from home: speed test, Wi-Fi signal, SSL checker, Wake-on-LAN, QR codes, ping, DNS and more.
ALFA OS Settings
One tidy screen: profile, appearance, orbit & motion, home screen and system, with updates and about at the end.
Dual & work apps
The apps you cloned (a second WhatsApp) and work-profile apps appear with a badge. System clutter from the clone profile stays hidden.
Self-updating
ALFA checks GitHub Releases, downloads the new build with a progress bar and installs it. You just confirm.
One wallpaper
Fluid glass, 3D depth or matte minimal styles in your accent, or your own photos, set as the real system wallpaper so home and Recents match.
Your pocket toolkit.
Grouped under one button on the home screen. Each tool runs in its own window, so it stays open in Recents while you switch apps.
Network info
Transport, interface, IPv4/IPv6, gateway, DNS, private DNS, MTU, signal, public IP.
Speed test
Download, upload, ping and jitter against Cloudflare's speed servers, with a plain-English verdict.
Wi-Fi details
Live signal meter, band, channel, link speed and Wi-Fi standard. Walk around to find dead spots.
SSL checker
Certificate status, expiry countdown, issuer, covered domains, TLS version, cipher and chain.
Wake-on-LAN
Save your PCs and servers by MAC address and wake them with one tap.
QR generator
Wi-Fi (scan to join), link or text to QR code; save as PNG or share.
Ping
ICMP echo to any host with live output; one-tap Google DNS, Cloudflare and gateway.
DNS lookup
A / AAAA records, reverse PTR and lookup timing.
Port check
TCP connect check on a single host you own or are authorised to test, with service names.
Subnet calc
Network, broadcast, mask, wildcard, host range, class and address type.
Device info
SoC, CPU, RAM, storage, display, battery health, kernel, security patch.
Hash / Base64
MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, CRC32, Base64 encode and decode.
Password generator
Secure random passwords with an entropy estimate; tap to copy.
System panels
Jump straight to Wi-Fi, VPN, developer options, default apps, usage access and more.
App update
Check, download and install the latest ALFA build from GitHub.
Built by Sha The IT Guy.
Sharqan Ahamed
Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer · Cloud & Cybersecurity Strategist
DUBAI, UAE · 7+ YEARS
I design and run the infrastructure other people take for granted: the network under a stadium on match day, the hypervisors under the line-of-business apps, the backups that have to work the one time they're needed. Lately that's mostly self-hosted AI on my own hardware and zero-trust networking.
ALFA is the home screen I wanted on my own phone: the telemetry I'd check anyway, and the tools I actually reach for (ping, DNS, ports, subnets), one tap from home.
Up and running in a minute.
Download
Grab alfa-launcher.apk on your phone and allow your browser to install apps when Android asks.
Set as home
Open ALFA and tap Set as default. Pressing Home now brings you to ALFA instead of the stock launcher.
Make it yours
Tap ⚙ to add your name and logo, pick an accent and icon style, and arrange your orbit and dock.
Make your phone an ALFA.
Free, open source, no ads, no tracking. Updates come straight from GitHub.