Daily app totals
See compact per-app totals right on Home, without opening a separate wellbeing dashboard.
A calmer Android home screen
Tighten up
your screen time.
A fast, focused launcher that puts your essential apps within reach while keeping your digital habits in plain sight.
Optimized for the Titan 2 Elite and other keyboard phones, while designed to work beautifully on phones of all shapes and sizes.
01 / IN ACTION
Built for touch.
Built for touch.
Better with keys.
Physical-keyboard users get thoughtful shortcuts, including one-key jumps through the app drawer.
Your phone,
pulled into focus.
Thoughtful features throughout
Less searching. More awareness. A Home screen that earns its place at the center of your phone.
Usage-ranked apps
Turn the right column into a live ranking of the apps taking the most of your day.
Stoplight guidance
Green, yellow, and red labels make growing usage instantly understandable.
Your own limits
Set personal warning and high-use thresholds in precise 15-minute steps.
A day that fits you
Choose when your screen-time day resets, so late-night use lands on the day that makes sense.
App limits that hold the line
Set a daily limit for any app, with three hours as the default. When time is up, a red circled X marks the app and Tighten blocks it across Home. Usage Access also lets you choose a whole-hour break or unblock it until the next screen-time reset.
Alphabetical app drawer
Installed apps stay organized in a clean horizontal drawer with clear letter groups.
Tap-to-jump alphabet
Tap or slide across the alphabet rail to move straight to the apps you need.
Hardware-key shortcuts
On keyboard phones, press a letter to that app group immediately.
Favorites your way
Choose, order, and quickly reach up to 20 favorite apps with Tighten Up.
Smarter Recents
See apps opened from Tighten, physical shortcuts, or Android Recents in one useful list.
Private Recents
Blur recent app names and icons or clear the list whenever you want a cleaner slate.
Independent columns
Scroll Favorites and Recents separately, with clear arrows and a gentle spring at each end.
Bluetooth audio favorites
When headphones, speakers, hearing aids, or car audio connect, your chosen audio apps move up front.
Notification indicators
A subtle accent underline shows which apps have an active notification without revealing the message itself.
Next calendar event
See the title, start time, and countdown for your next event directly on Home.
Useful at-a-glance header
Time, date, battery percentage, and settings stay easy to reach without visual clutter.
24 coordinated themes
Move between essentials, seasons, holidays, pastels, and futuristic color worlds.
True OLED black
Every dark theme can switch to pure #000000 surfaces for deep contrast and lower display power use.
25 offline typefaces
Choose from a full open-source font library, bundled on-device and available without a connection.
Independent sizing
Tune font and icon sizes separately, and show or hide column labels to fit the way you read.
Responsive on Android
Compact, tall, landscape, foldable, tablet, split-screen, and desktop windows all get a considered layout.
Titan 2 Elite optimized
Near-square proportions and the physical keyboard feel intentional, not squeezed into a generic phone design.
Optional permissions
Screen time, notifications, and calendar access only turn on when you choose their related features.
Private by design
No ads, analytics, account, cloud sync, location tracking, or Internet permission. Your data stays on your phone.
Usage awareness bar
A customizable progress bar tucked along the bottom of Home tracks total daily usage, with optional heat colors as you approach your chosen limit.
03 / YOUR HOME, YOUR WAY
Focus comes
Focus comes
in every color.
From bright essentials to pure-black OLED, Tighten’s coordinated themes keep every detail readable.
04 / FREE OR TIGHTEN UP
Start focused.
Start focused.
Tighten Up when ready.
Free is a complete launcher. Tighten Up includes everything in Free, then adds deeper personalization, awareness, and smart context with a permanent upgrade.
| Feature | Free | Tighten Up |
|---|---|---|
| Included with Free Tighten Up includes everything below | ||
|
Fully functional launcher
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Horizontally scrolling, alphabetically grouped app drawer
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Hardware-key alphabet jump for keyboard devices such as the Titan 2 Elite
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Light and Dark themes
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Solarized Light and Solarized Dark themes
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
OLED-black dark variants
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
All fonts
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
All wallpapers
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Basic daily screen-time totals
Usage Access required
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Sort Recents by screen time
Usage Access required
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Daily app limits with temporary unblock options
Usage Access required
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Blur recent apps
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Clear recent apps
|
✓ | ✓ |
|
Clock, date, and battery features
|
✓ | ✓ |
| Tighten Up adds More favorites, personalization, awareness, and smart context | ||
|
Maximum Favorites
|
5 | 20 |
|
Next calendar event display
Calendar permission required
|
— | ✓ |
|
Notification underline indicators
Notification Access required
|
— | ✓ |
|
Bluetooth audio favorites
|
— | ✓ |
|
Seasonal themes
|
— | ✓ |
|
Holiday themes
|
— | ✓ |
|
Pastel themes
|
— | ✓ |
|
Futuristic themes
|
— | ✓ |
|
Custom screen-time day reset
Usage Access required
|
— | ✓ |
|
Traffic-light screen-time colors
Usage Access required
|
— | ✓ |
|
Custom screen-time color thresholds
Usage Access required
|
— | ✓ |
Screen time usage awareness barUsage Access required |
— | ✓ |
| Simple pricing Choose the version that fits you. | $0 Free | $9.99 One-time purchase NO SUBSCRIPTION |
05 / COMMON QUESTIONS
The details,
The details,
made clear.
Everything you need to know before making Tighten your Home screen.
01What is Tighten Launcher?+
Tighten is an Android Home screen designed to make apps faster to reach and screen time easier to understand. It replaces your current launcher when you choose it as your default Home app.
02Which phones does Tighten support?+
Tighten is built for Android 16 and optimized for the Titan 2 Elite and other keyboard phones, while adapting to compact, standard, tall, landscape, foldable, tablet, split-screen, and desktop-sized Android windows.
03Do I need a physical keyboard?+
No. Every core feature works by touch. Keyboard devices also gain fast letter-key jumps through the alphabetical app drawer.
04What is included in the Free version?+
Free is a fully functional launcher with up to five Favorites, the alphabetical app drawer, keyboard jumps, essential and Solarized themes, OLED variants, every font and wallpaper, daily screen-time totals, screen-time sorting, Recents privacy controls, and the clock, date, and battery tools.
05What does Tighten Up add?+
Tighten Up raises Favorites to 20 and adds the full theme collections, a customizable screen time usage awareness bar, a custom screen-time reset, traffic-light colors and thresholds, notification indicators, Bluetooth audio favorites, and the next calendar event display.
06Why does Tighten ask for Usage Access?+
Usage Access is optional. It lets Tighten show complete daily screen-time totals, rank apps by use, and recognize apps opened through physical shortcuts or Android Recents. Tighten still works as a launcher without it.
07What does Notification Access reveal?+
Tighten uses only the identity of the app with an active notification so it can draw an underline beneath that app. It does not display or use notification messages or attachments.
08Why is calendar access optional?+
Calendar access lets Tighten display the title, start time, and countdown for your next event. It is read-only, so Tighten cannot create, edit, or delete calendar events.
09How do screen-time stoplights work?+
Green means usage is below your warning threshold, yellow means it has reached the warning range, and red means it has reached your high-use limit. Tighten Up lets you change both thresholds in 15-minute steps.
10How does the usage awareness bar work?+
Tighten Up can show a slim progress bar along the bottom of Home. Choose a daily goal from one to six hours and use either the selected theme accent or optional green-to-yellow-to-red heat colors as total foreground app time approaches the goal. Usage Access is required.
10What happens when Bluetooth audio connects?+
Tighten Up can place your chosen audio apps above regular Favorites when headphones, speakers, hearing aids, or car audio connect. You control which apps appear and their order.
11Can I hide or clear recent apps?+
Yes. You can blur the names and icons in Recents while keeping the rows usable, or clear the list completely. Both controls are included in Free.
12Does Tighten contain ads or analytics?+
No. Tighten has no ads, analytics, accounts, or cloud sync. Optional feature data is processed on your phone.
13Can I switch back to my old launcher?+
Yes. Open Android's default-app settings and choose another Home app at any time. Your previous launcher is not removed.
14What if an installed app is missing?+
First confirm that the app has a launchable icon and is enabled in Android Settings. If it still does not appear, restart Tighten or submit a support request with your phone model and Android version.
FOCUS, WITHOUT THE FUSS
Made to help you
Made to help you
use less. Do more.
Tighten has no ads, analytics, accounts, or cloud sync. Optional access to screen time, notifications, and your calendar supports only the features you choose, with data processed on your phone.
Built for Android 16
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