Ratio: Productivity Homescreen
July 08, 2024
More About Ratio: Productivity Homescreen
🔝"One of the best apps released in 2020." - Android Police
☑️ "This premium Android launcher makes your smartphone less addictive." - Yanko Design
🆒 "This feels like the opposite of most launchers, a sort of “anti-Launcher”" - 9To5Google
Ratio is a home screen app that ensures you have control of your phone, and not the other way around. Less digital distraction. More focus, mindfulness, and productivity.
🖤 Connect, follow, and write to us on:
Discord: https://discord.gg/8VBMAvCv4w
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bllocphone
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blloc.inc
📨 Conversations
Your favorite messaging platforms. All in one inbox.
Conversations organizes all your messages from Telegram, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Signal, SMS into one screen. (Many more apps to be integrated.)
Stay on top of your social and professional lives without distraction. No more endless switching between apps find your messages. Prioritize your focus and productivity.
🔲 Tiles
Your apps. Organized like never before.
Organize your apps into Drawers that work with your lifestyle. Or let Ratio auto-categorize your apps for you into categories such as: Productivity, Creativity, Finance, Entertainment, etc.
Pin the most important apps to the Dock for quick access.
Time tracker to limit time spent on apps. An App Lock to maintain privacy on your phone. And an App Hider to remove apps from your home screen.
🌱 Root
All the Ratio widgets & essentials of your phone, just one swipe away
We've created custom Ratio widgets that integrate your everyday tasks:
Calendar Widget, News, Media Player, Notes, Weather Widget,
Events, Search, Calculator, Currency, Timer, Phone Settings, and more always in development.
Ratio Background Modes
We created modes for every situation.
🕶️ Dark mode: Inspired by our original BllocMode designed back in 2016, this theme balances both contrast and performance.
🔦 Light mode By popular demand, we're making Ratio bright and translucent for the first time. Match the time of day with our new light theme.
🧘 Focus mode: A visual theme that replaces gradients and solid colors for thin lines. This mode saves battery with a more uniform UI without any accents.
☀️ Sun mode: This mode was created to give you the best possible contrast in bright environments and even direct sunlight.
🔎 Universal Search
Find everything directly from your home screen: apps, shortcuts, quick actions, contacts, and web search. Lightning quick to boost your productivity and keep your focus.
Ratio Memberships
We will never show you ads or sell your data. This goes against our principles, and our ambition to change the industry. Try Ratio for 7 days for free, and begin your productivity and mindfulness journey.
Why? https://bit.ly/why-membership
FAQs https://bit.ly/ratio-membership-faq
Safety First
Your privacy is more important than ever. We take measures to keep it that way.
Local: No personal information leaves your device
Ratio features are all mobile-first enabled, no cloud processing for any feature, no 3rd party services.
Your personal data stays locally on your device.
Privacy: You decide what permissions to give
Ratio gives you full control over the data it can process with a simple UI to fully revoke access however and whenever you see fit. Transparency like never before.
Encrypted: For your eyes only
We use state-of-the-art asymmetric 256-bit RSA-based dual encryption to protect your data. We have no master key. You and only you should have access to your data.
Accessibility Service
Our Accessibility Service is used exclusively to let you turn off your phone's screen with a double-tap gesture. It is optional, disabled by default and doesn't collect any data.
Latest Version
6.3.6
July 08, 2024
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User Reviews
Thailur Willhoyt
3 years ago
Great launcher but the latest v5 update is unusable for me. The swipe up app drawer gesture is really buggy. For example, if you perform short scrolling gestures where the title of a an expanded drawer is near the top of the screen, it instantly jumps down to the app drawer. Even if it works as intended, I always find it opening without my intention. Please make the swipe gesture for the app drawer optional. EDIT: Seems fixed, much appreciated!
David Prock
1 year ago
When your on your home app screen (Ratio), swiping the back gesture does nothing. So why not put it to use and Only collapse all folders, and Don't toggle between last open collapsed. Just only collapsed. It will make this app 200% better. Often there is more than one folder open, or the one folder that is open has a lot in it. And to make all folders collapse you have to already be at the top of all the open & closed folders, and once at the top pull down from the top. Scrolling to much to coll
Andrew Z
4 years ago
I really like the concept of searching/categorizing apps. Without losing the functionality of your apps. Your Gallery, browsing, etc. still show in color when they're supposed to. Gave it 4 stars because; 'A' for effort however, I happen to be a fringe case with a dual screen phone(LG G8X Thinq Dual Screen). The launcher does not effect the second screen. Keep on keeping on!
ledbetter
3 years ago
I'd been using it faithfully for years, but now it's another subscription that I would to keep track of. The features are awesome. I will miss how it helped me use my phone less and made my home screen less cluttered. Edit: I understand how some people value that their data isn't sold. That's not an issue for me since everything else already does that. Ads do suck and have no place in a launcher. I won't fault you that. The price, even at the discount, is just too high for what it is.
James Price
4 years ago
I used Ratio for about two months on my Samsung Galaxy Note 10 plus. In theory, it's supposed to keep things clean and easy to access, but in reality I was fumbling with swiping, trying to find my apps. What used to be right on the home screen is now in a folder. Performance is just bad enough that it makes my phone feel slower. The idea is great but it needs more optimization and some features that allow faster access to frequently used apps.
Richard Gear
2 years ago
Great launcher! I especially love the integration of all my messages in one place. (A nice nod to the original BlackBerry Hub, that allows one to reply without having to open the specific messaging app.) However, I have come to rely on several applications' widgets, so I have to go back to the stock home launcher. And I appreciate the grayscale concept, but really much prefer to keep color on the home screen.
Joshua Nickles
1 year ago
So I've been running Ratio on the seven day trial to see if/how it helps me with staying organized. So far so good. Honestly, I'm in love with this launcher. It ticks all the boxes for me. Features, aesthetic, feel. I like the monochrome look. There are some features I'd like to see, but I'd argue that they're pretty trivial. Example: why is the font color still white in light mode? Wouldn't it make more sense to have black text? Just a thought.
Volley
3 years ago
Really good launcher with a great aesthetic and feel, but there are a couple of things that could be added/fixed: 1. When you open an app in the drawer and then exit, it brings you back to the Tiles, not the drawer. 2. Auto categorizing apps doesn't put the apps in alphabetical order. 3. You can change the names of apps in the Tiles, but not in the drawer. 4. An option to remove the names of the apps and just have the icon. 5. An option to remove the search bar at the bottom. Keep it up! 👍
Julian
2 years ago
The launcher is very intuitive and I love the built on digital wellbeing features. Not being able to choose my own wallpapers or disable monochrome mode, however, are the two deal-breakers preventing me from subscribing. I understand the vision here, but users should be able to decide which elements they need. As it stands, it's just too restrictive.
Deebo
2 years ago
Looks really good and is nice to use, but I don't think I should have to pay $80 for a lifetime subscription to a launcher. Especially considering the several noticable bugs I've encountered. For example, individual widgets as far as I can tell cannot be edited within their respective apps, so it's nearly impossible to use any weather widget that requires you to input location info. I think if there was a free option available / if the subscription model was changed, I'd consider keeping this.
McSkulliosis
4 years ago
EDIT:I finally figured it out. Excuse my impatience. I thought the color mode was for changing the lime green to a different color. That would make this a hundred times spectacular. I've been using this for a month, and I've customized it as much as I can, with its lack of customizing. It'll be great if you guys made a widget for YT Music, and optional fonts and color schemes other than lime green. Overall, it's great. Just have to restart it every now and then due to apps becoming unresponsive.
Jonathan Johns
3 years ago
It's a good launcher, with a decently high price tag, but if you have been following it since the days where you needed an invite then you know they've put in a lot of work into this. Unfortunately it didn't bode well with my workflow. I use WhatsApp on Windows and any messages I send and receive through it don't show up in the messaging functionality of the app. I still feel the root part of the app is missing something, it's just strange how it works as a feed for commands. It's good!
Jim
1 year ago
Great launcher, just the right amount of minimalism. However the pricing structure is the issue. A big turn off for me and unfortunately there is no way I can justify 30 bucks rent for this launcher per year, no way no how. I have no problem paying and helping support development but this is over the top. It is the most expensive launcher on Google play. Sadly I will let it go and maybe check back later for any price reduction. EDIT: I noticed the price reduction a while back and I'm now using
Connor Louiselle
4 years ago
Great emphasis on productivity and minimalism in design, but very unintuitive for working quickly and intuitively, at least compared to Smart Launcher. For example, there's no dedicated Play Store button on this launcher nor the ability to set it. Also, the animations are indeed too slow, and having to think about which category each of your apps is in, opening the name of the category, waiting for a slow animation, and then finding it in that category? It's not worth the productivity tracking
Rick Console
3 years ago
I'll be honest, the launcher is beautiful, smooth, easy to setup, and has amazing potential! That being said, there is one glaring issue: price. At the moment (April 2022) the cost of this app is $50/year. Not a one time purchase, but a yearly price. I still downloaded it despite the reviews but I was still disappointed. I would much rather pay a one time fee then have a subscription to a launcher. Blloc, if you see this, please lower your price. You'll get a higher user count and better reviews
James Simmons
2 years ago
Great interface, simple. Helps keep me focused in a profound way. I'd like it to support more widgets, but they recently made a huge update in the right direction regarding that. The Message Stream needs improvement - I can't send stickers from it, I can't listen to voice messages on Signal on it. If I respond outside of the Stream the reply doesn't show. So they need to work on that, but overall a great launcher.
Amelia Maloney
3 years ago
The look and feel is nice but this launcher lacks key functionality and customization and is overly convoluted. Niagara is a better clean and simple option. Some key things that made me stop using this. Discord doesnt work with messaging hub. App categories are too broad; when folders default to 20+ apps there is no point in using this as a drawer alternative. It would be better to have a handful of apps available say 5-15 with others found via search or a drawer. Ability to change colors. I like the single accent color idea but the shade of yellow green gets old pretty quick. I have been a beta tested on and off for this even before this was in the play store and I haven't felt like this is really any better than Niagara, however I do feel like if especially the messages hub was fixed to include more services ( discord for me) and the home screen was reworked it would be interesting and worth trying long term again. I want to like this launcher just never end up feeling it ever is polished.
a c
1 year ago
The launcher is surprisingly glitchy given how much they're charging. The weather widget can't locate city despite all permissions being granted. The Conversations feature has been in beta for years. It works for Messages but for Signal, all sent messages register as being received. Its a pretty launcher and most of the main things work fine but some core advertised features just don't work in critical ways. The concept is a good one but execution is lacking.
Abbie Rose
1 year ago
I'm actually not sure why this app doesn't have higher ratings. I've tried quite a few and I really like this one. It'd be nice if it had a few more features, like filtered notifs like some other apps have, especially given the price. I also kinda wish there was an option for drawers to close automatically when a new one is opened.
Ulesis Pittman
1 year ago
I'm having an issue with the app crashing the moment it opens up. Nothing has changed since last night, the app is just refusing to run. I've already cleared the cache and reinstalled the app several times, but still can't get it to run. You guys don't seem to have support page. I have a Galaxy s24 ultra.
