A home screen for Android · in testing now

Your home screen, showing what's actually going on — then getting out of the way.

Qiz shows you who's waiting on a reply, what's next on your calendar, what's playing, whether it's going to rain, and where your parcel is, then opens the app that owns each of those things. It isn't a messenger, a mail client, or a music player. It's the surface where everything lands, so you stop opening six apps to find out whether anything happened.

Test it early What you see

Qiz is in closed testing on Google Play. Email and you'll get a tester invite; there's nothing to pay.

The Qiz home screen in the Kelly theme: the time and date, the weather, three market tickers, the next three calendar items, a live score, a row of feed tabs (News, Reddit, Bluesky, Hacker News, World), a list of headlines, and a handy list of errands at the bottom

No account, no server
Nothing leaves your phone
Reads only apps you allow
Won't make things up
Six themes

What you see

One glance, then the app that owns it

Waiting messages, mail and deliveries — who's waiting on a reply and where the parcel is.
Your calendar, and when to leave.
Full controls for whatever is playing.
Weather now and hourly. Weather with no rain data says nothing, not "0%".
Scores, read from your own sports app.
Feeds you choose — Reddit, Bluesky, Hacker News, your own RSS with OPML import.
A list you can talk to or share anything into.
A deck of controls.

First run

It arrives switched off

No feeds, no notifications, nothing reading anything — because none of that is Qiz's to decide for you. A few short steps turn on the parts you want. Every step can be skipped, nothing is switched on behind your back, and you can run the setup again from Settings whenever you like.

The first-run screen, headed 'This is Qiz', explaining that Qiz arrives switched off, with a 'Set Qiz up' button and a 'Skip setup' link

Themes

Six surfaces, not one screen in six colours

Each theme is a different set of materials — the cards, the accent, the type — so the one that reads best on your phone, in your light, is a real choice rather than a tint.

Kelly — deep green, gold accent
Northwest — deep navy, cold bright teal
Ember — banked coals, hot orange
Graphite — charcoal and pale steel
Paper — warm cream and ink, for daylight
Glass — smoked glass over your own wallpaper

The theme picker in the Northwest theme: six cards, each showing its own surfaces and accent, with Northwest selected

The same theme picker in the light Paper theme, with Paper selected

The deck

A deck of controls, one tap away

Behind the Ask button sits a deck: note, camera, car, lights, torch, Bluetooth, rotate, data, hotspot, and any app you want there. Reorder it, remove what you don't use, add what you do.

The deck panel open over the home screen: a grid of round buttons — Note, Camera, Car, Lights, Torch, Bluetooth, Rotate, Data, Hotspot, Movie night, Apps, Settings — and an Edit button

Settings

Every setting says what it does

Frame, layout, your teams, your week, the deck, accounts and feeds, privacy and access, theme — each one is a sentence you can read, not an icon you have to guess at. And Move your setup saves everything to a file, so your whole arrangement comes with you to the next phone.

The Settings screen: Frame, Layout, Move your setup, Your teams, Your week, Deck, Accounts & feeds, Privacy & access, Theme — each with a one-line description

It reads notifications — only from apps you allow

You pick them one at a time, and nothing is read until you do. Everything stays on your phone: there's no account, no server, and nowhere for your data to be sent. Turn an app off and what it read is gone immediately.

It won't make things up

If a source stops working, Qiz says so instead of showing you something that looks real. You should be able to trust a glance.

Android · closed testing

Want to try it before it's on the store?

Qiz is being tested with a small group on Google Play before its public release. If you'd like an invite, send a one-line email from the Google account you use on your phone.

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