Cookbook

name your pages

1. Go to the page you want to name.
2. Hold empty space, tap pages, then name.
3. Type a name, like work or music, and press enter.

Faster: swipe up and type :rename. The name shows in the path up top and in the go menu. Empty brings back the page's own name.

lock with a double tap

1. Open settings, home, lock gesture ›.
2. Tap double tap empty space. Phosphor says what the lock service does.
3. Tap phosphor lock service and turn it on in Android's accessibility page.
4. Back on home, double tap the top bar or any empty cell. The phone locks.

Fingerprint and face unlock keep working. lock phone is in the go menu too.

a pull down of your own

1. Open settings, home, pull down ›.
2. Pick full screen sheet, android notifications, android quick settings or app search.
3. Or tap open an app and pick one, like your camera.
4. For the sheet, pick its parts under the sheet shows: the clock, the glance line, quick tiles, the player and notifications. Tap try it.

Over a list that scrolls, the list comes first.

a visualizer style

1. Hold a music panel, like player or now playing, and let go. Tap visualizer.
2. Tap ‹ › to step through mirror, bars, blocks, wave, dots, term and mono.
3. Turn bar reflection off for a clean floor, and set album art to real colours or theme inks.

Want the bars to follow the music itself? Turn on real visualizer too.

make a music page

1. Hold empty space and tap ready pages.
2. Tap music. It adds a page with a clock, the player and cava, the music as dancing bars.
3. Want radio too? Hold empty space, tap edit layout, move and size, then + add and pick radio from the media group.
4. Drag the ◢ corner to give the player more room. Bigger shows more: art, the spectrum, the queue.
5. Tap done.

Want the bars to follow the music? Hold the player, let go, and turn on real visualizer.

a calm page for reading

1. Hold empty space, tap ready pages, then empty page in the classic group.
2. Add only clock and notes.
3. In looks, tap eink paper: grey ink on paper, and nothing moves.
4. In looks, fine tune, set text size to large.

The look is for the whole home, not one page.

day and night themes

1. Hold empty space, tap looks, fine tune, then day and night ›.
2. Tap switch: by the sun turns at sunrise and sunset, 22 to 7 turns by the clock.
3. Tap day theme until your day theme shows, like paper.
4. Tap night theme the same way, like phosphor. same as theme keeps your main theme.

By the sun uses sunrise and sunset where the weather is, worked out on the phone. Before the weather has a place, day is 7 to 19. The lock screen follows too, when its theme is match home. The same page has a blue light filter for the evening.

a row of favourite apps

1. Hold empty space, tap add a panel, and pick app shelf from the phone group.
2. Tap put it here. It lands as a 4x1 row.
3. Tap a + on the shelf and pick an app. Do the same for each cell.
4. Tap done.

A column: hold the shelf, let go, tap size ›, then narrower and taller until it reads 1x4. A grid: make it 2x2 the same way. Hold an app and let go for change app ›, move left, move right and remove from shelf.

live weather on the wallpaper

1. Hold empty space, tap looks, then fine tune.
2. Tap live weather so it reads on.
3. When it rains, snows, drizzles, thunders or turns foggy where the weather panel is, it falls over your motion scene. A clear sky adds nothing.

It shows on the home screen. In rain it costs about the same as the rain scene.

a rainy night look

1. Open looks, fine tune, day and night ›, and set switch to by the sun.
2. Set night theme to phosphor.
3. Back in fine tune, set motion to off, or a quiet one like stars.
4. Turn on live weather.
5. On the weather panel, hold, let go, and set style to live sky.

After sunset the night theme comes in, and when it really rains the rain falls through the empty cells.

pick a weather style

1. Hold the weather panel and let go.
2. Tap style to step through live sky, big numbers and waybar.
3. Tap done.

Live sky is the only one that moves. Big numbers and waybar cost less battery.

weather for several cities

1. Open settings, clock and weather, weather places.
2. Tap add a city and type a name, like Zagreb.
3. Add more cities, or add my location.
4. Back on home, tap the weather panel to step to the next place.

pick your quick actions

1. Hold a quick action, or open settings, home, quick actions.
2. Pick up to seven of the nineteen actions.
3. Grow the quick panel in edit mode to get volume sliders under the actions.
4. In the pull down sheet, quick actions can show as tiles like Android's own, with sliders.

pin an app to the dock

1. Swipe up and find the app.
2. Hold it and tap pin to the top.
3. Pins come first in the dock, then your most opened apps. The row holds five.

a matching lock screen

1. Open settings, phone, lock screen.
2. Set theme to match home, and turn panes on or off, like the greeting with your name, now playing and the next alarm.
3. Tap set as lock screen. When Android asks, pick "Lock screen" or "Home and lock screen".
4. Tap hide system cards. Set lock screen notifications to "Don't show any notifications" and turn off "Dynamic clock", so you do not get two clocks.

save battery

1. Settings, motion and battery: set frame rate to 30.
2. In looks, fine tune, set motion to off. Terrain is the heaviest scene.
3. Pick the big numbers or waybar weather style.
4. Lock screen: turn motion off.
5. On an OLED phone, use a dark theme. Or try the eink paper look, where nothing moves.

a focus timer page

1. Hold empty space and tap ready pages.
2. Tap focus: a clock, pomodoro and your todo list on a new page.
3. Start a round. It counts 5 4 3 2 1, then the ring drains.

Want pomodoro on the whole page? Swipe up and type :layout pomodoro on the page you want to change. A running round counts down on your lock screen too.

a habits and focus page

1. Hold empty space, tap ready pages, then empty page. It opens the picker.
2. In the tools group tap habits, then put it here.
3. Tap + add and add countdown from the time and weather group, and stopwatch from tools. Or progress, for how far through the day, week, month and year.
4. Tap done.
5. Hold the habits panel, let go, and tap add a habit. Hold the countdown, let go, and tap add a date, like trip 24 12 2026.

Tap the name line of a habit to mark today. Up to 4 habits.

a hacker page

1. In looks, fine tune, set theme to matrix if you like.
2. Hold empty space, tap ready pages, then empty page.
3. In the tools group tap matrix, then put it here.
4. Tap + add and add binary from the time and weather group and network from the system group.
5. Tap done.
6. In fine tune, set motion to pipes or fire.

Or tap the geek ready page for fetch, monitor and your ip, or cyberspace for the terminal network and hysh.

Hold the matrix panel and let go for speed, glyphs (kana, binary or hex) and rain. Tap it to pause.

a work page

1. Add an empty page from ready pages, then add agenda, month and notes from the picker.
2. On a second page, type :layout meeting.
3. Allow the calendar when asked, so events show.

resize panels on a classic page

1. On a page like dashboard, drag the border between two panels up or down.
2. Double tap a border to put the two panels side by side.
3. Hold a panel's top edge and drag it onto another to swap them.
4. Undo it all: hold empty space, pages, panels, reset splits.

start again from fresh

1. Hold empty space, tap help, then reset to defaults.
2. Tap yes, reset it. Look, pages and panels go back to a fresh install. Notes, weather places, pinned apps and linked devices stay.
3. Changed your mind? Open it again and tap bring back the saved copy.

sync the theme with Hyprtile

1. In both apps open settings and link devices, and turn link on.
2. Pick the other phone in the list.
3. Check that both show the same six digit code, and confirm.
4. Now a theme picked on one shows on the other.

a clock font of your own

1. Open settings, clock and weather.
2. Tap clock font to step through block, round, led, ascii, shade and round led. Tap ‹ to go back one.
3. Tap date to pick how the date reads, or leave it on auto.

Every big clock follows: home, the lock screen and the screen saver.

bring back a hidden app

1. Open settings, home.
2. Tap hidden apps. It says how many you hid.
3. Tap the app to show it again.

Hiding an app keeps it off search, the shelf and the dock. It stays installed.

your Home Assistant on home

1. Hold empty space and tap add a panel.
2. Pick hass. It is a pro panel.
3. Tap the panel, type your address, like homeassistant.local:8123.
4. Paste a long lived token: in Home Assistant, your profile, security, long lived tokens.
5. On your home wifi, Android may ask for local network access. Allow it.

Tap a light or a switch to flip it. The token stays on this phone.

track your cycle privately

1. Hold empty space and tap add a panel.
2. Pick cycle.
3. Tap the panel on the first day of your period.

It stays on this phone, never in a backup, and nothing is sent anywhere.

surf or swim check

1. Add the sea panel.
2. Tap it and type a beach or a town on the coast. Empty uses your weather place.
3. Read waves, swell and the sea temperature at a glance.

what is up tonight

1. Add planets for the planets up tonight and where to look.
2. Add iss for when the space station passes, and aurora for the northern lights. Both are pro.

Planets are worked out on the phone, with no network.

tell us what you think

1. Hold empty space or tap ◆.
2. Tap rate us.
3. Pick rate on google play, or tell us what's wrong to write to us.

Phosphor never asks on its own.

support Phosphor monthly

1. Open settings and scroll to the end.
2. Under support the developer, tap support and live api.
3. Google Play shows the price and how to cancel. Confirm there.

It is optional and unlocks nothing: it pays for bug fixes and the live feeds. Tap the row again to manage or cancel it in Google Play.