
Last year, Nova Launcher founder and sole developer Kevin Barry announced he had left Branch Metrics, Nova’s parent company at the time – which followed an announcement from 2024 that nearly everyone working on the project had been laid off. But the launcher is getting new life: in a blog post on Tuesday, the Swedish company Instabridge, which makes an app that helps people connect to Wi-FI hotspots, announced it has acquired Nova Launcher.
« Nova is not shutting down, » according to Instabridge. « Our immediate focus is simple: keep Nova stable, compatible with modern Android, and actively maintained. » However, Instabridge says it’s « evaluati …