About Pipi
Pipi Launcher is a home screen app for Android. Your apps are a calm list of names, your notifications sit beside the apps they came from, and a keyboard or a thumb finds anything in a few letters. Your apps, notifications, contacts, and calendar stay on your phone and aren’t sent to PawPaw.
Pipi’s settings open from a long press on the clock or on an empty part of the home screen, then Settings.
Get in touch
Email support@pawpawdigital.com. It helps to include what you expected, what happened instead, how to make it happen again, your phone model, and its Android version. Pipi’s version is in Settings › About.
Making Pipi your home screen
- Open Pipi and tap Make Pipi your home app under the clock, or in Settings.
- Choose Pipi Launcher in the list Android shows.
To go back to your old home screen, choose it in Android Settings › Apps › Default apps › Home app. Settings › About › Home app opens the same page.
Finding your way around
- Touch a letter on the rail along the bottom to see that letter’s apps. Slide up onto an app and let go to open it, or let go on the rail to keep the list open.
- Swipe right on the home screen for the Hub, where your notifications wait by person and by app.
- Pull down from the top of the list for the control centre: Wi-Fi, sound, Do Not Disturb, brightness, and more.
- Long press an app for its menu: add to favorites, rename, hide, app info, and its shortcuts.
To change how the home screen looks, go to Settings › App list › Home style and choose Lines, Wheel, Index, or People.
Notifications
Dots, the sender beside each app, and the Hub need notification access. Go to Settings › Notifications and allow it in the Android page that opens. Pipi keeps notifications in memory only and never sends them anywhere.
Smart chips
Under a notification in the Hub, Pipi offers what its words hold:
- Copy code: a one-time code goes to your clipboard. For ten minutes after it arrives, the code also waits under the clock.
- Track with a carrier: the carrier’s tracking page opens with the number filled in. For carriers without one, Pipi copies the tracking number.
- Add to calendar: your calendar app opens a new event with the day and time filled in. Check it there and save.
Chips are read on your phone by fixed rules and can miss or misread an unusual message. Turn them off in Settings › Notifications › Smart chips.
Free trial and Pipi Pro
Everything in Pipi is open for 14 days from the day you first open it, with no payment details. After that, Pipi Pro keeps it open: a 1-year plan that renews each year, or a lifetime plan paid once. Both open the same features. See the Terms of Use.
- To restore a plan on a new phone, sign in to Google Play with the account you bought it with, then tap Settings › Pipi Pro › Restore purchase.
- To cancel the 1-year plan, go to Google Play › Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions, or Settings › Pipi Pro › Manage subscription. Pro stays open until the end of the year you paid for.
- For a refund, ask in Google Play or email us.
If the plans screen says nothing can be bought, check that the Play Store is signed in to a Google account and the phone is online, then tap the message to try again.
After the trial
The plans screen comes up each time you come back to the home screen. Pipi never locks your phone: tap Just open apps to use the home screen until you next come back to it, or Switch to another home app to choose a different home screen.
Backup and a new phone
Settings › Backup › Make a backup file saves your favorites, hidden apps, names, look, fonts, and wallpaper in one file wherever you choose. On the new phone, install Pipi and tap Restore from a backup. If Android backup is on, your settings also come along when you set up a new phone with your Google account.
Privacy
For privacy or data deletion questions, use the same email address. See the Pipi Launcher Privacy Policy.