Pulse

• Processes: apps and background processes in groups, with CPU and memory per process and an End task button.
• Performance: live graphs for CPU, memory, storage, network, GPU, battery and temperature. Thermal, Battery, Storage and Memory each have a detail page with a verdict and 30-minute graphs.
• App history: foreground time per app today, screen unlocks and a notification count, as a list or a pie chart. Needs usage access; the notification count needs notification access.
• Startup apps: boot receivers, which you can switch off with root or Shizuku.
• Services: running services (root only).
• Details: search, filter, sort, and open the app.

• Apps: search, filter (All, User, System, Disabled, Battery limit, Xposed modules) and sort (name, size, install date, last used), each with its own icon. Open an app to open it, see its app settings, force stop it, uninstall it, or extract its APK to Downloads/Pulse/extract.
• Debloat: remove system apps you do not need. Every app is marked Safe, Expert or Unsafe, with a short description of what it does. Removal is for your user only: the app's data stays, and the Reinstall tab brings any removed app back. Undo last at the top restores the most recent removal. The list is downloaded from GitHub with Update list, and a copy is bundled with the app for offline use. Debloat needs root.

• Floating monitor over other apps, live numbers in a notification, and alerts for temperature, battery and memory with limits you set.
• Quick Settings tiles for the monitor, Private DNS and the toolkit tools.
• 20 home-screen widgets: battery, memory, storage, network, temperature, clock, downloads and more. The Widgets page shows every widget drawn live, in the theme you have chosen, with an Add to home button. The launcher's own widget picker also shows a preview of each one.
• Device: system, CPU and per-core frequency and governors, memory, storage, battery, network with a latency test, thermal zones, display, camera, sensors, media and DRM, system properties and a short benchmark.
• Health: step counter, heart rate from the camera flash, and location tracking. Each is asked for only when you turn it on.

Home-screen widgets in every look: Windows 7 gadget clocks, CPU meter, battery and drive; XP and 95 classics; Windows 11 tiles that follow your accent colour; Material You, AMOLED, glass and iOS-style tiles. Music widgets include Winamp with its real skins, and searching "win" in the Widgets page lists them.

• Windows 7 gadgets: the nine original clock faces, live, with a second hand.
• App manager: filter and sort your apps, open the details of any app, and jump to Debloat to remove system apps with descriptions from the Universal Debloater list.

• Files: a file explorer. Zip files opened from any other app can be opened with Pulse and browse like a folder. The folder tree and the file-type breakdown measure the storage once and keep the result between runs; only Refresh measures again. A folder of hundreds of entries (/data/data) fills in smoothly. A trash folder: Deleted files go to .pulse_trash until the next delete, so Undo can bring them back. Each file has its menu on the right, with the three dots stacked.
• Installer: installs APK, APKS, APKM, XAPK and zip bundles; a zip with several different apps becomes one install per app, and root or Shizuku installs stream the files into the system installer. Modes are dialog, background, auto and silent. Silent install uses root or Shizuku. The installer detects Xposed modules and has an LSPosed button. You can require biometrics before each install. The install window has three looks (Windows 11, Material or AMOLED black) and three loading styles: round, rounded bar, or wave. The loader is always white.
• Downloads: several connections for files the server can split, and downloads keep running in the background. Paste a link, or share a link from your browser to Pulse.

Lock any app behind a pattern, PIN or password, with optional fingerprint. The lock screen covers the app before you see it, also when the app opens as a chat bubble or a floating window. It follows the look you have chosen. Needs the accessibility service; usage access and root or Shizuku make it quicker.

One player with four looks: Material, Poweramp, Winamp and Windows Media Player, plus a Lyrics look.

• Playlists: the ones saved in Pulse and the .m3u / .m3u8 files found on the phone, as a list or as a grid of square covers. Online playlists (YouTube links and searches, Spotify links) use public Piped servers and fall back to Invidious; such servers come and go, so they may fail on some days.

• Mixes: personal mixes by mood (energetic, chill, focus, happy) and a daily mix, ranked by what you played, rated and starred. Missing tags (genre, year, album) can be downloaded from the internet.

• Library: every song on the phone, including ones that came from downloads or messengers. Albums, artists and genres group the songs, and a song without tags still lands in a group (its folder, or "Unknown"). Every artist always has a name: the tag, the "Artist - Title" part of the file name, the folder, or "Unknown artist".

• Play and Shuffle icons sit on top of every song list (all songs, an album, an artist, a folder, a playlist). Play starts the list in order, Shuffle starts the same songs in a random order. Tapping a song plays that list from the song.

• Search: type and it looks through songs, artists and albums, and, from three letters on, through lyrics too, with no extra switch. A lyrics hit shows the matching line with the line above and the line below.

• Covers: a cover lookup ignores compilation names ("No.1 Classics", "Greatest Hits") and tag noise (Remastered, feat., track numbers), searches the song instead, and a short name must match exactly.

• Cover gestures: swipe sideways and the cover swings on an arc with a slight tilt. Pull it up or down and it follows your finger out of its frame; a long pull sends it across the page and opens the previous screen.

• Waveform seek bar (Poweramp): it shows about half a minute of the song around the play position, scrolls with the music, and you can drag it from anywhere around it (a taller touch area than the bars). A rated song keeps its stars on the cover.

• Sound quality under the buttons: the file's format, sample rate, bit depth and bitrate. Settings can show the artist, album, song name or folder there instead.

• Suggestions: songs and artists you may want next, under the now-playing page and in the library.

• Widgets: Winamp (4×2 and 4×1, drawn with the real skin edge to edge; the default skin is used at once), a Winamp visualizer, Poweramp and a plain player widget with its own opacity setting. They work from a cold start (the last queue is loaded when a widget starts the app), the time and seek knob move every second, and tapping the Poweramp widget opens the player.

• Material look: the now-playing page is a sheet that follows your finger and shows the library underneath, lyrics open on top of the cover, live level bars sit under the cover, the title slides in from the side the track came from, and the cover colour fades into the next one.

• Poweramp: now-playing page with the album cover as a full-screen backdrop (or plain black, your choice in settings). Play sits in the centre with previous and next beside it; the waveform and time sit under it. The lyrics button and a three-dot menu (favourite, edit tags) sit beside the title. Sleep timer is a floating rotary dial from 0 to 120 minutes, with end of track and off.

• Album cover: the three-dot button on the cover searches the internet for album art (iTunes catalogue, no account needed) and saves the picked image for that track. Tags (title, artist, album) can be edited from the same menu.

• Winamp: the classic skin with lyrics drawn inside the skin's title bar. Skins are picked in a three-row strip with previews; the visualizer bars fall back slowly like the original.

• White noise and playlists open from buttons at the top of the player, not as separate apps.

• Lyrics are searched by song or by text, and the look shows them in bold.

Settings has one Apps card for everything optional: the standalone apps, the tools and the pages. Each row has a switch (the app's home-screen icon, or whether the tool shows) and a chevron that folds where it is listed inside Pulse: the top-right menu, the left menu, or only Settings, one radio per place with that place's icon. Tap an app's name to open it. The top-right menu has an Apps group with the tools you placed there and an Extra apps entry that lists every standalone app in one place.

• Files: a file manager with its own look, zip, 7z and rar archives (browse and extract; compress to zip or 7z; paste into a zip), a folder tree, large and duplicate file finders, and root browsing of /data/data, where every installed app shows its own icon.
• Photos, Calendar, Contacts: standalone apps that can be set as the default for their links.
• Messages: SMS and MMS, with attachments.
• Notes: lists and drawing with a Paint-style toolbar, black (AMOLED) by default. Voice recorder, Screen recorder and Notification history.
• Weather: forecast, a sun arc from sunrise to sunset, the moon phase and alerts.
• White noise: a mixer of ambient sounds and bird songs, each with its own level, with presets you can save.
• Paint: a drawing app in the style of MS Paint: pencil, brush, eraser, fill, colour picker, line, rectangle and ellipse, the classic 28 colours, a line width, undo, opening a picture and saving to Pictures/Paint.
• ArtCraft: a launcher for the APKs of the ArtCraft project (download, install, update).
• Each of them has its own launcher entry and its own look. It never changes the look of the main Pulse app. They start without an opening animation.

Word, Excel and PowerPoint open and edit documents. Each window is drawn in the look you pick, from Windows 95 and 2003 menus to the flat 2013 and 365 ribbons, with a Home ribbon, a zoom bar and a status bar. The 365 window is solid grey (light or dark) and every text and icon colour is picked from the strip it sits on. Text files open in a Notepad-style editor drawn per look (grey in Windows 11), with a black AMOLED option that is remembered.

Pulse can be your home screen, and the looks of the launcher match the app's looks. The home screen is a desktop, not a wall of icons. The Windows looks show desktop shortcuts: This PC, Recycle Bin, File Explorer, Paint and Command Prompt, drawn in that look's own icons. The other looks keep the home clean, with a clock, widgets and a dock. Apps are in the apps list, grouped by category (games, media, communication, productivity, maps, system and other). A setting brings the app grid back on the home screen.

The video player searches subtitles online from its subtitle menu. The search uses yifysubtitles.ch, which needs no account or key. It is mainly movies, so TV episodes may not be found.

Pulse checks GitHub for a newer release at most every 12 hours. When one exists, a New update available dialog shows its notes; you can download it or dismiss it for that version. The check can also be started from settings.

• Toolkit: 20 tools, including compass, level, flashlight, lux meter, dice, coin flip, clipboard, screenshot (root), volume, stopwatch, timer, calculator, screen scale and a finder. Dice, coin and sound mode act right in the Quick Settings panel without opening the app.
• Terminal: runs commands on the phone's shell, with ADB-style quick commands (model, battery, packages, logcat and more). A Run in Termux button sends a command to Termux instead.
• Network usage: data use per app, split into mobile and Wi-Fi.
• DNS: Private DNS as Auto, Off or Manual with a host name. Needs root or Shizuku.
• Watchdog: every 15 minutes it restarts the monitor and any running downloads that Android has stopped.
• Screen cover: a black overlay that keeps a clock, date, battery and your own text, like an always-on display. Six clock styles with previews and nine positions on the screen.
• Cache cleaner, folder sizes, type breakdown and temperature graph, from the Tools page. Pie charts draw each slice flush against the next.