Catapult
Make your iPhone's Home Screen work like Android's.
Catapult swaps the iOS Home Screen for Trebuchet, the one from LineageOS. Everything else stays iOS, and apps still open with Apple's own animation.
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See it move
A demo from an earlier build.
How it works
Install it, and your Home Screen is Trebuchet. Four things to know.
Opens the app drawer: every app from A to Z. Drag the bar on the side to jump to a letter.
Gives you Wallpaper & style (icon shapes and grid size), Widgets and Home settings.
Shows its shortcuts, like New Message or Search, plus App info and Remove. Drag it to move it, onto another app to make a folder, or to Uninstall.
Finds apps, and answers sums and unit conversions. Anything else searches the web in the browser you pick.
Made for you if…
Pick the one that sounds like you.
Try typing these
The search bar answers before you even open an app. Tap an answer to copy it.
Sums
9+22^10sqrt(2)(4+6)/3
Conversions
5 km in mi72 f to c2 cups in ml100 kg as lb
Numbers
0xff0b1010 show the number in decimal, hex and binary.
Anything else
Searches the web with DuckDuckGo, Google, Brave Search, Bing or Startpage, in Safari or the browser you pick.
Everything it can do
The full list. Items marked new came in beta 2.
Home Screen
Laid out by the same rules as on Android, ported from LineageOS.
- Grid sizes
- Dock
- Page dots
- Search bar under the dock, or on top
- Apple's own open and close animation
- Notification dots
- App shortcuts on long-press
- Drag icons, folders and widgets between pages
- Drag to Remove or Uninstall
- New apps added for you (optional)
- Double tap an empty spot to lock
- Lock the layout so nothing moves
- Icon size slider
- Two-line app names
App drawer
Swipe up from the Home Screen.
- All apps A to Z, sorted the way your language sorts
- Letter bar for fast scrolling
- App search
- Quick sums (type 9+2)
- Unit conversions
- Web search
- Pick the browser and search engine
- Hidden apps stay out of the drawer and search
Folders
Drop one app on another.
- Open on one page, no swiping through pages
- Android's folder animation
- Rename by tapping the name
- Apps close back into the folder
Widgets
Made for Catapult, in Material You colours. Long-press an empty spot → Widgets.
- Clock: digital or analog, aligned left, centre or right
- Weather for a city you pick (Open-Meteo, no account)
- Now Playing, with play, pause and skip
- Batteries: iPhone, AirPods (each bud and the case) and other accessories
- Battery: charge left and when it runs out or fills up
- Several sizes each
Icons
On the Home Screen, or switch it on for all of iOS: the app switcher, Spotlight, Settings and notifications.
- 12 shapes: circle, squircle, square, rounded rect, 4- and 7-sided cookie, pebble, arch, vessel, teardrop, tapered rect, pure square
- SnowBoard, Anemone and FrostBoard themes you already have
- Use your icons across iOS
- Steps aside if FrostBoard, SnowBoard or Anemone is installed
Fonts
Drop .ttf or .otf files in /var/mobile/Library/Trebuchet/Fonts.
- Use any font on the Home Screen
- Or as your system font in every app
- Emoji and symbols stay Apple's
- Proper bold text when the font has a Bold file
- Respring prompt when it's ready
Page transitions
- None (flat slide)
- Cube
- Cylinder
- Carousel
Languages new
Follows your iPhone's language.
- 96 languages for LineageOS's own text
- 27 for everything Catapult added
- Your region's time, date and number style
- °C or °F, from your iPhone's setting
Safety
- Safe mode: if the Home Screen keeps crashing right after it starts, Catapult switches itself off
- A normal respring doesn't count
- Uninstall from Sileo any time
- Replaces MakrSas's Trebuchet and keeps your layout
Screenshots
Questions
Something broke. How do I get my normal Home Screen back?
If your iPhone's Home Screen keeps crashing right after it starts (5 times in a row), Catapult switches itself off and the normal one comes back. A normal respring doesn't count. You can also uninstall Catapult from Sileo.
Where are the settings?
Long-press an empty spot on the Home Screen and pick Home settings. Icon shapes and grid size are under Wallpaper & style.
Is it in my language?
Catapult follows your iPhone's language. LineageOS's own text comes in 96 languages, and everything Catapult added in 27, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Arabic and Hebrew are translated, but the layout doesn't flip right to left yet. If a line reads wrong, tell me.
Can I put iOS widgets on it?
No, iOS doesn't let them live outside its own Home Screen. Catapult has its own Clock, Weather, Now Playing and Batteries widgets instead.
What about Today View, Spotlight pull-down and the App Library?
They're the parts of the iOS Home Screen that Catapult replaces: the app drawer and its search do their job. Control Center, notifications and the app switcher are untouched.
I use FrostBoard, SnowBoard or Anemone.
Keep using them. Catapult still themes its own icons, and leaves theming the rest of iOS to your engine.
Bold text in my font looks regular.
Put the font's Bold (and Medium) file in the same folder as the one you picked. Catapult uses them for bold text. A font with only one weight stays at that weight.
Does it slow my phone down?
It's tuned to keep scrolling, page swipes and app launches smooth, even on an iPhone 7. The across-iOS icon and font options only load when you switch them on.
I had MakrSas's Trebuchet installed.
Installing Catapult replaces it. Your layout and settings carry over.
Is it free? Is it open source?
Free. Catapult is built on MakrSas's open-source Trebuchet port (Apache 2.0). Catapult's own code isn't published, but every licence and notice ships with it.
Tested on
Not tried yet: iPads, landscape, and iOS 15 on iPhone XS and newer. Tell me how it goes.
| Phone | iOS |
|---|---|
| iPhone 7 | 15.8.6 |
| iPhone 8 Plus | 16.7 |
| iPhone 11 Pro Max | 16.2 |
| iPhone SE (2nd gen) | 17.5.1 |
| iPhone 11 Pro | 18.6.2 |