I use Niagara launcher, so all of my apps are in a single scrollable list.

This isn’t a screenshot of my own phone, but this is essentially what it looks like. There’s an A-Z list on the right that you can use to jump to a specific letter, or just scroll down the full list on the left. You can keep a small list of favorites at the top. It does support folders, but I don’t use them.

I have three folders in the home screen so it can have Safari and look balanced. For apps not in the folders I use search.

I have all of my main apps on my home screen, and then the rest of my apps are on the app screen in automatically sorted folders by type of app. I use smart launcher

@RecursiveParadox Absolutely no sorting into folders. Especially not manually sorting.

Back when Aviate! was an Android launcher, before it was acquired by Yahoo and then ruined, it did the most logical thing: auto-group apps by category, location based, messenger, games. Best of all, it did not change the home screen much. Swiped right it showed the (four? five? don’t remember) most recently used app per square. All most recently used apps were always on the same screen, no opening of folders to see them, and always (after the swipe right) just a single tap to start the app. A tap on the category would open it to see others of the same category. With Aviate sorting manually was exposed as a total waste of time.

Today, Niagara Launcher “sorts” apps by the few favourites you define, and the rest is sorted by “the alphabet” with the side bar thing that zikzak025 shows. That too eliminates manual sorting, but I think folders are possible.

Kvaesitso

One page of favourites, then search-based for other apps.

I have everything in folders on my home screen, I don’t like swiping

I find it more practical to seperate by things you uses frequently vs things you use occasionally. Frequently used things get a place on the home page where it’s easy to get to, everything else is dumped into a few broad catagories.

I have 4 folders, “stores(&bank stuff)” “games(&entertainment)” “utilities(&misc)” and “work”.

It’s all sorted alphabetical.

Yes

I’ve got 12 folders on my homescreen, but each of those can be swiped up, down, left or right to launch my most frequently used apps. I do have a second screen, but it’s just used for a couple of calender widgets.

Home screen is a bunch of folders, but each folder is just apps with a particular colour of icon. Red folder, green folder, blue folder… Rainbow folder (that’s mostly googly apps plus slack)

Because I don’t easily remember apps by themes but I usually know the colour of the app I’m looking for. Super efficient

I have my 15-ish most used apps on my home screen. Anything else I access through the main app list. No folders or anything. But I do try to keep the number of apps on my phone low. I refuse to install a dozen store-bound savings apps and all that crap. I prefer mobile sites over apps anyway so my adblocker functions.

Everything is in folders in the menu

Use Macrodroid’s Drawer (slides out from left side) and Folders from Jina Drawer.

Jina can work with folders and tags to automatically sort apps.

But that’s how my brain works, I need the structure to find stupid apps with terrible names.

I use single screen and custom dock app. I don’t like people seeing what apps I have and I like seeing my wallpaper.

I haven’t used my all apps screen in months. I just use a search based home screen. My home screen is just a clock and weather widget.