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Ratio 4 - Welcome to your new home screen

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Ratio is an Android home screen designed to turn mindless distraction into mindful productivity.
3 screens with everything you need on unlock. No more endless switching between apps, use social media less and supercharge your productivity.

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Adham Badr
Maker
Hey Product Hunters, we are really excited to launch and share Ratio with you! We have been working hard the past couple of months with our outstanding community and beta testers (you guys are amazing) to finally deliver it to you as well! Ratio is a minimal and distraction free Android launcher that is aiming to boost your productivity and clear up cluttered mobile screens. The same screen that is seeking your attention and time 5 hours a day. Imagine if Superhuman and WeChat had a baby :) My cofounder @mladen_hoyss1 and I started tinkering with Android home screens with one mission, to help people use their phone less without compromises. We see smartphone hazing / excessive use of social media as one of the most severe problems in our social lives. Consumer apps incentivised by eyeball economics have mastered the art of indulging us on their screens beyond whats useful or healthy. We find measures to block, ration or shame usage as extreme and unfruitful. We believe there could be an alternative; social media and smartphones can offer amazing connectivity and social life if used and accessed well. We at Blloc believe in merging mindful UX and minimal UI design into our product so you can get to be the best version of yourself. And this is why we created Ratio. As long-standing iOS users we saw an opportunity in the flexibility of Android to build the perfect mobile experience: a clean UI, no distraction, no time wasted and getting stuff done fast. Ratio consists of 3 essential screens designed to give you what you need at a glance: Information, Apps and Messaging. - Access core functionalities on unlock - The Root šŸŒ„ Weather šŸ“ Notes šŸ—“ Calendar šŸ“° News šŸ“¹ Youtube šŸŽ§ Spotify and more... - Your app drawers - The Tiles A new and calmer way to organise your apps and find them easier. Every app shows usage time under the title to give you quick awareness of time spent and help you build positive habits. - A messaging hub - The Tree 65% of phone usage is messaging. A lot of Social networks utilise messages to get you back on their endless feeds. We extract and aggregate messages from all platforms into one screen, giving you control and connectivity without dependancy. The tree will save you the tedious time you spend switching between apps to check and reply to messages. We fully integrated with our API independent solution sending and receiving text and media on WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram DM and Facebook Messenger. We have SMS (launching soon), Twitter, discord and Slack in the pipeline.
Adham Badr
Maker
@mladen_hoyss1 @adhambad @saalex Thanks Samuel, let us know how it goes, and some onboarding tips : http://howto.blloc.com/
Vladimir Vukicevic
Meural
@mladen_hoyss1 @adhambad Congratulations on the launch! It looks and feels great.
Mladen M. Hoyss
Maker
@adhambad @vukicevic Thanks a bunch Vlad! šŸš€
Adham Badr
Maker
Hasan Diwan
@mladen_hoyss1 @adhambad Reads like a dream, but it doesn't seem to be compatible with my mobile -- a Huawei P20 Lite. Any idea why?
Blendor Sefaj
I've started using Blloc Ratio in May & downloaded the APK & right away it was visible that the product shows immense promise. I've played with it for a bit & sadly deleted it after a couple of weeks but just downloaded it again today and it's the bomb! The progress is incredible, Root & Tree are much improved since my last visit, the auto-categorizing is amazing & don't get me started on all the customization options. I would like to see the BllocDesk app return in the future & maybe add support for multiple search engines (I'm a DDG user in general) but for now all good - continue with the great work guys! šŸ’Ŗ
Olivier Freyssinet
Maker
@blendorwhat wow that is such a heartwarming thing to read, thanks a lot on behalf of the entire team šŸ™ For now we are 100% focused on Ratio itself, making the Root richer, the Tiles more productive friendly and the Tree as functional as possible, on top of improving the overall app's performance. If you want to catch up with everything that changes in each update, everything is listed in Ratio Settings if you press the version number, as well as here: www.blloc.com/updates
Adham Badr
Maker
@blendorwhat we actually really believe in BllocDesk and closing the full circle on a productive experience on the laptop as well. We have all the mechanics in place to re-launch pretty quickly, but as we went for Electron on building it, it was a but of a struggle to have it work stable and consistent that we decided to focus our resources on Ratio 4. This will change soon and integrating the Tree upwards to a desktop is super trivial compared to the other way around ;)
Hosien Sy
It's a unique os more than launcher, I am appreciated blloc team for this product, it's really worth trying. Thanks blloc team for your efforts.
Olivier Freyssinet
Maker
@hosien_sy Thanks, the team really appreciate your support as well :)
R Seman
@olivier_f can you consider working on " compacticons as supported iconpack plz āœŒļø keep up the good work
Olivier Freyssinet
Maker
@1he_illustrator hey it looks great & minimal, it would probably fit very well in Ratio so we will consider adding it šŸ‘ thanks for the support!
R Seman
@olivier_f honestly i thought you will aquire this iconpack instead of lines when i first discovered blloc. You welcome
R Seman
@olivier_f hello oliver āœŒļø good? I just wanna aak about the compacticons iconpack we talked about before. We would like to see it in ratio so soon
Kristin Ides
So good it makes me want to ditch iOS once and for all šŸ˜­
Adham Badr
Maker
@kristinides hahaha i feel you. We do have a lot of iOS switchers / first timers, we ourselves were as well. Ratio is the best Apple-y transition you can have, once you make the move you'll ask yourself how come I never did this earlier!
Kristin Ides
@adhambad I ditched my OnePlus for an iPhone XS Max mostly because my work is heavy into the Apple ecosystem and it makes file sharing a lot easier, but only after a few months I'm having major regrets - and this doesn't help! I'll install Ratio on my husband's OnePlus tonight šŸ˜…
Adham Badr
Maker
@adhambad @kristinides yeah totally get it, but do they really sync well together? i always wished my mac and (my ex-iphone) and ipad would sync a lot better. We launched last spring a desktop app to solve exactly that, it had seamless file exchange and sync between phone (with Ratio) and mac as soon as they entered the same wifi, desktop pulled the latest unsynced files automatically, was beautiful but we discontinued it to focus on Ratio, but plan to revive it next year ;)
Kristin Ides
@adhambad wait like an ANDROID phone sync with mac?!? O_o šŸ’ø šŸ’ø šŸ’ø
Adham Badr
Maker
@adhambad @kristinides YE$$, here's a very early preview of it back in April https://youtu.be/VVnmrUmSvqo?t=420
Minion3665
What's not to love: It works brilliantly; feels clean, minimalistic and focused; looks awesome, and has features that are nowhere else (such as the much anticipated tree which is apparently coming out tonight (at the time of me writing this)) As a software developer, I'm looking forward to the release of the SDK which will allow me to make custom cards, but the ones they have are already useful and well-implemented. Good job Blloc.
Olivier Freyssinet
Maker
@minion3665 Thanks for the support and stay tuned for the SDK! šŸ˜
Adham Badr
Maker
@minion3665 thanks a lot šŸ™
Sagnik Chakraborty
Digital minimalism at it's best.
Olivier Freyssinet
Maker
@sagnikpadfoot thank you for these words šŸ™
Mladen M. Hoyss
Maker
What we are striving for! šŸ™Œ @sagnikpadfoot
Ralf Kolarsky
I've been a huge fan of Blloc from the beginning when they customised their own mobile phone. Luckily I seem to be the first one who got the Blloc Z18. Amazing experience since then. And moving this great UI as a launcher/homescreen/communication tool on so many Android phones was a really clever step. Ratio is my everyday tool that just keeps getting better with every update. Don't want to miss it any longer... Definitely worth trying! šŸ¤©
internetjohnny
Maker
@derkolarsky The first one to get a Z18? That will be quite the story in the future, hold on to that Z18 šŸ˜‰ Love reading these personal stories, is there any feature you're really excited about coming to Ratio (or maybe one that was added recently)?
Mladen M. Hoyss
Maker
@derkolarsky Ralf! We remember you well! So good to hear from you and still having you with us on board! Everyone at Blloc sending their greetings! Thanks for the support
Adham Badr
Maker
@derkolarsky wow feel so humbled to know we have you as a customer since 2018 šŸ”„
Ralf Kolarsky
@internet_johnny This device will not leave my home until it falls apart with no further help of mineā€¦ šŸ˜‚šŸ¤£ For me Ratio 4 feels cleaner again ā€“ looks like the flat UI approach was improved and I really like it. I read a lot about users asking for customized accent color(s). Well this could be interesting. On one side a free RGB mode to set users preferred color or maybe just a few presets to select from. I guess there are a lot possibilities to improve the overall experience but one shouldn't expect to have THE final stage at any point. I enjoy this ā€žwork-in-progressā€œ product and the really fast response of the devs to bugs or feature requests. Pricing model will also be interesting in the future except they think about moving this way šŸ˜‰ but I think it's fair because there's a lot of work and ā€“ I guess ā€“ pretty tough tweaking to do. No matter which way this launcher will take ā€“Ā I've been there from day 1 (user side) and will stayā€¦ Period. šŸ˜Š
Hadi Mahmud
One of the true game-changing ways to use an Android. Slick, simple and efficient. With the launching of Tree, it offers a very unique selling proposition other launchers don't ā€“ and more.
Olivier Freyssinet
Maker
@hadi_mahmud1 Thanks a lot for the support šŸ™
Ismael Darwish Mateos
Maker
@hadi_mahmud1 thank you so much for these words! We've been working very hard the past months to be able to share the ratio experience with everyone. We really believe it's changing our relationship with our phones allowing us to to have a more intentional use of them. We're looking forward to hearing more feedback to keep improving it šŸ’Ŗ
Cheol Park
Hi, I think I've got lost since I installed and changed to Ratio. Would you tell me how to go back to the old screen I'd used before? I tried to find a clue in Settings but it's hard to find.
internetjohnny
Maker
@new_user_4d93c34de7 hey Cheol, can you tell us what you mean by old screen? We've recently added more themes to Ratio if that's what you are referring to, you can change between them by holding the quickaction button (bottom right) and selecting between focus/sun/light/dark
Cheol Park
@new_user_4d93c34de7 @internet_johnny Thank you for the quick reply and sorry for the unclear request. I meant that I wanted to go back to the previous theme that I was using before I changed to Radio. But I figured it out, so I have no problem at all now. I think if Radio can offer a feature that we may change each menu to our own language, that would be much better. Thank you.
internetjohnny
Maker
@new_user_4d93c34de7 @internet_johnny multi language support is something we've been hearing a lot from our users, so we'll add it soon enough. What language do you want to have in Ratio?
Adham Badr
Maker
@new_user_4d93c34de7 @internet_johnny Hi Cheol totally fair we underestimated localisation's importance and learned relatively quick how important that is on a home screen, we're working on it in an upcoming update.
Cheol Park
@internet_johnny I'm Korean. So if I can change all the language into it, I'd be happier than ever. Thank you!
Robert Dougherty
Love the function to see all messages in one place regardless of platform! Makes so much sense!
Ismael Darwish Mateos
Maker
Hi @robertdougherty5 thanks a lot for showing interest! For us it really makes sense to put your contacts first right there quickly accessible. We know most of the usage of the phone happens in messaging apps and by gathering conversations together as well as adding our digital wellbeing features to them we've really felt it makes a big impact on how we use our phone and more importantly how we feel about it. We're really excited to be able to share this feature with so many users, hear about their experience and keep improving Ratio to change people's relationship with their phones. We can't wait to share more with you.
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