Update 3 months later:
I’m using Smart Launcher since my last post here. It’s great. I even bought the pro version. It’s not super “stock-y”, but that’s absolutely fine. I like that you can customize a lot of things!
The combo widget shows upcoming alarms and bank holidays. Also (somewhat) location-aware weather.
I think I stick with it.
Now that the Google search bar on the homescreen has become uttery useless there is no real reason to have it anymore and it is annoying anyways, so I am in search for a launcher that resembles the stock Pixel launcher.
Especially the "combo widget" that shows the time, the date, position-weather, tasks, warnings, timers, etc. all in one place.
Launchers I tried so war that don't seem to have such a widget and seem not to be able to use that widget:
- Nova
- Lawnchair
- Niagara
- Hyperion
Those are all great launchers, but this specific functionality (basically the only feature I use on my homescreen besides one single icon for one app) seems to be missing in all of them.
So my question is: does someone know a launcher that comes with an unobstrusive "combo widget" like the stock widget as described, that also allows me to remove the now useless search bar from the home screen?
Looks good, thanks! Using Smartspacer seems to replicate at least the weather feature and I was able to set it up to look like the stock widget. I'll closely monitor the performance and battery usage now :)