Amazon / Utilities / HOME LAUNCHER 2019 - ICON PACK, WALLPAPERS, THEMES
REVIEW
Home Launcher 2019 is a wallpaper bundle in a launcher's clothing.
A seven-year-old icon-and-theme pack that the Fire OS home screen will mostly refuse to honour, sold on the strength of its name rather than what it actually does on the device.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Home Launcher 2019 - Icon Pack, Wallpapers, Themes
LAUNCHERS PACK INC.
OUR SCORE
5.8
AMAZON
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
The Amazon Appstore has a long tail of customisation utilities that look like Android launcher apps and behave like screensaver bundles. Home Launcher 2019 is one of them. The name promises a complete home-screen replacement with themed icons and matching wallpapers; the install is a free download from a developer with no website and no update since the year baked into the title.
On a Fire tablet in 2026, the gap between what an app like this claims and what it can actually do is wider than it used to be. Amazon’s home screen has tightened. Third-party launchers can be installed, but they need permission detours, and the icon-pack mechanism many of these themes target — the Nova/Apex action intent — was never something Fire OS officially supported.
Most users will install Home Launcher 2019, tap through a few themes, find that their app icons still look exactly the same, set one of the included wallpapers, and move on. That’s not a failure of the app so much as an honest description of what it is.
The year in the title is the giveaway: nothing here has moved since 2019, and Fire OS has moved a lot.
FEATURES
Home Launcher 2019 packages three things into one free download: a launcher shell with grid-style app drawers, a library of around fifty themed icon packs, and a wallpaper gallery. The themes lean on familiar visual idioms — neon, glass, minimal flat, cartoon, nature photography — and apply across both the icon set and the matching wallpaper.
On a stock Android phone with a third-party launcher slot open, this kind of pack is straightforward to use. On Fire OS, it is not. Amazon's home screen is the launcher, and switching to a sideloaded one requires walking through a settings detour every reboot or an ADB tweak. Even then, several of the icon-pack hooks Home Launcher 2019 relies on were designed for Nova, Apex, or Action Launcher — not for Amazon's home grid.
There are no in-app purchases, no subscription, and no obvious analytics or ad SDK chatter beyond the standard Amazon Appstore wrapper.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
As a free wallpaper dump, it delivers. A few hundred backgrounds spanning every taste, all downloadable without an account, all usable as Fire tablet or Fire phone wallpapers regardless of which launcher is actually running. For a user who just wants to swap the lock-screen image and is willing to ignore the rest of the bundle, the price is right.
The icon-pack art itself is competent. Not original, not award-winning, but cleanly drawn and consistent within each theme.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Almost everything else. The launcher half of the app only partially applies on Fire OS — app drawers populate, but the home screen the user actually sees on wake remains Amazon's. The "2019" in the name is accurate: there has been no meaningful update in seven years, no support for newer Fire OS versions' wallpaper APIs, no fixes for the icon-mask sizing that leaves themed icons floating on transparent squares.
The developer ("Launchers Pack Inc.") has no website, no support email surfaced in the listing, and no patch notes. Reviews on the Amazon listing skew toward two complaints: themes that don't actually apply, and the app forgetting selections after a restart.
CONCLUSION
Home Launcher 2019 is an artifact of an era when Fire OS was more open to launcher replacement than it is now. Install it if you want a free wallpaper library and treat the launcher and icon-pack features as a bonus that may or may not survive the next reboot. Anyone wanting a serious customisation layer on a Fire tablet should look at sideloading Nova Launcher Prime instead.