Blue Hour: Car Screen Launcher

Blue Hour turns your car's Android screen into a living scene: a road, your car and a sky lit by the real sun where you are, with your music, your next turn and your apps on top.

Made for Android head units and for phones in a dashboard mount.

The light outside, on your screen
• The sky follows the real sun at your car's GPS position, anywhere in the world: night, blue hour, golden hour and daylight
• The scene follows the real weather: rain, snow and fog
• Four scenes: Night City, Coastal Road, Desert Highway and Mountain Pass

Your car
• Six body styles: sedan, hatchback, SUV, pickup, coupe and wagon
• 16 paints and four taillight signatures
• Your name on the number plate

What you need while driving
• Now playing from any music app, with play, pause and skip. Your player keeps the sound; Blue Hour never interrupts it
• Your next turn, mirrored from your navigation app with its own arrow
• A dock for your five favourite apps, and a drawer with big, easy targets
• Drive mode turns on from GPS speed: the scene holds still and dims, and directions get bigger
• Quiet when parked: after 45 seconds only the scene and the clock stay

Made for head units
• Works as your car's home screen
• Wake guard checks that Blue Hour comes back every time you start the car, and recognises FYT, MTCD, Reglink and DuraSpeed units with setup advice for each
• Layouts for 1024×600, 1280×720, ultrawide and vertical screens, and for phones
• Keeps the screen on while charging or driving, so a phone in a mount never locks
• Easy on slow hardware: the scene runs at 30 frames per second, 20 on weaker units, and stops while another app is in front

Share your scene
• Turn the moment into an image and share it

Private by design
• No ads, no account, no tracking
• Your position stays on your device. Only a rounded position, about 1 km, is used to get the weather
• Track names and directions are read on your device and never stored

Free, or Full once
Blue Hour is free with Night City, the sedan with its light bar and six paints. Blue Hour Full is a single one-time purchase: all four scenes, every body style, paint and taillight, your name on the plate, sharing without the Blue Hour mark, and every scene added later.

Music and directions need notification access, which you can turn on during setup or in Settings.

Available in 26 languages, from English, Español and Português to हिन्दी, ไทย, Tiếng Việt, Bahasa Indonesia, 日本語, 한국어 and 中文.

Weather data: MET Norway (Norwegian Meteorological Institute), CC BY 4.0.

Recent changes:
Safer while driving: Settings, Share and app search wait until you park, and Parked can't be chosen at speed.
The dock and the clock sit on the driver's side, in right-hand-drive countries too.
Bigger text and buttons, a softer screen at night, and street lamps that come on one by one at dusk.
A new icon, drawn by the app's own scene: the Coastal Road at blue hour.