Dual panel multitasking
Run navigation and media side by side. Maps on one panel, YouTube, music or any compatible app on the other.
Android launcher for your car
Your Android head unit, finally under control.
CarBox Launcher turns your car screen into a clean, powerful and customizable dashboard with dual app panels, creative layouts and phone integration.
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CarBox Launcher
A launcher designed for driving.
Open what you need faster, keep controls visible and use the full width of your head unit without forcing every app into a single full screen view.
Dual app panelsFast side menusLarge touch targetsLandscape optimized
Core experience
Everything important stays close.
Quick side menus
Open favorite apps, launcher tools, settings, phone and assistant without leaving the main screen.
Car-friendly app drawer
Browse all installed apps with a clear grid designed for landscape screens and quick selection.
Creative Mode
Design your own interface.
Creative Mode lets you build a custom dashboard for your car: add widgets, place elements freely, resize panels and create a layout that feels personal.
Free positioningResizable widgetsMultiple pagesReal-time editing
Integrated controls
Edit, move and resize directly on the dashboard.
The creative layout is not static. You can open edit mode, move elements, resize widgets and quickly build a screen that matches your car and your habits.
CarBox Portal
Open apps first. Decide where they go next.
Tap an app in the drawer and it opens inside a small floating window on top of your dashboard. Real, live and interactive — not a preview. Then drag it against a screen edge to send it exactly where you need it.
Drag against the LEFT edge → app becomes the left panel
Drag against the RIGHT edge → app becomes the right panel
Drag against the TOP → app goes fullscreen
Drag against the BOTTOM → app and Portal close together
Same session, new place
YouTube keeps playing. Maps keeps navigating.
When you drop the Portal on a panel or send it fullscreen, CarBox moves the running task to the new display — the app is not restarted. Your video keeps playing from the exact frame, your route keeps guiding, your form keeps its input. The window resizes and adopts the panel or the whole screen.
No restart on drop
Movable & resizable
Adjustable size
Adjustable app scale
Works from theme dock
CarBox Assistant
Your car, controlled by voice.
CarBox Assistant is not a simple command executor. It learns your habits, remembers your preferences and anticipates what you need — so you can keep your eyes on the road.
Hands-free control
Just speak. No tapping required.
Activate the assistant with a single button and control every part of CarBox entirely with your voice. Open apps, navigate, call contacts, change volume and switch layouts without touching the screen.
Open any app
Navigate anywhere
Call contacts
Media control
Volume & brightness
Switch layouts
"Open Maps in the right panel"
Full command set
Everything you can do with your voice.
Calls
Call any contact by name. The assistant remembers who you call most and can dial automatically after a few repetitions.
Navigation
Navigate to any destination. Say "take me to the usual place" and CarBox will know where you go at that time of day.
Apps
Open any installed app by name. Specify if you want it on the left panel, right panel or full screen.
Media
Play, pause, skip to the next track or go back to the previous one — without ever looking away from the road.
System
Raise or lower the volume, adjust screen brightness, open notifications, settings or go back to the home screen.
Layouts
Switch between dual panel and creative mode, open or close the drawer, navigate between pages and load saved panel slots.
Adaptive memory
It learns. It remembers. It suggests.
CarBox Assistant builds a private profile of your habits directly on the device. Over time it knows which app you open at 8 AM, which destination you navigate to on weekday mornings and which contacts you call most.
Remembers your top contacts for each voice query
Learns your most-used destinations by time of day
Tracks which apps you open at each hour
After 3 repetitions, dials the right number automatically
Remembers which panel you prefer for each app
08:00
🗺️Navigate to work
08:05
🎵Open Spotify
12:30
📞Call Marco
18:15
💡Suggestion: go home?
Proactive suggestions
CarBox speaks first, when it matters.
At the right moment, CarBox Assistant proposes what you are likely to need — a destination, an app or a contact — based on the time of day and your past behavior. One tap to confirm, one tap to dismiss.
Time-aware suggestions
Never repetitive
All on-device
No cloud required
Good morning!
Do you want to navigate to Work?
Custom triggers
Teach it your own words.
If the built-in phrases do not feel natural to you, you can add your own. The assistant stores custom voice triggers for any command type, so you can say exactly what comes naturally — in any language.
Italian & English built-in
Add personal triggers
Stored locally
Your phraseCommand
"Portami al lavoro"NAVIGATE
"Metti la musica"MEDIA PLAY
"Chiama la mamma"CALL
+ Add your trigger…—
CarBox Companion
Your phone becomes part of the car system.
Companion is the free Android app that runs on your phone and bridges it directly to CarBox Launcher — over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Notifications, calls, contacts, parking tools and automations: all available on the car screen.
Instant pairing
Scan a QR code. Done.
Open the connection screen in CarBox, scan the QR code with Companion and the two devices are paired instantly. No manual IP entry, no account required. The connection token is generated automatically and stored securely on both devices.
QR code pairing in seconds
Wi-Fi TCP primary transport
Bluetooth RFCOMM fallback
Auto-discovery via UDP broadcast
Automatic reconnect on Bluetooth connect
Phone notifications on your car screen
Never miss a message while driving.
Every notification on your phone — WhatsApp, messages, calls, any app — appears as an overlay on the car screen with the app icon, title and content. Tap to see the full history, grouped by app.
Real-time overlay
App icon + text
Grouped history
Dismiss individually
Calls & contacts
Your phonebook in the car. Calls via your phone.
Companion fetches your full contact list and makes it available on the car screen. When you ask the assistant to call someone, CarBox sends the command to Companion — which dials from your phone — so the call goes through your phone's SIM and audio system.
Full contacts list synced to the car
Calls initiated from CarBox, executed on your phone
Smart contact resolution for multi-number contacts
Works over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Marco Rossi
Calling via Companion…
Dialing
👤Luca Ferrari
👤Sara Bianchi
👤Marco Rossi
More features
Everything else Companion brings.
Parking tools
Save your parking location directly from the car screen and find your way back to the car with one tap.
Tasker & automation
Companion integrates with Tasker so you can trigger custom automations when you get in the car, connect Bluetooth or receive a notification.
Wi-Fi hotspot
Companion can automatically activate the phone's Wi-Fi hotspot when a Bluetooth connection is detected, so the car head unit always has internet access.
Reliable reconnect
The Bluetooth RFCOMM server restarts automatically after any disconnect or stack error — common on Chinese head units — without requiring manual intervention.
Support & Lifetime
Unlock the lifetime license.
Donate €15 on Ko-fi and get a lifetime CarBox Launcher license — no subscription, forever. The 15-day free trial keeps working in the meantime.
€15 · lifetime
Use the same email as your CarBox account so we can activate your lifetime license after the donation.
Ready
Upgrade your Android head unit.
Download CarBox Launcher and install Companion from the Play Store.