11 best launchers for Android

Based on materials from androidpit.com

One of the obvious ways to customize your smartphone or tablet is to install a launcher. Launchers offer a variety of options, themes and icons, plus almost complete control over how your device switches between screens, launch apps, and more. A selection of the best launchers for Android devices offers you as many as 11 options, and if you have your opinion on this, share in the comments!

Action Launcher 3: For Fans Windows

This launcher's theme is fully related to Android Lollipop and works perfectly on devices updated to Android 5.1. One of the best features of the shell is a bar similar to the start menu Windows, which pops up on the left side of the screen and allows you to launch your 'favorite' applications without dragging them to the desktop. You can completely customize the list of all applications, as well as the location, icons and colors as you wish.

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C Launcher: smart solution

C Launcher is an insanely beautiful and economical launcher that allows you to get to the farthest corner of your smartphone in seconds. It monitors your phone usage in order to provide contextual hints later, suggesting specific applications depending on where you are. C Launcher also has a built-in cleaning system, thousands of themes to customize, and the ability to create themes yourself.

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Solo Launcher: lightweight and efficient

Solo Launcher doesn't have many native icons, but it does have a few nice animations and is lighter than most other launchers in terms of dealing with associated apps and widgets. It has a number of gesture-controlled features such as swiping up from the Home button to trigger a search, but nothing that significantly changes how the device works. It is simple, its settings are invisible at first glance, but this is its strength.

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Buzz Launcher: for a radical facelift

Buzz Launcher is a very inventive launcher in terms of schemes. His community has created a range of professional looking ideas for all tastes. Buzz Launcher is the freshest take on OS Android with no effort to create a theme yourself. However, to fully utilize the features, you will need to download the additional Buzz widget.

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Smart Launcher: the ability to 'ring' your phone

Smart Launcher really turns everything upside down. Instead of rows and rectangular boxes, you get rings from the most used applications and vertical cascades of applications by category. It is integrated with the application manager, so when you delete an icon, you automatically delete the application itself. The launcher is simple and unique and has a 4.6 rating with over 5 million downloads.

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Next Launcher: cool launcher with 3D effects

Next Launcher is perhaps the coolest 3D launcher out there. Difficult to describe in a nutshell, but this skin is radically different from any other on this list. All of its best features aren't free, like most launchers, but the wow effect of the Premium version is well worth the money. If you want a hi-tech, eye-catching smartphone look, then try the free version and you won't be able to resist the temptation to upgrade.

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APUS Launcher with Intricate Design

APUS is currently one of the most popular launchers for Android thanks in large part to its chic Pinko theme. This launcher combines themes, custom icons and a number of unique features from APUS, making it one of the most comprehensive in features. The launcher is free, so you should definitely pay attention to it: animation from APUS is something.

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Hola Launcher: simple, smart and colorful

Hola Launcher has become popular not least because of its cost effectiveness. Bootstrapping just over a megabyte, you get a redesigned interface, new app icons, and cool themes. But not only the file size is small here. Hola is also hard to beat in how little it requires performance – it needs less RAM than even some of the fastest Android launchers.

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Apex Launcher: customization fans

Apex Launcher is one of the most popular custom launchers available today. Over a million downloads in the Play Store and an average rating of 4.3. The customization options offered are truly endless. Full control over the home screen and the list of applications, customization of gestures, many icons, themes, animations and transition effects. There is a paid version with even more chips in addition to the launcher, which is awesome in the free version too.

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Nova Launcher: for everyone and everyone

The undisputed king of alternative launchers for Android, Nova Launcher will feel great on almost any smartphone. With over five million downloads on the Play Store, fans just can't be wrong. An affordable and functional way to get to know the world of launchers. Fans love the new 'Icon Normalization' feature, which uses surprisingly complex algorithms to make icons take up adequate screen real estate. This means that the icons are limited to frames of the same size and occupy the same area, which looks much nicer.

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GO Launcher EX: simplicity and style

Go Launcher EX has over one hundred million downloads and a 4.5 rating, making it unbeatable among Android launchers. For a free launcher, it is as elaborate as possible, with great animations and 3D effects. And only annoying advertising spoils it.

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