Why Smart Launcher is the Android launcher worth switching to?

Many people never thought they would leave Stock Android . But after just a week of using this launcher, they now find the original interface bland and restrictive. Here's why switching is the best decision you'll ever make for your phone.

1. Automatically arrange apps

Make finding apps easy

Most Android skins let you sort apps in the app drawer alphabetically, by time installed, or by frequency of use. Some skins, like One UI 7 , even let you sort apps in a custom order.

Many people were satisfied with these options until they experienced the automatic app sorting feature with Smart Launcher. This is the default sorting option in the launcher and it automatically sorts the apps in the app drawer into predefined categories such as Communication, Entertainment, Games, and Utilities, so you don't have to navigate through scattered icons to find the app you want to use.

2. Flexible grid system

Helps align user interface elements

Some people don't like the way most Android skins handle UI spacing, especially on the home screen and app drawer. The most annoying thing is the unexpected gaps on the screen, most evident in the padding between widgets and app icons on the home screen.

Smart Launcher helps overcome these annoyances with its flexible grid system. As the name suggests, this system is not bound by a rigid block grid like the OEM interface.

Instead, it lets you choose a custom grid configuration, where you can configure the number of rows and columns based on your screen size to make the most of the space on your home screen. You can also adjust the padding between app icons to ensure that they fit perfectly on your home screen.

3. Responsive Theme

Deliver a consistent experience

Keeping UI elements aligned is just one of the many ways Smart Launcher helps you achieve a visually pleasing interface on your device. Another feature that helps ensure a consistent experience is the use of responsive themes, which adjust the launcher's color scheme to match the current wallpaper.

The way responsive themes work is that as soon as you apply a wallpaper, Smart Launcher analyzes it and extracts all the dominant colors in it. It then applies these colors to the launcher's various UI elements, such as the app drawer background, folders, text, accent color, and texture (the area where category labels are located).

4. Better app icons

Provide a consistent look and feel

In addition to the responsive theme, Smart Launcher also offers more app icon options. This ensures that the icons in the app drawer and on the home screen look consistent.

Smart Launcher does this in a couple of ways. First, it uses responsive icons, which ensures that all app icons are the same shape and size. You can choose from a variety of shapes depending on your preference.

5. Icon group

Simplify one-handed operation

For those who use their phones a lot, even with large hands, performing many operations on the phone with one hand still requires a lot of effort from the fingers. Accessing applications on the home screen is one of them.

Smart Launcher offers a great solution to this problem, called icon packs. Icon packs are essentially responsive and flexible widgets that contain app icons in a variety of layouts, such as flower, grid, honeycomb, and dome.

6. Gestures

Speed up device control

In addition to making app icons on the home screen easier to access, Smart Launcher also uses gestures to improve device control. It supports a variety of gestures, such as double-tap, swipe left, swipe right, swipe up, and swipe down, allowing you to assign frequently performed actions.

For example, set up a double-tap gesture to turn off the screen on your phone. This way, you don't have to touch the power button to lock the screen. Similarly, set up a swipe down gesture to show the notification panel.

7. Smart Search

Makes finding and completing work so much easier

Quick search is a staple feature on many third-party launchers. It's also available on Smart Launcher, but what it lets you do is far superior to other launchers.

In addition to helping you quickly find and open apps, Smart Search also helps you perform a variety of other actions. These include everything from simple actions like looking up contacts, finding files on your local storage, and checking calendar events, to advanced actions like converting units or currencies, finding apps on the Play Store, or looking up information on the web.

8. "Your Feed" page

Personalized content feed on home screen

The Your Feed page is one of the main reasons many people stick with Smart Launcher on their phones. It's a fully customizable page—accessed by swiping right on the home screen—that brings personalized feeds from news and information sites to your home screen.

Smart Launcher offers a variety of ways to set up your Your Feed page. You can follow individual sources, add their RSS feeds, or import an OPML file (the easiest way). Once selected, you can customize certain aspects of the feed, such as its appearance, layout, and refresh time, if needed.

9. Rich customization options

Unlock deep personalization

In addition to the customizations discussed so far, Smart Launcher gives you a number of other options to customize your phone. For example, the launcher comes pre-installed with popular high-resolution wallpaper sources like Backdrops and Walli, so you don't have to go to each source to find new wallpapers.

Another useful feature is the page manager. With this feature, you can easily choose the order in which pages are displayed on the home screen, add new pages, and delete existing pages.

Marvin Fry

Update 05 August 2025