Pear Launcher

Yajat Kumar

About this app

• Folders in app drawer.

• Choose your drawer style (vertical, paged, sections).

• Swipe up actions for shortcuts.

• Google now integration with Pear now companion. Option to show it as overlay also.

• Customisable desktop. choose your indicators style, grid size, icon labels customization, lock desktop, top shadow, scroll wallpaper and margin.

• Drawer Customisations Card background grid size, sort mode(alphabetical or install time), show search bar, predicted apps, accent color ,direct scroll , Pull dock to open and much more.

• Dock . You can enable labels for dock, change number of icons , disable dock change its background.

• Hide your apps.

• App shortcuts backport

• Customise the layout of folders, colors of preview, background ,labels, folder opening animation

• Support for per folder smart folders(Swipe to open, click to open first app). Smart folders are shown with a badge. Added option in settings for auto smart folders which can be used to create every new folder as smart folder.

• Icon Packs - Find thousands of icon packs for Pear Launcher on the Play Store.

• Dark mode option for all parts of the launcher.

• Icon normalization - It will resize your icon shape to match other icons.

• Allowing blurring many elements of the user interface.

• Option to show searchbar in dock (above or below dock)

• Animated clock icon

• Change font style, hide notification bar, change its color , change app opening animation , orientation.

• Backup & Restore - Backup & Restore allows you to backup your layout and pear settings

• Gestures - Swipe up , swipe down , double tap,. swipe to right on first page, swipe to left on last page button actions choose what to do when you press home on default screen or on any screen. Many actions to choose from including opening notification bar, quick settings, apps, drawer etc.

• Quickstep support for Android 9.

This app can be optionally given device administrator privileges to lock the phone (using Pear Launcher’s gestures or pear action).

Pear Launcher can be optionally given accessibility services access to open notification panel, quick settings, recent apps or to lock screen on android 9 and above. No data is collected or accessed through accessibility services.

You can unlock following features by purchasing Pear Launcher Pro
To have more than 10 apps in drawer folders
App drawer groups
Extract badge color from app icon
Swipe up two fingers, Swipe down two fingers gestures
Proximity and shake gestures

Ratings and reviews

At least three things are most important for android launchers- widget, icon decoration, and creating extra pages/windows to organize your icons, widgets on. If the launcher can't provide these functions then it's not that useful. Pear launcher does not seem to provide creating windows. Am not getting the so called pro version only to find out this basic function is missing. Do you notice the trend-all latest launchers are leaving out essential android launcher functions. Bummer!

This launcher is very versatile. It has just enough customisation options. It strikes me as a "Nova LITE" launcher. it just needs a bit of refinement. My only real complaint is that of creating grouped folders on the home screen. It is a bit of a pain. Just pay the small amount of money for the fully unlocked version. If you like Nova or Lawnchair, this is a viable alternative.

Overall, it's a good launcher. If you use 3 button navigation, the 3rd button (right) won't do anything about 2/3 of the time, which is very annoying. I have to switch back to the Pixel Launcher, then relaunch Pear to get it to work again. Hoping that gets fixed SOON! Otherwise, I wish there was an option to adjust the space between the home screen icons and dock because that's wasted space (esp. if you don't want the arrow). I'd definitely buy the pro version if these fixes/updates are made.

What's new

Allow resizing all widgets to minimum of 1x1
Added Japanese translation
Moved import / export from restore option to main backup & restore settings
Bug fixes