CheatCode Launcher

Pants Ninja Studios

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About this app

Turn your Android home screen into a set of cheat codes.

CheatCode Launcher is a fast, clean, gesture-based Android launcher designed to make opening apps and actions faster—even with one hand.

Instead of hunting through grids of icons, launch apps, shortcuts, actions, and more with simple combinations of up, down, left, right, and tap.

Learn the codes for the things you use every day, and your favorite apps become muscle memory. No folders to open. No icons to hunt for. Just enter a code and go.

Launch faster with cheat codes

Assign your own gesture combinations to almost anything you want to access quickly:

• Launch apps and Android shortcuts
• Open collections of apps with a single code
• Trigger media controls and launcher actions
• Open URLs or perform actions
• Run Tasker tasks directly from a gesture

Your codes are completely customizable, giving you fast, one-handed access to the things you use most.

Build app-to-app workflows

After Shortcuts lets you link multiple shortcuts together. Choose up to 3 shortcuts to appear after you close a particular app, making it easy to jump into whatever comes next.

Email → Teams, Calendar, or Slack.
Camera → Photo editor, Gallery, or sharing.
Maps → Music, Messages, or another destination.

Search when you don't know the code

Gestures aren't everything. Quickly search your installed apps and shortcuts when you can't remember a code—or just don't want to use one.

• Fast app and shortcut search
• Clean, organized app drawer
• Keep a minimal home screen without losing access to anything

Add the widgets you already use

CheatCode supports third-party Android widgets, so you can combine useful information and controls with your gesture-based home screen.

Make your home screen yours

Go minimal or build something completely your own:

• Create custom themes
• Support for third-party icon packs
• Automatically switch themes based on time, charging, media playback, Do Not Disturb, notifications, and more
• Customize colors, backgrounds, layouts, and gesture boxes
• Adapt layouts for foldables and other widescreen devices

Save your favorite setups and switch between them whenever you want.

Built for the way you use Android

CheatCode Launcher is designed for fast, one-handed navigation without giving up customization. Launch apps with less effort, reduce home screen clutter, turn repetitive actions into gestures, and build muscle memory for the things you do every day.

Whether you want a minimal launcher, productivity launcher, gesture launcher, or highly customizable home screen, CheatCode gives you a faster, cleaner way to use Android.

Your home screen. Your codes. Your shortcuts.

Sunglasses graphic in screenshots by Yaw Asare — yawtoons.com

Accessibility Service

CheatCode Launcher uses Android's Accessibility Service for optional user-initiated features such as locking the screen with a double tap and opening the notification panel with a swipe. The service is only used for these requested launcher actions and does not collect or share data.

Ratings and reviews

Quite different than any other way I've ever tried to use my phone. The customization and ease of use are top notch. Everything was simple and straight forward from the very first time that I opened the app.

Great way to access all your apps quickly without all the clutter. It's very customizable and easy to use, highly recommend.

Great for alternative to search and swipe. Also good for keeping selected apps off main screen that might be used frequently.

What’s new

Time in words
Gesture box and home screen labels can show the clock in words — twelve twenty five.

Stock home in All apps
One UI Home, Pixel Launcher, and other system homes now appear in All apps. Open them or assign a cheat code without changing the default.

Smoother home widgets
Returning home with a widget no longer freezes the launcher on some phones.