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

Telegram group: https://t.me/PearLauncher

Ratings and reviews

So far on Android 11 it is beating the others I'm comparing it to (Hyperion, Nova) and the ones I've ruled out (Lawnchair, CPL, rootless, ruthless, trebuchet) due to bugs or missing features. My requirements were pretty slim - I use a 7x11 layout and *many* of the launchers don't "go to 11" (the Spinal Tap test?). The icon customization will show options across all installed packs, which Lawnchair used to do (but it isn't working at all on Android 11). It also seems fast. The only bugs I've found so far are: 1, when customizing icons, there are "stray pixels like broken text" but only until I do backup/restore at which point it is fixed, so not a problem. 2, the "keep your place in drawer don't go to top" seems to not work or not always work, but, it is only a minor inconvenience and only during certain very uncommon tasks that I care. A winner so far!

The interface is amazing and just the way I like it, swipe up anywhere for drawer and swipe down anywhere for notifications. One major problem though, when switching apps the window crashes if you tap on an app thats not in the centre. More stars if it's fixed. Edit: Pity that huawei doesn't play well with other launchers, if it weren't for my phone it would be fine then.

This is a beautiful launcher and has lots of features. However, there is one bug; the app drawer sometimes opens when it isn't triggered and sometimes closes on its own. I haven't been able to narrow down what triggers these unexpected actions.

What's new

Bug fixes
Fix search bar showing "App isn't installed" on some devices
Fix dragging icon outside fullscreen drawer folder