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About this app

Ivy provides more than just quick access to your favorite apps—it is a comfortable, powerful workspace designed to live between your apps. Ivy serves as a quick overlay to view essential information, launch shortcuts, and access widgets without having to return to your home screen.

Key Features:
• Launch apps, shortcuts, and view contacts
• Place and view widgets over any app
• Check upcoming Calendar events at a glance
• View your favorite RSS news feeds
• Extensive customizability for layout, icons, and triggers
• Accessible from any screen, over any app

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PERMISSIONS EXPLANATION:
Ivy requests the following permissions solely to provide its core launcher and overlay features:

• Display over other apps (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW): Required to draw the sidebar handle and quick panel overlay over running applications.
• Query All Packages (QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES): Required as a launcher replacement utility to discover and display installed apps on your device so you can launch them from the sidebar.
• Foreground Service (FOREGROUND_SERVICE & FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE): Keeps the sidebar service active and responsive in the background so the drag handle is instantly accessible.
• Read Contacts (READ_CONTACTS): Allows you to place quick-dial or messaging contact shortcuts directly inside your sidebar.
• Read Calendar (READ_CALENDAR): Enables displaying your upcoming calendar events directly within the quick widget panel.
• Post Notifications (POST_NOTIFICATIONS): Used to display the ongoing service status notification required by Android for persistent background tools.
• Run at Startup (RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED): Automatically starts the sidebar service when your device boots up.
• Request Package Uninstall (REQUEST_DELETE_PACKAGES): Allows you to uninstall apps directly from the App Drawer.
• Internet Access (INTERNET): Used to fetch online content such as RSS feeds and their articles.

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ACCESSIBILITY SERVICE API DISCLOSURE:
Ivy uses the Android AccessibilityService API to assist users—including those with physical or motor disabilities—by enabling easier, one-handed device navigation and persistent accessibility overlay support.

How Accessibility API is used:
• Screen Overlay & Reachability: Allows users with limited mobility to trigger global actions and access app shortcuts without having to reach across large device screens.
• Process Stability: Helps maintain the persistent edge drag handle so the accessibility tool remains available over active applications.

Data Privacy:
Ivy DOES NOT collect, process, store, or transmit any personal, sensitive, or user data through the AccessibilityService API. All operations are processed locally on your device.

No personal data, contacts, or calendar entries are ever shared or transmitted externally.

Ratings and reviews

The app allows you to add a number of apps to the side edge panel, which is not limited in the way the stock Samsung/Android edge panel is. It also allows users to access the calendar easily. However, the app is buggy in that most times when I swipe to see the edge panel, one of the apps will not be present where it should be and instead there is a blank spot for where it belongs. The Game Launcher app does not open from this panel.

for me, the animation makes it completely useless. was also hoping widgets were accessible w 1 tap or swipe, a swipe and tap for widgets, might as well just press home button. just as fast as opening the home screen or any other app since you need to wait for the animation. i wanted to improve my phones usability but it made the phone harder to use. i used to have a similar app years back with more customizable features that worked better, used less resources, cant remember the name

[STILL NO BACKUP OPTION 003] I don't feel comfortable relying on an app with only a donation option because if fans get lazy and do not donate, if the app author gets bored it's so easy to yank the app off the store simply because people wasn't pushed to buy to remove adds or support the app. If the donate feature gets people motivated that's great but a lot of times fans won't even donate because they want "free" stuff. Back up option is worth buying.

What’s new

Rebuild from the ground up. We are so back!