Pie Launcher

Markus Fisch

About this app

Tap and hold to open the pie menu. Then swipe to choose an app to start.

Or just tap and type the name of an app you don't use frequently.

Long press an app in the listing of apps to enter the editor for the pie menu. Use 4, 6 or 8 icons in the pie menu to make the most out of it.

Once you get used to it, you can launch your most frequently used apps using muscle memory without even looking.

Apps you don't use regularly are quickly available with just one tap and by typing the first one or two letters of the app name.

This is open source: https://github.com/markusfisch/PieLauncher

Ratings and reviews

It takes some getting used to. By default the app drawer opens with the home button, but you can change this.The settings are hard to find at first, and their position will change if you change some of the behavior settings. Still no widgets. However, a lot of the things that other reviews said were missing are working for me. For instance, there's a setting for the screen orientation. There's only one circle, so choose carefully what apps you put on it. (I would say 10 at most for ease of use.)

Gave 5 star because this is such an awesome app. Everyone has alot of good ideas. I would really like an app folder option inside, because even though being able to get to my apps quickly with the search option is awesome, sometimes i wanna scroll through the apps and select it. If i had the option i would turn the keyboard popping up automatically off as well, because i never use it, even though its great. Someone also said widgets. I also had the orientation issue. Thanks for the awesome app!

One of the lightest and most original launchers I've tried. Using directional swipes to launch apps is genius and very fast. However, the home screen feels slightly too bare. I would love to see something like an optional clock widget added to the UI to fill that empty space and improve the aesthetic. Highly recommended otherwise!

What’s new

* Fix broken recent-apps overview for some Android versions