Yandex.Shell (Launcher+Dialer)

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Yandex.Shell is no longer supported. To continue enjoying a personally customised user experience on your newer Android devices and discover much more, please download Yandex Launcher https://ya.cc/1TJzo which lets you:

• Enjoy instant access to all of your apps, contacts and websites by simply swiping down on any screen.
• Sort your apps by category or icon colour and find them quickly by tapping the All Apps button.
• Add third-party widgets to any of your folders or screens.
• Personalise your smartphone with custom-made themes and icons.
• Discover new or popular apps with the Recommended apps widget.
• Get personally-recommended stories, videos, images and other content with an AI-based infinite content feed, Zen.

Yandex.Shell continues to provide users of Android older than 5.1 with a convenient and intuitive interface.

Yandex.Shell is a home screen launcher, address book and dialer. It only takes a second to customise the various screens, while the interface automatically sorts your apps and widgets. Simply use the 3D carousel to switch between screens. Place all your most frequently-used widgets on the same screen to keep up-to-date with all the latest local news, weather and traffic. The built-in app search tool will help you easily find an app on your phone or online. Yandex.Shell is available as a free download for users worldwide. Please read this License Agreement before installing the app: http://legal.yandex.ru/shell_mobile_agreement/?lang=en

Reviews

4.4

87,348 total

5 59,732

4 14,637

3 5,515

2 2,382

1 5,082

denny Oko

THE BEST ANDROID LAUNCHER APP EVER The best android launcher app ever. Very smooth and fast especially the added dialer and easy to use as well. Modelled along the line of Spb Shell 3D which I purchased around $21 eight or ten years ago. One will think that App like this with a lot of animation will consume a lot of battery and memory. But it only uses 1% of my battery. Great App indeed!!!

Gary French

Great unique launcher Tried Apex, Nova and others and ended up liking this one the best. Unique and very cool while being intuitive and easy. The only thing I wish it could do but can't is to allow you to change app names both on the home pages and the app drawer. That's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5.

ROHIT PANDEY

Never seen such launcher before 1 Issue encountered: drag and drop feature to uninstall app from app drawer is not working. This is the launcher in beta mode and still so impressive. I am eagerly waiting for next update with more customization options specially for icons and drawer background. Great work so far Developers. When will we get the next update?

Shane Pace

Almost Since Yandex acquired SPB, almost took my love of SPB Shell but not quite. It needs to have the option to have to spb look to it from the ground up. I am able to get most of the look because I've still got spb shell. I can pull MOST of what I want but can't start from scratch and get the look I'm personally looking for. So, YANDEX you almost got it but not quite for me.

Excellently done This is a fantastic launcher. Lacks a few customization options that I would like such as home button and power button behavior, but has what a lot of others charge for like folders in app drawer and widget customization. Slows down a little over time but I have not restarted my phone since I made it My default. As improvement I suggest more folder display/customization options and more frequent updates.... Great job developers!!!

Tarun Anand

Is it possible to have widgets only Hi Dev, this is very nice shell I have been using since Nokia time. Is it possible to have its 3D widgets like contracts, birthdays, moon phases etcetera without this shell. I an unable to use the shell (launcher) as the home screen dies not stay for long even if I have set it the default launcher.

User reviews

denny Oko December 9, 2015

Gary French May 30, 2016

ROHIT PANDEY March 21, 2015

Shane Pace September 13, 2015

July 16, 2015

Tarun Anand May 29, 2015

gabbars style November 1, 2015

Nice launcher... In Lenovo a6000 plus It's a nice launcher no doubt. But it still having some bugs such as after cleaning background apps it always show loading home screen always whenever I exit from any application.... So plzzzz fix this issue

Lucki De December 6, 2016

Deprof Nice launcher. But fix these: make it possible to have only one home screen. Secondly, include contact number to show when open contact. Thirdly, include option for more dock. Fourthly, make it possible to remove weather in home screen, it consumes battery and data. Fix all these and i give 5 stars!

Umit August 1, 2016

Awesome! One major problem. Everything about this launcher is creative and easy to use! The only thing, is that whenever i press the home button the launcher goes through the "loading homescreen" dialog for more than 3 seconds, it may seem like a short time, but sometimes i need to goto an app quickly but have to wait about 5 seconds, then goto the app, and sometimes it crashes and forces me to use another launcher.

JUN JUN September 22, 2015

It freezes my phone. It's a nice imitation to the shell 3d, and it's free. The shell is costly. But it has glitches. Glitches to where it makes my phone look and feel as if it was a flip phone. I a have a note 3. Fix please. I had to uninstall from my family's phone because of this. We all have the notes. 2 3 n 4.

Gerald Morgan November 6, 2015

The big one If you like a multi-screen launcher with plenty of scope for altering and adding to, this for you. Has a definite retro style or perhaps its just old! I also use Mini-Home, to have both extremes of the launcher world.

Corbyn Dallas August 8, 2015

Well done again, Yandex. Fast, much less lag than others and no bugging you. Needs a couple of things though - should be able to place folders in the dock bar and change colours of all panels in the carousel. And draw icon should be central IMO. But a fantastic effort. I've switched from Nova Classic.

maxie clark July 4, 2015

Lovely maaaannnn OK I'm back 5 stars!! I found out how to do everything I wanted in this. Not to mention its super Kewl with the 3d effects and all.. Smooth running! Its amazing that I never heard of this until I accidentally came up on it..loving it guys!! Great job!!

Ashley Couser November 15, 2015

Cool app but When I hit my home button it tells me that yandex isn't available and asked me to retry or choose another home launcher. That's the ONLY issue which isn't that big cause I an just hit the ask button but please fix

Kathe' Cardinal March 20, 2015

Yandex Shell Launcher #1 March 20th, 2015 Yandex Shell Launcher ~ using on a "New MotoG ~ ✴~ March ~ 20th, 2015 {New Edit} Still am using the Yandex. It's a Great Launcher, for me. I've used it since it's been downloaded to my Moto G. I've had the SPB Shell in quite a few of my phones over several yrs. For some reason I was Leary of installing this one. Mostly due to Vanity, {sad but true}. Liked the "Flashy" Panels, Flickr's floating, swirling Pictures. I believe that's the only difference, oh can't forget the "Flashy" Price ~ $ 14.95!!

Joel Zimmerman March 19, 2016

Aesthetics are nice, but... I really want to like this app, because I love the ui, but its glitchy! Wallpapers only set on half the screen sometimes, text is cut off on some apps on home screen, have to reset launcher at times, etc...very annoying, uninstalled!

Shane Sparks May 19, 2015

Yep, it's cool Got many nice simple features... I'm still browsing through it and the only thing I can't find is how to change the home page and if there were any icon packs?

JorjLien Chong December 12, 2015

Alcatel OneTouch idol X+ not bad using it in my phone and can combine my paid SPB SHELL 3D. should be top 10 free launcher on play store. but after using a while found out the yandex dialer will suddenly move to home screen whether u use it or not after doing cache clean or some settings change, the yandex dialer will move to the home screen with new panel. pls fix this. tq

Harry Glass September 15, 2017

Best launcher ever.. Bought it year's ago when it was SPB shell.. Now Yandex.. sad that it'll not be developed further.. Tried a few new 'best 2017' launchers but I don't find them as good 😞

Jefferey Tejero March 17, 2015

crashing On Motorola Droid Maxx Love the launcher but since ~2/27 its a been none stop crashing. Uninstall and reinstall made it worse. Now all apps do not show in app drawer. This launcher is really due for an update. UPDATE: As of 3/17 it is now working correctly after update was issued.

Igor Gnip April 22, 2015

Bug Opening simple web browser and typing url makes somehow keypresses "bleed thru" the open web browser app and get detected as touches by the launcher which is in the background and should not receive any events. As you can see it doesn't bleed thru google play as it would be impossible to type without triggering app icons on launcher surface... Alcatel c7 onetouch, 4.2.2 stock, stock web browser. Fix it and you get 5 stars.

Kiesha Baraka July 9, 2016

Crashes too much This is the best launcher I have ever had. There is no comparison as far as I'm concerned, but it crashes to much and my phone keeps telling me to uninstall it.

Salman Pathan November 19, 2015

Updates Its an one side app smooth easy to use... animation are classic... but need some more updates for theams n more animations like SPB shell or some other ui updates... if u can update it soon as possible beczz thr r limited options for this launcher which founds bit boring.... thank u

Kungfu Panda November 21, 2015

It's ok , Go launcher is best Its ok as a launcher but keeps on lagging my phone a lot , it doesn't has an important feature like hide apps . For me Go Launcher is best .

Aryanto Widyo Susanto July 30, 2015

SPB yay! Ive been lookin for this launcher, and finally i found it! Long time ago, I used SPB on my O2 windows mobile (2009-2011, maybe). Still the best launcher ever! (y)

Sumanshu Agarwal May 19, 2016

Crashing a lot I have used this launcher with my previous devices and I liked it. Now I am using lenovo vibe p1m. This launcher is crashing each time I press home button or back key. Please resolve the issue.

Ian Webb April 27, 2015

Failed to load Everytime I shut off screen or come out if an app it fails to load and it takes at least 30 secs to reload the home screen please sort out love this launcher. Lg g2

Hunan S. Reksosendjojo August 1, 2016

Always fail loading and back to default launcher I love the ui, but it's not always crashed. Also not support weather location in Indonesia, have to place it manually.

Tyler Grubbs July 3, 2015

It's ok.... It's a descent app....but I do manage to have a problem. It continuously crashes after a short period of time in use. I've managed to get this app on my new phone, an it works,but its getting to be very aggravating due to the constant crashes its been doing lately. Please contact me or reply back as soon as you are capable of finding a solution to this problem

steve partington February 29, 2016

This is the best launcher of all i have tried and i mean all,every single one i have tried does not come close to Yandex even the paid for ones just one thing how do i set my defaults to open with Yandex instead of say the built in alarm. Thanks I have had time to use it ,still good but it keeps refreshing itself everytime i open my phone saying yandex is starting.I might not put up with this for much longer.

HelloMyname isBoss March 26, 2016

Consume too much power. Soon drain my battery lifetime. Bcoz of it widget & animation and else. About to delete very soon. Plus cant set as default launcher.

Marc Van Poperin July 6, 2015

Awesome Absolutely love this launcher. I've only been using it for a few days but so far it has performed as advertised. Smooth transitions, awesome 3D graphics (time, weather) and very functional. I'm hoping they continue to develop this launcher....I'd be willing to pay for an upgraded version with more customizable panels and widgets. I've used, and paid for, far less....this one is the best.

September 17, 2015

Highly (and happily!) recommended for those wanting a clean, efficient, lean desktop launcher. App drawers/folders and useful widgets take it above Basic grade. And it's nice that they still support Gingerbread 2.3.6 on my original Motorola Droid RAZR!

Vijay Kumar April 30, 2016

Super application BuT Please update tha application and install some new things... Add some colorful icons.. In menu. And set to change menu background wallpaper

arham akhtar May 7, 2016

very nice 3d launcher in simple way really love those transparent widgers and panels really love it....i would have give it a 5 star bt the only problem is that the weather is unable to locate my location it does nt have my location name in the list plz fix it i will surely give it a 5 star..

Zion Sircar September 11, 2016

Best launcher.... With this launcher, I transformed my phone into a Real Smartphone. Many great features to access worldwide faster than other... Really great job. I used it before on my Nokia 5800 express music, that was a great experience, and till now it is the best one for me.

Paresh Rathod July 31, 2016

Very Nice Its very nice launcher but there should need materialize effect and vertical scrolling in app drawer and need contextual effect like recent apps etc. And no update since long time please update it.little leggy please update regular to alive such wonderful launcher.

Ronnie D Chisom July 8, 2015

Exceptional...the only launcher that is free of home screen lag I just have one question. How did you get the grass wallpaper on the pictures

Mehmet Yildiz May 31, 2015

Shell loading error keep occuring If only loading the shell wasn't problem every time I close an app...

Prajwal Nagabhushan October 21, 2015

The Daddy of android Usability. This is an evergreen launcher! Personifies the real android Usability and design. No matter what, this is the best launcher ! It brings back the nostalgic android design, ironically, a fresh air to the ever present material design. Must have app for at least a few decades 😋

What's New

Say goodbye to Yandex.Shell and try Yandex Launcher to discover new experiences on your mobile:

• Enjoy instant access to all of your favourite apps, contacts, and useful information on your smartphone or the internet.

• Customise your phone with wallpapers and themes

• Discover new stories, articles, pictures and videos every day with an AI-based infinite content feed, Zen.

• Learn about new or trending apps with the Recommended apps widget.

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Updated

March 17, 2015

Size

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1,000,000 - 5,000,000

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