the Not App: 1 icon - many apps. FOSS, no ads, no tracking
It might be too niche, but I loved the idea “1 Icon - many apps” from the very first sight.
A Swiss army knife apps-wise on your home screen.
I've been annoyed for years by my home screen clogged with icons and folders. It was either too many apps or too many taps…
I just wanted ONE app that opens the stuff I actually use: short tap, long tap, Quick Settings tile, sharing menu.
So at 1st you set it up: fill you fav apps that you’d like to launch, URLs, custom intents, even specific activities picked from a dialog.
And you get a single home-screen icon. Tap it - your list of shortcuts opens in a bottom sheet by default. Long-press - also your fav apps as shortcuts.
It's the LIST mode. Default Mode of the Not App.
There are three ways the main icon can work. it has a pretty depictive and interactive demonstration “Try Me” but just in case I’ll describe it here in few lines:
- LIST - opens your shortcut list. This mode is closest to “traditional App Launcher”
- DIRECT - it’s a no UI one. Just launch your main app (1st in the list). and long tap gives you the rest 3 or 4 apps as shortcuts.
- MIX - best out of two worlds: launches your main app and opens the list at the same time. This one is my personal favorite.
\"Try Me\" interactive demo in the mode picker. You can try, swiping and taping to get the idea.
If you need, with extra permission: the list becomes a floating bubble that docks to the screen edge with fling physics; drag it to a trash target to kill it.
Your fav app doesn’t have a Quick Settings tile, but you need it? (an icon in the notification shade) No problem. Not App does the job. This one is actually my personal favorite extra feature.
Plus some extra nice and convenient features like recent apps, 8 icon styles, backup/restore.
Basically any URL that supports params can be used that way.
Another part I'm happy with every day: share text to Not App and it fills {{word}} placeholders in your URLs - select a word in any app, share to Not App, and your dictionary/translator/search URL opens with the word already in it. My personal use case is sending a mobile number to a WhatsApp shortcut to open the chat instantly, without needing to save the contact or copy and paste it.
I really love the idea and philosophy of FOSS, so it’s the 1st thread or place in general where I spread the word about the Not App.
The Not App is free forever, it’s already the Pro and Ultimate version, so no upsells and trials, no ads, no tracking, no internet permission at all. Again it’s FOSS with an MIT license, source code is on GitHub.
It’s pretty fresh, so feedback is welcome. Happy to answer questions. And if it clicks for you, 5 stars and a comment on the Play Store will make my day.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gift.dhamma.noapp&hl=enhttps://github.com/dhammagift/notapp
PS even more niche scenario: if you'll love the app and would like to use 2 copies at the same time: you can download 1 from Play Market and the other from GitHub. they'll run alongside.