JellyLauncher for Wear OS™

Maarten Van Giel

About this app

JellyLauncher is a quick and easy portal to all installed apps on your wearable. JellyLauncher shows all your apps in a simple layout, with favorites on top. 3x3, 2x2 or a simple list, the choice is up to you! Less scrolling means faster access to your apps!

Many cool features:
- Customizable App grid (3x3, 2x1 or single line which looks exactly like the stock launcher)
- Configurable fonts, backgrounds and icon size
- Experimental Tiles support: now featuring a Tile that shows the first 6 favorite apps!
- Long-press for app-specific settings (to add to favorites, hide the app or to uninstall)
- Subtle animations

Multiple ways to launch JellyLauncher quickly:
- Via a Long-press on the hardware button (you can disable this in settings)
- Via the JellyLauncher Tile: Open tiles (swipe from right to left) and long-press the current tile. You can choose "JellyLauncher" in the list that pops up and enable the JellyLauncher Tile.
- Via a complication on your favorite watchface. Tap it to launch JellyLauncher!

NOTES:

Actually replacing the default launcher is not possible on WearOS, therefore we use some tricks to open JellyLauncher via alternative ways.

Ratings and reviews

It's a good app. Very simple and straightforward. You can get up to six pinned apps on a Tile, or as many as you want in the app itself (the first alphabetical six will appear on the tile). Because it's resource-light, it can be used in tandem with other launcher apps. Definitely worth the money. There is a rare problem where the tile doesn't come up right on my TicWatch Pro 3, but it's pretty infrequent. Suggested Improvements: 1) "List By Most Recent" or "List By Most Used" option. 2) The ability to arrange pinned apps.

Spent about an hour so far long pressing, short pressing, tapping, scrolling, trying to customise grid, with no luck. An exercise in frustration so far. Contact developer (website) link doesn't work. Disappointing so far....maybe I'll get it set up to my liking after a few more hours. Edit: emailed developer, he replied promptly and got me sorted, so all's good. Very pleased with the app now, reflected in changed rating

I wanted this launcher because of its tile functionality - to get quick way to open the most used apps. Problem is that tile stops working every few hours as it gets shifted from memory by the OS - so I end up with tile containing just big icon that does nothing. I have to open the standalone app to get the tile working again. Would be please possible to implement some work-around to keep the tile working even when the main launcher app is not used regularly? (foreground service/accessibility trick/device admin...) Running on Huawei Watch 2

What's new

Support for rotary input everywhere, scrollbars everywhere