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Hangar - Smart app shortcuts

Hangar is an Android app that provides easy, relevant shortcuts in your notification drawer to your most used and relied upon apps.
This lightweight notification bar gives you convenient access to these apps from anywhere in Android while intelligently updating the priority and order of the shortcuts based on your daily use.

With the new pinned apps feature, favorite apps can be pinned alongside the ones Hangar has set. Want a fresh look on those shortcuts? Hangar now supports custom icons, letting you set a stylized theme by installing one of the many gorgeous icon packs available on the Play Store.

Hangar also keeps track of app usage statistics and includes 2 highly customizable widgets.

Features include:


• Auto-updating notification drawer shortcuts containing your most used and important apps
• Sort and display apps based on user specified weight factors
• Pin apps to always display
• Launch shortcuts from lockscreen (Lollipop)
• Support for icon packs and custom icons
• Optional second row of icons
• Blacklist unwanted apps
• Fully customizable! Change the number of shortcuts, icon color, icon size, background and more.
• Additional re-sizeable widget to launch apps
• Re-sizeable widget to view app use statistics with color coded bar graphs
• Widgets intelligently scale according to size and device

Got questions? You're not alone! I try to answer them in the FAQ here:https://github.com/corcoran/Hangar/blob/master/README.md#faq

Google+ community for beta testing and discussion:http://goo.gl/ZD7e6n

Milestones, planned features and issues:https://github.com/corcoran/Hangar/issues

Hangar is licensed under the GPLv3 from the Free Software Foundation.https://github.com/corcoran/Hangar

Note: In-app Purchases permission is used for the donation page in settings. Hangar is free, fully featured and does not have ads.

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Reviews (30)

nas. Sep 17, 2021     

Great app. however looks to be abandoned. Hasn't been updated in Five years. Mostly works well, but often crashes. Android warns outdated. And despite being able to place multiple hangar widgets on the home screen. They can't display different things. I had hoped to have one displaying recent apps and another displaying most opened apps. But the moment I place the second widget the configuration of the first widget changes too.

Chr. P. Jun 14, 2019     

Exceptional-No ads-ingeniously made. One must understand how to set it up - that's all and it works to perfection. Exactly what is missing from Android and all other OS systems around. Why can they not do what this app has achieved so well. An improvement would be to have additional widgets referring to other groups of apps or to the second and third etc. group of apps from the pinned ones.Another improvement would be to be able to add widgets-not just apps to ts icons. There is a way to not have the notice displaying at the top/lock screen.

Jam. P. Feb 18, 2020     

This app is a good idea a best. It doesn't perform correctly has alot of bugs such as icon packs keep reverting back to default icons. Widgets don't keep pinned apps in place. Overall I'm glad it's a free app cuz I'd be pissed if I payed for it. Revised 2/17/20 Now your widgets are gone. What is going on with your app? Please fix I like the widgets. I use them all the time. Thanks

Sha. D. Nov 24, 2020     

Great to intuitively arrange and quickly access your frequently used apps. No need to fill your home screen with icons or scroll thru your app drawer. Have all your favorite apps in a handy widget or a persistent notification. Handy stats accompany the program so you can see how much time you ACTUALLY spend playing Candy Crush.

Tim. M. Feb 11, 2020     

5 stars because for the few minutes I tried it there was no problem. But I uninstalled it because it does not solve my problem. I want to quick launch apps from my lock screen without having to also unlock my phone. This app does quick launch from the home screen but the unlock process is still required.

Nef. B. Mar 8, 2019     

I had been using this app across devices for years, but it's been glitchy lately. It seems it's not been updated in more than two years. I guess it's been abandoned by the dev. I'm looking for a replacement.

Joh. J. May 15, 2019     

It would be nice to have the option to hide the notification icon so it's not always on my notification bar. :) Great app, works well.

Dav. J. Aug 31, 2021     

Have loved the app for years! Can you add the option of showing two rows automatically? It is a pain to have to swipe down again in order to get the second rotor show up. Thanks

Mar. Z. Dec 4, 2018     

Still need to check how it works, but so far I've noticed that pinned apps are not excluded from the notification bar although Exclude pinned apps option is checked.

Ang. v. T. Mar 26, 2019     

Abandoned by developer 😔 needs updates. Widget icons don't fit correctly in widget area, amongst other little bugs.

Sta. Jan 30, 2019     

need more than 35 apps ind dock. unlimited with scroll? also degrade usage required for r3cently popular apps, but not required anymore. usefull app, though to programm something like this, but found this solition

J. Nov 2, 2020     

PLEASE create an option to make status bar icon transparent, there is one app called notification toggle ( I use both 2) that does it, please make it, because I use the hangar all the time and I don't need to be viewing the icon on status bar all the time

sae. j. Oct 14, 2020     

This app not working in lockscreen. I need the app that I can control shortcut even in lock screen. Sometimes user need immediately the calculator.

Tᴜʟ. O. Apr 16, 2022     

Used to be a good app, but the developer abandoned it after getting enough money from users.

Fer. G. Nov 2, 2020     

Really like this app, I know it's old but I just like how I can start apps from the notification bar. B^)

A. G. u. Nov 18, 2018     

I have been using this app for more than four years. Every time I buy a new phone, I install this app first.

vis. P. Nov 24, 2020     

Handy concept , very usefull apps on notification bar wow cool...

Bou. Jul 25, 2020     

One of my favorite legacy widget/app. Install it on all devices

M. R. Feb 12, 2021     

Icon in widget can't be clicked after first click

Abu. Dec 20, 2019     

Very good thank you very much, really useful...

Mar. C. Nov 4, 2016     

Awesome! Exactly what i was looking for! The only thing I could add, would be to either make it possible to use the widget before it is set, or explicitly inform the user in the instructions that they need to configure and save the widget settings to make it accessible. I spent 10 mins trying to figure out how to make the widget appear in my phone desktop

Pau. A. Dec 18, 2017     

This was my favorite utility app for a few years, but now it doesn't work properly on a Samsung tablet upgraded from Android 6 to 7.1... both the switcher icon and the second app row have disappeared. It's gone from wonderful to only marginally useful. Addendum: a few days later, I found a workaround to getting back the switcher icon... changed the apps-number to be lower than 10, then it re-appeared. It is still fixed when changing back to 10 too. Still no second row, but good enough for 4 stars.

A. G. u. Mar 21, 2018     

Nice! (Running Android 5.1.) I love my newly customized notifications panel, all gussied up with colors I chose, just for starters. Then I discovered this bonus: the panel's not anchored to the center any more. Wherever along the top of the screen you pull down, that's where the panel will drop. Two requests: (1) It's now trickier to expand a list of new emails; the list doesn't remain displayed for very long. A user-set time adjustment would be good. Or maybe a click-to-stay-open effect. (2) I've found one option for replacing the default font in the panel. Could there be a dropdown list of font choices?

Anu. S. Nov 27, 2017     

Great idea.. Only thing I'd want to see change is the ability to make the background transparent (so when on lockscreen all that's visible is the apps, and not a big bar blocking the pretty wallpapers 😁). Gd job over all

Chr. B. Nov 9, 2016     

EDIT: To make the notification icon disappear, go to behavior tab, click on notification position and set to bottom. This must of gotten reset after the update. Hope this helps others having problems. Really useful app, access my top apps from any screen. Only reason I didn't give 5 stars is that it used to work without a persistent notification. After October update it only works with notification icon. Still very useful but a bit annoying.

Jam. H. Jul 25, 2018     

All I can say is this application does as it says. I've been testing and testing; every tiny issue I had was fixed in the first update? Since that point all has been perfect. I would like to see the ability to pin specific apps. If it has been addedd to this release, I'm editing this post and rating 5 stars! Edit: 5 stars, I very rarely rate apps 5 stars. Thanks man

A. G. u. Jul 19, 2021     

I use this to display my most used apps on home screen. It can also pin your favourite apps or exclude them from the widget.

Bra. K. Nov 8, 2017     

The only gripe I have is that icons in the widget don't always seem to use the custom icon theme, even when they are themed elsewhere.

Jam. B. Nov 11, 2016     

Useful shortcuts in notifications, automatically chooses apps, customisable with icon packs. Would like to see some apps only appear when headphones are connected.

Jef. S. Apr 20, 2017     

Just me but I don't think Hangar itself should appear in the shortcut bar. Blacklisting it just doesn't feel right. Also think that the app stats need to be updated automatically and that there should be a toggle for this.