Android launchers and phone utilities
Android-centric tools that customize the home screen, add quick-launch shortcuts and overlays, monitor device hardware, lock apps, or provide remote cloud access and AI-agent control of real Android phones.
Built for: Android power users, developers, QA teams
Projects since May 04
171
Different builders
158
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-7%
AI is the core
8.8%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (68%), developer tool or library (11%), desktop app (8.8%) · from r/SideProject, r/ShowYourApp, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- Phone Use — Lets an AI agent read an Android phone's screen and operate apps by tapping, swiping, typing and switching apps.“I open-sourced Phone Use: let an AI agent browse and operate your Android apps”
- Minimali — Replaces the Android home screen with a text-based launcher showing only chosen apps.“I built an app to get back your focus and remove distractions”
- Sistema de MDM empresarial y control parental — Provides parental control and mobile device management features for Android devices, sold as full source code.“Sistema de MDM empresarial y control parental (Android nativo)”
- Analyzes a phone's background activity locally and shows what is tracking the user, without sending any data to external servers.“Take back control from secret trackers.”
- Explain My Phone — Analyzes background activity on an Android phone locally, offline, to show what apps are doing.“Tired of apps knowing your every move?”
- Explain My Phone — Explains what is happening inside a phone, based on its current state.“Explain My Phone, tells about what is happening inside your phone.”
- Hefesto — Turns an Android phone into a development workspace that compiles APKs on-device and runs coding agents inside a Linux environment.“Have you ever thought about building apps and websites right from your phone?”
- Pony — Lets an external AI agent read an Android phone's screen and tap and type through apps that have no API, asking before sending, paying or deleting anything.“Pony - the hands that let your AI use your Android phone”
- Synqed — Syncs an Android phone's calls, texts, notifications, clipboard and files with a Mac over the local network.“Synqed: free Mac app that puts your Android phone's calls, texts, notifications, clipboard and files on your Mac (local network only, no account)”
- Phonebox — Provides cloud-hosted Android phones that AI agents can control by reading the screen and tapping, typing and navigating existing apps.“I built an Android phone in the cloud that AI agents can use”
- BackTap — Triggers phone actions such as opening apps, toggling the flashlight, or taking screenshots when the back of the Android phone is single, double, or triple tapped.“I built BackTap — trigger actions by tapping the back of your Android phone”
- EverSide — Provides a simplified WeChat Mini Program with accessibility settings to help older adults spot suspicious messages, complete everyday tasks, prepare for calls, and get family support.“Built EverSide — a simpler WeChat experience for older adults”
- Peach Widget — Provides customizable home screen widgets for iPhone.“Would anyone like to try out my widget app?”
- Runs an Android emulator in the browser and installs an uploaded APK so it can be previewed without local setup.“Android emulator on the browser without QEMU”
- GT-Launcher — Replaces the standard Android home screen grid with customizable modular cards, gesture controls, a command search, and an OBD-II car dashboard mode.“Tired of rigid app grids, I spent months building a modular Android launcher with customizable cards and an OBD2 car dashboard”
- NoteCode++ — Edits source code, configuration files, and Markdown text directly on Android devices with syntax highlighting, tabs, and regex search.“NoteCode++ — Notepad++ for Android”
- 1bit — Turns an iPhone into a minimalist dumb phone experience with its own camera, games, music player, podcasts, RSS reader, and restricted web browser.“I made a dumb phone app that’s a fun nostalgia filled digital detox”
- Bundles over 150 everyday utility tools into a single Android app.“I built an Android app with 150+ everyday tools so you don't need 20 separate apps”
- Errand — Lets AI agents work on an Android phone by reading and writing files, running shell commands, browsing the web, controlling apps and running scheduled tasks.“I built an Android app that lets AI agents actually use your phone (files, shell, web, scheduled tasks)”
- BBKey — Turns an Android home screen into a keyboard-driven launcher for texting, calling, tasks, timers and apps.“I built a minimal Android launcher called BBKey, inspired by Minimal Phone 2”
Most discussed
- TKB Assistant — Runs an offline on-device AI chat model alongside Android tools for storage cleanup, battery health, app permission review and device overview.“FREE Lifetime Codes for TKB Assistant | Offline AI + Android Toolkit”
- 1bit — Turns an iPhone into a minimalist dumb phone experience with its own camera, games, music player, podcasts, RSS reader, and restricted web browser.“I made a dumb phone app that’s a fun nostalgia filled digital detox”
- Pulse AI — Provides an SDK that lets users express intent by typing or speaking so mobile apps can carry out the task without screen-by-screen navigation.“Show me something you've built (or are building) that you're genuinely proud of.”
- Proxee — Proxies a local dev server to a phone over LAN and keeps the phone's mobile view synced with desktop changes in real time.“Proxee - I built a macOS app that turns your iPhone into a real-time mobile preview monitor of your web server while you code”
- gsmarena.site — Lets users find the latest phones, compare phone specs side by side, and view phone sizes in an isometric width and height visual.“My vibe coded website failed and what I learned”
- Glance — Lets creators and web apps without a native app publish widgets that users can add to their phone's Home Screen.“Using my app is TOO hard”
- GeoSpoof — Changes the reported GPS location of an iOS device.“Got my first dollar”
- Otalan — Delivers over-the-air web-layer updates to Expo and Capacitor mobile apps with staged rollouts, rollback, and release history.“Launched Otalan v1: OTA updates + rollback for Expo and Capacitor, with open-source CLI & SDKs”
- Disguises an app launcher as a calculator, opening installed apps when a user-assigned code is entered.“It looks like a normal calculator, but it secretly launches your apps”
- differenceAI — Compares up to four smartphones side by side using a searchable database of over 6,800 devices, with an AI question feature.“I built a free smartphone comparison engine with 6,800+ devices”