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Quick Launch

Spotlight for Android

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Quick Launch is a fast app finder for Android, inspired by Spotlight. Trigger it from anywhere, type a few letters, and launch an app instantly. It appears as an overlay, so there’s no need to leave what you’re doing or replace your home screen. It’s fast, lightweight, customizable, and fully open source.

PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: application and game launchers · 233 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -84% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Search & retrieval
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Productivity
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes Android provides standard APIs (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW and PackageManager) to create an overlay window, query installed packages, and launch intent actions.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 334 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #270 of 335 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 259 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Launchy Widget · ph · 2026-10-03 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • focus-launcher · github · 2026-09-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Focus · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Tapbar · github · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Better Launch · ph · 2026-10-21 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Tapbar · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • LaunchHere · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • LaunchHeat · ph · 2026-10-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48

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