Organize Apps

With a few more apps installed, soon the question pops up: How to keep a clear overview? The list in the app drawer can grow quite long, and does not necessarily stay lucid. Scrolling up and down multiple times to find the app in question is no fun: How easily you push to strong, and the list flies by with ludicrous speed. Or you don't push enough, and the app below your finger gets started instead. Plastering your home screen with icons is no solution either. So what to do?

On this page you should find some tools to help you out on this topic. The list is far from being complete – but hopefully gives you at least an idea. Or maybe the ideal candidate for you is even contained on it?

App Organizer

2019-08-13

How to organize apps in a way to always easily find the one looking for?

JINA: App Drawer, Sidebar & Folder Organizer (4.8@3,112) Ǥ 21 / JINA Apps Organizer (4.5@254) 5 LastUpdate: 2015-04-01 Video Intro 8/2016
IntelliFolder (4.6@61) 10 LastUpdate: 2017-07-07
AppFinder - Alternative Drawer (4.4@149) Ǥ 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-12-01
Folder Organizer lite (4.3@9,060) Ǥ 13 / Folder Organizer (4.5@8,339; ~EUR 1.00) Ǥ 12 Video Review 5/2012 (20min!)
Application Folder (4.3@7,351) 7 LastUpdate: 2013-02-11
Smart Shortcuts (4.3@4,532) 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-12-26
Auto App Organizer free (4.3@3,708) 10 / AutoAppOrganizer Full (ticket) (4.6@90; ~EUR 2.50) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2010-09-08 Video Review 5/2012
CircleLauncher light (4.2@15,227) Ǥ 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / CircleLauncher (4.4@4,519; ~EUR 1.00) 6 Video Review 4/2012 (~20 min); Testbericht 6/2012; Review 6/2012; Intro 1/2013; Vorstellung 6/2013
Draweroid (4.2@1,827) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / Draweroid donation key (4.7@79; ~EUR 1.50) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-01-27
My Drawer - Smart & Organized Place for Your Apps (4.2@1,068) Ǥ 10
App Launcher Free (4.2@505) 4 / App Launcher Plus (4.3@122; ~EUR 2.50) 4
Speed Dial Folder (4.2@324) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-10
Categories - App Organizer (4.2@101) Ǥ 8
Glextor App & Folder Organizer (4.1@2,667) 15 / Glextor App Mgr & Organizer (4.6@690; ~EUR 5.00) Ǥ 13 Review 2/2014
Smart Folder - App Organizer (4.1@1,544) Ǥ 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-12-07
Drawers (4.1@670) 2 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-08-24
Organized Drawer (4.1@543) 3
Assistive Drawer (4.1@251) Ǥ 14
Contextual App Folder (C.A.F.) (4.1@194) Ǥ 14 LastUpdate: 2017-02-14 Review 6/2017; „intelligent folder“ showing apps fitting your situation
Apps Organizer (4.1@11) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-11-10
Smart Drawer - Apps Organizer (4@1,561) Ǥ 22 Review 6/2017
Auto App Category (3.9@221) Ǥ 7
Suite Folder Organizer (3.9@27; ~EUR 0.75) 13 LastUpdate: 2015-05-27
Apps Organizer-Create Folders (3.6@35) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-01-11
CatApplus - Smart Automatic Apps Folder Organizer (3.5@102) Ǥ 7

Manage Default Apps

2019-08-12

Starting an action, Android sometimes asks you to chose the App to use – and you can tell it to remember your choice. But how to change that at a later time, in an easy and convenient way? The following Apps come to help you out:

Home Manager (4.4@2,073) Ǥ 8 LastUpdate: 2016-11-25
Home Control (4.4@291) Ǥ 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-09-05
Better Open With (4.3@4,085) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Target Home Launcher (4.3@169) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-03-10
Default App Manager (3.9@83; ~EUR 1.75) 1
Set Defaults (3.8@38) 0 LastUpdate: 2016-05-30
Launch by default (3.5@158) 2 LastUpdate: 2014-07-19
Launch By Default App Reset (3.5@79) 2 LastUpdate: 2014-09-05
Clear Defaults (3.4@110) 2 LastUpdate: 2015-10-07
Default App Manager (2.3@59) Ǥ 4 LastUpdate: 2017-03-25
Alternate App Picker (KK) (0@0) LastUpdate: 2014-12-19 1-tap „complete-with“ action with checkbox (as it was in ICS)
AlternateAppPicker: ICS-style default app chooser for JB (0@0) Github; 1-tap „complete-with“ action with checkbox (as it was in ICS)
Doubletap in AppPicker (0@0) double-tap to „use once“ (as introduced with JB 4.2) for JB 4.1

Additional candidates can be found in the section Manage Default Apps.

Remove apps

2019-08-12

How to get rid of them again? Apart from on-board methods, there are some nice helpers available:

Easy Uninstaller App Uninstall (4.5@162,262) Ǥ 11 Review 7/2015
Uninstaller (4.5@68,998) 2 LastUpdate: 2018-01-28 / Uninstaller Pro (4.5@204; ~EUR 1.00) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-09-26 Vorstellung 5/2013
App Master(Uninstall Master) (4.5@30,064) Ǥ 17 LastUpdate: 2015-07-28 with recycle-bin to re-install from
Uninstaller - Uninstall App (4.5@11,365) Ǥ 5 LastUpdate: 2016-09-03
AppRemover (4.5@5,974) Ǥ 5
Easy Uninstaller (4.5@3,439) Ǥ 7
Uninstaller (4.5@867) 2 LastUpdate: 2016-10-25
Multi Uninstaller (4.4@702) 2 LastUpdate: 2014-06-28
UnApp — Easy Uninstall Multiple Apps (4.3@275) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Video Intro 1/2019
Revo Uninstaller Mobile (4.2@2,891) Ǥ 11
Uninstall Perfect Uninstaller (4.1@31,042) 4 Test 1/2017
Uninstaller Multiple (Batch) (4@283) Ǥ 5 LastUpdate: 2014-05-15
Batch Uninstaller (3.7@15) 0 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Github

Remove pre-installed Apps

2019-08-16

Starting with Android 4.0, the user finally can de-activate most unwanted apps (Settings → Apps → All, tap the unwanted app's entry, select "uninstall updates" (if available), select "deactivate") – but to really get rid of them, it still requires root (except you uninstall them per user):

Titanium Backup ★ root needed (4.6@368,325) 21 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / Titanium Backup PRO Key ★ root needed (4.3@71,329; ~EUR 6.50) Ǥ 2 Video Review 2/2013; Testbericht 1/2014 | 5/2016; Howto EN 11/2013 | DE 11/2014; Vorstellung 1/2014 | 3/2014; Video Tutorial 1/2014 (DE) | 9/2018 (EN)
Root Uninstaller (4.4@4,462) Ǥ 5
SystemCleanup (4.4@3,696) 7 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-06-14
ROM Toolbox Lite (4.3@59,726) Ǥ 27 / ROM Toolbox Pro (4.6@25,534; ~EUR 6.00) Ǥ 25 ausführliche Vorstellung 4/2012; Testbericht 5/2012; Video Review 10/2013
System application manager (4.2@1,182) 8 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2016-05-12
System App Freezer & Remover (4.2@57; ~EUR 1.50) 4 LastUpdate: 2012-02-15
App Freezer No Root (4.1@17,405) 4
Uninstall Expert (4.1@3,178) 6
Multi APK Manager (4.1@46) Ǥ 8
[Root] App Disabler (4@431) 0 LastUpdate: 2016-11-15
Root Uninstaller (3.9@38,560) 7 / Root Uninstaller Pro (4.2@1,623; ~EUR 2.50) 7 Video Review 10/2013
Bloatware Remover FREE [Root] (3.9@1,296) Ǥ 15 / Bloatware Remover VIP [Clean bloat] - 50% OFF (3.8@20; ~EUR 12.00) 13
2 Hide Apps (hide system apps) (3.6@2,662) Ǥ 6 LastUpdate: 2015-07-25
NoBloat Free (3.4@3,644) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-12-26 / NoBloat (4.3@526; ~EUR 1.50) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-12-26
Disable Bloatware - Hide Apps (3.3@1,222) 4 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2013-12-25
App Mount (0@0) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-02-26 Github; (temporarily) disable (aka "unmount") apps you don't like on Android, without root

Move apps to your SD card (and back)

2019-08-03

App2SD Pro: All in One Tool [ROOT] (4.3@27,368) Ǥ 17 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ / App2SD PRO: All in One Tool [25% OFF] (4.7@3,408; ~EUR 1.00) Ǥ 17 Link apps, Dalvik & more 2 SD
DS Super App2SD Lite (4.3@22) 11 LastUpdate: 2014-07-05
AppMgr III (App 2 SD, Hide and Freeze apps) (4.2@462,769) Ǥ 17 Test 3/2014
Link2SD (4.2@341,655) Ǥ 11 / Link2SD Plus (New) (4.1@14,110; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2015-01-02 Video Demo 11/2012; Tutorial 1/2014 (EN) | 7/2017 (EN); Howto 8/2014; Vorstellung 10/2014; Video Howto 4/2015
Move app to SD card (4@347,221) Ǥ 12
APP2SD Easy - Clean & Optimize (4@65,548) 7 LastUpdate: 2017-01-15
App2SD &App Manager-Save Space (3.9@35,798) Ǥ 11
App Manager -Move 2 SD (3.9@3,371) 6 LastUpdate: 2014-08-10 / App Manager (Pro) (4.2@96; ~EUR 1.75) 6 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2014-03-10
App2sd - AppMgr (3.8@770) 9 / App2sd Card- move App2sd (3.9@260) 6 LastUpdate: 2016-07-04
Auto App2SD : App Manager (3.7@4,717) 8 LastUpdate: 2017-03-02

Other app helpers

2019-08-16

StayFree - Phone Usage Tracker & Overuse Reminder (4.6@18,718) Ǥ 9 app stats: how much time did you spend in which app?
ML Manager: APK Extractor (4.6@1,816) Ǥ 4 Intro 5/2015; Github
ActionDash: Digital Wellbeing & Screen Time helper (4.3@3,260) Ǥ 9 Video Intro 1/2019; granular app stats
AppList (4.3@40) 1 LastUpdate: 2014-11-19 Kurzvorstellung 6/2015; Github
AppMgr III (App 2 SD, Hide and Freeze apps) (4.2@462,769) Ǥ 17 Test 3/2014
FolderMount [ROOT] (4.1@34,568) Ǥ 9 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ Vorstellung 7/2013; Video Review 9/2013; Video Tutorial 8/2014; Tutorial 5/2014
QualityTime - My Digital Diet (4.1@14,997) Ǥ 19 Vorstellung 1/2015 | 1/2015; Video Promo 1/2015; Intro 1/2015 | 5/2015; Review 2/2015
/system/app mover ★ ROOT ★ (4.1@8,605) 1 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-12-09 Github
App Usage Logger (4.1@20) 2 LastUpdate: 2014-08-25 what apps you use, when, and how much time you spend using them
App Usage Tracker (4@1,057) 5 $Contains no known trackers \o/$
Phone Analyzer (4@256) Ǥ 18 App manager, app statistics
Aplin (4@91) Ǥ 4 Github; app manager
Manage Applications-Share Apps (4@79) Ǥ 6 LastUpdate: 2017-03-04
OFFTIME - Distraction Free (3.9@16,012) Ǥ 36 LastUpdate: 2017-04-25 Vorstellung 10/2014; Intro 10/2014; Study 10/2014; Test 11/2014
ManageApps (App Manager) (3.9@7,864) 9 LastUpdate: 2016-11-13 / ManageApps Pro (App Manager) (4.2@148; ~EUR 2.00) Ǥ 10 LastUpdate: 2015-07-26
OpenAPK (0@0) 3 $Contains no known trackers \o/$ LastUpdate: 2017-12-15 Github
xSuite (0@0) LastUpdate: 2014-05-17 change names & icons of your apps

Postscriptum: Some Launchers have some of those functionalities integrated already (e.g. GOLauncher with app folders in its drawer). Or you might even be content with the app folders on the home screen itself, which were introduced with Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich?

Further Readings:

App Organizer
- Five best Android app organizers recommended for you (11/2013 - 7/2015)
App Remover
- How to delete preinstalled apps on Android (6/2019)
- How to remove unwanted apps from your Android phone (2/2017)
- Windows/OS X: Debloater Blocks, Disables, or Removes Bloatware on Android
  So könnt Ihr vorinstallierte Apps löschen und deinstallieren (10/2015)
- How to completely uninstall an app on Android Lollipop? (12/2014)
- How to Remove Bloatware or Unwanted Apps from Your Android Smartphone (2/2014)
- 13 Best Android Uninstaller to Remove Sticky Apps (10/2013)
- Top 5 Uninstallers for Android (6/2013)
- Bloatware removal - Dummies Guide (6/2013)
- How To Remove Bloatware From Your Android Device (5/2013)
Miscellaneous
- Bloatware: Vorinstallierte Apps ersetzen (10/2016 - 7/2019)
- Welche Apps die Hersteller ungefragt auf Smartphones installieren (8/2014)

2019-08-17

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