Yahoo Aviate Launcher vs Microsoft Launcher

Calendar, social, etc, and only shows the five most important apps to you at the time, keeping clutter out of the way.

For each period of the day Aviate provides different apps and information by learning from the users behavior (similar to Google Now). This can come in handy as the apps one would use in the office will most likely be different from the ones they use at home.

Clean and simple visuals allow for easy navigation and understanding of how to interact with the launcher.

The Yahoo Aviate Launcher is completely free to download and use with zero in app purchases to be found.

Swiping to the right opens your spaces (home, work, listening, etc), swiping to the left opens up your apps, and swiping down opens useful contextual information. Luckily all of this swiping works very smoothly.

Aviate supports notification badges for:

• Unread emails via the Gmail app
• Missed calls via your favorite Phone app
• Unread text messages from your default SMS app
• Apps with notification badges on the default Samsung launcher

This allows the user to easily see what apps have what amount of notifications.

Aviate Launcher has built in support for icon packs. this way users can theme their launcher icons to their liking.

Allows one-tap access to create shortcuts to contacts, documents, websites, and even email folders.

It has different pages that help you to have your contacts, reminders, last files opened, and more.

Very simple drawer for productivity. Requires little time.

It has a very helpful integrated to-do card/widget.
If you use Wunderlist, you may connect this, and have your tasks synced between Microsoft Launcher and Wunderlist.

Microsoft Launcher has a powerful utility page, which contains the card widgets, which are powerful widgets integrated within Microsoft Launcher.
It is a page which by default is to the left of your home screen.

Microsoft Launcher has its own Notes card/widget, which you may use for easy to access notes and checkbox-lists.

You may enable vertical scrolling for your home screen, which enables you to add multiple pages for your apps and widgets.

Microsoft Launcher has a Recents card/widget, which can show you recent phone calls, social messaging, SMS, files, clipboard and camera activity.

There's customisation for gestures, i.e double tap to lock phone, swipe up for app drawer, etc.

Microsoft Launcher features a built-in search engine, which you may use to search the internet and your installed apps.
You may choose to use Bing, Google, or Yahoo as your search engine.

Share files directly to your Arrow Hub, which you can connect to from a PC via an URL and your Microsoft Login.