Yahoo Aviate Launcher vs Go Launcher EX

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.

GO Launcher offers over 10,000 personalized themes and over 25 transition effects.

The launcher lets the user customize the desktop to their heart's content, giving the option to increase the desktop grid size to a maximum of 10 rows and columns, or disable the status bar, dock and icon labels. Users can also adjust the font and size of icons.

Infinite scrolling can be enabled to allow the user to cycle through their homescreens and app drawer pages without needing to change direction when they hit the last page.

Users can hide apps in the free or paid version in the app drawer.

GO Launcher EX allows the user to sort their apps by title, date of installation or frequency of use; create folders for apps; and hide unwanted apps.

Go Launcher EX is free to download and use, though there are in app purchases to unlock certain features and theming elements. There are also in app advertisements in the free version.

The GO Launcher Dev Team wants the users device to be customized with more than just a launcher. GO Weather, GO Locker (a lock screen replacement), and GO SMS Pro offer even more customization to the device. This is great those that are looking for a consistent design.

It is easy to sort apps into folders in the app drawer, on the desktop, and on the quick launch bar.