Yahoo Aviate Launcher vs SF Launcher 2

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.

The home screen is organized into cards that can be scrolled vertically. Cards can contain widgets or collections of apps. Swiping from the left gives access to all apps and swiping from the right gives access to all widgets. These can then be added to the homescreen. It's possible to customize the order, color, transparency, size and what how much information or apps a card displays.

The look of the launcher is inspired by Android 5.0 Lollipop and material design. It follows material design color scheme, has a card-based layout and a Google Now-like, header with a stylized image of a city at the top of the homescreen that changes throughout the day.