Yahoo Aviate Launcher vs CM 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.

CM Launcher contains a variety of wallpapers,
themes and icons to make your Android reflect you.

CM Launcher includes only the basics in order to make it as lightweight as possible. It has no effect or resource intensive advanced functionality. The interface is clean and intuitive if somewhat basic.

CM Launcher is very lightweight both in terms of size (3.6 - 8.6 MB depending on the device) and resource usage. It even pauses the launcher itself when it's not used to conserve resources.