When comparing CM Launcher vs Evie launcher, the Slant community recommends Evie launcher for most people. In the question“What are the best launchers for Android?” Evie launcher is ranked 6th while CM Launcher is ranked 36th. The most important reason people chose Evie launcher is:
Evie launcher is pretty light and straightforward enough. Really snappy animations without too much eyecandy, it really drives home with how much it improves your efficiency in using your phone.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Personalization
CM Launcher contains a variety of wallpapers,
themes and icons to make your Android reflect you.
Pro Simple interface
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.
Pro Little resource usage
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.
Pro Very responsive
Evie launcher is pretty light and straightforward enough. Really snappy animations without too much eyecandy, it really drives home with how much it improves your efficiency in using your phone.
Pro Animations are very smooth
Pro Unread notifications badges on icons
Pro Great search capability
It finds the settings on your phone without having to fiddle through and search and scroll from the settings app, it also finds your local apps almost instantly as you type it with a swipe gesture. It also does the aggregated search through all your apps. So instead of having to open your imdb apps to find your movie, you can just use Evie to search from your homescreen.
Pro Hide apps
Pro Backup and restore of configuration to Google account
Pro Icon resize with Inherit options for dock, dekstop, and app drawers
Pro Auto sort apps by name
Pro Support Gestures
Pro Grid/List view toggle on app drawer
Cons
Con Misleadingly drains battery life
Cheetah Mobile products, despite being advertised as saving battery life, actually drain battery life.
Con Doesn't provide much customization options
It doesn't offer a lot of customization, and it's pretty basic in providing a widgets, icons, and the sizes etc.
Con No Twin/Dual app support
Eventhough my phone has twin support enabled for Whatsapp. The Evie Launcher doesnot not recognize it.
Con No auto backup
You need to manually toggle backup.
