Toolrack keeps your apps, widgets and shortcuts one swipe apart.
It is three surfaces sharing a single dimmed view of your own wallpaper: Dash for widgets, Home for your grid and dock, and the App Drawer for everything else. Swipe sideways between Dash and your Home pages, swipe up from Home for the full app list, swipe back down to close it. No fake backgrounds, no extra chrome — everything slides over the wallpaper you already chose.
Where to start
Toolrack is available for Android today.
| Platform | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| Android | Available | Read the Android documentation |
| Desktop | In development | Documentation will follow when it ships |
If you are setting Toolrack up for the first time, Getting started covers installing it, making it your home screen, and the short tour that runs on first launch.
What makes it different
Widgets that follow you between apps. A bubble floats on top of whatever you are doing and holds whatever you want to keep at hand — a rack of apps, a clock, or any widget you have installed. Tap one to open it without leaving the app you are in. See Bubbles.
A home screen that behaves the way you expect. Drag apps anywhere, drop one onto another to make a folder, and drag straight out of the App Drawer onto the grid. Hover over a crowded spot and Toolrack shuffles what is in the way. See Home screen.
Search that finds more than apps. One field matches installed apps, their shortcuts and system settings screens at once, with an optional web fallback. See App drawer and search.
Apps you would rather not show. Hide any app from the drawer and from search entirely. Getting them back is a deliberate two-finger gesture, gated behind your device lock. See Hidden apps.
Your icon pack, your shapes. Toolrack reads icon packs you already have installed and can mask every icon to a rounded square, square, squircle or circle. See Personalization.
Privacy
Toolrack never logs which apps you have or how you have organised them, even in its own diagnostics. Nothing leaves your device unless you open the bug reporter and tap Send — and that screen shows you the exact text of the report first.
The full policy is at Privacy policy.