Smart phones are still considered to be the most immaculate gifts of technology till date. In the era that we live in, we’ve seen mobile phones varying in sizes, builds and their features by a huge margin. With these rapid developments, they have also been categorized for commercial purposes by vendors. At the moment, iPhones and Androids are the two only types of smart mobile phones being used all around the globe. Yes they’ve cut it down to just two!!

A large number of users prefer Google’s Android platform because of the flexibility and ease of customization it offers. While the Apple iPhones on the other hand, have taken the world by a storm due to their focus on design and a streamlined, but closed, eco-system.

Regardless though, if you have an Android phone but want it to look like an iPhone’s interface, basically what iOS looks like, you can easily do that with iPhone launchers on Android. Since it’s a popular request from most Android users, here’s a list of the best iOS lookalike launchers available on Android.

#1. One Launcher:

One launcher is among the top rated iPhone interface cloning applications available on Google’s Play Store. It offers the iOS 8 user interface which is seemingly older but was still used by every iPhone 5 user at one time.

Graphic performance is dependent on your Android phone’s GPU support, but the launcher basically brings the iOS interface as it is to your Android phone, including the lock screen and transition features.

Once you install the application. A folder named “one tool” will be visible, click on it and it will install any additional settings required. The best part about this app is the low storage capacity it requires. One Launcher is highly recommended if you’re a fan of iOS 8 or iPhone 5/5S.

#2. Espier iOS Launcher:

Espier is an extended module that comes with an older launcher app called “iPhone launcher race”.

Along with replacing your Android’s home screen, this launcher also improves performance and works much faster.

Espier launcher has two types of iPhone UI’s. The older one is called i6 while the newer version is named i7 and this one gives a perfect iPhone UI experience on Android. The UI isn’t clumsy at all and allows you to customize the icon sizes and their layouts as well. You can download Espier Launcher via the link below.

#3. iLauncher

The iLauncher is a free iOS launcher app with limited but sufficient features. It comes with a lot of ads at first but an upgrade would allow you to get rid of them. The distinctive feature about this iPhone launcher is that it supports external icon packs allowing you to try out new icon designs every now and then. Themes from other android launchers like Nova and Apex can also be imported for more variety.

Swiping through pages in this launcher is enhanced and doesn’t have any lag like its older versions. Icons can be moved or removed by simply tapping on them and creating folders by joining icons is also very easy.

That’s all for now, we will be adding more iOS launchers for Android to this list soon. Meanwhile if you have any launchers you want to share, comment below and let us know.

Apple doesn’t care for apps that let you launch other apps directly from the Notification Center, and has pulled one of the first apps to take advantage of this new functionality now available in iOS 8 from the iTunes App Store. We took a look at Launcher, the app in question, last week, and found it to be a convenient and clever way to access your favorite apps or common actions (like texting a friend, placing a call, etc.) without having to swipe through your homescreens or tap multiple times.

Unfortunately, Launcher only had a handful of days in the App Store before it was pulled down on Friday, September 26th. Apple, seemingly, has made a unilateral decision to not allow these types of applications in the App Store, the developer claims. The move to veto the first of these apps will now set the tone for those who would have followed – including, perhaps, the forthcoming app from a team at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF hackathon, who created a prototype app with similar functionality they called Blitz, which won runner-up. Though it wasn’t complete by the time the hackathon wrapped, the group said at the time they may continue to work on the app in their spare time.

Looks like they’ll need another hobby.

Launcher’s creator, Greg Gardner, tells us that his new app had ranked highly on the list of the top 20 highest grossing productivity apps in the U.S. shortly after its App Store debut, and it made it into the top 10 highest grossing productivity apps in 43 different countries.

Nearly 300,000 users over the course of nine days downloaded Launcher, he says – good numbers for a brand-new app of any kind which hasn’t yet begun to do serious marketing or paid user acquisition.

Gardner explains in more detail via a post on his website, that Apple said that launcher apps like his were a “misuse of widgets,” and made the decision to pull the app down even though there are no written rules that state launcher apps cannot exist. He also says he attempted submitting a fix which would redirect users who tap on the Launcher widget first to the Launcher app itself, then to the target app. Apple rejected the fix within an hour on Friday, and then pulled Launcher from the App Store.

If you downloaded the app last week, you can still use it, but you can no longer upgrade to the Pro (ad-free) version, and several bugs will no go unfixed. Users are pretty upset about the app’s removal, adds the creator, noting that he has now set up an online petition that will allow them to register those complaints in a more official format. Naruto shippuden episode 460 english dubbed. (On a mile-long thread on Reddit, users are telling each other to tweet to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook, or submit feedback via a form designed for giving feedback about the iPhone. Neither of these are great ideas.)

There are several reasons why Apple may choose to reject “launcher” widgets like this, including possible security concerns, plans to launch an official feature that would compete in the future, a desire for the Notifications Center to not become a second homescreen of sorts for users which could mar the experience they want users to have, and more.

But what seems most likely is that Apple had issues either with the way the app could potentially be used to “game” the App Store’s rankings or advertise on your homescreen (or both). In Launcher, there’s slot in the free version that’s a “sponsored” app listing which could only be removed if you paid for the Pro upgrade. (See the screenshot above.) And by pushing the sponsored app, it could potentially boost an app’s download numbers – and thereby, ranking – if Launcher had grown more popular.

The app’s creator is fairly disillusioned by the experience, saying now that he’s not sure if he’ll build more apps. “It seemed that [Apple was] opening up the platform and allowing for more inter-app communication in iOS 8, but this decision shows that they still feel they know what is best for the users, even if users disagree,” says Gardner. “At this point I don’t have any plans to continue developing iOS apps.”