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Zeam Launcher - Your Reliable Home Replacement
Tested version: 2.6.0
Latest version: 3.1.10
Requires Android: from 2.2
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Summary
The standard Android home app is sometimes a bit too spartan. HTC phone owners may be annoyed at how much space Sense takes up, which really slows downs performance on “weaker devices”. Isn’t there something in between? Something that’s not too big, works efficiently and still manages to include a couple cool features? Why not give Zeam Launcher a try. Find out if this home replacement is of any interest in today’s test report.
Features & Use
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Let me start off by saying that, yes, Zeam Launcher is really manageable in size. After downloading the initial 500kb file, the app ends up being around 840kb after installation. It uses just 20MB of RAM, which is about two-thirds of what HTC Sense needs. As a result, however, Zeam Launcher lacks many things that Sense has such as the weather clock, bookmark and small 1x1 widgets for Wi-Fi, Airplane mode etc.
Besides the things I just mentioned, I don’t miss anything from Sense. On the contrary, this home replacement includes the usual pinch-to-zoom feature, which let’s you see an overview of all your screens. There’s also a scrollable dock bar at the bottom where you can drag-and-drop all of your most used apps from the app drawer.
You can place up to seven apps on each one of the seven possible screens. That way you have quick access to all of the most important apps on your phone. You can position your apps in any order by simply long tapping them and moving them over. Opening and closing the app drawer is animated and the drawer also shows which app you opened last. The only thing missing is the option of arranging your apps into categories as is possible with ADW Launcher. Another great feature is the quick uninstaller: just long press any app icon and move it to the trash to wipe it completely from your system.
You can, of course, adjust Zeam to fit your needs:
- General: Full-screen mode and auto-rotation
- Workspace: Scrolling, flipping, wallpaper, icon-labels yes/no, scrollable widgets
- Action Bindings: Adjust what happens when you swipe, double-tap, long-press etc. (toggle fullscreen, open app drawer, go to default screen)
- Applications grid: Open/close animation, bookmark last app opened
- Dock: Background, space between icons, auto-reset.
Screen & Controls
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Here Zeam Launcher has shown itself to be useful for daily use: the controls are intuitive and similar to those of your most common home replacement apps. The additional features do not require any getting used to (the scrollable dock-bar, for example). It’s really nice to see that the screen can be viewed horizontally. If auto-rotation is turned on, the screen flips to the right position automatically. Besides the regular app icons, widgets and shortcuts, you can also add action-icons to the screen (see the screenshots).
In terms of screen and controls there’s virtually nothing to complain about.
Speed & Stability
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Zeam Launcher reacts quickly and smoothly to every command – a must for any home-screen app. No lags, no crashes, no hassle. Even restarting the launcher (a necessary step for certain configuration changes) works faster than with HTC Sense. A solid 4 starts!
Price/Performance Ratio
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Zeam Launcher can be downloaded for free from the Market. Just short of 5 stars here because we have received an answer from the support team for over a week now.
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Market Comments
gumball3000, Apr 17, 2012
Poor It has so little feautures and still very laggy as compared to adw. Uninstalling for now.
Ally, Apr 17, 2012
Solid launcher, light on features. Launcher works great, but has less customization than others. Depends on what you're looking for. I wish there was a launcher that I could customize to the hilt, but wouldn't slow my phone down. Hard to find a good compromise. If you don't need a bunch of themes, icons, widgets & fancy docks - this is for you.
Bob, Apr 17, 2012
Market sez is incompatible w/ Galaxy Tab 10.1 Why? It works perfectly with the Tab. Keep up the good work! UPDATE: No longer compatible with Tab since v3.1.10, but still a keeper on my phone.
Felix, Apr 17, 2012
Cool Though it lacks functions like hide apps from app drawer, and the open app UI is not impressive at all.
joseph, Apr 17, 2012
loved this minimalist launcher! most stable version was before horizontal scroll +other bloat features added. needs multiple restarts to show dock/app-grid. cm7.1.0 blade
liang, Apr 16, 2012
Just great! My favourite kind of app, does exactly what it's supposed to do. Light weight, efficient, yet fancy. Nice work!
Roo Boy, Apr 16, 2012
Works but sometimes glitches I liked everything about this launcher except sometimes it would glitch and look odd. Loved the gesture feature.
kekePower, Apr 15, 2012
Amazing little launcher :-) This thing does everything I need, it's fast and sweet. Compare the size to any of the others and you'd be amazed as well. Superbly done Michael. Thanks!
John H., Apr 15, 2012
Great lightweight launcher I downloaded this to replace Go Launcher. It had a much smaller footprint but includes all of the features I used.
kike, Apr 15, 2012
Great Fast, light, simple and just perfect, would love an increase in smoothness though! Update please?
Alex Johsnon, Apr 15, 2012
Fast and Worthwhile Update: Still has been months with no changes, 3.5/5. Old review: Great, lightning fast launcher. Gets the job done well. However, settings do not always save on restart. Needs an update to be system persistent. 4.5/5
Jeffrey Evans
Great launcher, it's really fast and has some nice customisation options. The developer says it's a lightweight launcher but the reality is that it's a really quick home application. If you like clean launchers, try this one.