Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin]
Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin] is made and published by Jolan Rensen. AppBrain is an independent app data site and isn't affiliated with Jolan Rensen. The app name, icon, screenshots and description belong to Jolan Rensen and are shown as published on Google Play.
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EstablishedNiche- Total installs
- 1.8 thousand
- Rating on Google Play
- 3.57
- 39 ratings
- Last updated
- September 29, 2026
Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin] is a niche app, with 1.8 thousand installs. It doesn't have enough ratings yet to judge what users think.
Installs
Tracked by AppBrain- Last 30 days
- 21
- Play install range
- 1+ thousand
- Launched
- October 2017
Installs over time
Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin] has been installed 1.8 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it has been installed 21 times.
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Releases
Updates seen on Google Play- Version
- 4.4.0
- Launched
- October 2017
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- Price
- $1.99
- Libraries
- 24
- App size
- 16.2 MB
- Needs Android
- 5.1+
- Content rating
- Everyone
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About the app and developer
About Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin]
Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin] is a tools app developed by Jolan Rensen.
Install Statistics
Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin] has been installed 1.8 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was installed 21 times.
User Ratings
Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin] is rated 3.57 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 39 ratings.
App Information
Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin] costs $1.99. The app size is 16.17 MB. The latest version available is 4.4.0. The last update was on September 29, 2026.
Technical Requirements
Hotword Plugin [Tasker Plugin] requires Android 5.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play since October 2017.
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Store listing
By Jolan Rensen, from Google Play“Hey Google! Jarvis! Computer! Shout any hotword you like and let Tasker react!”
Description by Jolan Rensen Written by the developer, not by AppBrain. Click to read.
This app is powered by Snowboy (https://snowboy.kitt.ai/) Hotword detection.
Ever wanted to reuse that old android phone you've got lying around as an always listening mic and let it trigger a Tasker task? Or wanted to shout something else to your phone than the same old "OK Google"?
Well then this is the plugin for you!
This app does need Tasker to work! (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm, this is a paid app with a 7 days free trial)
Visit https://snowboy.kitt.ai/ (NOTE Chrome doesn't work, Firefox does), train and download the voice models you like (preferably on the device where you will run this plugin). Then you can add them in the plugin and the fun can start!
Yes you can listen for as many hotwords at a time as you like and trigger a different task for each one.
NOTE that when the listening service is running, the mic will be blocked from other app. This ensures the best performance and speed, however if you want to use the mic in another app, you can simply disable and enable it from the notification (Oreo notification channels supported) or enable the setting that does this for you.
You can also control the state of the listening mode from within a task if you like, use the quick toggle, or quickly stop or start it using app shortcuts on your home screen.
To give you a taste of what's possible I already give you a few hotwords to play with, but since they are not trained to your phone's mic it's much advisable to train and download your own.
What makes this plugin so special is that it is powered by Snowboy. They built a C++ toolkit that is light-weight, offline, super fast and they included a website with a database where you can access a lot of hotwords that are already trained!
Since it's already compiled natively it only works for devices having an armv7a or armv8-aarch64 chip (I'm sorry for you guys having Intel chips).
To give you an idea of what you can do with it: I have an Nvidia SHIELD androidTV that has Google Assistant but no always listening support. So, I grabbed an old android phone, installed my plugin and whenever I say "Hey Google" it sends an adb command (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ADBPlugin) that starts Assistant!
For help please visit https://forum.xda-developers.com/u/tasker-tips-tricks/plugin-hotword-plugin-free-t3692422 or send me an email.
Recent changes:
4.4.0
Fixed bug selecting and importing multiple hotwords at once, thanks Josef!
Version bumping
before:
Fixed link to snowboy.jolanrensen.nl
Removed file permissions
New "already imported" screen where you can now delete imported hw's
Fixed donations (if you got a refund in 2022/2023, try again :) )
Rebuilt Tasker communication completely (you need to set up all your tasks again, unfortunately)
Material You
On Android 11 the service can only be started from the app or notification :(