TileShell

3.6.0

Vivek Sovani

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50+
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Free

Live Tiles, Widget Stacks & Feed — the Windows Phone Start screen, reborn

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About TileShell

TileShell is a personalization app developed by Vivek Sovani.

How many times has TileShell been downloaded?

TileShell has been downloaded 90 times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 53 times.

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Is TileShell free?

TileShell is free to download. The APK download size is 2.35 MB. The latest version available is 3.6.0. The last update was on September 1, 2026.

What are the requirements for TileShell?

The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play 5 weeks ago.

Description

TileShell brings the iconic Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile Start screen to Android — rebuilt in Kotlin, faithful to the original, with real Android widgets and modern personalization on top.

★ START SCREEN
4, 5, or 6 columns. Small, Medium, Wide, and Large (3×3) live tiles. Long-press to edit: drag, merge into folders or widget stacks, resize, recolour per tile or from the app's icon, or unpin. Prefer a normal Android look? Switch to Icons home style — weather/calendar/clock still live at a glance — with a matching Squircle/Circle/Rounded/Square/Original icon shape. Lock the layout so nothing moves by accident. Landscape puts the feed and Start side by side.

★ LIVE TILES
Clock with date, weekday, and your real next alarm. Live weather, forecast, and high/low. Next calendar event. Now-playing with album art and transport controls — any music app, or a dedicated tile. Contact-photo mosaic. Photos slideshow. Notification counts and message previews on every tile. All flip gently; pause automatically in battery saver.

★ GLANCE GADGETS
Pin TileShell's own live cards to Start or the feed, alongside real Android widgets: stock market (one stock, a sector/country basket, or your own list), commodities, currency pairs, sports scores, a second calendar system alongside Gregorian (including Hindu Panchang), a countdown, a sticky note, a shared notepad, an independent checklist per pin, plus battery, alarm, moon phase, flashlight, and step-count cards. Long-press any card for instant edit mode.

★ WIDGET STACKS
Merge two same-size tiles or Android widgets — on Start or the feed — into a swipeable carousel. Each member keeps its own colour and badge; every live face stays interactive inside.

★ NOTIFICATIONS
Unread badge on every pinned tile. Notification tiles flip through each pending message — sender, photo, snippet. A closed folder shows its total and which app inside has something pending. Unpinned apps with notifications surface in App List Recent too.

★ FEED PAGE (swipe right)
A greeting, live weather and today's agenda side by side, now-playing, and gadgets or widgets that resize, reorder, and merge into stacks. News across 8 categories — pick any number of regions, India plus ~20 other countries, or add any custom RSS/Atom feed.

★ QUICK PANEL
Swipe up from either edge. Resizable, reorderable square tiles for wifi, bluetooth, flashlight, DND, rotation lock, and more; tap-to-step brightness and volume; a one-tap theme tile; quick links to Personalize, Android Settings, and screen lock.

★ QUICK SEARCH
Two-finger swipe down on Start. Search apps, contacts, and the web in one gesture. Long-press a contact to call, message, or pin it to Start. Choose Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity.

★ EDGE STRIP
A quick-launch bar along the bottom. Search on the left, favourite apps in the centre, recent apps on the right. Collapses to a thin handle when not in use.

★ APP LIST (swipe left)
Alphabetical grid with A–Z jump grid and instant search. Recent and newly-installed apps up top with badge counts, even unpinned. Long-press to pin, hide, or uninstall.

★ PERSONALIZATION
14 accent colours, or pull one from your wallpaper · per-tile colour override or colour from the app's icon · dark/light themes · glass tiles tinted per tile · blur · wallpaper-behind-tiles · gradient, custom photo, slideshow, or daily Bing wallpapers with history · corner radius, gradient fill, 3 fonts, adjustable spacing · lock layout · built-in guide.

★ BACKUP & RESTORE
Auto-save on a schedule. Browse a visual history and restore any version. Export to a file to restore on your next device.

★ SCREEN LOCK
Instant lock from the Quick Panel or a gear long-press, preserving biometric unlock via the Accessibility API.

★ PRIVACY FIRST
No accounts. No analytics. No ads. All data stays on your device. Only weather requests leave (Open-Meteo, no API key), and only when you grant location permission.

Requires Android 8.0 (API 26) or higher.

Recent changes:
TileShell 3.6.0

• New: glance gadgets - stock/commodity/sports trackers, extra
calendar systems, countdown, notes, tasks, battery, alarm, moon
phase, flashlight & steps cards, on Start or the feed
• New: resize any icon 1x1-4x4 in icons mode; long-press any card
for instant edit mode; wallpaper crop shows a live preview
• Fixed: stock card shows every pick at any size; edit mode no
longer misfires mid-scroll; steps permission asked only when used
• Changed: colourful new launcher icon

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More data about TileShell

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	90
Recent downloads	53
Rating	No ratings
Ranking	Not ranked
Version	3.6.0
APK size	2.35 MB
Number of libraries	12
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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TileShell has been downloaded 90 times. Over the past 30 days, it has been downloaded 53 times.

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vivek.sovani@gmail.com

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