Personalize your homescreen with (icon) shortcuts for websites (URL/URIs).
Not recently updated — last update was on 2022-01-14.
This app may no longer be actively maintained.
About Website Shortcut
Website Shortcut is a personalization app developed by Deltac Development.
How many times has Website Shortcut been downloaded?
Website Shortcut has been downloaded 220 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 340 times.
What is the rating of Website Shortcut?
Website Shortcut is rated 4.12 out of 5 stars, based on 1.2 thousand ratings.
Is Website Shortcut free?
Website Shortcut is free to download. The APK download size is 2.95 MB. The latest version available is 3.4.1. The last update was on January 14, 2022.
What are the requirements for Website Shortcut?
Website Shortcut requires Android 8.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play July 2015.
Description
Personalize your Android homescreen by creating your own icon shortcuts for websites (URL/URIs). Customize your website shortcuts with your own selected text and image. Furthermore, there are no advertisements and it's free. I made it originally for myself, and decided to share. Giving a fair rating is very well appreciated!
From Android Oreo on (due to an API change, upon which this app is built), the bottom right tiny icon of the app the shortcut belongs to is added automatically by the launcher.
Features: * Choose your own label and icon for the shortcut and the website URL/URI to open * Icon selection via local file selection * Works with most icon packs * Supports usage of general URIs (e.g., mailto:example@example.com ) * Broad support for image formats: *.png, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.ico, *.gif, *.bmp * Automatic https scheme suggestion if it misses from the URL * Make use of "Share via..." in any other application (e.g., a browser) to conveniently fill the website URL/URI field * View the labels and website URL/URIs of currently present shortcuts of the app (navigate to the in-app drawer menu -> "Current shortcuts") * Free * No advertisements
--- Data policy
Creation of a shortcut is done by passing the shortcut design (label/icon) and an Intent with the website (URL/URI) to the system shortcut manager and the launcher. The system shortcut manager and the launcher create and manage the shortcuts, and maintain them with their associated Intents. In some cases (e.g., upon app, launcher or system update, or restore from back-up), the system shortcut manager or launcher might lose icons of existing shortcuts or even entire shortcuts. It is recommended to keep somewhere a list of labels, icons and website URL/URIs so you can recreate easily. In the app drawer menu, you can open the "Current shortcuts" which displays the labels and website URL/URIs of the still present shortcuts retrieved from the system shortcut manager.
In this version (≥ v3.0.0) a large randomly generated identifier is used to uniquely name shortcuts such that the launcher can uniquely identify shortcuts. In prior versions (≤ v2.1), a creation timestamp was used as unique identifier. Shortcuts created by prior versions (≤ v2.1) will still have their creation timestamp stored within their Intent and unique name.
Uninstalling the app (i.e. via Settings -> Apps -> Application List -> Website Shortcut -> Uninstall) will remove the app from the device, including its data. The Android uninstallation procedure will also notify the system shortcut manager and the launcher, which should remove from it all shortcuts associated with the app.
There are no advertisements in this app.
For information on data policy of previous versions: https://deltacdev.com/policies/policy-website-shortcut.txt
--- App permissions
This application does not require any app permissions.
For information on app permissions of previous versions: https://deltacdev.com/policies/policy-website-shortcut.txt
--- License
Copyright 2015-2022 Deltac Development
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
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The icons in the options and drawer menu are (based on) Material icons made by Google, which are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See also: https://fonts.google.com/icons
Recent changes: * Creation form: shortcut directly resembles design + extra app info * Icon selection limited to local files and thus remove auto-detect (to simplify creation form and as the app purpose is to select your own label/icon; else "Add to homescreen" of browsers suffices) * "Current shortcuts" in app drawer menu * New shortcuts: improved open latency by removing go-between activity + uniquely named by randomly generated UUID instead of timestamp * Performance and theme tweaks * No app permissions
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Awesome! So simple to create a custom icon for websites that don't have their shortcut images set up. Thank you! I do have 1 feature request: would love if we could add a background color too.
★★★★★Michael Lowden· Nov 14, 2022
Does what I needed -A browser-less shortcut. Why you ask? Because I flip-flop browsers all the time, and I'm tired of my home screen shortcuts disappearing because I change browsers. -Thank you
★★★★★Joe _____· May 24, 2024
This app does exactly what it says it does. It is simple and does not require extra permissions. And yes, it does add in the docs, that in case there is a glitch somewhere, you should save the icon image in a text file, along with the link, and the icon label. Nice clean app which fills an important gap left by chages in Android Chrome. I like it.
★☆☆☆☆vacum fridge· Jun 1, 2025
This app doesn't work on my vivo 1907. You can do can already do this on chrome but, I wanted it on opera. It faced the same problem as opera where it can't make icons on my phone.
★☆☆☆☆Mochamad Aris Zamroni· Nov 22, 2022
The developer intentionally makes the app worst. It no longer auto retrieves and generates website icon and title
★★☆☆☆Walter Clark· Aug 29, 2023
When I download a photo to this website shortcut, and when I looked where there are downloaded images, Website shortcut will not have it. This app may have a security feature that will not have permission for that particular photo to be shared in this app (e.g. meaning access denied when it says: e.g., invalid URL). Website Shortcut should get rid of this security feature so that more photos can be shared and downloaded. I had to uninstall it because of it. This app may soon be outdated.
★☆☆☆☆Cynthia Van Ness· Mar 16, 2023
Easy to use but be forewarned that if you make some shortcuts, then delete the app, it takes your shortcuts with it.
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