Website Shortcut

3.4.1

Deltac Development

4.12

1,214 reviews

100,000+
Downloads

Free

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.

Download Statistics

Website Shortcut has been downloaded 220 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 310 times.

User Ratings

Website Shortcut is rated 4.12 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.2 thousand ratings.

App Information

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.

Technical Requirements

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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More data about Website Shortcut

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	220 thousand
Recent downloads	310
Rating	4.12 based on 1.2 thousand ratings
Ranking	Not ranked
Version	3.4.1
APK size	2.95 MB
Number of libraries	18
Designed for Android	8.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Downloads over time

Website Shortcut has been downloaded 220 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 10 downloads per day.

Changelog of Website Shortcut

Jan 14, 2022UpdateVersion 3.4.1
Apr 25, 2020Installs100,000+ installs
Feb 20, 2018UpdateVersion 2.1
Jun 2, 2018Installs50,000+ installs
Sep 10, 2016Installs10,000+ installs
May 22, 2016Installs5,000+ installs
Feb 17, 2016UpdateVersion 1.1.0
Jan 8, 2016Installs1,000+ installs
Nov 19, 2015Installs500+ installs
Aug 18, 2015Installs100+ installs
Jul 28, 2015Installs50+ installs
Jul 16, 2015Installs10+ installs
Jul 14, 2015Installs5+ installs
Jul 14, 2015UpdateVersion 1.0.7
Jul 9, 2015New AppVersion 1.0.6 in PERSONALIZATION for Free

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Developer information for Deltac Development

Deltac Development

deltacdev@gmail.com

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Comments on Website Shortcut for Android

★★★★★ 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.

★★★★★ 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

★☆☆☆☆ 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.

★☆☆☆☆ 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.

★☆☆☆☆ Viking Warrior · Aug 2, 2022

What is the true purpose of this app I wonder? Whenever I copy a website URL and paste it in the required field, label the shortcut And choose a Picture, as soon as I press the (Create Shortcut) button, it only says "Launcher does not support pin shortcuts" Am I doing something wrong here or is the app just a total waste of time...?

★☆☆☆☆ Mochamad Aris Zamroni · Nov 22, 2022

The developer intentionally makes the app worst. It no longer auto retrieves and generates website icon and title

Google Play Rankings for Website Shortcut

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Technologies used by Website Shortcut

Website Shortcut is requesting 0 permissions and is using 19 libraries.

Permissions

No permissions found

Ad network libraries

None found

Social libraries

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Development tools

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