The Start menu on Windows 11 is far from the most efficient way to launch apps, so why not use an open-source alternative ...

A ndroid phones always feel snappy and responsive when they're new. Then, somewhere along the way, they start slowing down. The home screen becomes a mess of app icons, widgets, and folders. Even ...

More tech people should have heard of Playnite by now, especially for those PC gamers that have probably used too many game stores. Now, here's the impressive part: someone is selling Playnite ...

Just over a year ago, you'll remember Ars reporting that our beloved Nova Launcher was on "life support" due to a previous buyout from Branch Metrics, a company that collects user analytics and sells ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Blizzard says the Battle.net launcher will eventually become the default method of launching ...

There’s no doubt that the PC gaming space nowadays is becoming unwieldy with the amount of launchers and storefront libraries that exist for each company. Fortnite has to be launched from the Epic ...

Late last year, we reported on Apple’s poor handling of developers trying to take advantage of new features in iOS 8. In what publisher Adam Engst described as a “bring me a rock game,” Apple would ...

That battle.net launcher we've heard so much about, the one that makes it possible to log in to all your Bnet games at once and then not do it again for a month, has entered open beta today. What that ...

Launcher apps help you open apps, files, and folders quickly. MacOS has a built-in launcher called Spotlight. However, some people prefer third-party launcher apps because they offer more features and ...

Back when iOS 8 first launched, Launcher was one of the first apps to take advantage of the new widgets allowed in the Notification Center, and it introduced shortcut functionality that let users ...