Supercharge your Android with Sesame Shortcuts. Quick launch them from Nova Launcher!
NOTE: you need the latest release of Nova Launcher for the integration to work.
Features
100+ shortcuts added to your device
Integrated into Nova Launcher App Search and app icon long press (requires Android 5.0 or >)
Easy setup, just install Sesame and Nova Launcher
Adds Quick Search options to Nova Launcher App Search (Google, Maps, Music, and many more)
Smart Search: matches first letters of words. Typing “S” “B” will bring “Spotify: The Beatles” to the top. Results are ranked by how often you’ve used them, next time just “S” will do.
Full control via Settings. Turn ON/OFF at the app or individual shortcut level
Make your own shortcuts
Beta features: Lock Screen and Edge Launcher (these don’t require Nova Launcher)
List of Shortcuts
Preloaded shortcuts
Contacts with one touch to call, text, or email
WhatsApp conversations (not group ones though)
Settings (19 useful ones)
Google Shortcuts (My flights, etc.)
Yelp (42 common searches)
Quick Search options for 12 apps (control this in Preferences)
Android 7.1 App Shortcuts
Backported all the way to 4.4 devices
Create your own shortcuts for
Netflix, Maps, Waze, YouTube, Spotify, Yelp, Google, Google Play Music, Google Play Store, Chrome (all versions), Firefox
Widget/Launcher Shortcuts
Supports all Widget shortcuts. Add them through Sesame and access them via our search anytime!
API integrations
Spotify: All albums, artists, and playlists in your Library
Slack: your teams and channels
Tasker: all your tasks. This let’s you build complex actions in Tasker and quick launch them easily.
Reddit: your subreddits. Works for all Reddit apps.
Automatically creates these personal shortcuts
Spotify: 1) new music you search for and click on ‘Top Result’ 2) when you click on a items from “Recently Played”
Hangouts conversations: only for pre 7.0 devices and not too reliable
QuickSearch options
Search directly in popular apps from Nova’s App search
Options include all Browsers, Google, Maps, Netflix, Spotify, Yelp, YouTube and many more
Trial Period
Sesame is a $2.99 USD app with an unlimited trial
After 14 days, if you are using the app but haven’t paid for it, you’ll see a brief message each time you use a shortcut
Sesame is made by Steve Blackwell and Phil Wall. We hope you like it. Let us know if there’s anything we can do to improve it
WHAT’S NEW
Version 3.5.2 (2019-06-23, build 13122):
fixes bug when making some launcher shortcuts
adds internal code for better Look & Feel integration on supported launchers
removes Gmail & Drive integration as required by Google
for more info on Gmail and Drive restricted scopes, see https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-policy#additional-requirements-for-specific-api-scopes
