# Quick Launch — user reviews > 26 indexed App Store user reviews of Quick Launch by Sindre Sorhus, rated 4.90/5 from 48 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/quick-launch/id1645566403/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/quick-launch/id1645566403.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 46 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (10 of 26) ### 5/5 — Great *2023-03-31* Awesome foo ### 5/5 — A Must Have App *2022-11-29* A simple way to customize and add Lock Screen widgets. Similar apps only allow Lock Screen widgets from just a select few apps. This Quick Launch App however, allows you to add any app, or url. I looked into several similar apps, and none compare to this. Quick Launch is BY FAR the best. It is easy to use, very functional, and I highly recommend it. ### 5/5 — Genius. *2022-10-28* This app is genius in its simplicity. ### 5/5 — Super Tool *2022-10-04* Sehr einfach zu verstehen. Macht was es soll und vorallem ist es werbefrei sodass ohne störende Pop-ups die App betrieben werden kann. Danke an den Entwickler ### 5/5 — Perfekt! *2022-10-04* Danke für diese gute und kostenlose App! ### 5/5 — Tolle App *2022-10-03* Mit dieser App kann man die bisher begrenzten Widget Möglichkeiten von Apple deutlich ausweiten. Funktioniert bestens! ### 5/5 — ty! *2022-10-03* you’re a stud pushing out these free widget + lock screen apps, and they just as good/better than the paid ones. dev is good people <3 ### 5/5 — I love the ability to run shortcuts from lockscreen *2022-10-01* I set up a driving lockscreen that allows me to launch shortcuts to my daily commute route and then to order a cup of coffee when I get to work. The app does even more than that. I’m still exploring. Thanks for some great functionality! ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2022-10-01* This app is such an awesome extension to the shortcuts app! Great work!! ### 5/5 — Been looking for this! *2022-09-30* Love it, this has thoroughly improved my lockscreen and is nearly perfect. I'd love if there were a way for shortcuts to run without opening the app. For instance as Apple's Shortcuts widget does - a menu is displayed at the top without showing all of the shortcuts I use from Shortcuts app. A minor gripe, no other app I'm aware of has the functionality that this does. Thanks! **Developer response:** This is unfortunately not possible. That's why there are no apps doing this. There's more info about this on the app's website. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Did not work at all *2023-09-28* I don’t understand five star reviews, other than them, knowing the designer **Developer response:** I cannot really help you since you haven’t provided any info on what exactly doesn’t work. However, I can assure you that the app does work. I use it daily without problems, so does 10000+ other users. Email me at sindresorhus@gmail.com and I’d be happy to help. If the widget did not show up in the widget picker, try restarting your device, and try again. ### 2/5 — Geht nicht mehr *2025-01-04* Nach neustem Update kann ich keine Apps starten **Developer response:** Aufgrund eines iOS-Fehlers müssen Sie Ihr Gerät möglicherweise neu starten und möglicherweise sogar die Widgets entfernen und erneut hinzufügen. -- Because of a iOS bug, you have may to restart your device, and you may even have to remove the widgets and re-add them. ### 4/5 — Great app. Icons in colour rather than black n white ? *2025-04-02* Hi. I meant the colours of the icons within the app, not the widget. Nice to see A-Z icon labels has been implemented. Would love to be able to have the icon in colour instead of only black & white. This app is exactly what I was wanting to save my locations on Google Maps and be able to use a shortcut to get to those locations quickly. It would be very useful if there were some alphabetical symbols to use as the symbol for the shortcut. There are plenty of icons but just no alphabetical symbols, for example A-Z. it would also be great if there was an option to not show the URL link on the Quick Launch screen. also, it would be great if the app could work with folders so that I could keep websites separate from other links in a folder, and maybe have one folder for work and one folder for personal. Other than that, it’s a great app. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. It says "Select Type" until you pick a type in the widget config. I added a character picker in the latest update. No plans to add folders. Update: Lock Screen widget cannot have colors. This is controlled by iOS. If you have any additional questions, there is a support button in the app. You will get faster answers that way. ### 4/5 — Great app. Icons in colour rather than black n white ? *2024-07-03, version 1.4.0* Nice to see A-Z icon labels has been implemented. Would love to be able to have the icon in colour instead of only black & white. This app is exactly what I was wanting to save my locations on Google Maps and be able to use a shortcut to get to those locations quickly. It would be very useful if there were some alphabetical symbols to use as the symbol for the shortcut. There are plenty of icons but just no alphabetical symbols, for example A-Z. it would also be great if there was an option to not show the URL link on the Quick Launch screen. also, it would be great if the app could work with folders so that I could keep websites separate from other links in a folder, and maybe have one folder for work and one folder for personal. Other than that, it’s a great app. ### 4/5 — Quick Lauch *2024-05-22* Kann man gebrauchen… ### 4/5 — なかなか良いてす。 *2024-02-17* アドレスでアイコンが作成可能なので 便利だと感じました。 ### 5/5 — Almost exactly what I was looking for *2025-09-23* I have a lot of apps that I access frequently and having them all in folder or multiple on my home screen or dock triggers my ADHD, OCD in a generally OP kind of way; so this app has helped me keeping them out of sight and mind. If I could provide any feedback it would be a request to the dev - if you would consider please adding different colour options or icon options for the app (for the reasons I mentioned above). Also I’d like to ask you to entertain the idea of allowing user to change have coloured icons for apps inside the launcher. My brain has difficulty identifying the apps at a glance with only grayscale versions to differentiate them. Overall a great app with room to grow into perfect. This dev makes genuinely helpful, original and functional apps and they deserve more support and recognition. ### 5/5 — DOES work as intended *2024-12-29* UPDATE: After detailed explanation of my original issue from the developer, updated the rating; seems increasingly restrictive iOS limitations strike again. Understandable for security purposes, but maybe Apple should implement ability to apply for exceptions after a slightly more strict app review process for apps that clearly add improved UX for iOS users. But I suppose it’s easier for them to simply not do that and just “Sherlock” the functionality of this app for their next iOS version. And dw Sindre I’m on your side, and happy to fund you. As an unrelated side note: I appreciate you forcing the js community to take ESM more seriously, would’ve been a decade or more before we saw any serious changes in the ecosystem without the actions you took. Apologies if the original review seemed too critical. Understand that the “free” thing is an easy oversight, nonetheless would be wise to change text content soon before someone does decide to pursue the whole “false advertisement” thing more seriously through more official channels. Keep up the good work 🙏🏽 ORIGINAL: I got duped by your website of the ‘favorites widget’, linking to a site of things you could do with it. Turns out it was only for quick calls. And in the app it says “check out other FREE” apps by me - so checked out this app, only to find out it’s not free, so that was a categorical lie. Anyway, I used the links and instructions provided by you yourself. Only to find out that it didn’t work. All I wanted to do was open the Auto-Lock in settings page. Added the link, hit test. Nothing happens at all. And tried to run it by tapping in the list, by using the option to do so from the settings. Again nothing happened. The link I’m using is prefs:root=DISPLAY&path=AUTOLOCK No idea why you’d advertise options that don’t work, and advertise features for separate apps. I don’t need the favourites widget at all. I was duped. Anyways, this was so simple to implement manually with my own shortcut by adding that url as the URL and then using the Open URLs action… So it definitely works, but for whatever reason, your app doesn’t do the only thing I thought would make simpler. Instead I just wasted time and money for something that took me 30s to set up manually.. Sorry to bring the rating down. But the combination of false advertisement and it not actually working is the reasoning for I. If you are able to fix it, I’d happily change the rating. But I’d also appreciate a refund for the favorites widgets app because I only got it because the false advertisement you have in place in its description “You can also open a URL or run a shortcut instead when tapping the widget. This opens up a lot of cool possibilities. Here are some ideas of what you could open.” Was unable to do that. Don’t want this app either now tbh. Already solved it with a simple shortcut that’s actually free. Are you aware that in your app it says “MORE FREE APPS BY THIS DEVELOPER”. And the link provided in the list from favourite widgets app took me to this app which was definitely not free. More false advertisement. I’m just sad 🥺 took me 30s to do it manually, and this string of apps lead me to a string of wasted time and money. Sorry. Love your stuff but I have no idea why it doesn’t work, when a normal shortcut does. Wanted to support you and potentially simplify shortcut creation, but I’m just left disappointed. Let me know if you find a fix and I’ll change rating immediately. I’m on the new iOS 18.2 if that helps you a little bit. **Developer response:** - Favorites Widget used to be free until recently and it's just an oversight that it has not been removed from that list. This will be fixed soon. The price is clearly listed in the App Store though. Don't assume ill intent. - iOS prevents third-party apps from opening "prefs" type links (the Shortcuts app has extra privilege). You could achieve it by instead using the "Run Shortcut" tap action in Favorites Widgets / Quick Launch and then run a shortcut that opens that link. The benefit of using Quick Launch or Favorites Widget over the built-in Shortcuts widget is that you can configure the look of it more. In the future, just use the feedback button in the app. You would have gotten an answer much faster. ### 5/5 — Works perfectly and so many options! *2024-08-19* Excellent app! Tons of options. You must follow the instructions exactly, but they are very clear and easy. If the app does not show up in the widget selector, restart the device and it will be there. ### 5/5 — Super! *2024-05-11* Apple should have integrated this themselves. Anyway works like a charm !! ## Most praised reviews (6 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great For Adding Custom Widgets *2023-12-30* Perfect for adding a widget to the lock screen. Particularly when an app is not on the usual list of choices lock screen widget. ### 5/5 — 🍣 *2023-10-31* All of your apps are great, thank you for sharing (you should definitely take money for some of them, I wish I could at least tip you somehow) ### 5/5 — so many sf symbols to choose from thank you *2023-10-16* I find myself immediately deleting any free apps if the “ask app not to track” disclaimer is presented at first launch and I’m usually willing to pay a small *one-time fee anyway.. if the app is truly valuable. These apps are hard to find/nonexistent and the monthly-subscription pricing model is obviously being abused by a large amount of developers. This guy asks for none of it - he doesn’t need your data or money (though, I’d be willing to pay *once for his apps). Just download all of them. They’re useful, free, and (did I mention?) ad-free. Oh and it seems like the entire sf symbol library is included as icon options (maybe not the entire library idk) either way, it’s nice to have options!! **Developer response:** Thank you! And yes, the entire SF Symbols library is available in the icon picker. ### 5/5 — Die App nach der ich gesucht habe *2023-09-14* Ich habe stundenlang versucht, einen Shortcut auf meinen Lockscreen zu bekommen dass ich realisiert habe, dass Apple von Haus aus gar keine Möglichkeit dazu anbietet. Diese App konnte mein Problem lösen. ### 5/5 — Does exactly what it says *2023-08-23* Very few apps do exactly what they say, with no extra headaches. This is one of those few. I downloaded it and within 2 minutes had my Lock Screen configured with the shortcuts I needed (and earlier wasn’t able to do with my iPhone alone). Great app…thank you! ### 5/5 — 10/10 *2023-05-21* INCREDIBLE ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-11.*