Easy Homescreen

Easy Homescreen Review: Bigger Buttons, Paid For With Ads and Yahoo Search

What the free launcher gives you, and the $0.99–$29.99 extras

Once it is chosen as the Home app, the first screen holds a large clock with local weather, a web search bar and big tiles for Contacts, Messages and other shortcuts. Built-in extras include lock-screen widgets, a universal TV remote that the store artwork shows paired with a Roku Express 4K+, and Easy Keyboard, an optional replacement keyboard with larger keys. Google Play labels the app with both Contains ads and In-app purchases, listed at $0.99 to $29.99 per item in the U.S.; prices are regional and may change, and the listing does not say what they unlock. The developer's own About page still says there are no ads or in-app purchases.

Font Size: Large and the oversized tiles, up close

A few big tiles and a strip of recent apps sit in front, and the rest goes into an app list that the most-upvoted Play review, with 6,842 helpful votes in October 2024, describes as alphabetical. Font Size switches text between Regular and Large, and reviewers in September 2026 say icons cannot be made smaller and that the tiles cover their wallpaper. The cost falls on people who had a tuned setup: reviewers say their folders, extra pages and favourite shortcuts vanished from view as soon as the launcher became the default. One 4-star reviewer needed about an hour to get back to the old screen, and a 3-star reviewer described scrolling through four pages to reach an app.

Yahoo search, a Chrome coupon reader and 10 permission groups

The Play listing discloses two things the screenshots do not show. Tapping Install sets home-screen search to Yahoo, and the app asks for Android's Accessibility permission so it can spot shopping pages in Chrome and show coupon codes; the privacy policy lists ad networks and affiliate marketing programs among possible data recipients. Play's permission list covers 10 named groups, including calendar and contacts editing, precise location, placing calls and the camera. The Data safety form says installed apps, email address and phone number may be shared for advertising or marketing, and the policy names Microsoft Clarity session replay and TikTok's Pangle. Play lists Advanced Commerce Solutions, Inc. of Florida as the developer, while the terms belong to East End Technologies Ltd. and send disputes to individual arbitration in the Cayman Islands.

Easy Homescreen vs Samsung Easy mode, Microsoft Launcher and Niagara

On October 1, 2026 the app ranked #1 among free Personalization apps on Google Play in the U.S., yet 79 of the 150 newest English reviews, posted September 23–30, give one star and 52 give five. More than 20 ask how to undo the change or say they cannot, and several say it arrived without their asking. Six of the top 15 YouTube results for the app's name are removal tutorials. For bigger text alone, Galaxy phones have Easy mode under Settings > Display. Microsoft Launcher, with 50M+ downloads, carries neither the Contains ads nor the In-app purchases label on Play. Niagara Launcher has no ads label and sells upgrades from $0.99 to $74.99 per item in the U.S.