Floating bubbles have been made popular a while ago by Facebook’s Chat Heads, and continue to be one of the most practical yet fun ways of adding a top layer to your current Android screen. Among the most recent floating bubble apps is LAS (Last App Switcher), a handy way of jumping to the last used app on your phone. But LAS isn’t alone, so this is a list that also includes 4 other apps with the same user interaction idea.
LAS: Last App Switcher
LAS acts as the last channel button on your TV remote, except it works on apps. Click it and you instantly jump back to your last used app, click it again and you return to where you were. It’s incredibly useful (and highly customizable) if you often switch between apps and hate the wait times associated with opening the multitasking menu and picking the last used app.
Download: LAS Last App Switcher
Link Bubble
Link Bubble is one of the most famous floating bubble apps. It doesn’t sit on your screen all the time, like most of the apps on this list do, but it only gets triggered when you click on a link. Link Bubble will load the page for you while sitting idly on the side of your screen and letting you continue your browsing. It helps immensely if you open a lot of links or if your connection is slow, because you screen won’t be taken hostage as the pages load.
Download: Link Bubble and pro
Copy Bubble
Take the recipe of Link Bubble and apply it to clipboards, and you get Copy Bubble. The app acts as a clipboard manager for your phone, keeping track of the various things you copy, and allowing you an easy way (the bubble) to paste the items back in other apps.
Download: Copy Bubble
Floatifications
Floatifications takes the concept of the floating bubble and applies it to notifications. Instead of sticking these in your drop-down shade, notifications will appear inside floating bubbles on your screen — each bubble dedicated to an app and opening the corresponding notification with its actionable buttons when you click it.
Download: Floatifications trial and unlock key
flippr – flip widgets anywhere
flippr puts your widgets inside its floating bubble so you can quickly check and interact with your favorite apps without opening them and without leaving the current app on your screen. You can assign various widgets to one bubble button, and scroll horizontally between them after you click it.
Download: flippr free and pro
What are the other floating bubble apps that you use on your phone? Leave a comment to let us know!
