Tips & Tricks: Replacing the Carousel with GoToApp Demo

Thanks to another amazing tip yesterday from Rachel, we've caught wind of an exciting app that can substitute for the carousel! Between this and Billy's tip on Tuesday, you all are making my job easy! But anyway, there are plenty of people get tired of the carousel or feel the whole thing gets unwieldy if you have a lot of apps, and this should seriously help with that.

Up until now, the only real option for switching away from the carousel was to use Go Launcher EX, but that came with it's own problems. There are conflicting reports of whether or not you can get it from Amazon or if you have to sideload it. And then there are the tiny or distorted icons that you really can't do anything about. It worked, but for a lot of people it was not ideal.

But thanks to Rachel we've got a handle on another (free) solution: GoToApp Demo. Despite being called an demo, this is really the full app.

Let's be clear at the outset that this app is not a launcher, so it doesn't replace the carousel in the truest sense of the word, but what it can do is create an entirely new interface displaying the apps on your drive to make navigation quicker and easier. It is similar to an app we mentioned last week, Apps Box, but this one seems more expansive. Let's take a look at a few screenshots before getting into the nuts and bolts a bit.

Now there are a few things about using this app that you should keep in mind. You can fully customize which apps go into which folders, and the way to do that is with the + sign you see after creating a folder. To remove apps, like with most things, press and hold until you are given the option.

As Rachel pointed out, even though this app isn't a launcher, there's a way to avoid going back to the carousel every time you exit an app. In the GoToApp settings, you'll find a way to make the app appear with your notifications, and so you can use that to return to your menu instead of hitting home and returning to the carousel.

Several enthusiastic reviews say that GoToApp Demo is the most useful application they have on their Kindle Fires. Will you feel the same way about it? There's only one way to find out! And thanks again to Rachel for this great tip. If anyone out there stumbles upon anything else that helps make their Fire better, be sure to let us know so we can spread the word!