Android smartphones already pack a lot of customization options for the users to apply their design to the home screen, navigation, and status bar. There’s a huge presence of third-party MODs which sometimes need root access to change the native look of your device. However, the same can be attained by using the Android Theme Apps also. These apps have opened various spheres of customizations on an Android device. The users can easily convert the whole User Interface of the device with just a few taps.
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The Android launchers are also a part of customizations, but they have certain limitations sometimes. The launcher apps are limited home screen customization, but the theming apps can fully change the way how your Android smartphone looks. The users can easily apply skins or widgets to get a beautiful and desired look on your smartphones.
The Android Theme apps bring the ability to customize every element, including home screens, keyboards, navigation bar, status bar, etc.
Advantages of Theme Apps:
- The customizability of every UI element
- Interactive design
- Easy to use interface
- Live Editor for intuitive designs
- Native Music, Weather, and other utilities
- Animations and lot more
Various theming apps are available in the Play Store. We have created a list of best Android theming apps that can be used for seamless customization across the whole device. Some launchers with the ability to deep customize the Android smartphones are also present in the list below.
List of Android Theme Apps
KLWP Live Wallpaper Maker
It’s a popular customization app available for Android devices. It is the most powerful Live Wallpaper creator that uses the WYSIWYG editor to create designs. It also supports various parameters, triggers, and actions to support the skin. The users can create their skin or can download from the Play Store or any other third-party website.
The Kustom allows users to create customized digital watches, weather widgets, clocks, live map backgrounds, music controls, system monitors, wallpapers, etc. All the features can be used to create intuitive and creative skins for smartphones.
In order to use the KLWP Live Wallpaper Maker, the user need to install an Android standard launcher such as Nova Launcher and others. Apart from customization, there are some free presets available in the featured section with custom fonts, colors, sizes and effects. Animation such as 3D flip transformations, curved and skewed text are also part of the KLWP. It even supports complex programming language with functions and conditions. Here are some third-party KLWP themes:
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Pros
- Deep Customization and integrity
- Jaw-dropping animations
- Custom Skins support
- Vast support in the market
- Tasker support
Cons
- Advertisements on Free version
- Complex for first-time users
KWGT – Kustom Widget
As like KWLP, the KWGT – Kustom Widget app is also developed by Kustom Industries. However, the KWGT is specially built to create new widgets. These widgets which are known as komponents can be used in a KWGT widget or a KLWP Live Wallpaper. Unlike the KWLP, the KWGT allows drag and drop of widgets from the widget manager of the launcher.
KWGT uses a WYSIWYG editor to create new designs and display the needed data without affecting battery life. It is a small part of Kustom Live Wallpaper. The app supports all the tools, including custom fonts, colors, shapes, 3D flip transformations, gradients, progress bards, and a lot more.
It even supports Google Fitness, native music utilities, Weather, and Tasker. The availability of complex mathematical function conditions and global variables makes it uncompetitive to any other widget maker.
Pros
- Complex programming language support
- Vast objects support
- Third-party services integration
Cons
- Most of the features limited for Pro Version
UCCW – Ultimate custom widget
It is a popular Android theming app with the ability to create widgets. Apart from the easy customizability, the users can even install many skins from the Google Play Store. It is a WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor for widgets.
The user can customize the widgets using different objects, fonts, images, shapes, battery meters, weather, and more. Any widget can be created using these elements as the sky is the limit for creativity. Custom hotspots, aka clickable action support, are also present on the UCCW.
Skin sharing is also possible as the app offers export and import of skins. It even allows apk creation of the skins from within the app.
Pros
- Easy Customization of widgets
- Support for different objects
- Hotspots for clickable actions
Cons
- In-App purchases
- Some of the features are paid
Zooper Widget
It is another heavy customization app to create your widget. The user can use different triggers, animations, actions, and elements to design the widget. However, a lot of customized themes are available from the Play Store, which the user can use with just a few taps. It even includes several templates, including clocks, weather, and date widgets. The app supports minimal, classy, extremely customizable, and battery-friendly widgets.
It supports full maths expressive with completely dynamic and customizable progress bard and icon sets. The ability to save, import, and export are among some significant features of the Zooper Widget app.
A free version of the app is limited to some features, but you can purchase the pro version for $2.99 to unlock unlimited possibilities. In February 2019, the Zooper Widget Pro was removed from Play Store. However, the users can still use it by downloading the apk from third party websites.
Substratum Theme Engine (Root)
How can we forget about the Substratum Theme Engine? It is the best and the most exceptional theme engine for Android. It needs root access to personalize the System UI and renovate the whole Android experience on your smartphone. However, the users can even use it without root on Android Oreo using Andromeda, but some features won’t work.
It works perfectly with AOSP (Android Open Source Project) based custom ROMs, LineageOS, and stock Android. It is an advanced theming mod that can be used to customize the UI at a deep root level. It offers a catalog of different themes depicting different visuals and stories.
Pros
- Support for full UI change
- Deeply integrated overlays
Cons
- It needs root access
Navbar Apps
Navbar Apps is a customization app for navigation bar on Android. It features a dynamic color changing module which changes the navigation bar color matching the App. The user can even customize the navigation bar using images, battery gauge, and other elements. It also supports navigation gestures to ease accessibility. Unfortunately, the app does not work on Huawei smartphones.
To use all the features, the user needs to grab the paid version for $1.99 from the Play Store.
Tapet
It is an award-winning wallpaper generator. It automatically generates high-quality backgrounds using different shapes and designs. It can randomly create wallpaper, daily or hourly. The app does not download any wallpaper from the internet, and all the designs are self-created by the app itself. Every new version brings exciting new patterns to surprise you with distinguished wallpapers.
The images are automatically generated to fit precisely into the viewport of your device. Many users love these rapidly generated wallpapers.
Pros
- Wallpapers are not downloaded
- Different Wallpaper every time
Cons
- Some shapes and designs are paid
These are some best Android theming apps available for Android devices. There are many other apps, but most of them carry the same features as the apps mentioned above. If you still have some useful apps that can be the part of this list, then do let us know via the comments below.
