#HotAppTuesday - AppDialer app/contact search

This week's HotApp is dedicated to making you more productive. You know those times when you open your app drawer, scroll through endless lists of apps and waste precious time before you get to open Facebook. I know I certainly hate it and that's when I stumbled upon the AppDialer app / contact search (Android, Free) app.

Essentially, the app lets you use either a standard T8 keyboard (from Nokia phones of old) or a QWERTY keyboard to instantly search and open up apps or call contacts. So let's say you want to open up "Uber". Click on the AppDialer icon, type "U" and then "b" and presto, you should have Uber as one of your search results. Click the icon to launch your app. The same goes for your contacts as well. Press and hold the contact and you can even select the number to dial. Combine that with pretty good predictive intelligence and you get a pretty great idea well implemented.

The free version should serve most purposes, although the Pro Version (Rs.244) does bring some additional nifty features, including ability to uninstall apps and even edit contacts, which makes it an almost full fledged app drawer and contact manager. And that's pretty great, because that's another two apps I don't have to be concerned about.

What I like about AppDialer:

• Easy to use
• One stop search for launching both apps and contacts
• Predictive search feature is accurate

What can be better:

• App can be slightly slow to launch at times
• Long-press on app / contacts can be a bit hit-and-miss (I've called the wrong number of a contact a few times by mistake)

But overall, I've loved using it and that's why it is my #HotAppTuesday for the week. Let me know what you think.