Image Shortcut
Personalization
Create shortcuts in your launcher to your favorite images.
- Rating
- 4.5
- 1.6K ratings
- Downloads
- 45.8K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Sep 4
- 2025 · v11
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About Image Shortcut
Stop endlessly scrolling through your gallery to find that one important image.
Create a shortcut to it on your home screen launcher and view the image immediately!
Unlike widgets, shortcuts can be grouped together into folders to save home screen space.
# Frequently Asked Questions
- If I delete the image after creating a shortcut, what happens?
A local copy of the image is kept so the shortcut always keeps working.
- If I delete the shortcut, what happens to the local copy of the image?
Unfortunately the launcher does not inform any app when shortcuts are deleted. Whenever the apps runs or the device starts, ImageShortcut checks which shortcuts have been removed and then removes the corresponding images.
- What does it cost?
It's free! No subscriptions, no in app purchases and no advertising. Donations are optional.
# Requirements
- Android version 13 (API Level 33) or higher
- A launcher (home screen) that supports shortcut pinning
- An image viewer app
# Permissions
Receive boot completed - Remove unused images that no longer have shortcuts
# Privacy policy
This software does not collect, store, share, or use any personal or sensitive user data.
# Contact
https://www.arnodenhond.com/imageshortcut
https://www.github.com/arnodenhond/ImageShortcut
Create a shortcut to it on your home screen launcher and view the image immediately!
Unlike widgets, shortcuts can be grouped together into folders to save home screen space.
# Frequently Asked Questions
- If I delete the image after creating a shortcut, what happens?
A local copy of the image is kept so the shortcut always keeps working.
- If I delete the shortcut, what happens to the local copy of the image?
Unfortunately the launcher does not inform any app when shortcuts are deleted. Whenever the apps runs or the device starts, ImageShortcut checks which shortcuts have been removed and then removes the corresponding images.
- What does it cost?
It's free! No subscriptions, no in app purchases and no advertising. Donations are optional.
# Requirements
- Android version 13 (API Level 33) or higher
- A launcher (home screen) that supports shortcut pinning
- An image viewer app
# Permissions
Receive boot completed - Remove unused images that no longer have shortcuts
# Privacy policy
This software does not collect, store, share, or use any personal or sensitive user data.
# Contact
https://www.arnodenhond.com/imageshortcut
https://www.github.com/arnodenhond/ImageShortcut
What’s new
Version 11 · Updated September 4, 2025
rewrite in kotlin
User reviews
Should be stock with Android! Works as stated. Simple and efficient. LG and Samsung Verizon
Worked great for pic. Lightweight and can put shortcuts in folders since it's not a widget. Didn't try for video.
Cool
Works perfect as thumbnails to images or videos, taking you directly to your media app for viewing! I love this app! I use it in my Toshiba tablet for shortcuts to videos I show in the frequently, and I use it on my Motorola RAZR for icons of my favorite pictures mixed into my home screen to customize the look as we...
Just what i needed thanks
Perfect and easy. With Image Shortcut I can create an icon of my old scanned magazine covers, then swipe to see the related pages in the same directory since it opens in the default image app. Just what I wanted!
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