Completely offline • Battery efficient • No ads • No trackers

Tapbar

Create tappable screen zones to open apps, trigger 100+ quick actions, and automate tasks with your favorite automation apps.

Features

• Create up to 4 custom tap zones anywhere on your screen
• 5 gestures: single tap, double tap, triple tap, long press and Swipe gesture
• Assign a different app, action, or app shortcut to each gesture
• Send a short notification (for ex: Zone 1 - Double tap) that automation apps like Automate, MacroDroid, and Tasker can use as a trigger
• Use all tap zones independently
• Start automatically when the device boots
• Works completely offline
• No ads, trackers, or analytics
• Completely free & open source

🔒 Privacy

Tapbar is designed to be simple and private.

• No ads, trackers & analytics
• No internet connection required
• Your settings stay on your device

Tapbar does not need your data to provide its main function.

Why Tapbar?

It started with a simple Android feature request: tap the clock in the status bar to open the Clock app.

Tapbar takes that further. Create tappable areas anywhere on your screen and assign different actions to single tap, double tap, triple tap, long press, and swipe.

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Installation Guide

Since Tapbar isn't published on the Play Store, Android may block or flag it when installing. If that happens, expand the relevant fix below.

1. Play Protect blocks the install

Play Protect may flag Tapbar since it uses Accessibility and Overlay permissions to work. To install anyway:

• Open the Play Store, tap your profile icon (top right)
• Tap Play Protect, then tap the Settings gear icon
• Turn off Scan apps with Play Protect and Improve harmful app detection
• Install Tapbar, then you can turn these back on

2. "Restricted setting" when enabling permissions

Newer Android versions block permission toggles for sideloaded apps by default. To fix this:

• Go to App info
• Tap the three-dot menu (top right) and select Allow restricted settings
• Then enable the required Accessibility and Overlay permissions from Tapbar's settings screen

Once these are set, Tapbar should install and run without issues.

Join the Community

⭐ If Tapbar is useful to you, star the repo. It helps others discover the project.

🤝 Contribute, report bugs, or share ideas

Tapbar is built in the open, and it's better with you in it.

• Found a bug? Open an issue, every report genuinely shapes what comes next
• Have an idea or a feature request like the one that started this whole project? Start a discussion, we'd love to hear it
• Have a question? Ask it in Discussions
• Want to contribute code? Fork the project, dig in, and open a pull request, check out CONTRIBUTING.md to get started

No idea is too small. Tapbar exists because someone asked for a way to tap a clock.

📈 Star History

💻 Clone the Project

git clone https://github.com/Earendel-lab/Tapbar.git

License

Tapbar is open source under the MIT License. Use it, learn from it, build on it.