Glance Plus

Glance Plus Free App

Rated 4.18/5 (20,248) —  Free Android application by THSoftware

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About Glance Plus

Sometime you just want wake your phone to watch time and some basic notification (battery, missed call, sms..) and don't want to drain battery for that.
Glance Plus is designed for this propose, it shows some basic info in black screen when you waving your hand over proximity sensor or cover proximity sensor.
How to use this app:
1. Open Glance Plus, start service
2. Wave hand over proximity sensor 2 times OR just take out your phone from pocket :)
3. To weak up your phone, double tap on screen
4. To turn off glance screen just press power button
5. Choose 'Always on' from 'Glance Type' to get Glance screen persistency

Some settings:
- Change font size, font color
- Enable/disable showing notification, weather..
- Change clock style (digital, analog)
- Change display position of info on screen

Warning:
For Samsung device: To prevent the app stoped by itself:
System Settings > Device Maintenance > Battery > Unmonitored apps > Add apps > checked Glance Plus

For Xiaomi smartphone: need manually grant "Draw over other apps" permission (Go to Setting > Installed apps > Glance Plus > Permission manager > Display pop-up window > "Allow")

For Huawei smartphone: Open Phone Manager apps (or Settings app) -> Permission Manager -> choose Applications tab -> select Glance Plus -> enable Draw over other apps

Permissions required:
- Location, Internet: get current location => weather information. Deny this permissions if you don't want show weather info
- Phone: Hide glance screen when incoming call
- Modify system setting: change time off screen
- Draw over other apps: need this permission to run app
- Run at startup: auto run Glance Plus when restart phone

This app uses the Device Administrator permission.

Frequently asked questions:
1. Notifications does not show up ?
- Access to notifications needs to be enabled (open Setting, click on the "Show notification" option for notifications and allow access to Glance Plus)
- try to restart the phone

2. Waving my hand over my phone doesn't work
- Try waving slowly
- Try waving after screen off > 1s
- Try increasing screen brightness in app settings
- You may need to wave very close to the proximity sensor (should be located just above the screen) on some devices
- Add Glance Plus to white list of optimization app (eg: battery saver..)
- Try reinstall app

3. Immersive mode on the Glance screen doesn't work
- This only works on Android 4.3 (JELLY_BEAN) and above
- You need grant "Display over other apps" permission to Glance Plus

4. Battery is drained more quickly
- Go to Glance Plus/Setting, reduce Brightness and Time before off screen
- Turn off weather info
- Check exactly how much milliampere that app consume (may be consume few milliamper but OS still showing it's take much battery percentage)

Inspired by Glance for Nokia Lumia (Windows Phone) devices.

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Support us: Please help us make Glance Plus available in your language. Contact us by post to G+ or email to thteamsoft@gmail.com

Language supported:
- English
- Vietnamese
- Dutch (thanks to Gertjan)
- Turkish (thanks to Mehmet)
- Russian (thanks to Sergey)
- Brazilian Portuguese (thanks to Alex)
- Finnish (thank to Teemu)
- Arabic (thank to Ahmad Al-obaidi)
- Polish (thank to Dawid Wąsowski)
- Hungarian (thank to Balázs Biró)
- Czech (thank to Ondrej Mahdalik)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Thank to Prasetya Totti Psychadelic)

How to Download / Install

Download and install Glance Plus version 1.7.1 on your Android device!
Downloaded 1,000,000+ times, content rating: Everyone
Android package: com.thsoft.glance, download Glance Plus.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
- New setting UI
- Support Android Oreo
- Fix bug
Version update Glance Plus was updated to version 1.7.1
More downloads  Glance Plus reached 1 000 000 - 5 000 000 downloads
Version update Glance Plus was updated to version 1.5.4
More downloads  Glance Plus reached 500 000 - 1 000 000 downloads

What are users saying about Glance Plus

K70%
by K####:

I've tried several glance apps. I've now used this one for a week approximately and can safely say it is the best in the play store. The ads are not annoying altho in the beginning it played a video in the background while the phone was on standby and the glance screen was active. It never happened again and everything works smoothly. Other apps want you to buy EVERY other add on like fonts and extra functions. This one's developer's are not greedy. Great app. Well done developers.

K70%
by K####:

Hi team, it's like something is better than nothing . This glance contents are not that much bright to lumia phones(as you shown above in screen shots) . Only in dark night it's legible. But in day light it's very hard to understand. I changed the settings of contents brightness to 100% & background to 1%. Then also it's same. Please help.

K70%
by K####:

When LineageOS kills off Moto Display, you're forced to look for a replacement. This replaces it with flying colors. Although unlike Moto Display, it doesn't work 100% of the time (maybe 70-80%), but I guess Moto Display is better integrated into the system while this is a third party app.

S70%
by S####:

Very sporatic on the Note 8. Sometimes it launches when I turn off the phone but often times it just crashes and goes back to my home screen. Some of the settings which I PAID for hardly work. For example the always on display which I paid for crashes. When I make adjustments to brightness, font etc. It only changes some of the time. I've sent an email several days ago to the developers but have received no reply. I will add stars if the kinks get worked out of these bugs. Also, add the ability to dim brightness automatically in the night time mode. I reallky want to love this app but can't as it currently is.

K70%
by K####:

This is a great app, but the timeout doesn't work, and the display only shows itself after I put the phone to sleep and wake it again.

K70%
by K####:

"Always On" setting does not work. it follows the screen timeout setting in the app which is 0-120 seconds. Always on was the whole freaking point of getting the software. Poor implementation and poor communication to users.

K70%
by K####:

App is good and do what is ment for but consuming lot of battery on Samsung Note 3 N9005 version.. I'v purchased the product.. Anything good in battery consumption then a thumbs up.

K70%
by K####:

Why is the screen not getting locked automatically after the time set by me in Lenovo p2?? Evertime the the screen is on like a loop

K70%
by K####:

Not working good, so complicated, block som featue of my phone like double tab, and manyauther bugs

U70%
by U####:

"Always On" (which I paid for) times out after about 5 seconds. The features I paid for dont even work. Unbelieveable.

K70%
by K####:

The app is nice but when you have a notification and you tap and hold on it and you dont drag it to "dismiss* or "open" the notification stays expanded until you receive another notification or restart the app , fix it braddas

K70%
by K####:

great idea to imitate the old ability of moto phones to show the time Etc with a wave of the hand. the worst thing was on my Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus it interfered with the quick launch camera ability when one presses the power button twice very quickly. my camera only turned on rarely and when I uninstalled Glance Plus it worked every time. it also interfered with bx Actions app, the Bixby button disabler. and, at least on my Samsung Galaxy S8, the app worked only inconsistently. the displaying of the time is fussy and one must wave one's hand very slowly and even then it doesn't always work which can be frustrating. And the display of the time Etc can be so dim as to not even show up during the day even after I fussed with the brightness settings. it is a great idea, and the implementation includes some very fine-grained isettings and abilities but the fundamentals do not work on my phone. perhaps I am not using the settings correctly..... it must be said that this is an app which runs in the background, and it uses some battery. it is not a setting and not a process. Perhaps this ability is not possible with unrooted phones

K70%
by K####:

Auto rotate doesn't work anymore, and glance screen doesn't timeout if set to come on after screen lock. I do love the app, otherwise.

D70%
by D####:

Why the hell wont anyone help me? Cant get weather for static location

H70%
by H####:

the best app for amoled display but lately i noticed battery drain and cant figure out how to kill the app and unlock the phone with finger print senser on my oneplus 3t. the app make me do needs a separate finger scan and then one for unlocking the phone screen.

G70%
by G####:

Does not work on P10 even spent another R40 to try and unlock, to see if it works. Useless App for P10

C70%
by C####:

Always-on times out. I wasted money on a feature that does not work

H70%
by H####:

Double tap off the screen is not working at all after the new settings ii update

K70%
by K####:

I like it.but batary drain is very high..solve it

A70%
by A####:

Do not install useless full of adds even paid version does not work properly developer does not respond to any message

N70%
by N####:

Too many extra costs seriously 20usd!!!

K70%
by K####:

Great app, still needing some tweaks to make it excellent and to prevent keeping the screen on unnecessary

K70%
by K####:

I Am disappointed the back ground is to bright even though I put it at the lowest level

H70%
by H####:

جميل بس ممكن ساعات وصورة AOD مثل LGv30 وسامسونج s8

K70%
by K####:

Uses 10% of my battery per hour, even with an AMOLED screen! Huawei P9 PLUS

K70%
by K####:

Ok but not work always

K70%
by K####:

hey Developer can I get my money back after uninstalling it because I want my refund

X70%
by X####:

It's wonderful just perfect for a person addicted to aesthetics

K70%
by K####:

Thank you Its very useful app

K70%
by K####:

new update is worst!!!v1.7.1

Z70%
by Z####:

Very bad on S4 i9506

K70%
by K####:

Fix it the clock always on for 24 hours not seconds

C70%
by C####:

Would be very nice if you guys add the note 8/ S8 clocks

G70%
by G####:

Time not sync with phone time

K70%
by K####:

Five stars for the Oreo update!

K70%
by K####:

Awesome glance app please edit edges screen or SAMSUNG s8 clock

C70%
by C####:

Best App for those having reading glasses. Must App for android. Kind App on Battery & Ram

Y70%
by Y####:

It has some bugs on Android 8.1.0

K70%
by K####:

Not working on Nokia 5

K70%
by K####:

App works fine. But it alters the screen timeout to 0 seconds.


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