Power Shade review: The app helps customise your notification bar

You can choose different colours for the background, icons and the brightness slider.

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Power Shade
Free for Android

The notification bar is one of the most accessed items on your Android smartphone.


Trouble is, you can’t easily customise it, apart from changing the order of the button toggles.

This free app gives you multiple customisation options. You can choose different colours for the background, icons and the brightness slider.

There are advanced controls over notifications, with an option to auto expand only the first notification or all of them. You will need to grant permissions to your notifications as well as accessibility features for it to work properly.

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We like the option to add a sidebar as a trigger to bring down the notification panel – useful for one-hand operation on phones with large screens.

You can also change the position of the brightness slider — it can be put at the bottom or in the header of the notification bar.

A Pro version for Rs 350 adds the option to change the number of rows and columns of the quick-setting menu, group notifications together and add a custom background image to the quick settings panel.

If you like customising your smartphone interface, you should definitely try Power Shade.
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