# Website Shortcut

> Personalize your homescreen with (icon) shortcuts for websites (URL/URIs).

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.deltacdev.websiteshortcut](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.deltacdev.websiteshortcut)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.deltacdev.websiteshortcut`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Deltac Development
- **Category:** PERSONALIZATION
- **Downloads:** 220,721
- **Rating:** 3.97 / 5 (1,360 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.4.1
- **Last updated:** 2022-01-14
- **First published:** 2015-07-08
- **Publisher country:** NL
- **Data as of:** 2026-08-23
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.deltacdev.websiteshortcut)
- **Website:** [https://deltacdev.com/](https://deltacdev.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://deltacdev.com/policies/policy-website-shortcut.txt](https://deltacdev.com/policies/policy-website-shortcut.txt)

## Description

Website Shortcut allows you to personalize your Android homescreen by creating custom icon shortcuts for any website URL or URI. You can choose your own label and icon, supporting a wide range of image formats including PNG, JPG, ICO, GIF, and BMP. This extension works seamlessly with most icon packs and supports general URIs like mailto links.

The app is free and contains no advertisements. It also features integration with the "Share via..." menu for easy URL input and offers an in-app "Current shortcuts" view to manage your existing shortcuts. Designed to be lightweight, it requires no special permissions and is compliant with the Apache 2.0 license. Perfect for users seeking a customizable and straightforward way to access favorite websites directly from their homescreen.

## Review summary

Users appreciate the app's simplicity and ability to create customizable web shortcuts with personalized icons and labels, filling a gap left by browsers. It works well without extra permissions or ads, supporting multiple browsers. However, several users are dissatisfied with recent updates removing automatic icon fetching, reducing shortcut clarity. The absence of backup and restore features makes managing multiple shortcuts tedious, and some experience installation errors on specific Android versions. Overall, it's praised for its core function but could improve by restoring favicon fetching and adding backup options.

### Pros

- Easy to create custom shortcuts for websites and playlists.
- Allows customization of shortcut icons and labels.
- Does not require extra permissions and has no ads.
- Works well across different browsers and supports default browser opening.
- Simplifies adding shortcuts compared to native browser features.

### Cons

- Recent updates removed automatic favicon/icon fetching, making shortcuts less recognizable.
- No backup/restore feature, causing inconvenience when recreating shortcuts.
- Some users experience shortcut installation failures on certain Android versions.
- Lack of export/import functionality leading to potential loss of shortcuts after updates.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.deltacdev.websiteshortcut)