7 Best Rotation Control Apps for Android
Have you ever been annoyed to your phone’s screen doesn’t rotate as you’d want it to? Well, this article has you covered!
There are lots of rotation control apps for Android that aim to manage your screen orientation according to your preferences. These apps have the privilege over your device’s screen settings, and they can switch the orient for the installed apps with an originally fixed orientation.
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Here’s the list of the 7 best apps in that category you should try. Take a look!
Rotation Control
Let’s start with a Rotation Control app that grants you to control the screen orientation of your device.
The main point of this app is to make screen orient control easily accessible and it empowers you to do it via the notification area.
The UI of this app is user-friendly and doesn’t have lots of buttons and extra features that might confuse you. Among its main tools, the app also allows you to forbid the screen orientation changes for several apps.
Along with that, the app covers several rotation modes that you may use according to your personal preferences. Let’s go through all the modes.
Firstly, there’s an auto-rotating mode that changes your screen orientation relying on its physical sensors (you move the phone — the orientation changes). Then, there’s a guard mode that empowers you to set the ability of your apps to control the orientation.
Besides, there’s a portrait mode that puts your screen in a vertical position, and the landscape mode that stands for the horizontal position.
There are also reverse portrait and landscape modes that stand in opposite directions from the normal landscape. Nevertheless, you need to consider that some modes may not be supported by several devices
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Screen Rotation Control
As you can guess by the title, Screen Rotation Control is an app that empowers you to determine the orientation of your screen in detail.
Along with the previous app, this one also covers several screens orienting modes. These modes are horizontal, vertical, reverse horizontal, and reverse vertical (the reverse modes turn the landscape upside down).
Besides, the app has no ads whatsoever so you can play with scree orientation with no effort.
Wherein, there’s also an auto mode that switches the screen orient according to your device’s physical condition. In other words, when you move your phone the screen rotates with it. Plus, this feature is customizable so you can point out which apps are allowed to use it and which not.
Another cool thing about this app that it has a force feature. This tool grants you to rotate the screen even if you use apps that don’t originally support screen rotation.
The trick with this particular tool is some apps that do not support rotation originally may not be displayed correctly. The bugs usually happen with third-party camera apps so keep that in mind.
Rotation Control
Rotation Control is another screen orientation managing app that will cover all your needs.
The central goal of this app is to enable you to switch screen orientation via the notification bar.
Therewith, the app covers various rotation settings such as basic screen orient modes, notification settings, app rotation, and so on. Plus, the app has a simple design with all the main features being easily accessible.
As for the basic rotation tool, it covers four modes — portrait, landscape, and the reverse versions of these two that basically turn the screen upside down (or mirror it).
Along with that, the app also covers an auto mode that rotates the screen according to the physical sensors of your device. So when you flip the phone to watch some vids the screen orient will automatically switch to horizontal orient.
Besides, the app covers a force rotation tool that can switch the rotation on the apps that originally have fixed screen orient.
There are some tricks here though — some apps may not be displayed well because of it but the majority of them don’t have any troubles. Plus, you can set the preferred orient mode for all of your apps individually if needed.
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control screen rotation
Frankly speaking, this app is quite similar to all its sister apps. It covers all the basic orient modes such as portrait, landscapes, and the reverse version of both.
The app itself has a list of all the modes with a detailed description of each so you’ll know exactly what each of those means. Therewith, you can optimize the app by setting the time it launches (like right after the reloading) and all that.
Plus, there is a sensor mode that relies on the physical sensor of your mobile. It is practically an auto mode that changes the orientation according to the current position of your device.
You may also set the rotation mode for all the installed apps individually if needed. The cool thing is the app can forcefully change the screen orient of the apps that don’t originally do so.
Therewith, you need to keep in mind that some of the modes may not be displayed correctly on some device models (the list of those is not long but it may still happen). Furthermore, the app grants you to switch the screen orient right from the notification bar so you could effortlessly do it at any moment.
Rotation – Orientation Manager
In the first place, although the design of apps is a matter of taste, this one has the coolest one out of this list.
The UI of this app is sleek and modern-looking so you won’t catch a feeling of using some old-school utility. As you can already guess, this app covers all the standard orient modes and a bit more.
Along with its sister apps, this one empowers you to set the orientation mode for each of your apps — both installed and system ones. Thus, you may set the orient mode for the calls, lock screen, charge, and all that. Therewith, it doesn’t matter if the original app has fixed orient at all — the app can switch it forcefully.
However, you may face some troubles with using forced rotation o third-party camera apps so keep that in mind. Plus, the app covers an auto rotation mode that reacts to your device’s physical sensors when you move it. There’s also a lock current bar that empowers you to fix the current rotation mode for all the apps.
Rotation Manager – Screen Orientation Manager
Rotation Manager is another app that manages your screen orientation.
The main point of this app is to let you customize every little detail about the screen rotation of your mobile. Thus, you get to adjust the settings for all the apps individually.
Therewith, the app covers both installed and system apps so you can even set the orient mode for the call and the cam.
Along with its sister apps, this one contains basic rotation modes — the portrait one, the landscape, and the auto one. Unfortunately, this app doesn’t support reverse modes but those are not too popular anyway.
As for the auto mode, it automatically switches your device’s orientation as you move it around. Frankly speaking, this mode is the handiest one except when you’re reading, playing, or just don’t want the screen to rotate without your permission.
Once you’ll pick the mode for the app the screen will rotate the right way the moment you load it. In case you won’t pick an option for some of your apps they will for default mode (the one that is currently running).
In case some apps won’t display well will the rotating mode you’ve picked for them make sure to reach the app’s support team for them to cope with that.
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Screen Orientation Control
And lastly, Screen Orientation Control is an app that empowers you to set your phone’s screen orient according to your preferences.
This app takes full control over your screen orient and switches it regardless of the app’s original orient settings.
In other words, even if a particular app doesn’t support any screen rotation on its on this app can rotate it by your will. Therefore, the app also has a privilege on your device’s original screen orient settings.
Plus, the app emperors you to quickly switch rotation modes right from your notification bar which is extremely convenient. The app covers all the classic modes — the horizontal, vertical, and auto mode. There’re also reverse horizontal and reverse vertical modes if you’re into that kind of stuff.
Besides, the app grants you to set rotation modes for both installed and system apps. However, some third-party apps may have display problems because of the app so keep that in mind. The troubles usually happen with reverse modes especially if you’ll decide to use them on installed camera apps.
Anne Novikova
Enjoy finding leading apps of all kinds and share them with the world. An iOS user with an interest to all gadgets that make life easier and more fun.
