Samsung Good Lock 2020 impressions - Everything you need to know - Android

Samsung Good Lock is a somewhat powerful app for Samsung devices. It includes a variety of customization options, including theming, UI tweaking, and more. It’s not a new app and originally launched back in 2016. However, Samsung updated Good Lock on February 3, 2020 with support for Android 10 and One UI 2.0. Here is everything Samsung Good Lock can do.

How to download and install Samsung Good Lock

Samsung Good Lock is easy enough to find but it’s only available on Samsung devices. Simply open the Galaxy Store app and search for Good Lock. You can also hit the button below if you want to get there right now. 

However, that is not the entire process. Good Lock has a bunch of modules and each module is its own app. Thus, when you open the app and select an option, you redirect back to the Galaxy Store to install that particular module. There are ten total modules so get those fingers ready to download a bunch of stuff. 

Samsung Good Lock comes with ten total modules and all of them are in the Galaxy Store for download.

There is a positive here, though. You can uninstall or simply not install the modules you don’t intend to use. It saves space and lets you customize only what you want to customize. We don’t expect many people to download all ten modules.

What each Samsung Good Lock module does

Let’s talk briefly about each module and what it does. Each module works with Android 10 and One UI 2.0, something that wasn’t true before its update in February 2020. The modules are rather simple and don’t require a ton of explanation. You can open each one through the Good Lock app.

QuickStar

QuickStar adds a theme to your Quick Settings menu once activated. It comes with about eight presets with various colors, or you can add your own. Once you select to add your own, you pick a color. Once done, Samsung lets you pick the icon colors while each setting is on or off, the font color, and the background color. You can also add transparency (via the Panel BG Alpha slider) and a blur effect with a Blue Amount slider. That’s basically all it does and it’s very easy to use. For the record, QuickStar overwrites the theme from Theme Park as well as the system’s dark mode toggle. Thus, if you use QuickStar, that’s the way your quick settings stay until you turn QuickStar off.

Task Changer

Task Changer lets you alter the look of the Recent Apps menu. This Samsung Good Lock module is also simple. You simply choose the layout you want and add in an optional blur effect. Your Recent Apps menu then changes to the layout you choose. There are only six options, but they include super simple options like Slim List and Regular list along with old favorites like Vertical Stack. 

MultiStar

MultiStar is a customization option for your multi-window experience. The options here are surprisingly varied and include a lot of options. For instance, you can set the app to quickly launch multi-window by long pressing the Recent Apps button. You can also have it open in split screen view or pop-up view much like Android’s picture-in-picture mode.

You can also force multi-window for all apps even if they don’t have native support. Additionally, you can prevent the OS from killing the process of any app in pop-up view or multi-window. However, our favorite is the ability to create a pop-up window any app by swiping in from the corners. 

NotiStar

NotiStar is a lot like MultiStar but for notifications. You can select the apps you want notifications from or blacklist ones you don’t. Additionally, you can add a filter that includes things like keywords as well as apps. You can, say, get SMS notifications but only if they contain the word “emergency.” You can also set this to work on the lock screen and it’ll store notifications indefinitely, for a week, or for 30 days depending on your preferences. This is definitely one of the most power-user Samsung Good Lock features available.

Theme Park

Theme Park lets you create your own custom theme. It asks you to select an image from your gallery, download folder, or any other album. From there it lets you select a main color and uses the other colors from the image as accent colors. It also includes dark mode support and the dark mode version is independent of the light mode version. You simply enable dark mode in the settings to get the dark mode version of any theme you make with Theme Park in Samsung Good Lock.

Once done it creates the theme with the colors and wallpaper you selected. The app diverts  you to the theme store in order to enable it. We’ll be honest, this one crashed on us a few times during testing and it has a few bugs we’d like to see fixed. However, being able to basically create a theme with every wallpaper on my Note 10 Plus is well worth the headache.

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