About this app

The Yandex Start app has everything you need on one screen. Make any page your home page. Easy search, weather, and traffic right on your home page, plus translations of webpages, images, and videos online.

Choose your home page: Pick any page to start your day with online. It could be, for example, ya.ru — the Yandex Home Page — or your own site.

Everything you need on your home page: Weather forecasts for your area, traffic, and easy Yandex search with quick suggestions.

Translate pages and images: It's now easier than ever to translate almost any site, buy tickets, or find out a business' hours, even if you're in a country where you don't speak the language. Yandex Start translates entire sites, individual sentences, or even text in images from more than a hundred different languages.

Translate and dub videos: Find and watch videos from all over the world translated and voiced in Russian by Yandex's neural networks. Learn about travel, cars, gadgets, scientific discoveries, recipes, and everything else being talked about in English, German, Spanish, French, and Italian.

Avoid unwanted calls. Voice assistant Alice will set up a caller ID and get rid of unwanted conversations. Just say, “Alice, turn on the caller ID.”

New features

Some things have been fixed to make the app faster and better.

App Permissions

Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows a calling application which manages it own calls through the self-managed ConnectionService APIs.
Allows an application to request installing packages.
Allows applications to enter Wi-Fi Multicast mode.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to broadcast sticky intents.
Allows an application to call killBackgroundProcesses(String].
Allows an application to request deleting packages.
Allows applications to set the wallpaper.
Allows applications to set the wallpaper hints.
Allows an application to tell the AppWidget service which application can access AppWidget's data.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an app to use fingerprint hardware.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to request installing packages.
Marker permission for applications that wish to access notification policy.
Allows an application to write the user's contacts data.
Allows applications to change network connectivity state.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows applications to perform I/O operations over NFC.
Allows an application to modify global audio settings.
Allows applications to read the sync settings.
Allows applications to write the sync settings.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to read the user's call log.