Horizon is an Android app developed by VMware, Inc. (3401 Hillview Ave. Palo Alto, CA. 94304 USA). Others apps created by VMware, Inc. are: MyVMware.

Horizon first became available on 26 Feb 2012. It is estimated that Horizon has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

Horizon 5.3.0 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows applications to connect to paired bluetooth devices.

Allows applications to discover and pair bluetooth devices.

Required to be able to access the camera device.

Allows an application to install a shortcut in Launcher.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read the low-level system log files.

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 record audio.

Allows an app to use fingerprint hardware.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows an application to write to external storage.