Method and apparatus for browsing interface and terminal device

The invention discloses a method and an apparatus for browsing an interface and a terminal device. The method comprises: displaying a navigation bar; responding to a clicking operation that a user clicks the navigation bar; opening a display window on a display interface of the current application program; loading and displaying icons of all preset application programs and an interface of log out button on the display window; responding to a click operation that the user clicks on the log out button; closing the display window; and going back to the display interface of the current application program. By using the method provided herein, the display of the current application program can be maintained to be running; other application programs can also be browsed; and after the browsing to the other application programs is closed, the current application program is not needed to be interrupted when the application program is running, thus all application program icons can be browsed conveniently; and the user experience is good.