secret. Anything you want, “there’s an app for that” quite a few times and that saying is not only true for iOS anymore.
Making a list of the best Android apps is difficult because there are so many opinions on what makes an app either great, useful, or both. But it’s not an easy task finding the good and useful apps on the Google Playstore that you would actually like or want.
So here are 15 Android Apps I think at least some of you may need.
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1. Audio Recorder
Right, who uses an audio recorder on the phone? I don’t know, I don’t use one either, but it is one thing that comes along with almost every smart phone and even the generic feature phones just in case. So why not have a good one than the generic basic audio recorder for the just in case scenario? If you’re not yet convinced, you might want to skip over to App #2 but if you are, let me tell you about this audio recorder.
This is an app directly from Sony, and this is not an endorsement. The app is just called Audio Recorder since it is just that and comes pre-installed on Sony’s Xperia lineups but it is more than basic.
The app has four recording modes as seen in the screenshots above.
Basic : for basic tasks such as voice notes.
Medium : for lectures and speeches.
High : for recording music
Superior : for high fidelity music recording.
And they work really well. Having personally used this app even just for fun i can tell the difference and so can you as long as you have a mic that’s good enough. There is also the option to record a mono audio or record it in stereo mode. And it doesn’t stop there, the app also gives you control over how and where you want to save your recordings. You can save it on your external storage if your phone supports it, or you have two options to store it on the internal memory one of which involves storing it secretly so they cannot be accessed by any other app but this one.
2. Opera Max
Since the dawn of smart phones and the background data usage they brought with them it has become a little hard to manage your mobile data usage specially because it is not unlimited like your home WiFi. You’re outside and that girl you like shares a video with you and asks about it, and you’re suddenly in a situation where you have to choose your expensive mobile data or her. To help you in such situations the popular mobile browser company opera has an app for you called Opera Max.
It’s a VPN client that saves data by re-routing your connection through opera servers and compressing the data you sen or receive. Not only that, this also protects your data and prevents any chances of it being stolen or misused by the carrier companies you don’t trust or even your ISP if you’re using WiFi.
The app also monitors which app have been using data and sorts it out by day, month and year and also by how the app has been using it. You can check up which app has been sucking on your precious mobile data in the background and also block it, something that is now already built into android but where it stands out is you can choose to disable the background data for the said app even when you’re on WiFi so it wouldn’t drain your battery or in case you don’t have an unlimited WiFi plan. The app works more efficiently over media files on a page specially videos. YouTube videos. And I highly recommend trying it out.
3. Flynx
Ever been using Facebook or Twitter on your smart phone and then there’s an interesting link but you click it and then it opens up right in your face and now you can’t scroll down your news feed or even worse, you have a not so fast internet and now you also have to wait for the link to open up so you can read and go back to what you were doing? So much for 6 gigs of RAM and multitasking.
That’s what Flynx saves you from. Flynx is a very useful bubble browser and you’ll probably end up using it more than google chrome or whatever browser is your default goto browser. It opens up the links in the background and it’s there on your screen on the edge in a bubble like Facebook’s messenger chatheads. You can continue scrolling down your news feed and keep clicking on links to check out when you’re ready, or when the links are ready if you have slow internet.
And that’s not all it does. It saves your history in case you want to see it and it also has a nice double tap to save feature wherein you can double tap a link in any app you might be using and flynx will save the link which you can later check out in the flynx app. You can also customize the size of the bubble and stuff. It’s really one of a kind of app even though there are a couple of similar apps but they’re not as good or just not free.
4. Unclouded
Cloud storage is becoming more and more popular these days and with so many services providing only a limited amount of cloud space which sometimes isn’t enough, many of us happen to be using more than just a Google Drive or Dropbox. And if you’re that kind of person, managing all your cloud data and storage space must be a frustrating job with so many accounts and switching between apps or browser tabs however you prefer. Don’t you wish there was an app that could just help you manage everything at once? oh, but there IS an app for that and they call it Unclouded.
Unclouded is basically a very neat and awesome looking file explorer except it focuses on the clouds. It supports all the major cloud storage services and keeps a record of all your services as if they were just another drive attached to your phone, except they’re actually not.
You can see how much of space you have used and have left, see which files or folders are using most of your storage, know which categories you have the most (images, videos, etc), search for files, and all that stuff a normal file explorer does and you can manage it all right from this very app. No more multiple cloud storage apps hogging your ram and system memory, this is all you need.
5. Followshows
This is a simple app like the first one in the list and does what its name suggests. it helps you keep track of all the shows you watch and keeps you updated on news regarding them or when they’re returning and you can mark the episodes you’ve seen as watched so you remember where to start from the next time you decide to binge watch it.
You can also keep track of what your friends have been watching if they so choose to share it or you can share your activity as well.It can send you notifications when a new episode is on if you choose so and you can also see all the shows marked in a calendar view so you can plan your days or whatever. Do give it a try.
6. Light House
It’s not often that you come across a game where the looks don’t matter and in fact the simple and clean look only makes the game more fun to play. Light house is one such game. The game play is as simple as the graphics, you have to move electricity from power sources to the light house and there are reflectors on the way that you can move or turn to guide the electric current. Light house, like any good game, starts simple and as you learn the basics it keeps adding more challenges on the way. It can be best described in one word, FUN.
7. Smart Wallpaper
If you’re here i will assume you have already been suggested or have actually used quite a few wallpaper apps. Smart wallpaper is not just an ordinary wallpaper app with a cloud based collection of wallpapers. It’s an app that lets you ‘manage’ your wallpapers based on a number of criteria.
You can select a bunch of different wallpapers to change depending on what day of the week it is or the month. Time of day or Just a different wallpaper for every WiFi network you connect to. It’s a really cool app to have if you find yourself constantly changing wallpapers but switching through a bunch of random wallpapers is not your thing.
8. Noisli
I’m not a very productive person usually and I find myself getting distracted every now and then. If you’re anything like me you can probably make good use of this ‘noise’ making app. Well it’s not really noise but a soothing ambient sound and not just any sound but a lot of sounds you can choose from. Like the sound of rain? or does the sound of rustling wind calms your mind? Noisli has a lot of options to choose from and the best thing about the app is the clean and colorful design. If you’re a fan of minimalist design you would adore this app.
The app allows you to make different combinations of the sounds you would like and set a timer too in case you’re using it for a good sleep.
9. Tictures
Often on Whatsapp or any such messenger you may have received an ASCII art and wondered who took the pain of making it just to share it on social media or messengers.
There may have been times you wished you could make something like that. Here’s your chance. ASCII art and Unicode faces have been around for awhile and you can enjoy them again with a fun to use app! ASCII and Unicode characters have the ability to be displayed anywhere. Send them to your friends or post them on Reddit or share them on Facebook messenger.
The app has a nice selection of ASCII art to choose from and it lets you type your message along with the art within the app which you can then easily share via any means you like.
10. Universal Copy
Often you may have wanted to copy some text from an app like the official facebook app but it simply didn’t allow that. Although now the Facebook app lets you do that but there are still many apps that will not allow android’s default long press copy to work like Youtube and Instagram to name a few popular ones. But just like everything else, there’s an app for that.
Universal Copy sits in your notification tray and allows you to copy text once the persistent notification is tapped. You can then choose the text you want and copy it.
11. Quidgets
Quidgets is an interesting little app that lets users hide homescreen widgets as Quick Settings tiles. This doesn’t seem all that useful in and of itself, but consider: it means you can open up a handy widget in any app, without needing to run back to the homescreen. The initial version only works with Android 7.0 or later, and at the moment the user interface could use a little work, but the app shows promise.
Quidgets allows you to insert full-fledged widgets into your Quick Settings drawer on Android Nougat and above. Simply hit “Edit”, drag the tile into the Quick Settings drawer, and tap it to set it up. It’s that easy.
12. Stitch It!
Have you seen those screenshots of a long text message session that stitch together multiple phone screens for easy viewing? If you’ve seen them on iOS, you’ve probably seen the work of the Stitch It app. There have been a few imitators on the Play Store already, but here’s the real McCoy. It doesn’t really matter which chat service you use with it, but it’s designed for the likes of WhatsApp, mostly for sharing on social networks.
We’ve finally launched on Android, after building a base of about 400,000 users on the iOS platform. Stitch It. allows you to create one seamless image of a text message conversation so that you can share it via WhatsApp, email, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, or anywhere else in the series of tubes that is the webernet machine.
13. FeedNews
FeedNews is a fairly standard news app – choose your favorite categories, swipe left and right, and read to your heart’s content. The hook comes from the “AI” suggestion engine that learns your taste, and also integration with Twitter’s API, which prioritizes the stories that your friends are reading and sharing. The interface is clean, if not particularly innovative, and there’s an offline reading mode as well.
Drowning in information, but starved for knowledge? FeedNews is a news digest app with AI and social curation specially tailored for you. With our recommendation engine and social news aggregator, FeedNews lets you stay on top of things that matter to you. Easy to read on a daily basis so you’re always up-to-date and never feel FoMO again. Spend less time searching for news and more time enjoying it.
14. Dropbox Paper Beta
Dropbox, I see you looking over at Google Keep and Evernote, salivating at all those users just waiting for a little competition. Paper, which is currently in beta on Android and the web, is just that: a notation app. Dropbox is hoping that a focus on easy searching and team collaboration, including the ability to live edit documents among multiple users, will give it an edge. The beta app requires users to sign up on the web first, but there’s no quota or ticket system.
Dropbox Paper helps fast-moving teams work together on docs, find important information, and stay in sync – even while on the go. Any updates, changes, or feedback you give will all be synced with your docs on paper.dropbox.com. Use Dropbox Paper as a collaboration tool with your teams and for document management. See all your notifications — comments, shares, and @mentions — in one organized list. Add, view, and reply to comments so you can have a conversation on the go.
15. BlackBerry Hub+ Services
You get the BlackBerry Hub, which houses all your email and social media accounts in one place, BlackBerry Calendar, and Password Keeper. It’s important to note that the app has a 30 day trial, after which you will see ads. Should you choose to pay the $0.99 monthly fee, you get rid of the ads and also get additional apps such as Tasks, Device Search, Notes and Launcher.
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