At the time of writing this post, there are more than 2.8 million apps on the Google Play Store. With so many options one deciding which apps to keep is a hectic task so why not let someone else do the task. So for you, we are publishing this post of Best Android apps so that you could easily find some great apps for you.
We do know everyone has different priorities and liking. That’s why all apps in this post might not be for you, so just leave those which you don’t feel relevant to. And its also understood that you might already have some of these apps. But still read till last and you will surely find some of the best Android apps of your choice that do deserve to be on your phone.
Note: We know that there are a lot of apps in Play Store and we are writing just about 10 so if you think that some other app deserves to be on this list do let us know in the comment box. We keep this post updated so it might be on this list next time we update this post.
1. Alarm Clock- Alarmy
Free
If you have a habit of skipping your morning alarm, and you are unable to wake up on time. Then this app is a must-have app for you. Alarmy has a unique way of breaking your sleep and morning laziness. It lays out puzzles and challenges before you can close that annoying sound.
You can even set difficulty levels for these challenges according to your preference. It also includes a feature as photo mode where you can turn off the alarm by clicking a snap of a registered place(for example view outside your Balcony). This app deserves to be on your phone as it’s one of the best Android apps to wake you up in the morning.
2. Evernote
Free
Evernote is the best app for taking notes, storing lists, voice recording, storing scanned copies of letters and faxes, sketches and much more. Its an all-around digital notebook with support of various formats. It’s the app which you should have on your phone.
It also comes with cross-platform syncing so that when you save something on your phone’s Evernote. It will be also available on your PC. You might think you don’t need this but install it once and you will surely put it to good use.
Our favorite feature is optical character recognition (OCR) and its aesthetics which is better than other same functionality apps available on the Play Store.
3. Bouncer
$0.99
Bouncer is a security app with unique features. This app lets you grant permissions to apps on a temporary basis. So suppose you want to post on Facebook and have to grant location access to the Facebook app. The Bouncer lets you grant permission on a temporary basis and as soon as you exit the Facebook app its location permission to access location gets disabled.
This is a great way to use all features of social media apps while not going in settings every time just to disable the granted permissions(When you don’t want apps to always have your location). This app comes for $0.99 and should be compatible with most apps.
4. PicsArt Photo Studio
Free
Nowadays we all use Social Media and post pictures. But pictures are rarely perfect and always need to be edited. For that Picsart comes handy and you get a lot of editing tools straight in your hands. From standard editing tools like a stretch, crop, distort to filters, beauty tools, light flare, collages, masking selections, etc. You get a lot of editing options within a single app.
If you use the free version you do get most of the features but with ads. It’s one of the best photo editing apps on the Google Play Store.
5. Cymera
Free
It’s one of the best camera apps available on the Play store for Selfi centric photos. It was also on our list of best camera apps for Android. We nowadays use social media a lot and selfie pictures are a big part of it. Cymera is primarily created for selfies and also comes with an editor.
Its editor includes some nice features like Big eyes, slim face, body shape change, and various others. So you click some great photos and edit them to make your perfect pictures in a single app.
6. KineMaster
Free
KineMaster is probably the most powerful video editing app available for Android. But at the same time its also intuitive enough so that anyone could enjoy using it. This app lets you add audio, transition effects, texts, stickers, and other overlays. It even lets you alter and trim video frame-by-frame and you can even directly record voice while editing a video.
So if you are a content creator or you just want to edit some basic video this app is for you. It’s easy to use and does the job quite nicely. You can use it for free, but your videos will have a Kinemaster watermark and you can’t use them commercially. If you want to remove and use videos commercially you need to pay $4.99 monthly or $39.99 annually.
7. Solid Explorer
Free trial / $1.99
We all have(or want) to Browse files at some point. So you can do it with this fantastic file browsing app. It features Material design, support for various cloud services and also has some advance user features like FTP, SFPT, WebDav.
It looks great with easy to navigate menu and highly stable. You could try it and you also get a discount for purchasing in the trial period. It’s one of the best file manager apps for Android.
8. MX Player
Free
As we are preparing this list for the best Android Apps this app needs to be on this list. This is one of the best Video Players available for Android. With the support of almost all video formats. It also includes various features like subtitle syncing, volume gesture control, fast-forwarding gestures, zooming in and out in a video using gestures.
It can also download subtitles within the app so you don’t need to worry about them. which makes it a must-have app if you have a lot of videos on your phone.
9. Automate
Free
Automate is an awesome app that lets you automate various tasks in your device. You can trigger tasks based on your battery percentage, location, time of day, NFC tags and many others. A trigger means if that thing happens your task will be automatically started. You can automate almost anything using this app.
Although using and getting used to this app takes time. But when you are done its a awesome tool to use in day to day life. Like I use to auto play my playlist as soon as I come home from the office.
10. Telegram
Free
Last but not the least Telegram, although WhatsApp is the most engaged social messaging application telegram has certain features that make it stand apart. Telegram comes with most features of WhatsApp but has very fewer restrictions. Like you can share a video file of up to 1.5G through Telegram.
Telegram comes with cloud storage so you can log out and log in any number of times, You can choose to compress or not images, higher number of people in a group, communicate also using a username(protects privacy), Secret chat with self-destruct timer and a lot of other features. These features make Telegram a great app to use.
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