If you have a Google Pixel and use your Android smartphone for a lot of things, like movie streaming, playing games, browsing the web, meeting others online and making video calls, it is important to ensure that your phone is safe. The Best Apps for Google Pixel list has a number of apps that have been designed to keep your phone and all its contents safe. The Best Apps for Google Pixel in this list have been rated by thousands of people who have downloaded them on their phones. Some of them are completely free while others cost a few bucks.

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Best Apps For Google Pixel
1: Voice Access
Android’s long been exceptional at letting you control your phone by voice — dating back to well before the formal debut of Google Assistant, even — but with a little help from an out-of-the-way Google app, you can take your phone’s hands-free potential to totally new heights.
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The app is a little somethin’ called Voice Access. It’s technically an Android accessibility feature, but it can be incredibly helpful for just about anyone.
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Plain and simple, Voice Access lets you control practically every part of your phone-using experience simply by speaking. Once you fire up the system, you can tell your phone to go back, go home, or adjust more or less any element of your phone’s settings. You can ask it to long-press an item, scroll in any direction on an item, select or unselect text, and place your cursor anywhere you want. It can even handle text editing and let you get around apps and websites without ever lifting a single sticky finger.
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Whether you have a physical need for that sort of control or just think you’d benefit from the convenience, it’s one heck of an option to have at your (suspiciously steamy) fingertips.
Google app No. 2: Sound Amplifier
Speaking of speaking, a spectacular Google Android app called Sound Amplifier will give you superhero-like hearing powers to make sure you never miss a word anyone else is saying.
The aptly named Sound Amplifier lets you eliminate distracting ambient noise and amplify important sounds in your environment — such as the sound of someone speaking several feet away or even the audio of a TV playing across a noisy office.
This one, too, is technically made for accessibility purposes. But it isn’t hard to see how it could be beneficial in all sorts of situations, regardless of ability.
Google app No. 3: Lens
Arguably Google’s most awesome and simultaneously underappreciated Android app, Google Lens lets you interact with objects and text in the real world as if they were on your phone.
The list of productivity-boosting powers this thing possesses is both mighty and massive. Some choice highlights:
It empowers you to copy text from any physical paper or whiteboard in front of you and then paste it anywhere on your phone, translate it on the fly, or even have it read out loud to you for on-the-go ingestion (mmm, words…)
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It allows you to send text from the real world directly onto your desktop computer’s clipboard, wirelessly and with about seven seconds of effort
It lets you pull text out of any screenshot or image and save it, search for it, or paste it anywhere else your precious little heart desires
And it acts as an all-purpose code scanner — barcodes, QR codes, you name it — without forcing you to keep clunky third-party software standing by for the purpose
Lens is probably already on your phone this minute, believe it or not — via the camera-like icon within the search bar in the Google app on most any Android device and also inside the standard Camera app on Pixels — but the standalone download will give you an even easier way to access it with a regular home screen shortcut icon or a Google Assistant command (“Hey, Google: Open Lens!”).
Google app No. 4: PhotoScan
Further blurring the lines between our physical and virtual worlds is PhotoScan, which lets you capture impressively high-quality and glare-free images of physical photos with your phone’s camera and then save ’em as digital files. PhotoScan directs you through the process of capturing multiple angles of the print and then does all the dirty work of cropping it, straightening it, and generally just making it look good.
It’s like having a full-fledged scanner in your pocket — only, y’know, far more practical to carry.
Google app No. 5: Action Blocks
While we’re thinking about giving ourselves easier access to stuff, Google’s Action Blocks app for Android is an app well worth unearthing.
Action Blocks makes it as simple as can be to create your own custom home screen buttons for starting Assistant-connected actions or combinations of actions — things like adjusting allegedly smart devices around your home and/or office, hopping directly into specific functions within apps, or doing most anything else Google Assistant can manage.
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All you’ve gotta do is figure out what specific sorts of time-savers you require.
Google app No. 6: Google Phone
If you’re using any phone other than a Pixel, do yourself a huge favor and go grab the Google Phone app this minute.
The Phone app’s most advanced calling features may be exclusive to Pixel owners, but the app itself can actually now work on most any Android device, no matter who made it — and it offers lots of advantages over the default dialing apps other manufacturers bake into their software.
Specifically, it has Google’s excellent spam-blocking system and in-app location searching smarts built right into it and readily available. It has a simple and minimalist design that matches the rest of the Google ecosystem, too. And, critically, it doesn’t have all sorts of other junk attached — including third-party services that show you ads and do shady-sounding stuff with your personal info.
Google app No. 7: Files by Google
Another relevant download mostly for the non-Pixel-ownin’ folk among us, Google’s self-made file management app — which comes preloaded on current Pixel phones by default — really is the best all-around Android file manager for most business users.
It’s clean, simple, and pleasant to use, and it makes it painless and almost even pleasant to look through your phone’s local storage and find, share, or organize any files you’ve downloaded or transferred onto the device.
Files has an exceptional search system, as you’d expect, and it has a supremely handy system for analyzing your phone’s local storage and finding quick ‘n’ easy ways to free up space.
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Files isn’t as fully featured as some of the more advanced third-party Android file manager apps out there, but it’s pretty darn useful — and especially if your Android file management needs are relatively basic, it’s a nice little upgrade over the default file management service that came preinstalled on your device.
Google app No. 8: Google One
If you’re paying for extra storage on your Google account, the Google One app has some valuable extras you shouldn’t overlook.
The app can help you manage that Google storage allotment as well as your device’s backups, for one. But more significantly, it’ll give you the option to activate a free virtual private network, or VPN, to add an extra layer of security onto your data connections and make sure no one else can see or intercept what you’re sending.
It’s the sort of assurance that typically costs a fair amount of coin to enjoy, but if you’re already paying for Google storage, anyway, it’s there and waiting to be activated on your favorite Android phone.
Google app No. 9: Find My Device
Little-known fact: You can actually track down a missing Android device on any phone or computer where you’re signed in — using nothing more than your regular ol’ web browser.
Yes, indeedly: Google’s Find My Device system works right in Google Search, and all you’ve gotta do is type those three magic words (“find my device”) into any Google Search prompt to get started.
If you have multiple Android gizmos and want an even easier way to pinpoint your various products, though, the Android-specific Find My Device app is exactly what you need. It’ll keep the device-finding system a single tap away on your home screen or in your app drawer, and you’ll always be able to seek out any Android phones, tablets, watches, or even certain Android-associated headphones with a couple quick steps.
Google app No. 10: Snapseed
Google Photos is growing increasingly capable as an image editing tool, but Google actually has another app available explicitly for on-the-go image adjustments — and it’s still a step ahead of Photos in some meaningful ways.
It’s called Snapseed, and it’s a once-independent app Google bought years ago and continues to maintain (at least somewhat) as a completely free option for anyone to use today.
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Remember Your Songs on Google Pixel: Now Playing History
Now Playing History app
What We Like
Connect your favorite music player to the app and redirect when you want to play a song.
What We Don’t Like
It takes a few moments for songs to save in the app.
To complement the standard Now Playing feature on Pixel devices that helps users identify a song playing nearby, the Now Playing History app keeps a record of those songs in one location.
Instead of taking a screencap of the Now Playing feature or jotting down the song details with a pen and paper, Now Playing History keeps a record of the song, as well as the time and location where it was identified. This paid app can be used in conjunction with several music players to switch to those apps to play newly discovered music.
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Powerful Photo Editor for Google Pixel: Snapseed
Snapseed app
What We Like
Professional grade brushes and filters.
What We Don’t Like
No autosave function.
Google Pixel devices have some of the most powerful cameras on the market. Even with built-in photo editing features, other apps take photo editing on Pixel devices to another level. One such app is Snapseed, which is also developed by Google, but it doesn’t come installed on Pixel devices.
Snapseed is a free app. It’s comparable to Photoshop or Lightroom in terms of editing quality but was developed specifically for mobile editing. Snapseed includes tools such as a DNG Raw image editor, healing to remove unwanted aspects in a photo, and double exposure to blend two photos.
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Photoshop for Google Pixel: Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Express app
What We Like
Easy cloud sharing between Adobe programs and apps.
What We Don’t Like
Lacks many functions from standard Photoshop.
Some people require professional-grade photo editing software when they’re on the go. For this need, there’s Adobe Photoshop Express, which brings the high-powered editing experience of Photoshop to smartphones.
Tools in this free app include auto-correct for blemishes, watermarks, photo frames, Raw image support, collage makers, and easy sharing with standard social media apps. Adobe Photoshop Express works in conjunction with other Adobe apps, such as Photoshop Mix, Photoshop Fix, and Lightroom. People who have an Adobe premium membership can log into their accounts to access more features.
Download Photoshop Express
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The Most Efficient Note-Taking App for Google Pixel: Simplenote
Simplenote three screens from Android
What We Like
Change fonts and formatting.
Share notes with others.
What We Don’t Like
Account registration is required.
Smartphones are great for note-taking, but many notes apps tend to be rather basic and don’t keep people as organized as they’d like. Simplenote aims to buck this tendency.
You don’t need to manually save notes when you use Simplenote, as all inputted information is automatically saved. The app becomes more efficient as you add more notes because you organize your thoughts with searchable tags and pins. One of the best features of Simplenote is that it automatically syncs notes across all installed devices, including other Android devices, iOS, and Mac, Windows, and Linux computers.
Download Simplenote
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Fine Art Wallpaper Options: Muzei Live Wallpaper
Muzei Live Wallpaper
What We Like
Access details about the artwork shown on your home screen.
What We Don’t Like
Some devices may not center images properly.
If you can’t decide what image to select as the wallpaper on your Pixel smartphone, the Muzei Live Wallpaper app may help. This free app rotates through images of fine art to use as wallpaper. At one moment, your wallpaper can be Van Gogh; another moment, it can be Gaudi.
You set the rate at which wallpapers rotate, from every 15 minutes to every three days. It optionally blurs and dims the artwork, so the icons are more prominent. There’s also an option to select and rotate photos.
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