What will you do with Amazon’s Kindle Fire? For its first ever tablet, Amazon is pushing the device’s potential as a content-consumption machine. In September, they released a flurry of book features like Book Extras and Profiles, and they’ve been working hard to roll out magazine, apps and movie capabilities. They’ve also kept their Kindle app front and center for the Fire. It’s for good reason, too. Readers can customize the look and feel of the reading app with everything from type face to margin width.
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Best Apps For Kindle
Alarm Clock
Alarm Clock app icon
What We Like
Attractive, modern design.
Accommodates multiple alarm times.
Displays live local weather conditions.
Includes white noise on a timer.
What We Don’t Like
Ads move around on the screen.
Limited number of alarms in free edition.
A good alarm clock is obligatory if you need reminders for things like waking up or going somewhere, and this app is the best one to use.
Alarm Clock not only gives you the time and lets you set multiple alarms, but it also shows the local weather and plays white noise as you go to sleep.
This free Kindle Fire app is easy to use, works in portrait and landscape mode, has a dimming feature, and functions even if it isn’t running or if your Kindle Fire is in sleep mode.
Download Alarm Clock
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Pandora
Pandora app icon
What We Like
Accurate algorithm predicts music users will like.
Creates stations based on favorite artists, songs, or genres.
Uses thumbs-up and thumbs-down to train the app.
What We Don’t Like
Ad-supported.
Strict skipping policy.
Bitrate of 192 Kbps available only for paid plan.
Pandora is definitely one of the most popular music streaming services available, and fortunately, it works through a free app for Kindle Fire.
It lets you create your own music stations based on the music you already know you like. From there, it finds similar music for you and plays it continuously at absolutely no charge. Pandora also provides comedy stations.
While there are advertisements at times (if you’re not subscribed to a paid plan), the app still provides a great way to find new music.
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AccuWeather
AccuWeather app icon
What We Like
Snapshots and detailed forecasts.
Minute-by-minute and hour-by-hour forecasts.
Rain start and end times.
Clean interface with interesting graphics.
What We Don’t Like
No crowd sourcing options.
Requests extensive permissions on devices.
Battery-hungry.
AccuWeather is the best weather app you can find for Kindle Fire because it manages to pack tons of useful features into one free app. It also looks nice and organizes its information well to avoid clutter.
Some of the features include a minute-by-minute forecast for the next two hours, severe weather alerts, interactive radar maps, a 15-day forecast, and info like precipitation amounts, cloud cover, sunrise/sunset times, wind speeds, and more.
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TV Guide
TV Guide app icon
What We Like
Shows what’s new in prime time.
Personalized watch list.
Optional alerts.
Filters by All, HD-only, and favorite channels.
What We Don’t Like
Includes only major TV networks.
No internet TV options included.
Not suitable for antenna TV service.
With TV Guide, you can not only see a schedule of what’s playing on your TV, but you can also schedule reminders to notify you of your favorite shows just minutes before they air. Reminders can be specific for both new episodes and recurring ones.
This Kindle Fire app will find your local cable or satellite provider to make sure the guide you see is specific to the actual schedules in your time zone. You can also set your favorite channels and easily switch between every channel, HD-only channels, and your favorites to create a personalized interface.
One popular feature of TV Guide is the section that tells you what’s new tonight. This means you don’t have to sift through the entire guide to find new episodes that air today.
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Flashlight HD LED
Flashlight HD LED app icon
What We Like
Turns on by default when the app opens.
Surprisingly bright.
Simple but effective design.
What We Don’t Like
On Kindles without a flash, the app turns the screen white, which isn’t as effective.
Doesn’t project light any distance; you must be close.
A flashlight app is essential for everyone with a Kindle Fire. Even if you don’t currently anticipate a need for one, you’ll be thankful you installed it when you need one.
Flashlight HD LED has a super simple design and works instantaneously when you first open the app or widget. You can even choose any color you want for the light.
Download Flashlight HD LED
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Evernote
Evernote app icon
What We Like
Supports formats that include text, sketches, photos, audio, PDFs, and others.
Syncs automatically.
Personal checklists and reminders.
What We Don’t Like
Many features require a paid subscription.
Evernote is a free note-taking application that syncs the notes from your Kindle Fire to your online account so you can access them from anywhere.
Different sections of notes can be built to organize them into Notebooks, and you can even fill out tags for notes so they’re easier to search for later.
With Evernote, you can search through file attachments such as PDFs and images added to Evernote through the Kindle Fire and can search for text within those as well as your notes.
Download Evernote
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Calculator Plus
Calculator Plus app icon
What We Like
History function keeps a running total you can see.
Use backspace to correct a mistake rather than start over.
Intuitive, full-screen design.
What We Don’t Like
Ad-supported.
Lacks many advanced calculator functions.
Calculator Plus is another free app for the Kindle Fire. It provides basic buttons for normal calculations but also has some advanced ones.
The best thing about Calculator Plus is that it provides a history of your calculations so you can clearly see what you did in the past without having to write the results down.
Also, the app uses the full screen of the Kindle Fire so you have more room for using the buttons and seeing your calculations.
Download Calculator Plus
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Crackle
Crackle app icon
What We Like
Streams movies and TV shows from huge media library.
No cable subscription needed.
Exclusive original content.
What We Don’t Like
Contains advertisements.
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Crackle gives you access to free full-length movies and TV shows straight from your Kindle Fire.
It’s easy to quickly move through the films to find something based on its cover image, but each film has more information as well, like a rating, the genre, and description.
If you create a free account with Crackle, you can make a watchlist of movies and shows you want to see at a later time, and Crackle also gives you a list of recommendations based on your viewing history.
Download Crackle
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BeFunky Photo Editor & Collage Maker
BeFunky Photo Editor & Collage Maker app icon
What We Like
Simple user interface.
Fonts and colors to add text to images.
Seamless transition between photo editor and collage maker.
Lots of overlays, stickers, and backgrounds.
What We Don’t Like
Minimal instructions.
Limited photo retouching tools.
Requires a camera-equipped Kindle Fire.
BeFunky is a free online photo editor and one of the better free photo collage makers you can find. Similar to the BeFunky website, both the editor and collage maker are available in this app.
BeFunky claims to be the most feature-filled photo-editing app in the world. There are dozens of photo effects as well as overlays, fonts, frames, and stickers that you can use, but you can also do basic things like crop, sharpen, and rotate your pictures.
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Malwarebytes Security
Malwarebytes Security app icon
What We Like
Scans and cleans infected device.
Audits installed apps for privacy concerns.
Real-time protection feature.
Intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
What We Don’t Like
Free download, but the service is not free.
Ad-supported.
It’s important to have some sort of antivirus and anti-malware scanner on your Kindle Fire, and you can’t go wrong with Malwarebytes Security app.
This is an on-demand virus scanner that’s popular with computers users but also useful and effective for mobile devices. It scans Trojans, spyware, malicious code from text messages, and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs).
On top of the malware scanning capabilities, there are automatic updates and a privacy manager that checks your other Kindle Fire apps for ones that may be using your personal information, such as your GPS location, text messages, calendar, and contacts.
Malwarebytes Security also automatically detects possible security vulnerabilities on your Kindle Fire and can give you recommendations on how to patch the holes to regain security.
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EpubPress (Chrome, Firefox): Create an Ebook From Multiple Tabs
epubpress turns multiple open tabs into an ebook for kindle
Instead of researching a topic on your laptop, EpubPress lets you read all about it on your Kindle. This nifty extension takes all the tabs you have opened and turns them into an ebook that is saved to your device.
Here’s how it works. First, open links in different tabs, and arrange all those tabs in the order that you’d like them to appear in the ebook. Once you’re ready, click the EpubPress extension icon, and select which tabs you want to include in the final ebook. When you’re ready, start the process. It takes a little time depending on how many pages there are and how big the images are. Yup, you also get pictures in your book, which can increase the file size.
By default, EpubPress makes the book in the EPUB file format. This format works on Amazon Kindle, but if you want the best possible result, convert it to MOBI with one of these best online ebook converters. Once you’re done, send the ebook to your Kindle and read it there.
Download: EpubPress for Chrome | Firefox (Free)
Push To Kindle (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Android): Send Any Article to Kindle
Push to Kindle is one of the oldest and best services to instantly send any article you are reading to your Kindle. While Amazon has official apps to send documents and articles to Kindle, this works better than the Amazon-made tools.
Set up an account with Push to Kindle and you can even use it with just an email. Send any URL to that email address, and Push to Kindle will automatically turn it into a readable page on Kindle and send it to your device. It just works.
The browser extension or mobile apps can be used similarly. The first setup is a bit of a tedious process, but it’s worth the 15 minutes it takes. Once you’ve invested that amount of time, from then on, you’ll be able to send any article to your Kindle in a couple of clicks or taps.
Download: Push To Kindle for Chrome | Firefox | Opera | Safari (Free)
Download: Push To Kindle for Android | Kindle Fire (Free)
Snippet (Web, Chrome, Firefox): Organize Kindle and Other Highlights
organize Kindle highlights and notes with Snippet
Kindle lets you highlight certain sentences and add notes so that you can refer to them later. There’s a web page to check them all out, but Snippet is a much better tool to organize them all and revisit them.
The app and extension syncs with your Kindle account to import all highlights for every book you have ever read. The free version only imports highlights, while the paid version (5 €/month) also imports notes.
You can create tags in Snippets and attach those to your highlights. So eventually, when you want to look at motivational quotes, click the motivation tag in Snippets to see what you’ve highlighted along those lines. You also get five different colors for highlights, to color-code the type of things you want to revisit.
Snippet isn’t limited to Kindle alone, as it can be used to highlight sentences or add notes to articles on the web.
Download: Snippet for Chrome | Firefox | Bookmarklet (Free)
Kinstant (Web): The Start Page for Kindle’s Web Browser
Kinstant makes the Kindle web browser easier to use
The Kindle is a black-and-white device and its touchscreen isn’t as sensitive as a phone’s or tablet’s screen. So when you try to browse the web with the built-in browser on the Kindle, it’s not the best experience. Unless you use Kinstant.
Kinstant is a Start Page created for the Kindle web browser, with large and legible text, as well as large buttons to tap. It includes links to the fastest version of popular websites, like the New York Times, Gmail, Facebook, The Onion, and so on. To check the weather, enter any U.S. zip code to be taken to the lightest version of Weather.gov.
Another annoyance in the Kindle web browser is that you need to add the “http://” or the “www”. Kinstant fixes that with shortcuts so that you don’t need to do all that.
It would be a good idea to make Kinstant your Kindle web browser’s homepage. You might also want to check out Reabble, an RSS feed reader made for the Kindle browser, which is one of our favorite Kindle-based apps and sites.
Bookly (Android, iOS): Track Reading, Add Notes, Make It a Habit
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Bookly generates infographics based on reading habits
Bookly is a reading companion app for kindle
Bookly is a companion app for readers, whether they’re on Kindle or not. It helps you track what you’re reading, how long you take and turn reading into a daily habit.
Once you add a book by searching for it, key in how much of it you have read, in pages or percentage. When you begin a reading session, start the Bookly app and open the book in it. You can add quotes, words, or thoughts as you read, and even listen to ambient sounds so that you’re not distracted.
When you’re done on your Kindle, stop the session on Bookly too. Over time, Bookly will track your reading statistics and generate an infographic when you’re done with a book. The app also lets you set monthly and annual goals, in terms of how much you read. The app will also send you a daily reminder to read at a certain time that you set, such as when you’re on your commute.
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