The Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus is one of the best phones in the world, and that means you need to make sure it has the best apps.
Not only does the Galaxy S20 Plus have a beautiful display, it also has a great camera, fast charging, and even wireless charging. But no matter how beautiful your phone is or how long its battery lasts, you’re still going to spend most of your time staring at its screen. That’s why we’ve put together this list of the best apps for your Galaxy S20 Plus.
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Best Apps For S20 Plus
Over the years, phones have undergone massive changes. From a time when we needed third-party apps to edit a mere screenshot, we have come a long way. Now, most custom Android skins like One UI on the Samsung Galaxy S20, have most of the options and features built-in, meaning we can skip installing some of the basic Android apps.
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However, no phone is self-sufficient and needs its share of third-party apps — whether it’s an image-editing app that can parse RAW images or something as basic as a note-taking app.
In this post, we have compiled a list of the top seven (7) must-have apps for the Samsung Galaxy S20 (or the Galaxy S20 Plus or Galaxy S20 Ultra) to elevate the entire experience.
Let’s get started.
- EDIT THOSE COOL VIDEOS: ADOBE PREMIERE RUSH
If you record plenty of videos on your Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra, the Adobe Premiere Rush is a must-have Android app for you. Though it’s exclusive to Samsung phones, it’s not baked in the operating system. Instead, you’ll have to download it from the Galaxy App Store.
Unlike most of the video editing apps out there, it provides a polished interface and bundles handy features, such as customizable Motion Graphics templates, audio mixing, AI-powered audio clean up, among others.
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Other than that, you’ll be able to rotate the video as per your choice. And yeah, the built-in transitions make the videos look dope.
You can share videos straight to Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
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- COPY LIKE A BOSS: UNIVERSAL COPY
Over the years, the process of copy and paste on phones has become pretty simple. Long-press on the text that you want to copy, and the clipboard will come to life.
But, you can’t copy all the text that is out there. For example, you man want to copy text on PDF, Instagram captions, text on images, among others. And that’s where the Universal Copy app comes into the picture.
This app makes it possible to copy text from anything – be it an image or a PDF file. And using the app is easy. Simply activate it and copy the required lines. After that, it’s business as usual.
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The best thing about Universal Copy is that you need to tap on the sticky notification to activate it. Yep, no hassle of searching for it on the app drawer. It’s out there just within your reach.
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- KICK OUT THE JUNK: FILES BY GOOGLE
Has your new Galaxy S20 already filled up with memes and other junk forwards? If yes, it’s time you got the Files by Google App. This nifty app not only manages your files like a boss but also doubles up as a nifty cleaner.
From unwanted duplicate files to memes and large files, it lets you clean them all in a single tap.
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And typical of most Google apps, the app’s interface is simple and clutter-free. Everything is arranged neatly. You just need to press the right buttons.
Apart from that, Files by Google also lets you share and receive files and photos from your neighbors via Wi-Fi Direct. So, if you are not a big fan of the built-in Quick Share, this is the function you can use. It’s simple and quick.
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- MANAGE YOUR TO-DOS: GOOGLE KEEP
If you are not a big fan of the Samsung Notes app for its lack of an intuitive interface, it’s time you got back to Google Keep. One of the primary advantages of this app is that it is available on major platforms and has a web version as well. That means you can continue your work from your desktop. Cool, right?
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Apart from that, you can collaborate with your friends and colleagues over shared notes. On top of that, the app is pretty intuitive and supports gestures. If that was not enough, the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature of Google Keep is pretty great.
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- PAINT PRETTY PICTURES: SNAPSEED & LIGHTROOM
Clicking a photo is only half the job done.
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A photograph is incomplete if you do not polish it off with some post-production tweaks. While the built-in editing suite lets you do the basic stuff like adjusting the brightness and saturation levels, at times, it’s not enough.
And that’s why you need image editing apps like Snapseed and Lightroom to come to your rescue.
- Snapseed
Snapseed is one of the best photo editing apps out there. From editing RAW photos (Camera settings > Save Options > Save RAW copies) to selective edits to HDR addition, it has plenty of tricks up its sleeves.
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So yeah, you have complicated-sounding tools like HDR scape and Retrolux rubbing shoulders with common tools like Perspective and White Balance.
And similar to most Google apps, the app has plenty of hidden settings. Plus, the ready-made filters are the cherry on top.
Learn all the ropes regarding the settings and filers of this app and you’ll be sorted.
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- Adobe Lightroom
Another photo editing app that lets you experiment with images is Adobe Lightroom.
If you have never worked with it before, let me tell you that this one lets you play with RAW images. Furthermore, there are many cool and powerful tools such as lighting sliders noise reduction, profile-based lens corrections apart from the standard color-correcting features. Need I mention that it is a go-to tool of the photography experts?
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But before you get down to it, let me tell you that that app interface looks a tad complicated initially. However, it has many tutorials built inside help you learn everything gradually.
Do note that you may require Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to use all the features of this app.
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- PAINT YOUR PHOTOS IN A NEW LIGHT: PIXLR
The Single-take mode is one of the best camera features on the Galaxy S20 and its variants. This nifty mode short records videos using all the lenses of your phone’s rear camera and divides the same into neat stills (and short video clips), perfect for collage.
If you want a simple photo editing app, with a ton of features, Pixlr is the app you should get. With ample filters, brushes, overlays, it makes editing pictures a walk in the park.
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Pixlr also bundles a couple of great templates, thus making your photos ready for social media.
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- ENHANCE THAT DISPLAY: 4K AMOLED
Do you change the home screen backgrounds often? Do you like your phone’s lock screen to sport different high-resolution images?
It would be a shame if you don’t jazz up the background and make the best of the display. That’s why you should get the 4K AMOLED wallpaper app. As suggestive of its name, this app bundles several cool and beautiful dark images in 4K to grace your phone’s home screen and lock screen.
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If you’ve got your hands on a Samsung Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus or Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra then these handy tips and tricks will ensure you get the most from your new smartphone.
- Get the most from the display
No matter which model of the S20 you picked up, you’re getting a true flagship OLED display that can play HDR video and get incredibly bright. Out of the box you’ll find the S20 Ultra set to 60Hz at QHD+, while the S20 and S20 Plus are both set to FHD+ at 60Hz.
If you want that screen to look smoother you’ll want to head into Settings > Display > Motion Smoothness and up it to 120Hz. Doubling the amount of time the screen refreshes gives it that buttery smooth look you’ll find hard to ever turn off.
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To enable 120Hz you will have to make do with the FHD+ resolution – if you want a sharper QHD+ image 60Hz is all you can choose.
- Disable Bixby
There’s no dedicated Bixby button on the Galaxy S20, instead an extended press on the phone’s power key will bring the virtual assistant into play.
But, if you want to ditch the Bix’ completely, there are ways that can be done.
You can change the action when the side power key is double-pressed or held down by heading into Settings > Advanced Routines > Side Key. In the same menu you can turn Bixby routines off.
- Open Google Assistant
Instead of Bixby, Google Assistant very much feels like the default voice helper here. To access it you can swipe up on either than left or right side of the home screen. - Make sure Netflix covers the entire display
Samsung has drastically reduced the size of the notch on the S20 when compared to the S10, making it very easy to completely ignore. One handy trick to know about is the full screen app settings, which will ensure apps. like Netflix, stretch out and display video full screen without any pesky black bars.
To get it set up head into Settings > Display > Full screen apps and select the apps you want to enable.
The S20 lacks the huge 100x zoom offered by the Ultra (pictured)
- Shoot with all those 108-megapixels
This tip is for you lot with the S20 Ultra.
The star attraction, at least on paper, is the S20 Ultra’s huge 108-megapixel rear camera. Out-of-the-box you’ll be shooting 12MP images as the software combines multiple pixels into one to save on space. To switch to the pure 108-megapixel mode tap where it says 3:4 in the viewfinder and scroll across to ‘108-megapixels’.
- Try out 8K video recording
You probably don’t have an 8K TV, but that doesn’t mean you can’t shoot some crispy 8K footage with your new S20. Enabling 8K capture isn’t on by default, so to turn it on open up the camera scroll across to Video > Settings (cog symbol) > Rear video size > 8K.
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On the S20 and S20 Plus this uses the tele sensor so things are a little zoomed in.
- Lock your favourite apps in RAM
12GB RAM is pretty much standard across the whole Galaxy S20 family and that much memory allows Samsung to give you the option of forcing apps to stay around more than normal. For instance, if you don’t want a certain game to shut down after a few hours you can lock it by going into the multitasking menu > long press on the app icon > keep open for quick launching.
You can keep three apps locked in memory at once.
- Charge other Qi devices with Wireless Powershare
While it’s not new for the S20 series, Wireless Powershare will be an extra addition if you’re upgrading from an older Galaxy device or, say, an iPhone.
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By utilising the Qi skills of the phone, this feature allows you to juice up other Qi-enabled tech (watches, earbuds, even other phones) by popping them on the phone’s back. Before charge starts flowing you’ll need to drag down the notification panel and hit Wireless Powershare.
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