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11 Amazing Android Apps That’ll Change How You Use Your Phone
BY
ANDY BETTS
UPDATED MAY 10, 2022
Here are the most amazing apps for Android that will change how you use and interact with your device on a daily basis.
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There are millions of apps in the Play Store that range from addictive games to essential productivity tools, to great ways to customize your phone.
Even better, there are also apps that will completely change how you use Android. Some enhance the user interface, others automate common tasks, and some take popular features in the operating system and make them even better.
Let’s take a look at some of the most amazing apps for Android.
- Lynket Browser
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Social media is great for finding interesting articles around the web, but it isn’t always convenient to read them right away. Sometimes it’s better to queue up several articles and come back to them later.
That’s what you can do with Lynket Browser. It opens web pages in the background. You can access it whenever you want by tapping floating, onscreen bubbles. It’s simple yet so useful. The app works with your existing default browser and can also speed up browsing by automatically loading the AMP versions of the links you click.
Another great feature of the Lynket Browser is the option to read pages in Article mode, which loads a sleek-looking reader mode without all of the fluff and fillers.
While the app hasn’t been updated in a little while, it still delivers what it promises.
Download: Lynket Browser (Free, in-app purchases available)
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- Popup Widget 3
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The best Android widgets are really useful, but if you use too many of them, they’ll quickly clutter your home screens and slow down your phone.
Popup Widget 3 rethinks how they work. It turns all your selected widgets into 1×1 icons on your home screen. When you tap one, it’ll pop open, so you can see what’s inside. The app gives you the convenience and speed of widgets—you don’t need to launch the full app just to see your latest tweets or check the weather—without the performance hit.
Download: Popup Widget 3 ($1.99)
- Notepin
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Notepin does something so obvious you’ll wonder why it isn’t already a part of Android. Put simply, it allows you to create notes and then pin them to your notifications panel as reminders.
While the app isn’t too complex, you are able to sort your notes by priority or recently added, and they’re color-coordinated too, which looks great. Once pinned, your notes will be visible in your notifications panel until you unpin them.
While Notepin isn’t doing anything groundbreaking, it’s definitely one of the most amazing apps for Android users who value productivity and organization.
Download: Notepin (Free, in-app purchases available)
- MacroDroid
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Many of the coolest Android apps take the tedium out of the common tasks you perform every day by taking care of them automatically for you.
MacroDroid is similar to the popular Android automation app Tasker. But using Tasker effectively for more complex tasks has an incredibly steep learning curve, and MacroDroid is an app you can install and start using instantly.
The app needs you to configure as few as two settings—just an action that will be prompted by a trigger. So plugging in your headphones could be the trigger, and the corresponding actions could be the automatic launch of the Spotify app and adjustment of the volume level.
Or you could have your phone switch to Airplane mode (the action) at night (the trigger). You could also tell it to read your text messages aloud when your phone’s in a car dock.
You can add optional constraints to fine-tune the conditions under which your macro can run. This gives the app even more power, and your macros can be as simple or as complex as you need them to be.
Download: MacroDroid (Free, in-app purchases available)
- IFTTT
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While MacroDroid is perfect for on-device automation, IFTTT does the same for web services. The official IFTTT app enables you to create applets that connect two internet-based services or devices, with your Android phone as the central hub.
The possibilities are almost endless. You can use IFTTT to automate your phone in many ways—to automatically tweet, to get SMS alerts for your Google Calendar appointments, or to get notifications on price drops for products you’re looking to buy. You can also use it to control your smart devices.
Once you get it up and running, you’ll wonder how you ever went without it. IFTTT is most definitely one of the most interesting apps on the Play Store.
Download: IFTTT (Free, in-app purchases available)
- Quick Cursor
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Struggle to use your phone with one hand? It’s not a surprise, as screens are getting bigger and bigger with each new generation of devices. But Quick Cursor is an ingenious solution to the problem.
The app places a cursor on your screen that you control with your thumb and which enables you to interact with buttons and other parts of an app’s UI. The clever bit is that you only need to swipe your thumb around the bottom third of your screen, and the cursor itself will stretch all the way up to the top. Just line it up with a button and tap, it’s as simple as that.
Quick Cursor relies on your phone’s accessibility features and includes some pretty serious permissions, so might not be for everyone. But it is a truly great app for one-handed use.
Download: Quick Cursor (Free, in-app purchases available)
- MightyText
While WhatsApp Web will let you send WhatsApp messages using your PC, if you prefer SMS, then SMS Text Messaging from MightyText becomes an essential app.
It syncs with your PC, Mac, or Linux computer via a browser extension, and gives you full access to your SMS messages on the bigger screen. You can read, reply to, or create new messages, as well as view notifications from all your other apps. You can even make calls, so you’ll hardly need to pick up your phone again.
There is a monthly sending limit in the free version, so you might consider another tool if you’re a heavy user. For more like it, see other apps that let you text from your PC.
Download: MightyText (Free, in-app purchases available)
- Universal Copy
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Copy and paste on Android is mostly fine until it doesn’t work. Some apps just don’t support it, and some websites prevent copying, which can be extremely frustrating.
With Universal Copy, you can copy and paste almost anything from any app and even copy the text from an image. It integrates seamlessly with the system. All you need to do is grant the app the relevant permissions, and the next time you want to copy text, just launch the app using the link in your notification bar, and then copy with a long press or activate scanning mode to find text in an image.
Download: Universal Copy (Free, in-app purchases available)
- Sesame
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Sesame is a universal search and shortcut maker. It’s so good that it could easily become your most-used app.
Sesame can search within almost all your other apps, showing messages from Slack or playlists in Spotify right from your home screen.
It also creates shortcuts to specific features within those programs. Whether you want to load up your daily route to work or quickly check the live scores in your favorite sports app, you can with just a single tap.
Download: Sesame (Free, in-app purchases available)
- Niagara Launcher
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The overall best way to customize your Android phone is to install a new launcher. There is a huge number to choose from, the best of which is Nova Launcher. But we also love Niagara Launcher, which gives your phone a fresh, clean look, and is one of the most unique apps for Android.
Niagara dispenses with icons, widgets, app drawers, and all the other stuff that clutters up your phone. In their place, you get a few shortcuts for your favorite apps, a vertical app index designed for one-handed use, and a few other efficiency tools. These include the ability to view notifications more easily and to hide those apps that you rarely use.
The app takes a little getting used to but is well worth giving a try.
Download: Niagara Launcher (Free, in-app purchases available)
- Super Status Bar
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Android has always been heavily customizable, but one area that most people tend to ignore is the status bar. This app finally changes that.
With Super Status Bar, you can adjust your display brightness or volume level by swiping along the top of the screen. You can set up a ticker to get previews of your incoming messages and notifications. And you can configure many other gesture controls, monitor your battery life, or change the look and feel of the whole area.
There’s so much going on here, and it even includes a few more advanced customizations for rooted users, which is why Super Status bar is on our list as one of the most amazing Android apps.
best apps in the world
TikTok, four apps from Facebook (now Meta), and and a few social apps are once again top-10 apps globally for the entire year of 2021, according to app statistics compiled by Apptopia.
Many of the leaders were down, however, from their download counts for the previous year.
Here are the top 10 globally most-download apps of 2021:
TikTok: 656 million
Instagram: 545 million
Facebook: 416 million
WhatsApp: 395 million
Telegram: 329 million
Snapchat: 327 million
Zoom: 300 million
Messenger: 268 million
CapCut: 255 million
Spotify: 203 million
Many were down from their download totals from 2020, however. TikTok had 850 million downloads last year; almost 200 million more than the still-impressive 656 million it achieved in 2021. WhatsApp was down over 200 million app installs as well, and Messenger was down from 404 million last year to 268 million this year. Facebook, Meta’s flagship app, was also down, having achieved 540 million installs last year compared to 416 million in 2021. Zoom had 477 million installs in 2020 versus 300 million in 2021.
Google Meet and Netflix were on the list last year.
But both dropped off entirely this year.
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On the gainers side, Instagram was up about 40 million installs from last year.
And private messaging and groups platform Telegram was the big winner of 2021, up almost 75 million installs from 256 million last year to 329 million this year. A likely reason for the Telegram increase is the desire for more privacy, as well as a flight from mainstream social networks by people claiming censorship on the part of the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
Top 10 most-downloaded apps USA APPTOPIA
The top 10 downloads list for the U.S. specifically looks a little different, and shows significant strength in video streaming platform HBO Max, which edged out Netflix and Disney+, both of whom were top-10 in 2020, for top streaming service by number of installs in 2021:
TikTok: 94 million
Instagram: 64 million
Snapchat: 56 million
Cash App: 56 million
Zoom: 52 million
Messenger: 51 million
Facebook: 47.3 million
WhatsApp: 47.2 million
YouTube: 47 million
HBO Max: 45 million
Music and audio is usually an extremely competitive segment, but it’s not even close there.
The winner, which more than doubled the global installs of its nearest competitor, is Spotify, which snagged 203 million app installs in 2021. Google’s music app, YouTube Music, was third with 79 million, and Amazon Music was seventh with 44 million.)
But there was a very interesting new upstart from a very familiar source that hit the top 10 list despite being available in only three countries.
“While Spotify continues to blow all competitors out of the water, a newcomer has gone from not on the top charts at all last year, to all the way to the second most downloaded music streaming app in the world,” says Apptopia VP of Insights Adam Blacker. “That app is Resso, which is owned by Bytedance, maker of TikTok. Resso launched in May 2019. The app is live in Brazil, Indonesia and India.”
Top 10 most-downloaded music and audio apps for 2021:
Spotify: 203 million
Resso: 85 million
YouTube Music: 79 million
StarMaker: 76 million
Shazam: 75 million
SoundCloud: 52 million
Amazon Music: 44 million
Wink Music: 38.2 million
Music Player: 38 million
JioSaavn: 35 million
(An important note about Apple Music: it is preloaded on each iPhone and iPad — an interesting antitrust scenario — and therefore does not hit any “most downloaded” lists. One other interesting point: Shazam, which ranked fifth in downloads in 2021, is owned by Apple.)
Top 10 most-downloaded music streaming apps for 2021. APPTOPIA
U.S. leaders in music downloads are Spotify, Pandora, SoundCloud, YouTube Music, and iHeart, with SiriusXM and Audiomack also making the top 10 list.
Games are always huge, making up more than half of the app in Google Play and Apple’s App Store, and more than half of the app installs. Interestingly, the top 10 most-downloaded mobile games for 2021 is lead by a game that was released almost a decade ago, in May 2012. Joining it are other somewhat aged games like 8 Ball Pool, which has been around for years, and King’s Candy Crush Saga, also launched almost a decade ago in 2012.
The top 10 most-downloaded games of 2021:
Subway Surfers: 191 million
Roblox: 182 million
Bridge Race: 169 million
Garena Free Fire – New Age: 154 million
Among Us: 152 million
Hair Challenge: 138 million
Join Clash: 136 million
8 Ball Pool: 130 million
Ludo King: 125 million
Candy Crush Saga: 119 million
The top games in the U.S. include Roblox, Project Makeover, Among Us, Bridge Race, and High Heels.
Retail is always interesting as well, as the most-download apps provide insight into which retailers are winning mobile, and therefore, in large part winning e-Commerce. While Amazon leads in the U.S. with 40 million installs locally, three apps have more global installs than the U.S. retail giant. Shopee with 203 million, SHEIN with 190 million, and Mesh with 153 million all lead Amazon, which captured 148 million global app installs.
Top retail apps with the most installs globally for 2021 APPTOPIA
Other global players include Flipkart, AliExpress, Wish, Pinduoduo, and Alibaba.
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