The best Android apps
Looking for a new app for your device? Here's Answer Express's pick of the best of the free Android apps available.
Creativity and photography
Sprayscape:
This app lets you create abstract panoramic landscapes for others to
experience in virtual reality. Use the phone's gyroscope to overlay
images. [Android,
free]
SketchAR:
Art made easy. Sketchar helps anyone to draw and create stencils by
placing a virtual image on a real-world surface. From here you can
trace it. [Android,
free]
Perch:
If you've wondered what goes on in your house when you're not in it,
Perch is the answer. Connect your phone with a strategically placed
laptop, tablet or phone camera and watch live from
anywhere. [Android,
free]
Gifrecipes:
Find something for dinner and learn to cook – using gifs. This app
pairs recipes with videos that display ingredients and cooking times.
Swiping displays new recipes, making it a more satisfying version of
Tinder. [Android,
free]
A
walk through dementia:
Alzheimer's Research UK simulates the experience of life with
dementia with this VR app, designed for Google Cardboard. [Android,
free]
Productivity and tools
Splitwise:
Carving up bills has never been easier. The app lets your split bills
in different categories and across different groups of people.
Importantly, it lets you manage what needs to be paid and who owes
what. [Android
and iOS, free]
1Password:
This free manager stops you from having terrible passwords. As well
as storing your codes it also has a password generator that creates
secure options. Paid tiers are available. [Android
and iOS, free]
SmartPhone
Lock:
This app will change your phone’s PIN every minute – your loved
ones will never hack your Facebook again. [Android,
free]
Fluenty:
With an AI engine trained on 700 million online public conversations,
send relevant "smart replies" to messages with a single
tap. [Android,
free]
Pl@ntNet:
The Shazam of gardening lets you take a photo of a plant and it tells
you what it is. Connect with other gardeners for tips. [iOS
and Android, free]
Mimicker
Alarm:
Snoozing is impossible with this sadistic alarm clock, which makes
you play games to prove you are awake. The default puzzle is to take
a selfie while pulling a face. Built by Microsoft's Garage Team –
using APIs from UK-based Project Oxford – the app's facial
recognition software detects your expression. [Android,
free]
DreamLab:
Donate your spare mobile processing power to the fight against cancer
with this app, which downloads genetic sequencing profiles and
processes them during the night when phones aren't in use. [Android,
free]
MoodCast
Diary:
MoodCast Diary is an app that tracks your mood by allowing you to
input diary entries throughout the day. Once it collects enough data
on your day-to-day emotions, it can offer advice as to trends in your
happiness or unhappiness. The ‘intelligent mood prediction’ might
make it a bit easier to combat the bad-weather blues. [Android,
free]
Nasa
GLOBE Observer:
Everyone can get involved in Nasa's scientific experiments. Collect
cloud and temperature data through the app. [iOS
and Android, free]
ReplyASAP:
Overbearing parents can use this to contact kids by sending a
stressed alarm tone with a message. Also works for couples. Android,
free
Social and messaging
Peanut:
Peanut
helps new mothers connect with each other, using a tinder-like swipe
and chat system. [iOS
& Android, free]
On
Second Thought:
Ever sent a text and regretted it? This allows you to embargo
messages with a delay allowing you to change your mind. [Android,
free]
Sarahah:
Receive anonymous feedback about yourself from family and friends.
Perfect for self-growth - or if you need a good cry. [iOS
and Android, free]
Games and distractions
Bean&Gone: This
fully interactive story game let's your children create their own
Bean character, who you then help along on a unique journey.[iOS
& Android, free]
Egg,
Inc:
Join the chicken gold rush in this incremental clicker game, which
asks you to sell eggs, build henhouses and commission farm
research. [iOS
and Android, free]
SpaceHub:
SpaceHub uses real-time video feeds and GPS to keep amateur
space-watchers up-to-date with astronauts and asteroids. It also
aggregates tweets from industry insiders into a single
feed. [Android,
free]
Hungeremoji:
Hungermoji turns the notifications system on Android phones' home
screens into a game. Feed your character fruit or seafood while
swiping away the bombs in this clever OS twist. [Android,
free]
Look
up:
Nigerian-American artist Ekene Ijeoma wants New Yorkers to engage
with their city instead of looking down at their phones. His app runs
in the background and, once you reach a busy street intersection,
alerts you to "look up" and allow something serendipitous
to happen. [Android,
free]
Gladiabots:
Create AI for your robots! Refine a strategy and crush your rivals.
This is a smart insight into character programming. [Android,
free]
Entertainment
Cardboard
Camera:
Cardboard Camera converts panoramic photos into a format which can be
viewed through Google Cardboard VR viewers. Send photos and audio to
family and friends or keep an album to relive awe-inspiring
moments. [Android,
free]
Forest:
Need time away from
your phone? Plant a digital tree and it will grow – if you star off
your device for an agreed time. If not, the tree dies. [iOS
and Android, free]
Show
Box:
Need
movies and tv series in your phone. Show box is solution for this.
Show box is app which can download and stream your favourite tv shows
and movies. It have lot of links for your favourite shows and movies
including 720p and 1080p. [IOS
& Android,
free]
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