Top Essential Android Apps

A list of some android apps.

Editing :

• Adobe Lightroom- Edit RAW images.
• InShot - Easiest app to edit Videos.
• Photoroom
• Retouch - Remove objects in image
• Stitchcraft - Photo stitching and screenshot app.

Creative:

• Nexsnap - Share "beautified" screenshots for social media.
• Microsoft Designer
• Canva
• Adobe Express

Music

• Fossify Gallery - A simple and light, ad-free, photo organiser and viewer.
• Gramophone - A beautiful open-source local music player that supports Material You theming.

Internet:

• Raindrop - Bookmarks
• Pocket - Save web articles for later reading
• Droidify - A client for fdroid which is an appstore for open-source android apps.
• ProtonVPN - Free and private VPN from a trusted company.
• Pictrove - Search images from multiple image search sites at the same time.
• iNaturalist - An app for recording observations of plants, animals, insects
• Browsers :
  • Kiwi Browser - Chromium browser that supports chrome extensions. Outdated
  • Via Browser - A light browser that has tons of useful tools: Resource Sniffer, View Source, User-Agent, User Scripts support, Customisable Reader Mode, Save page as PDF, Network Log.
  • Microsoft Edge - Now supports extensions
• Seal - Media downloader

Keeping track of things:

• Hurry - Store event details and and track countdowns to each
• Remember the Milk - A light app to store todos and lists of different things.
• Memento - Maintain a database of things (Lists of music I've listened to for each year, etc)
• DayOne - A journal app to keep track of all the important life moments. It stores images in HQ compared to other alternatives.
• Proton Calendar
• Bitwarden - Generate and store strong passwords

Weather

• TodayWeather - One of the best weather apps with a large number of weather sources.
• Weather & Radar - Realtime weather sattelite radar images

Writing:

• Nicemind - Mind maps.
• Diaro- Diary app.
• Notes
  • Google Keep
  • Upnote - Notion / Evernote alternative thats not bloated or slow.
  • Notion - One of the best apps to maintain notes, docs, lists.
  • Zettlr - Write notes and sync to github repo.

Reading + Watching

• QuickBible
• Moonreader - Ebook reader
• Google PDF - Simple pdf viewer
• Twitch - Game + other live streaming
• Google News

Tools

• AIO Calculator - Calculator + Unit Converter
• MiXplorer - Light, ad-free and feature packed file-manager
• MyBoy - Gameboy Advance emulator (This is what I use to play Pokemon roms)

Social

• Boost - Reddit client
• Letterboxd - Social media for film reviews. Create lists of movies.

Cloud storage

• Proton Drive, Collect, Onedrive, Google Drive, Google Photos.

Other

• Nova Launcher
• DataDex - Pokedex app
• Dagger - Dota tournament stats

Edited: Dec '24