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Top Essential Android Apps

August 11, 2021

These are the android apps that I use a lot. There are some other apps (pir and mod) that I left out.

Media :

  • Adobe Lightroom- The best app to edit RAW images.
  • InShot - Easiest app to edit Videos.
  • Fossify Gallery - A simple and light, ad-free, photo organiser and viewer.
  • Gramophone - A beautiful open-source music player that supports Material You theming.
  • Retouch - Remove objects in image

Internet:

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

Keeping track of things:

  • Hurry - Events
  • Remember the Milk - A app to keep track of all my todos and make different types of lists of 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

Data storage

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

Weather

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

Writing:

  • Notion - One of the best apps to organise and write notes, info, docs, lists.
  • Google Keep - Simple note taking.
  • Nicemind - An app to make mind maps.
  • Zettlr - I use this to write my blog articles on my mobile. It supports folders, markdown and I can sync it to my github repository.
  • Diaro: Diary app.

Reading + Watching

  • Wikipedia app
  • QuickBible
  • Moonreader - Ebook reader
  • Google PDF - Simple pdf viewer
  • Twitch - Game + other live streaming
  • Google News - The best news app

Creative:

  • Photoroom - Background eraser + AI generated backgrounds
  • Nexsnap - Beautify screenshots for social media.
  • Microsoft Designer
  • Canva
  • Adobe Express

Wallpaper

  • Natural Walls
  • Ringwall

Tools

  • Stitchcraft - Powerful stitching and screenshot app.
  • AIO Calculator - Calculator + Unit Converter
  • MiXplorer - Light, small, 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.

Keyboard

  • GBoard - Has the ability to combine emojis and send as stickers
  • Swiftkey - AI generate stickers + other features.

Launcher

  • Nova Launcher

Common apps

  • Social: Instagram, Twitter, Threads, TikTok Facebook, Mastodon, Whatsapp, Reddit, Pinterest, Letterboxd.
  • Google: Gmail, Google Drive, Youtube Music, Youtube, Google Rewards, Photos