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Best/Useful Android Apps

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Eyecon

Eyecon

Features

  • Identify who is calling you even if you don’t have their number saved.

  • Sometimes, it can even show their picture.

  • Sometimes, it can detect if the caller is a spammer.

  • It can also show quotes from different famous people after every call.

Download/Install: Play Store

Equilizer FX

Equalizer FX

Features

  • 5-band Equalizer
  • Bass Boost
  • Volume Enhance
  • Virtualization
  • Balance Left and Right Channels
  • A lot of Preset Profiles
  • A lot of Apps directly supported
  • Apply Effects Globally (even to some apps that normally don’t support equalizers)
Download/Install: Play Store

KDE Connect

KDE Connect

Features

  • Works on Android, Windows, and Linux devices

  • Send and Recieve files

  • Share clipboard

  • Remote Control one device from another (emulate keyboard and mouse)

  • Control Media Playback of one device from another

  • Browse Files of your Android on your PC

  • Answer text messages right from your PC

  • Sync notifications between your Android and PC

  • See Android’s battery percentage and SIM signal strength right from your PC

Download/Install: Play Store | F-Droid (recommended) | Windows Store

Key Mapper

Key Mapper

Features

  • Map any key on your Android to any action you want

This could be helpful if you have an extra key on your Android device that you don’t want to have, like the assistant key or camera key. Now you don’t have to use the assistant key to launch Google Assistant, you can use it to control media playback or anything you want.

Download/Install: Play Store | F-Droid (recommended)

Musicolet

Musicolet

Features

  • Play local music files (not online music)
  • Very Simple and lightweight yet very powerful
  • Buit-in Equalizer
  • Play Videos as Audios
  • Download/Show Music Lyrics
  • Light/Dark/Black themes
  • Custom Notification Color for every song (needs to be enabled from app settings)
  • Folder View
  • Sort Songs/Folders/Albums/…etc by Date/Name/Duration/…. and so on
  • View/Edit Song Information
  • Multiple songs can be added to multiple playlists at once
  • Automatically backup App Settings, Playlists and Queues, etc.
  • Sleep Timer
  • A lot more features and settings (too many to mention here)
Download/Install: Play Store

MX Player

MX Player

Features

  • Play Local and Network Media Files
  • Play Audio/Video files of almost any type
  • Browse Local and Network Media Files
  • Can load separate Audio/Subtitle file for a Video
  • Zoom in Videos
  • Rotate Videos
  • Change Aspect Ratio of Videos
  • Change subtitle speed
  • Synchronize Audio/Subtitles with Video if they are not synced
  • Uncountable No. of themes are included
  • Built-in Equalizer
  • Built-in Music Player
  • Private Folder
  • File Transfer
  • Video Playlists
  • Picture-in-Picture Mode
  • Play Media in the Background
  • WhatsApp Status Saver
  • Customize Look and Feel of the Player
  • Save State of Played Media (including last position, playing settings, and a lot more)
  • Download/Show/Customize Subtitles
  • Customize Look and Feel to an extreme
  • Cast Video Output to other Devices like Android TV
  • and a lot more (too many to mention here)
Download/Install: Play Store

Files

Files

It is not an app but a shortcut to Android’s built-in File Explorer which is hidden by default. If you don’t need anything fancy, this can fill all your basic File Management needs.

Features

  • Extremely lightweight (104 kB after installation)
  • Basic File Management
Download/Install: Play Store

Cx File Explorer

Cx File Explorer

Features

  • Very lightweight and simple
  • All basic File Management Features
  • Analyze Storage Usage and Selectively delete unnecessary files
  • Browse system Folders like /, /system, etc.
  • Manage Apps (Backup, Uninstall, Share, Open, Show in Play Store)
  • File Categories (Images, Audio, Videos, Documents, Downloads, New files)
  • Manage Cloud Storage (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box)
  • Manage Network Filesystems/Shared-Folders including Windows Share (SMB), FTP, SFTP and WebDAV
  • Recycle Bin
  • Create File/Folder Shortcuts on Home Screen
  • Hide/unhide files and show hidden files
  • Zip/unzip files
  • Built-in Image Viewer, Audio/Video Player and Text Editor
Download/Install: Play Store
Navigation Gestures

Features

  • Very lightweight

  • Use Gestures for Navigation (Back, Home, Recents, Menu buttons and much more)

  • Multiple Gesture Pills (Gesture Bars) {Bottom, Left and Right}

  • Hide System Navigation Bar

  • Customize every action/pill according to your liking

Download/Install: Play Store

CPL (Customized Pixel Launcher)

CPL

Features

  • Very Lightweight
  • Highly Customizable (Anything and Everything in CPL can be changed)
  • Pleasing to look at (Default look is similar to Google’s Pixel Launcher)
  • Supports Icon Packs
  • Home Screen scroll effects
  • Hide Apps
  • Backup/Restore Settings
  • Home Screen Gestures
  • Notification Dots
  • a lot more available in CPL settings
Download/Install: Play Store

Pure Browser

Pure Browser

Features

  • Very Lightweight
  • Address/Tool Bar at the Bottom of screen
  • Built-in Adblock
  • Night Mode
  • Text Only Mode
  • Save Webpage as PDF
  • Incognito Mode
  • Webpage Screenshot (specific region, fullscreen and entire page)
  • Themes
  • Immersive Mode (Fullscreen browsing)
  • Switch User-Agent (Fool websites into thinking you are using a Computer, iPhone or iPad)
  • Built-in Google Translate
  • Save Pages for offline reading
Download/Install: Play Store

Videoder

Videoder

Features

  • Download/Play Audio/Videos from almost any website
  • Officially Supported Websites include:
    1. YouTube
    2. Facebook
    3. Instagram
    4. Twitter
    5. DailyMotion
    6. SoundCloud
    7. Vimeo
    8. IMDB
    9. and many more
  • Built-in Web-browser
  • Download in any Quality you like
  • Download to any Folder you like (even on external memory-card/flash-drive)
  • Copy Link Detection (When you copy a link to a video/audio, it shows a button you can press to start downloading the file)
  • Share Link to Download Audio/Video file (no need to open Videoder just to download a video from YouTube)
  • Auto-apply Album Art and other infromation to audio files
  • Multiple Downloads at once (you can choose how many)
  • Multiple threads per download (you can choose how many)
  • Resume Interrupted Downloads
  • Night Mode
  • Theming (Primary/Accent Color)
Download/Install: Visit Download Page

Wall X

Wall X

Features

  • Lightweight

  • Download Wallpapers that fit your device’s screen

  • Wallpaper Categories

    3D, Abstract, Animals, Anime, Amoled, Art, Cars, City, Dark, Fantasy, Flowers, Food, Holidays, Love, Macro, Minimalism, Motorcycles, Music, Nature, Other, Space, Sport, Technologies, Textures, Vector, Words

  • Browse Wallpapers by

    Newest

    Top Rated

    Random

  • Most of the available wallpapers are stunningly beautiful

Download/Install: Play Store

ZArchiver

ZArchiver

Features

  • Very lightweight

  • Compress/Decompress using almost any compression format

    7z, zip, tar, bzip2, gzip, xz, lz4, zstd, tar.bz2, tar.gz, tar.xz, tar.lz4, tar.zstd, etc.

  • Different compression levels (Normal, Fast, High, No compression)

  • Encryption/Password protected compression

  • Support for rooted devices

  • Built-in File Explorer

  • Extemely Customizable

  • A ton of settings

Download/Install: Play Store

F-Droid

F-Droid

Features

  • Very lightweight

  • Store for Open Source and Free Apps

  • Apps in this store respect your privacy

    No personalized ads (most of the apps have no ads at all)

    No tracking

    No telemetry

  • All apps in this store are open source

  • All apps in this store are Free of cost (no in-app purchases either)

  • Most of the apps are free software (free as in freedom)

    It means you can get their code, see exactly how they work, then change them and redistribute them with another name, without any worries about copyright laws. You have the freedom to use anything which is free software (free as in freedom) in any way you like. It is your legal right.

  • You can add third-party Application Sources (where this store gets applications from)

Download/Install: Direct Download

Termux

Termux

This App is only for technical people, people who would like to learn/use Linux on their android device, students of Computer Science, or the people who want to learn hacking.

Features

  • Full fledged Linux Terminal on Android

  • Most of the command-line linux apps are available to install including

    ssh, ftp (both server and client)

    dash, bash, zsh, fish command-line shells

    nano, vim, emacs text editors

    archiving utilities like 7z, zip, tar, xz, gz, p7zip, etc.

    compilers/interpreters like clang(c,c++), python, golang(go), ldc(d), etc.

    and much more

  • APT package manager

  • Can run complete Linux Operating System with Graphical Environments with the help of VNC Viewer and AnLinux

Download/Install: Play Store | F-Droid (recommended)
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