The best way to appearance my account of the top Android apps is in the screenshot gallery. However, you can additionally appearance my top 25 in the account below.
The list
1. Google Voice
Google Voice is a account that is so advantageous I accede it one of the top allowances of Android itself, abnormally back Apple alone the Google Voice app for the iPhone. It gives you a buzz cardinal that can arena to assorted places or accessories and it allows you to admission all of your voicemail and argument letters over the Web. The Android app integrates alike deeper. It can accomplish approachable calls attending like they’re advancing from your Google Voice cardinal so that you can accumulate your absolute adaptable cardinal private.
2. Advanced Task Killer
One of the realities of accepting a multitasking adaptable OS in Android is that you accept to administer your apps so that they don’t aching achievement or array life. Advanced Task Killer (or ATK) is my favorite. It alike comes with a accoutrement that you can tap already to annihilate all accessible apps.
3. Dropbox
Dropbox is a abundant billow account that automatically syncs a binder of files amid assorted computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux). This app extends Dropbox to Android and interacts with added apps (such as Documents To Go) to accessible the files.
4. Evernote
Once you get acclimated to accounting on a basic keyboard (and it candidly took me over a year to do it), again these accessories are abundant for note-taking, and Evernote is a abundant note-taking app. It is agnate to Dropbox in that it saves abstracts locally but syncs it beyond all your machines and devices.
5. Droid Analytics
For some acumen Google doesn’t accept an official app (for either Android or iPhone) for Google Analytics. The best one I’ve begin on Android is Droid Analytics. Another acceptable one is analytics.
6. Documents To Go
The charge less adaptation of Documents To Go offers a abundant little clairvoyant for Word and Excel files. You can advancement to the abounding adaptation (for $15) if you appetite to adapt files and add PowerPoint files to the mix. If you do appetite alteration capability, I’d additionally acclaim demography a attending at Quick Office.
7. Amazon Kindle
I never broiled up to the Amazon Kindle e-reader, but I’m a big fan of the Kindle adaptable app. Back it was appear I’ve apprehend a lot added books artlessly because my Smartphone is consistently with me and I can cull it and apprehend a few pages anytime I’ve got a brace account free.
8. Places Directory
This is an alarming app for award shops and casework abreast your accepted location. From restaurants to cine theaters to medical accessories to taxis, this app is actual authentic and takes advantage of the business advice from Google Local. This app is added acceptable than the advice you get from a GPS assemblage (or app) and added acceptable than any of the agnate apps accessible on the iPhone.
9. Tripit
I dig Tripit. It is by far the best app I’ve begin for befitting clue of all my biking itineraries. It runs on some abundant backend systems. You artlessly advanced your acceptance emails for your flights, hotels, rental cars, and added to Tripit and it automatically organizes them into trips with all your capacity and acceptance numbers.
10. Seesmic
Twitter is an amazing instant-intelligence agent and it was fabricated for adaptable browsing. Although there’s an official Twitter app for Android now, Seesmic is still the best Android Twitter client.
11. FCC Speed test
I’m bedeviled with active acceleration tests to analysis my bandwidth in assorted places, both to see 3G fluctuations and to analysis the affection of Wi-Fi. There are a cardinal of absolutely acceptable speed test apps, but my fresh admired is the FCC Test app.
12. Astro Book Manager
Another one of the abundant things about Android (if you’re a beatnik or a tinkerer) is that you accept lower-level admission to the arrangement itself. Astro is an app that lets you cross the Android book system.
13. Got To Do
There are affluence of agitation apps to accept from on Android but I adopt Got To Do because of the solid interface and the actuality that it can accompany with the online account Toodledo.
14. Gist
Many of us accept acquaintance lists broadcast beyond assorted computers, devices, and online services. Gist is a Web account that can accompany them calm and alike cull in actuality from the Web to advice you break up to date with your best important contacts. There’s an Android app as able-bodied as an iPhone app.
15. TED Mobile
TED is a alluring accident that appearance a affair of the minds of some of society’s best affecting thinkers. You’ll absolutely disagree with some of them, because there’s a ample assortment of opinions, but abounding talks are account alert to. What I adulation is that they’ve taken the videos from their appointment and fabricated them advisedly accessible on the Web. This app provides a abundant way to admission the videos. I achievement added conferences chase TED’s advance on this.
16. Pandora
Pandora is a alive “radio station” for the Internet age. You artlessly chase by an artisan or song and it will actualize a active playlist based on that one allotment of information. It intersperses an casual ad amid songs but the ads tend to be adequately localized and occasionally alike useful.
17. Shazam
If you appetite to affect your accompany with a adaptable app, appearance them Shazam. Ever apprehend a song actuality played at a abundance or on the radio and ask yourself, “Oh, what song is that?” That’s breadth Shazam comes in. Aloof hit the button and let it accept for 15 seconds, concern its database, and again acknowledgment the name of artisan and the song. It has about an 80% success rate.
18. Dial Zero
Are you one of those bodies who dials a chump account band and aloof keeps acute aught until you get to allocution to a absolute person? Again Dial Aught is your fresh friend. This app provides a agenda of a ton of U.S. businesses and gives you numbers to advice you get afterpiece to a absolute actuality and instructions for which prompts to hit to allege to a animal actuality as bound as possible.
19. Google Goggles
This is a fun app that is a little but advanced of its time. It does beheld searches. You can booty pictures of things and again the app tries to acquaint you what they are. It’s bound in its ambit but it is appealing cool, and it’s absolutely a blink into the future. One of the coolest appearance is the adeptness to booty pictures of argument in a adopted accent and let that app construe for you. In a adopted country, this can advice you apprehend artery signs and abstain activity into the amiss bathroom. :-)
20. Google Sky Map
Ever attending up at the night sky and try to acquaint your kids the name of that afterlife you’re pointing at, or try to bethink which planet that is in the southern sky? Google Sky Map lets you point your Smartphone at it and get the information. This is allotment of a fresh brand of apps alleged “Augmented Reality” apps that band agenda advice on top of absolute apple experiences.
21. Tricorder
A lot of geeks I apperceive like to say that our smart phones are acceptable added and added like the Tricorders on Star Trek. Well, here’s a fun app that turns your Android accessory into a basic Tricorder. It alike offers some advantageous ecology information, including GPS data, wireless data, and ambient complete measurements.
22. FxCamera
Honestly, the camera computer application on Android is an breadth area above improvements are needed, but this app is a abundant archetype of what’s possible. It has solid camera controls, abounding customization options, and offers some abundant furnishings for photos.
23. Photoshop Mobile
Photoshop is, of course, the best accepted photo editor in the apple and its adaptable app doesn’t do annihilation to aching that reputation. But while the desktop adaptation is apperceive for accepting a bulk features, the adaptable app is acclaimed by its simplicity. It’s the best Android (and iPhone) photo alteration app for simple crops, accuracy adjustments, and sharpens, for example.
24. Bump
Bump is a fun (and useful) abstraction for administration advice amid two phones application the accelerometer, and it works beyond Android and iPhone. You can use it to allotment acquaintance advice (yours and others), photos, and apps. You both artlessly accessible the Bang app, accept what you to share, and again authority the phones in your easily and bang your easily together.
25. Barcode Scanner
This app turns the Android camera into a barcode scanner. You artlessly browse a product’s UPC cipher and let the app go to assignment to acquisition it in Google Artefact Chase or a chase on the accessible Web. You’ll be afraid at how fast it works. This is abundant for back you’re arcade retail and you appetite to analysis the amount of a artefact online afore affairs to accomplish abiding you’re advantageous a fair price.
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