Android is full of useful apps because smartphones are supposed to help us. Here are the most useful apps for Android!APPSBy Joe Hindy
Apps EditorJoe HindyJoe Hindy is known as the ‘app guy’ around these parts. He’s been at Android Authority since September of 2012. Previously, Joe was a part of the US Army and attended college for video game design and development. He also quite enjoys yard work for some reason.• March 20, 2021https://www.androidauthority.com/amp-helpers/amp-copier.html?black#https://www.androidauthority.com/most-useful-apps-for-android-603100/
We use smartphones for a lot of things. We listen to music, play games, watch video, and talk to one another on social media. Another use for smartphones is to make our lives easier. Thankfully, there are plenty of apps that can do just that. You carry this thing on you all the time so why not let it make your life easier? The tools listed below should make your life easier in a variety of specific ways. This is a hard list for a new app to crack, so it may be a while before any new apps get listed here. Here are the most useful apps for Android!
- Adobe apps
- AirDroid
- CamScanner
- Google Assistant / Google Search
- IFTTT
- Google Drive suite
- Google Translate
- LastPass Password Manage
Adobe apps
Price: Free / Up to $52.99 per month
Adobe has some of the most useful apps out there. Their apps generally range from photo editing to utility and include apps like Adobe Acrobat (PDF reader), Adobe Lightroom and Photo Express (photo editing), Illustrator Draw (drawing), Scan (document scanner), Premiere Clip (video editing), and many, many others. Many of these apps fill niches that other third party apps simply don’t. In addition, they are all good enough to hold spots on our lists for all of those things. All of them are free to download. Some of them may require an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to get all of the features, though.DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY!
AirDroid
Price: Free / $1.99 per month / $19.99 per yearnull
AirDroid is one useful app. It lets you connect your PC to your Android device and vice versa. You can share files, get notifications, quick reply to a few messaging apps, and more. AirMirror and AirDroid: Remote Support are two plugins that add to the functionality in various ways. This is among the best ways to connect all of your devices together. It also works on Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows. There is a subscription for all of the features. However, you can try the free version first to see if you like it. Pushbullet is a good competitor to AirDroid as well.DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY!
CamScanner
Price: Free / $4.99-$6.99 per month / Varies
CamScanner is probably the best document scanner app on mobile. You use the app to scan documents into your phone and convert them to PDF format. You then send that document through email, save it to your device, and you can even fax it for a nominal fee. This is one of the few apps on the Play Store that can do all of those things and definitely the best of those. It seems to hit all the check boxes you’d want in an app like this. You can use most of the features for free or you can pay for a subscription if you intend on using it very heavily. In either case, this is probably the best app in its category. It’s especially useful during tax season and for business people.DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY!
IFTTT
Price: Freenull
IFTTT is easily one of the most useful apps ever. It’s an app that creates commands to carry out a set of basic tasks automatically. What’s great about the app is the sheer number of services, products, and other apps that have IFTTT supports. You can have it turn on your smart lights in your home, save images from Instagram and upload them to Dropbox, and there is even some Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa stuff available. It doesn’t take very long to learn and can automate a lot of otherwise mundane tasks on your phone. The list of things this app is capable of is so long that it’s absurd. It’s definitely useful, trust us. Plus, it’s free!DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY!
Google Assistant / Google Search
Price: Free
Google’s app is definitely one of the most useful apps ever. It contains two basic things: Google Assistant and Google Feed. Google Assistant answers basically any question, sets up reminders, turns smart lights on and off, and even pulls up songs or videos for you. Google Feed is, well, a feed with tons of stuff, including weather, news, and news. It slowly curates new stuff based on your search history and interests. You can also tune it to your likes specifically as well. The two together with Google Search in one app is a potent combination that few other developers can even compete with. This single app houses Google Assistant, Google Search, and Google Feed. All of them are useful.DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY!
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Google Drive suite
Price: Free / $1.99-$299.99 per monthnull
Google Drive and its suite of apps are the most popular productivity apps on Android. The full collection includes Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Keep, and Google Photos. Between these apps, you have a full-fledged office suite complete with a note taking app, cloud storage, and a place to back up all of your photos and videos for free. Google Drive comes with 15GB of storage for free. You can increase the cloud storage space with a monthly subscription. The whole package are some of the most useful apps we’ve seen.DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY!Joe Hindy / Android Authority
Google Translate
Price: Free
Google Translate is the go-to translation app available on any platform. It has received a number of updates over the years, including the ability to use your camera to point at something and have it translated in real-time. There is also a neural network powering the platform that helps make translation even more accurate. It has a slew of additional features as well, including the ability to translate a two way conversation in real-time. Microsoft Translate and a few other translate apps are getting better, but Google Translate is still king of the roost.DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY!
LastPass Password Manager
Price: Free / $2-$4 per monthnull
LastPass is a password manager app. There are many of these in Google Play and most of them work fairly well. However, we like LastPass because it stays current with Android updates and also has a second authenticator app for additional security. The app generates passwords, saves your passwords to various sites, and helps you login quickly when you need to. It adds a layer of security to your life. The subscription costs are also quite reasonable. There are other really good password manager apps as well. However, we like that LastPass is always among the first to integrate new Android features quickly so it gets the spot for now.
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