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- Browsers. Brave Privacy Browser. Brave Privacy Browser offers many features aimed at protecting your security and privacy on the web. For instance, it includes built-in blockers for ads, pop-ups, scripts, and third-party cookies.
- Communication. Language Learners. Duolingo. 5.0. If you're looking to learn another language, Duolingo gamifies language learning with bite-sized lessons and a friendly interface.
- Food. Blue Apron. 4.5. If you don't want to think about buying ingredients, but still want to cook, Blue Apron is an excellent option. With reliable deliveries and great meals to choose from, this food delivery service lets you skip the trip to the grocery store.
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- Lensa
- Photo Editor Pro
- Glitch Lab
- DoodleLens
- Pixtica
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By James Rogerson
last updated 28 February 2023
The best Android apps for your phone, both free and paid for
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This is the latest Android app we've chosen to feature, refreshed every few weeks. Our choices are usually new apps or apps that have recently received a major update, but occasionally hidden gems and other essentials will also be highlighted.
Free or $47.99 / £45.99 yearly subscription
We’re never not breathing, yet there’s an art – and science – to breathing effectively, and few of us have mastered it. That’s what One Deep Breath: Relax & Sleep is here to help with.
Through guided breathing exercises, meditation techniques, video lessons, and even the ability to build custom breathing exercises within the app, One Deep Breath will teach you how to breathe in ways that reduce stress and anxiety, improve your focus, stop you snoring, help you sleep, and more.
Some of this is through helping you change the way you breathe as standard – particularly if you’re inclined to breathe out of your mouth rather than your nose – while other things are exercises you can turn to just when you need them.
Our favorite Android apps for shooting, sorting and editing photos and videos.
Various IAP
Lensa is a controversial AI image app, which you may well have already read about. It’s capable of replacing backgrounds in photos and adding filters, among other things, but what it’s really famous for is creating AI-generated images, based on photos you feed it.
You simply upload 10-20 selfies, and it will return numerous AI takes on them, which have the appearance of digital portraits of you in various scenes, settings and outfits, such as playing a guitar or in a space suit.
These are generally high-quality, though the nature of AI images means they can sometimes look a bit weird or give you an extra arm. There are also questions around privacy and the sexualization of female portraits in the app. So be aware of the risks when going in.
Free or various IAP
Photo Editor Pro is an extremely powerful photo editor, and one which you can use many of the features for no charge at all.
These features include filters, effects, an object remover similar to the Pixel 7’s Magic Eraser, tools to adjust things like the brightness, saturation and contrast, the ability to add stickers or text, or draw on the image, beautifying tools, and a whole lot more.
The layout is intuitive too, and you can undo any edits with a tap, so it’s easy to fix any errors you make in the editing process.
If you do choose to pay then you’ll get rid of the ads, and unlock even more filters and effects, with more added weekly, plus a few additional features.
The free version of Photo Editor Pro is so generous that you might be disinclined to pay, especially since it’s charged either yearly or as a one-time purchase, which in either case is quite a hefty outlay. But if you do choose to pay then you’ll be upgrading one of the better photo editors on Android to one of the very best.
Free + $6.49/£5.99 IAP
Glitch Lab is a photo editor packed full of digital glitch effects. You’ve probably seen apps like this before, and the style of effects offered won’t appeal to everyone, but if you like making your pictures look a bit glitchy or retro, this is one of the most capable and versatile ways to do it.
There are over 100 effects in this Android app, and many of them are customizable, ensuring that your glitches won’t look like anyone else’s.
As if to demonstrate the power, it’s even possible to generate an image from scratch, building it up through a number of effects and tweaks.
$1.99/£1.89
DoodleLens is perhaps a bit of a gimmick, but it’s a fun one. Simply doodle something, then point your phone’s camera at the doodle from within the app, and you can copy it and paste it on top of the world around you in augmented reality.
You can also change the color of the doodle and even make very basic animations by copying multiple doodles and having the app cycle through them. You can then record and save the results.
DoodleLens probably isn’t an Android app you’ll use often, and we found it a bit hit and miss at recognizing our doodles, but when it works it raises a smile, which is all you can really ask for at $1.99/£1.89.
Free + various subscriptions
Pixtica is one of many tools hoping to replace your phone’s default camera app. Camera apps vary a lot, and their success largely depends on your phone make and model, but Pixtica is a decent option if you’re looking for something new.
It’s packed full of features, including numerous filters, a GIF recorder, panorama, hyperlapse, manual controls, and oddities such as a ‘Planet’ mode, which warps images into a sphere-like shape using Pixtica’s “advanced stereographic projection algorithm”.
There are all sorts of other modes too, whether you’re taking photos or shooting video, and the app is laid out intuitively. However, while many of the functions are free, you have to pay to unlock higher resolutions and to remove watermarks when using filters.
Free + $5.49/£5.49
Scribbl is a photo editor that lets you add animations to your pictures. By ‘animations’ we mean basically light trails, but there are various different ways they can be animated, numerous colors you can choose, and you can pick exactly where they appear on images and how large they are.
Essentially, it’s an app that does one thing but does it quite well. Once you’ve added an animation you can save the result to your phone’s gallery, ready for sharing.
The basic app is free, but for either a one-off fee or a monthly subscription you can remove adverts and unlock additional customization options, as well as unlocking the ability to remove the Scribbl watermark from your creations. If you like the app this is worth paying for, but you can get a good taste of it without spending anything.
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- Movies and videos. JustWatch. It’s not a streaming service, but JustWatch is the app that tells you what to watch and where to watch it. So no more wondering where you can catch the latest season of The Boys or whether The Witcher is available to stream on Netflix — JustWatch will keep you right.
- News. NewsBreak. It’s not hard to find news apps that cover national and international news, but what about more local events? NewsBreak specializes in digging out the news that’s local to you so you can stay updated with your personal community.
- Sports. Fox Sports. Get the same industry-leading coverage you can expect from Fox Sports television right on your smartphone. Track your favorite teams, players, and leagues, and watch it all unfold live from inside the app.
- Social media. TikTok. Essentially Vine for a new generation, TikTok is the home of short videos that are amusing, meme-laden, and just generally fit for easy consumption.
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