5 Amazing Android Apps That’ll Change How You Use Your Phone

There are millions of apps in the Play Store, ranging from addictive games to essential productivity tools, to clever ways to customize your phone.

Even better, there are also apps that will completely change how you use Android. Some enhance the user interface, others automate everyday tasks, and some take popular features in the operating system and make them even better.

Let’s take a look at some of the best and most amazing apps for Android.

1. Lynket Browser

Social media is great for finding interesting articles around the web, but it isn’t always convenient to read them right away. Sometimes it’s better to queue up several articles and return to them later.

That’s what you can do with Lynket Browser. It opens web pages in the background. You can access it whenever you want by https://www.shravskitchen.com/ tapping floating, onscreen bubbles. It’s simple yet such a useful app. It works with your existing default browser and can also speed up browsing by automatically loading the AMP versions of the links you click.

Another great feature of the Lynket Browser is the option to read pages in Article mode, which loads a sleek-looking reader mode without all the fluff and fillers.

While the app hasn’t been updated recently, it still delivers what it promises.

The best Android widgets are really useful, but if you use too many of them, they’ll quickly clutter your home screens and slow down your phone.

Popup Widget rethinks how they work. It turns all your selected widgets into 1×1 icons on your home screen. When you tap one, it’ll pop open, so you can see what’s inside. The app gives you the convenience and speed of widgets—you don’t need to launch the full app just to see your latest tweets or check the weather—without the performance hit.

Download: Popup Widget ($1.99)

3. Notes

Despite the name, Notes is more than a simple note-taking app for Android. It does something so obvious that you’ll wonder why it isn’t built into Android by default—it puts notes directly into your notifications panel as reminders.

It couldn’t be easier to use. Create notes as you normally would, then mark the important ones as pinned. Your pinned notes automatically appear as notifications. You can’t set alarms for them, although you can snooze notifications on Android, they just sit there until you no longer need them.

Need to remember to buy milk or pay that bill? Create a notification note and you’ll see a reminder every time you pick up your phone.

Download: Notes (Free)

4. MacroDroid

Many of the coolest Android apps take the tedium out of the common tasks you perform every day by taking care of them automatically for you.

MacroDroid is similar to the popular Android automation app Tasker. But using Tasker effectively for more complex tasks has an incredibly steep learning curve, and MacroDroid is an app you can install and start using instantly.

The app needs you to configure as few as two settings—just an action that will be prompted by a trigger. So plugging in your headphones could be the trigger, and the corresponding actions could be the automatic launch of the Spotify app and adjustment of the volume level.

Or you could have your phone switch to Airplane mode (the action) at night (the trigger). You could also tell it to read your text messages aloud when your phone’s in a car dock.

You can add optional constraints to fine-tune the conditions under which your macro can run. This gives the app even more power, and your macros can be as simple or as complex as you need them to be.

Download: MacroDroid (Free, in-app purchases available)

5. Quick Settings

Android is great for multitasking, but it can get fiddly when you’re juggling lots of apps, or simply want to change a setting without exiting the app you’re currently using. Quick Settings helps fix this problem by letting you put a whole range of extra shortcuts into your Quick Settings panel at the top of your screen.

It lets you add shortcuts to built-in features, such as to switch into split-screen mode or quickly access the camera; you can add tiles for any app (we found it especially useful for two-factor authentication apps); and much more, from media controls to features for rooted phones.

Just enable the tiles you want, then edit the Quick Settings panel to add them, and you’re good to go.

Download: Quick Settings (Free, in-app purchases available)