Best Apps for Smartphones
The 15 most useful apps for Android smartphones, free, multipurpose, for everyone
The smartphone is a multifunctional tool that we use every day to make phone calls, send SMS, check Facebook, use the GPS navigator, surf the internet. In addition to these that we can call basic activities, there are many other applications that can be more or less useful depending on the person and personal preferences. Among these, we see in this list 10 apps that are really useful to everyone because they make the system smarter and because they perform essential and fundamental tasks, so much so that after installing them we think how we could have been without until now.
1) Google Authenticator
This is an app that should be pre-installed in every smartphone, which allows you to activate double password verification on supported sites. Basically, to access Gmail or Facebook, in addition to the login password, the code generated by Google Authenticator is required, which changes automatically every 30 seconds. In this way, even if someone knows our password or if we keep it stored on a friend’s PC or on a public PC, they will not be able to access our account without having our smartphone with Authenticator installed.
2) Files Go by Google
This application provided by Google has immediately become one of the most useful for every Android smartphone because, in addition to offering all the standard file management functions, it also includes automatic tools to remove obsolete files, bad photos received in Whatsapp groups, duplicate files and also for get advice on uninstalling or deleting data from apps that are never used. Files Go also has a sharing utility to send large files to other Android devices on the network.
3) TrueCaller
With this application installed you can do two important and useful things: automatically detect and avoid advertising calls from call centers and also recognize who is calling if the number is unknown .
4) PushBullet
Those who work with the computer all day can check all the notifications of the Android smartphone directly on the PC thanks to this fantastic and very useful application. In this way you can receive and read SMS and Whatsapp messages on your PC and you can remove uninteresting notifications without wasting time picking up the phone.
Pushbullet is also convenient for transferring files from mobile to PC and vice versa. While it has recently been a bit limited in its free version, it remains a great app to have absolutely.
5) Google Drive
This should be an app that everyone knows, which allows you to save files online, which also includes tools for opening and creating Office files. Google Drive is also a great app for transferring files from PC to phone and vice versa. Moreover, thanks to Google Drive it is possible, by pressing on the + clearly visible on the main screen, to scan any document with the mobile phone camera and transform it into PDF automatically. Google Drive is also a handy app, for example, to save a flight ticket without having to print it, then showing the mobile screen at check-in.
6) Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock
AMDroid is a smart alarm clock where you can create profiles for different types of situations and days, with individual settings configurations. For example, on weekdays, you can set a post-alarm confirmation to make sure you haven’t accidentally tapped the button to stop it instead of the button to snooze the alarm. You can also activate functions automatically, such as the flashlight or Wi-Fi, set challenges such as math problems to be able to deactivate it and then even display an alarm screen with the weather. AMDroid also has the pre-alarm function, to wake up gradually and gently with customized intervals and volumes. Then there are also sleep monitoring and statistics on habits.
7) Opera Touch is the Most Modern Android Browser Currently.
This is an ideal browser for those who have difficulty navigating on large-screen phones, with a single management and navigation button that can be positioned wherever you want and thanks to the gestures that allow you to slide your finger in various directions to switch to another card, reload, search. Opera Touch also has the ability to synchronize visited sites between Opera browser on PC and Opera on Android.
8) Google Photos
This application we point out now in almost every list of the best applications for Android because it is really useful and indispensable. Its most useful function is to save photos online and automatically free up space in the mobile memory when it is about to run out. It therefore becomes impossible to lose the photos that remain visible on the mobile phone when connected to the internet and even if the smartphone should break.
9) Drupa (Telephone and Contacts)
Drupa is one of the best applications to manage the address book and change the telephone keypad. The app offers a scrolling user interface that makes it easy to select a contact to send him a message or to call him even while recording the phone call.
10) Waze
As a navigator, almost all of us use Google Maps on Android which now works even offline without an internet connection. Waze, on the other hand, is useful in a different way and, as explained in another article, it is the perfect app to use in the car to get to every place first.
Thanks to its precise indications on traffic and any accidents, roadblocks or work in progress, Waze becomes the ideal travel companion to be used every morning to go to work and every evening to go home.
11) Telegram
While everyone uses Whatsapp to text with friends, Telegram offers so many accessory functions that it becomes very useful for other purposes, even without the need to use it to chat. It is therefore possible to use Telegram as a key archive for temporary files, as a tool to transfer large files with other people, to create supergroups, to follow blogs and news.
12) Elixir Widget
While every Android phone has a button panel of switches in the notification bar, with Elixir you can create a bar of custom buttons directly on the main screen, useful for launching any function of the phone quickly (for example to activate wifi, bluetooth, plane, synchronization, etc.).
13) Google Keep
A notes application is essential on your phone and Keep is not only easy and immediate in the interaction of notes, but is also capable of synchronizing them to the cloud.
14) Remote control Mi
If you lose the remote control at home, to change the channel on the TV you can use your Android smartphone with this application which supports practically any TV or device with a remote control, even air conditioners and audio systems. It is also convenient for changing channels on any TV, even at a friend’s house or in a bar. Obviously, to work, the smartphone must be equipped with an infrared sensor (many have it by now).
15) SwiftKey
Gboard is today the most configurable keyboard app with more options, but SwiftKey offers some very important useful features, such as automatically translating messages into other languages and synchronizing typing suggestions even with the Windows 10 PC.