The best Android apps to download in 2018

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There's never been a better time to get into Android apps, as the Google Play store has exploded in recent years, with a proliferation of
titles that can cater to your every need.The problem is: there are just too many of them, even with Editors' Choice, Featured and Best
Selling, Top Paid and Top Free categories there to help.You can filter, see Google's lists or read the reviews - but the easiest (and best)
way to find top quality apps is to have someone else do the searching for you.That's where we come in
Like you, we want the best apps for our Android phones
The apps that are going to revolutionize functionality or, at the very least, offer something so great that it becomes one of the must-have
apps that has to be downloaded whenever you get a new handset.The following apps will be constantly updated and are a mixture of paid and
free ones that have been chosen by our Android experts
Click through to the following pages for those or check out the best Android apps of the week below.Best Android apps of the weekThese are
the two apps that we've chosen to highlight each week
They're usually new apps or apps that have recently received a major update, but occasionally hidden gems and other essentials will also be
helps by freeing up RAM, which it can do on-demand or when specific games are launched.You can also set RAM and Game Booster to free up RAM
what for.Our only real issue with App Usage Tracker is that in our tests the app seemed surprisingly sluggish, but that could be an issue
with our device or a quirk that will be fixed in an update.The best Android camera apps and photo editorsOur favorite Android apps for
text as a watermark (including changing the font, size and color), you can also use your signature (or any other hand-written text) as a
just lets you go wild on your images with a digital paintbrush)
Whether you want to protect your photo or just log when and where it was taken, there should be a tool here to suit.Photo Watermark is free,
motion to happen.This can be an effective way to make it look like water or smoke is moving for example, or simply to add a slightly trippy
evidenced by all the impressive public submissions shared on the app
The best ones will be featured on the home page and competition page of the app.You can use StoryZ for free, but if you find that you have
increases the allowable length of videos in Motion mode, improves the toolset in Ripple mode and lets you save and share in high
stickers and other overlays, alter and trim videos frame-by-frame, adjust the speed, add transition effects and a whole lot more
You can also record videos straight from the KineMaster app
It can feel a little cramped on a phone screen, but otherwise everything works well.You can use KineMaster for free, but all your videos
To remove the watermarks, allow commercial use and unlock additional assets (such as effects and overlays) you have to pay a subscription,
strike, and few manage
exposure compensation and focus
You can double tap any setting to return it to auto or double tap the viewfinder to turn everything back to auto and all the controls are
long-form video content
Rather than the one-minute videos of old, you can now make and watch videos up to an hour in length
Videos are in full-screen portrait format, which is unusual for longer content, but makes it easy to hold your phone while watching.If you
already have an Instagram account you can simply sign in to instantly see content from people and brands that you already follow
You can also like and comment on videos, view popular ones and browse and search for content beyond the stuff that the app already
way of photo editing tools
previously taken, as well as adding filters and effects, which you can adjust the strength of and apply to all or just part of an image.You
can also add text, stickers, frames, change the perspective, mirror the image, cut sections and a whole lot more.There are lots of tools,
the app
US$3.70) per month, with discounts if you commit for three months or a year
gimmicky effects and photo filters, Lens Distortions has a selection of natural, true to life ones that look like they could have been
captured by the camera itself.These include sunlight, rain, snow and fog effects, so tend to be most suited to outdoor shots, but they look
brightness, saturation, contrast and more, and add extra layers so you can apply more than one filter at a time.The interface is slick and
intuitive, and your edited photos can be saved to your phone or shared with various social media and cloud storage apps.You get 40 filters
Lens Distortions a lot
for Android then LightX Photo Editor is a good choice, not least because most of the features are free.You can merge photos, add effects and
filters, selectively apply colors to regions of an image, adjust the color balance, smooth and sharpen images, crop them, rotate them, draw
all the relevant options.Most of it is fairly self-explanatory, but there are also tutorial videos for if you get stuck, and for a one-off
Photo LabFree + IAP8Bit Photo Lab is a photo filter app that takes you back to simpler times
and pick a color palette from over 50 options, such as Game Boy or Commodore 64
also add effects such as noise and checkerboard patterns, change the resolution and aspect ratio, tweak the contrast, saturation and
example, and while you get plenty for free, you can unlock lots of extra options with an IAP, including the ability to turn your creations
additions, be it people in the background, a trash can in your landscape or blemishes on your own face.TouchRetouch is here to help, by
You can get rid of unwanted objects by highlighting or circling them, and simply tap a blemish to remove it.There are additional tools to
perspective of a photo in the way SKRWT does.There are no stickers here, no makeup modes and no real effects
Instead there are tools to shift the perspective, change the ratio and correct lens distortion.You can also flip, rotate, mirror and crop
images, but SKRWT isn't interested so much in modifying photos in unnatural ways, as in making them look exactly as you envisioned when you
took them.It's a professional tool, but it's easy to use and you can always undo your changes if you don't like
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