App developers are
pushing the envelope on a daily basis trying to improve and enhance our
smartphone and tablet experiences. In fact, so many Android apps come out every
day that it’s difficult to keep track of them all. It’s difficult to usurp the
best of the best but if you’re getting bored with what you’ve got and want to
try something new, check out the best new Android
apps from the last
month! You can watch the videos from
past months by clicking here! You can check out our selections for the best new Android apps
from 2019 in the video above!
AppNotifier
is a customization app for Google Play Store notifications. A lot of devices
don’t receive notifications for individual app updates. This app fixes that and
sends notifications for each app update, installation, and even when
side-loaded apps get updates. There are some limitations and it can’t show
notifications for currently installing apps, but it otherwise does as
advertised. The app is also free and an easy way to turn this feature back on
if it’s turned off for you.
Autosync is a cloud storage
management app for most of the big cloud storage clients out there. It supports
Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.com, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, MEGA, and a few
others. The app lets you sync files and folders from those services to your
device (and back again) automatically without any additional input from you.
You can, of course, customize which files and folders to keep synced before it
does it autonomous thing. The app has a 14-day free trial and then it costs
$6.99 per cloud storage service you want to unlock.
Dr.
Seuss’s ABC is an educational app for kids. It pulls heavily from the popular
Dr. Seuss lineup of books for most of its lessons and has many little game
elements as well to keep kids engaged. Its most unique feature is a sandbox AR
mode where kids can place characters in the real world through the camera
viewfinder in the app. It seems to stutter on a few devices, including the Pixel
3 series devices. However, if it does work for you, it’s quite good. Make sure
to check out the app inside of the refund time to make sure it works on your
phone.
Epic
Privacy Browser is a Chromium-based web browser with a few extra privacy and
security features. Some of those features include an integrated ad-block, a
strict no-logging encrypted proxy, tracker protection and prevention, always-on
incognito browsing, and more. In terms of use, it’s a Chromium browser so it
looks and acts a lot like Google Chrome. Thus, it’s not particularly difficult
to learn this one if you have used Chrome before. We also quite like this app’s
ability to encrypt files you download in a dedicated vault for added privacy.
Firefox
Private Network is a simple VPN from, well, the developers of Firefox Browser.
Unfortunately, this app is in a limited-release beta so we didn’t get a chance
to try it out much. However, the developers boast a high ease of use, over 100
servers to choose from in over 30 countries, and no bandwidth restrictions.
We’re curious how Mozilla intends to monetize this one or even if they do.
Nevertheless, this is a new VPN from one of the most trusted names in Internet
browsing so keep it on your radar.
Mi
Browser is a new web browser from Xiaomi. It’s obviously for the company’s own
phones but you can download it on basically Android phone. The app has a bunch
of nice features, including the ability to download videos from social media, a
built-in translation system, a dark mode, a voice search, and a rudimentary
private folder function to hide things you download from other apps. It doesn’t
quite have the functionality of something like Firefox or Chrome, but it’s a
nice mobile-only substitute with some good features if you need them.
Opera
News Lite is a lightweight news app with a bunch of content. Opera boasts an
APK size of less than 1MB and that’s seriously small for an app in 2020.
Additionally, it comes with all of the basics for a news app, including the
ability to personalize the news feed, a selection of over 5,000 sources, push
notifications, and more. The load times are excellent and the app doesn’t have
hardly any UI elements to get in the way of you and the news. It’s honestly
quite good.
Socratic
by Google is actually a re-release of a previously excellent educational app
for both kids and adults. Socratic lets you take a picture of a math problem.
It then shows you the step-by-step guide on solving it, including explanations
so you learn it better for next time. It works best for middle school, high
school, and early collegiate mathematics but you can use it before or after
those time periods as well. Microsoft Math was recently launched and it also
does some neat stuff just like this. Let the battle between Socratic by Google
and Microsoft Math begin.
T-Mobile
SyncUP Pets is a rare add for us on lists like this. It’s obviously only
available for T-Mobile subscribers, but we liked the concept. Basically, you
can get a SyncUP Pets devices from T-Mobile and attach it to your animal’s
collar. You then use the app to track their location from the device. It uses
T-Mobile’s network so as long as T-Mobile has service, the tracker is viewable
on the network. It’s scary when this tech is used on people, but super helpful
when it’s used on pets.
Vimeo
Create is a lightweight video editor specifically for Vimeo creators. The app
includes a lot of the basics, including a host of extras like video templates,
tons of stock photos and video clips, commercially-licensed music, and more.
There is also a smart video editor function to help put everything together.
Here’s the thing, the features are quite nice, but Vimeo does charge for them
eventually. The subscriptions are for Vimeo accounts and not necessarily the
app so it’s a bit weird. In any case, it can be potentially useful if you do
stuff on Vimeo.
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