Best Apps for Android Smartphone (2017)

Top 7 best apps for Galaxy S8

Pocket Sense
Download link: https://goo.gl/N0i1lv

Often you’ll find yourself in a position where you plug your phone into a public charger or leave your phone unattended at your work desk worried that someone might pick it up. Protect your phone from theft and from being in the wrong hands. No need to find your phone anymore because you would never lose it.

Pocket sense is an app that you can enable whenever you are about to enter a situation like this. For e.g. when you are about to use public transport or when you are in a crowded place or charging your phone at a party or in a public charging booth unattended. Or even if you have just kept it somewhere and it is moved by someone – you can actually fire off a police siren at high volume to scare the overly confident thief and save yourself the pain of being robbed!

You can set the sensitivity of this movement as well introduce a delay after which the siren should sound. Otherwise, it might just fire off the alarm if in case you are the one picking your own phone out of the pocket and that’s just embarrassing.

Privacy Screen Guard

Download link: https://goo.gl/W72dKp

It looks like I’m really in the mood to save some people from other people! Privacy screen guard allows you to guard your screen against people who lurk and snoop too much into your phone to see what you’re doing or who you are messaging or what you’re watching or what you’re typing. This really does happen in India a lot.

This app lets you hide or rather block areas of your screen as and how you want it except a small part of the screen which you need to be visible to you.

Sublime Stills
Download link: https://goo.gl/SgpAzp

After a long time, I’ve come across a wallpaper app that really has a beautiful collection of wallpapers that I’m gladly using on my Galaxy S8. As you can see, the wallpapers in this app are beautiful and all of them are high resolution. So whether you have a Full HD display or a 2K display, wallpapers beautifully adapt without blurring and pixelating, which is what I’ve been looking for a long time.

Tholotis
Download link: https://goo.gl/OsxDJj

Talking about any wallpaper app would now be incomplete without talking about Tholotis. An extremely simple app that lets you blur the background & dim it a bit to make it less busy and more subtle. Some wallpapers are loud and have too many elements making it impossible sometimes for you to see what’s on the screen. That’s when you use Tholotis to manually set the blur and the brightness of the wallpaper and apply it.

Cursor Control
Download link: https://goo.gl/NzNalr

Cursor control is a life savior app. It lets you use your volume rocker to move the cursor one letter at a time. It saves you time and a lot of frustration.

The best thing is that you can set the apps for which you want the volume rocker to function as a cursor control button. You do lose the control over volume functions in those apps. But that’s alright I guess because you don’t really go on changing volume all the time. Also, in the free version, you can only do this for 8 apps at the most and you’d have to buy the complete app if you want cursor control over all apps.

Look Up
Download link: https://goo.gl/QTp3xE

It’s a simple app that gives you instant definition of any word that you encounter on any app across your device as long as the text is selectable. This feature is so useful, so simple and so obvious that I now wonder why manufacturers don’t already include it. I remember that Samsung Galaxy Note 5 had this feature of looking up the dictionary when you highlighted a certain word using the S Pen, but what’s with this not being a default native features.

Rewards
Download link: https://goo.gl/CLmCNH

I talk about a lot of apps and some of them might cost you something. While apps don’t cost a lot, we do think twice before buying them for some reason. So here’s a way to earn some free dollars to spend on the play store.

The Google Rewards app is a simple app that pays you every time you take a survey. I installed the app and received a small 5 question survey the next day. I finished the survey in less than a minute and received a dollar for it.


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