Most Useful Apps for Android in 2020

by Peter Anderson Writer

Google Play Store is loaded with millions of apps ranging from editor’s choice to top-free to top-grossing. The apps are organized, categorized, and recommended as per your interest. There are a lot of unknown apps that might change your Android experience completely. Some of these apps have a powerful user interface, and some are popular for their graphics, while others help increase your productivity. Here are some of our top picks:

Super Status Bar

It is a customizable app that gives you control over gestures, notification preview, and other controls on your mobile. You can choose some styles like iOS 14 status bar, MIUI 12, and Android 11. You can add easy gestures on your status bar to perform custom actions, including long press, swipe in any direction, tap, and double-tap. It will automatically detect the song playing on your device. You can swipe along the status bar to change your music volume without touching the volume keys. You can also customize your battery bar.

Nova Launcher

It is one of the highly-rated gesture control, customizable, and versatile home screen replacement apps. It brings you all the latest features related to themes, page effects, app drawer, subgrid positioning, backup, restore, and more. It comes with default settings, but you can also customize them as per your requirements. You can assign swipe gestures on the home screen and folders for customizing your actions. Most of its tools and features are available for free, but you can subscribe to Nova Launcher Prime for $4 to get additional controls.

MacroDroid

This is the most highly-rated device automation app. It will let you optimize your daily workflow on your phone, reduces battery drainage, and saves roaming costs. It offers additional security to your device when you are traveling by reading your incoming notifications using the Text to Speech feature and sending automated responses on Email and SMS. You can also use it to configure constraints as it offers 50 types of constraints. Use it with locale and task plugins to expand the range of possibilities.

IFTTT

This is the productivity app that will help you connect your favorite apps, services, and devices at the same time to boost your workflow speed. You can connect it with over 600 apps on an Android device. It will provide you with control over everything using your voice and Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. It will always keep you updated and prepared by sending you custom notifications and news updates. You can rely on the app for security as it uses an automated and intelligent home security alert. Connect this app with your home, office, Android devices, news, politics, social media, and much more. It will help you backup all your important files automatically to cloud storage.

Mighty Text

Using this app, you can connect your Android phone with your Mac, PC, or tablet to get all your SMS and MMS. It has been awarded as Time Magazine’s ‘Best 50 Android Apps.’ It will save you time as you won’t have to go back and forth between your computer and mobile to check the notifications. It will show you the caller ID of incoming phone calls as well. Like phones, you can turn off the incoming message notifications on your desktop during any video conference meeting session. You can send messages up to 25 contacts at a time.

Sesame

It is a very powerful Universal Search App for Android mobile. It will integrate with your launcher and analyze your actions to create personalized shortcuts. It brings more than a hundred shortcuts to your device that is fully customizable. Shortcuts for Quick Search, Google Shortcuts, Settings, WhatsApp, and Contacts are preloaded on this app. Using the Google Auto-Suggestions, you can search multiple apps on it with one or two taps only. Its API integrates with Spotify, YouTube, Slack, Reddit, Calendar, Telegram, and more. A Universal search UI will fix all your problems.

These were some of the apps that will help you make the most out of your Android mobile. This app will save you time and will increase your productivity.

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