Best Android Apps & Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 85
Top rated on Android
- 01Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a relic of the 16-bit era that still works: its narrative economy and mechanical elegance remain the…9.7Outstanding
- 02The StoryGraphThe StoryGraph is a sophisticated analytical mirror for your reading life and one of the very best apps in its category…9.7Outstanding
- 03Khan Academy KidsKhan Academy Kids delivers a shockingly robust, genuinely educational, and completely free early learning suite that se…9.7Outstanding
Glass
Photo & Video appGlass is a rare social app built on subtraction rather than addiction, offering a calm, craft-first place to look at photographs — but the $39.99-a-ye...Good7.6Micro.blog
Photo & Video appMicro.blog trades likes, follower counts, and algorithmic feeds for a real website you actually own, and charges honestly for the privilege. The iOS a...Good7.6Are.na
Productivity appAre.na is the rare social platform that respects your attention instead of strip-mining it, and the recent mobile rebuild finally gives it an app wort...Great8.5SoundCloud
Music appSoundCloud remains the internet's most distinctive pipeline for hearing tomorrow's artists today — a user-uploaded wilderness no algorithm-polished co...Good7.7Fastmail
Productivity appFastmail's mobile app is a well-built, privacy-respecting email client that asks a fair price for the radical act of not selling you out—but it's a po...Good7.7IRCCloud
Business appIRCCloud wraps IRC's raw text firehose in a modern, always-on client that never sleeps — a genuinely thoughtful take on a 35-year-old protocol. Just k...Good7.6Co-Star
Lifestyle appA distinctive, sharply written astrology app whose social hooks and daily one-liners carry more weight than its celestial math — a good pick for desig...Good7.8Primal
Social appPrimal is a polished, user-friendly portal into the Nostr protocol, combining censorship-resistant microblogging with a built-in Bitcoin Lightning wal...Great8.4
Airbuds Widget
Music appBy bypassing the main app interface entirely, Airbuds Widget turns the sterile stream of music telemetry into a low-friction social space for close fr...Good7.7SpaceHey
Design appSpaceHey is a sincere, uncompromising time capsule that rejects modern engagement algorithms in favor of raw customizability, though its mobile execut...Good7.1Threema
Social appThreema is a serious, well-built answer to sovereign communication, and its metadata minimization makes a strong case that your phone number should ne...Great8.9Warpcast
News appWarpcast is a strong argument for decentralized social media, trading the "free" price tag of legacy platforms for a high-signal environment that resp...Great8.8ZeroTier
Social appZeroTier effectively erases the physical distance between devices, creating a global local area network that feels like magic—until you try to run it ...Good7.1Retro
Photo & Video appBuilt on deliberate friction, Retro trades the hollow dopamine of public metrics for the quiet satisfaction of actual friendship. It is one of the ver...Outstanding9.0Cara
Social appCara is a defiant, artist-first sanctuary that trades algorithmic polish for ethical purity, proving that "human-made" is the new luxury in a digital ...Outstanding9.3Serializd
Social appSerializd is a thoughtfully designed social tracker for television, offering episode-level granularity and genuine community features that most rivals...Great8.6Thunderbird
Social appThunderbird for Android is a rugged, uncompromising email client that prioritizes user sovereignty over polish, but its bare-bones composition tools a...Mixed6.7Goodreads
Books appA monolithic database trapped in a 2010 design language, Goodreads remains the default town square for bibliophiles largely because its data moat is t...Mixed6.8Revolt
Social appA privacy-first, open-source haven for the digitally displaced, Revolt offers a powerful, customizable escape from the "enshittification" of mainstrea...Good7.5Shortwave
Business appShortwave doesn't just manage your email; it aggressively re-engineers the inbox into a functional task list, with AI that feels designed for real wor...Great8.8Jami
Social appJami is an uncompromising, serverless communication tool that trades the convenience of centralized clouds for near-absolute user privacy. It's a capa...Good7.5Locket Widget
Photo & Video appLocket Widget is a surgical strike against the algorithmic bloat of modern social media, reclaiming the phone's most valuable real estate for actual h...Great8.2Delta Chat
Productivity appDelta Chat is a brilliant act of digital defiance that transforms the aging infrastructure of email into a modern, decentralized fortress for private ...Outstanding9.2ReciMe
Food & Drink appReciMe is a sharp solution to the chaos of modern recipe discovery, effectively turning social media clutter into a structured digital kitchen. It's a...Great8.4
