Best Android Apps & Games — Page 3
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 896
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
Underground Blossom
Adventure gameUnderground Blossom is a solid, approachable entry in Rusty Lake's catalog. Seven self-contained puzzle rooms linked by a haunted metro line make for ...Good7.7Cookie Clicker
Simulation gameFew games can claim to have founded a genre and still hold their place in it, but Cookie Clicker comes close. It's a lean, funny, surprisingly deep ec...Great8.3Cell to Singularity
Education gameA free idle game that turns the history of life and technology into a progression worth following, though the late game settles into the same reset gr...Good7.3BirdNET
Education appBirdNET is a serious scientific tool, and it shows. It identifies common birds by ear, costs nothing, shows no ads and every recording feeds real cons...Good7.1Zwift
Health & Fitness appFor staying sane through indoor training, Zwift's social structure and races do more than any interval plan alone, and that earns it a recommendation ...Good7.5Bumble For Friends
Social appBumble For Friends keeps the dating app's swipe-and-match loop, puts its most useful tools behind a paywall, and has become a side branch now that Bum...Mixed6.1Twofold Inc.
Puzzle gameTwofold Inc. takes the familiar color-matching puzzle and turns it into a game about planning ahead — no timers, no ads, no filler. It is a smart $3.9...Good7.8Desert Golfing
Sports gameDesert Golfing strips away nearly everything a modern mobile game piles on and leaves one shot, one hole and one stroke counter that can never be rese...Great8.1
Literal
Books appA thoughtfully designed Goodreads alternative with a genuinely useful highlights archive — held back by a patchy book database and a small community. ...Good7.2Couchsurfing
Lifestyle appCouchsurfing still offers something no booking engine can: a stranger's spare room and a local's view of the city. But the paywall, a shrinking pool o...Mixed6.1Epic: Kids' Books & Reading
Books appEpic is one of the best-stocked children's reading apps on a phone or tablet, and its narrated read-alongs and offline library make it a solid pick fo...Good7.3Fishbrain
Social appFishbrain is the fullest social network built around fishing, and its crowd-sourced maps and forecasts can cut down the guesswork. But its best intell...Good7.4Teach Your Monster to Read
Adventure appA serious synthetic phonics curriculum wrapped in a charming adventure game, with no ads and no in-app purchases. It respects both the child and the p...Good7.8Niagara Launcher
Lifestyle appNiagara Launcher throws out the icon grid and replaces it with a one-thumb list built to be calmer and quicker to navigate than the stock layout. The ...Good7.4Adobe Lightroom
Design appLightroom remains one of the most capable photo editors available on a phone, with AI tools that target real drudgery and manual controls that reward ...Good7.3Pok Pok
Education appCalm, clever and built without hooks, Pok Pok is a solid pick for the right family. The subscription price and a ceiling for older kids are what hold ...Good7.8Out There: Ω Edition
Adventure gameOut There: Ω Edition is a bleak, well-written survival roguelike whose blunt randomness, opaque endgame and thin onboarding make it hard to recommend ...Mixed6.7Musicboard
Music appFor logging, rating and arguing about albums, Musicboard is a strong take on the "Letterboxd for music" formula, with a real community of listeners wr...Good7.1Kids
Adventure gameKids is a 20-minute interactive short about crowds, priced like one at $3.99, and it will disappoint anyone expecting a conventional game. The animati...Mixed6.3Leo's Fortune
Action gameLeo's Fortune is a beautifully made physics platformer that holds up better than most of its 2014 mobile peers: tightly tuned, complete, and free of m...Good7.7Fallout Shelter
RPG gameFallout Shelter's early hours are a sharp, funny management sim, but the vault eventually runs itself and the game turns into timer-watching and chore...Mixed6.8Wheels of Aurelia
Adventure gameWheels of Aurelia is a stylish, politically ambitious piece of interactive fiction set on a 1978 coastal road, but the car barely matters and the piec...Mixed5.8Wanderlog
Navigation appFor a free itinerary planner, Wanderlog covers an unusual amount of ground: map-linked days, real-time group editing, email-based booking import and c...Good7.8Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty!
Action gameJust Add Water's remake of Abe's Oddysee keeps the satire of industrial greed landing as hard as it did in 1997, and quicksave finally makes the game ...Good7.3
