Best Android Apps & Games — Page 3
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
Jitsi Meet
Social appJitsi Meet is a rare communication tool that prioritizes the user's right to exist online without a tracking ID, offering a friction-free, open-source...Great8.0Pixelfed
Photo & Video appPixelfed is a genuinely refreshing departure from the algorithmic rot of mainstream social media, but its mobile apps are rough enough that most peopl...Mixed6.7Slowly
Social appSlowly is a smart, deliberate experiment in intentional friction, built on the idea that waiting for a digital letter can be more rewarding than the p...Great8.7Briar
Social appBriar is an uncompromising, decentralized fortress for communication that trades nearly every modern convenience for digital sovereignty. It is less a...Great8.0Vivaldi Browser
Social appVivaldi is a full productivity suite that treats the mobile web with unusual seriousness, and it makes mainstream competitors look underpowered by com...Great8.7Beeper
Social appBeeper is an ambitious attempt to fix the fragmented state of modern messaging, and its design gets a lot right — but its reliance on unofficial bridg...Good7.1Lemmy
News appLemmy is a defiant, decentralized answer to the corporate capture of social media, offering a raw but rewarding return to community-driven discourse w...Great8.3SimpleX Chat
Social appIf Signal is a vault, SimpleX is a ghost. By entirely severing the link between your identity and your data, it demands a steep usability tax to deliv...Outstanding9.4
Zulip
Productivity appZulip is the thinking person's communication tool, trading the chaotic firehose of modern chat for a structured, topic-based architecture that respect...Great8.4Bluesky
Social appBluesky is a rare structural rebellion that doesn't forget to be a functional product — a genuinely well-designed decentralized network without the us...Great8.7Element
Social appElement X is a solid but incomplete step forward for the Matrix ecosystem, trading long-standing features for a faster, cleaner client. It's worth a l...Good7.3Firefox
Productivity appFirefox remains the web's most principled alternative, built around privacy and open standards rather than data collection. It is a solid, worthwhile ...Good7.5Brave Browser
Social appBrave Browser stakes its claim on privacy and speed, leveraging its Chromium base to deliver a solid browsing experience augmented by an ambitious sui...Good7.7Tuta (formerly Tutanota)
Social appTuta, the platform formerly known as Tutanota, is a serious, privacy-first communication suite built around end-to-end encryption and user anonymity. ...Great8.5Keybase
Social appKeybase delivers strong cryptographic security and a rich suite of privacy features, from identity proofs to encrypted file storage. But its post-acqu...Good7.5Proton Mail
Business appProton Mail delivers on its core promise of email privacy and security, and its encryption architecture remains the strongest argument for it. The mob...Good7.2Letterboxd
Social appFor logging, ranking and arguing about films on a phone, Letterboxd is hard to beat, and its community is the real product. Android users get a roughe...Great8.3Quora
News appQuora is a vast, often-fascinating repository of human curiosity, but inconsistent quality control and a user experience that struggles to separate si...Mixed6.4Meetup
Lifestyle appMeetup remains a useful, if creaky, bridge between online interests and offline life. It does a solid job of facilitating real-world community, but a ...Good7.0Twitch: Live Game Streaming
Photo & Video appTwitch remains the dominant force in live streaming, a chaotic but essential platform where community and content collide. It's the closest thing to a...Good7.4Nextdoor: Neighborhood Network
Lifestyle appNextdoor promises a digital town square but often delivers a digital battleground. Its utility for practical neighborhood logistics is real, yet incon...Mixed6.2BeReal. Your Friends for Real
Photo & Video appBeReal is a sharp critique of performative social media, but its rigid once-a-day concept struggles to hold attention, and its fate rests entirely on ...Mixed5.9Mastodon
News appMastodon delivers on its promise of a decentralized, user-controlled social network, but its philosophical strengths create real onboarding friction t...Good7.4Tumblr
Lifestyle appTumblr remains the internet's untamed, hyper-niche playground, but its dated design, weak discovery tools, and moderation concerns make it hard to rec...Mixed6.3
