Best Android Apps & Games — Page 5
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
Deus Ex GO
Puzzle gameDeus Ex GO compresses a sprawling immersive sim into a tight, clean turn-based puzzle game, and it keeps more of the series' identity than expected. T...Good7.2Musicolet
Music appFor playing local files on Android, few apps match Musicolet. It has no ads and no internet permission, and its multiple-queue system is something...Great8.6Wikiloc
Navigation appWikiloc has one of the largest crowdsourced trail libraries anywhere, and its free tier with offline maps is useful on its own. But the features that ...Good7.2Kanji Study
Education appKanji Study is a serious, well-built kanji trainer for Android, with real stroke checking, a working SRS and an ad-free free tier that one purchase un...Great8.7Rusty Lake Hotel
Adventure gameRusty Lake Hotel is a short, macabre point-and-click puzzler whose mood carries it through a few stretches of bad logic. At its price it's a solid way...Good7.5Hitman GO
Puzzle gameSquare Enix Montréal took a sprawling stealth-action series, kept only its logic, and ended up with a smart, distinctive puzzle game. It's short, and ...Good7.8Dolphin Emulator
Arcade appDolphin on Android is the only credible way to play GameCube and Wii games on a phone, and on flagship hardware it can feel close to the real thing. O...Good7.1Mapy.com
Navigation appMapy.com is a genuinely strong outdoor map app, with trail cartography and a multi-sport route planner that put it ahead of Google and Apple for anyth...Good7.3
Mekorama
Puzzle gameMekorama is a smart, generous pocket puzzler that earns its recommendation: tiny rotating dioramas, honest physics, and a level editor that stretches ...Great8.5Seeing AI
Productivity appSeeing AI is a free toolkit, built with blind and low-vision users, that reads, identifies and describes the physical world with unusual range. Settin...Good7.6Olio
Food & Drink appOlio's usefulness hinges entirely on how many neighbors already post, and in a quiet area the sign-up wall and paid map search mean you commit before ...Mixed6.5Race for the Galaxy
Board gameTemple Gates Games' adaptation of Tom Lehmann's dense, brilliant card game is a close, rules-exact conversion built around a neural-network AI that gi...Great8.0Retro Bowl
Simulation gameRetro Bowl pairs a one-gesture passing game with a front-office sim that actually bites, and hands over both for free. Its refusal to let you play def...Good7.7El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Adventure gameEl Hijo – A Wild West Tale is a charming, low-stakes stealth adventure that's more affectionate pastiche than genre breakthrough — and at $19.99, it...Mixed5.9The Wreck
Adventure gameFew narrative games make reinterpreting a memory the central verb, and The Wreck builds its whole design around that idea. It's a solid, affecting t...Good7.0Excalidraw
Design appExcalidraw is a study in deliberate restraint — a free, encrypted, no-account diagramming tool that trades Lucidchart's feature bloat for a canvas tha...Good7.6Jenny LeClue – Detectivú
Action gameMografi's meta-fictional detective adventure is a charming and structurally ambitious story game with real writing chops — even if its audio engineeri...Good7.1Sky Force Reloaded
Action gameSky Force Reloaded is a gorgeous, content-dense vertical shooter with a well-built upgrade loop, held back by a star grind that gates progression in w...Good7.8Trivio
Business appTrivio is a niche business-travel manager whose real feature isn't booking — it's the 1C accounting integration that removes the double-entry drud...Mixed6.0Karateka Classic
Action gameKarateka Classic is a piece of playable history — a restored 1984 artifact whose brutal, single-blow combat is exactly as clunky and exactly as influe...Good7.7Phantom Rose
Adventure gameBy deleting random card draws entirely, solo developer makaroll's Phantom Rose rebuilds deckbuilding around sequencing, planning, and accountability...Good7.5Wordle
Puzzle gameRestraint is still Wordle's defining trait, and The New York Times has mostly had the sense not to touch the puzzle itself. The app around it is a sub...Good7.7Daylio
Health & Fitness appDaylio is a wellness app built around a simple bet: the enemy of journaling is friction, not motivation. Its two-tap logging loop is well designed and...Good7.1Endless Alphabet
Education appEndless Alphabet is a charming early-learning app built on a simple drag-to-spell loop and monster animations that teach. It's really a vocabulary app...Good7.2
