Best Android Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 138
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
Featured on Best Android Apps & Games
Dobudex
Education gameLimited free scans, rarity tied to scan counts and card stats with no use make Dobudex hard to recommend beyond casual family walks. The Dex, offline ...Mixed5.9Stall Catchers
Education appA worthwhile research tool wrapped in a repetitive loop and a long-neglected Android app, Stall Catchers is hard to recommend for most people. The bro...Mixed6.4Wanderful: Orbital construction pick — Juno: New Origins
Education gameJuno: New Origins gives phone players a real aerospace sandbox — engine tuning, visual scripting and orbital planning in one package — but a cramped t...Good7.2SkyView / Stellarium Mobile alternative: Stellarium Web
Education appStellarium Mobile earns its place through catalog depth and a scientifically grounded sky simulation, but the features that make it a planning tool si...Good7.5Eterna
Education appA login failure, blank screens and browser hand-offs undercut a free RNA-design game whose best answers really do reach a wet lab. The research premis...Mixed6.6Cell 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...Good7.1Epic: 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...Good7.3
Teach 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...Good7.8Pok 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 ...Good7.8Solar System Scope
Education appA polished, data-grounded astronomy model that makes orbital mechanics easy to see, though ads, a paid texture unlock and a shallow reference layer ke...Good7.5Stack the States
Education appStack the States hides a flash-card drill inside a physics puzzle that is genuinely fun, and the design still works. It is a clean, ad-free, privacy-r...Good7.6Functional Ear Trainer
Education appFunctional Ear Trainer rejects the interval-drilling model most ear-training apps use and replaces it with something far more useful: hearing every no...Great8.3Hexologic
Education gameHexologic takes a familiar number-sum rule and gets real depth out of it by moving it to a hexagonal grid, and it does so with unusual restraint. It's...Good7.6Kanji 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...Great8.7Endless 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...Good7.2Medito
Education appMedito offers most of what Calm and Headspace charge for: guided sessions, structured courses, sleep content and a proper timer, with no paywall, no a...Great8.4Tinkercad
Education appTinkercad's shape-and-hole approach remains one of the best introductions to 3D design, but flaky sign-ins, buggy dimension entry and a cramped Androi...Mixed6.5Kolibri
Education appFor schools that must teach without a connection, Kolibri is a serious and unusually complete answer — solid but unremarkable as a consumer Android ap...Good7.9Bloomberg Connects
Education appBloomberg Connects replaces the $8 rental audio guide with a free, ad-free app covering more than a thousand institutions, and its accessibility work ...Good7.4TimeGuessr
Education gameTimeGuessr's two-axis deduction — where and when — is a genuinely smart twist on the GeoGuessr formula, but the app around it is a thin shell: no po...Mixed6.7Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
Adventure appThirty years on, Zoombinis remains one of the sharpest pieces of educational software ever shipped to consumers — a set-theory course wearing a blue r...Great8.6italki
Education appitalki solved the hardest problem in language learning — putting a real human on the other end of the call, cheaply, in 150+ languages — and then wrap...Good7.3Chessable
Board appChessable is a highly effective structured chess study tool, and we recommend it with real reservations. Its spaced-repetition engine and grandmaster-...Great8.0
