Best Android Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 17
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
wanderer
Navigation appOwnership decides this one: a free, federated trail catalogue that keeps every track on a server the user controls, paired with an Android beta that r...Good7.2CoMaps
Navigation appCoMaps is a principled navigation app: frugal, fully offline, and run by a community instead of an ad business. It asks you to plan ahead, and power u...Good7.1Wanderlog
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...Good7.8MarineTraffic
Navigation appMarineTraffic remains the most complete way to see the world's shipping from a phone, and its near-shore tracking is excellent. But the developer keep...Mixed6.5Transit
Navigation appTransit gets a rider from "I need to leave" to "I'm on the right bus" faster than anything else in the category. It opens straight to what matters, an...Great8.2Wikiloc
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 ...Good7.2Mapy.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...Good7.3PeakFinder
Navigation appNaming the mountain in front of you, offline and without a subscription, is the whole job here, and PeakFinder does it with a precision that earns its...Great8.2
Google Maps
Food & Drink appGoogle Maps is the most complete navigation and local discovery tool available, and it isn't close. Its real rivals are its own bloat, its appetite fo...Great8.9Waze
Navigation appWaze remains the sharpest tool for beating traffic in real time, powered by a famously loyal community — but it demands battery, data, and a tolerance...Good7.4Gaia GPS
Navigation appGaia GPS is one of the most serious backcountry navigation apps available, with a depth of map data that rivals dedicated GPS hardware costing far mor...Good7.4Citymapper
Navigation appCitymapper is a sharply focused transit app that goes deeper than the big mapping platforms—if you live in one of the cities it covers. Outside the me...Good7.6Organic Maps
Navigation appOrganic Maps is a lean, principled navigation utility that trades live traffic and business data for a fully offline, zero-telemetry experience. It is...Great8.7OsmAnd
Navigation appOsmAnd is a brutal, brilliant, and uncompromising mapping powerhouse that trades mainstream polish for deep offline capability and privacy. It is a st...Great8.3Flightradar24
Navigation appFlightradar24 remains the most dependable aviation tracker available, turning raw ADS-B telemetry into an interactive window into the global sky. It i...Great8.5Geocaching
Health & Fitness gameGroundspeak's official app is the essential, if sometimes uninspired, digital key to the world's largest treasure hunt. It turns a smartphone into a m...Good7.1Google Earth
Navigation appWe recommend Google Earth for guided classroom use: it is a free, deep atlas with strong spatial context and curated tours. Its open-ended links and l...Great8.5
