Best Android Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 34
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
Riverside.fm
Business appLocal recording is the reason to consider Riverside: capturing up to 4K video and 48kHz WAV on each device means a bad connection no longer decides ho...Good7.4Gyroflow
Photo & Video appGyroflow reads how your camera actually moved and cancels that motion with precision, all for free. On iPhone and Android it puts a desktop-class stab...Good7.3Loops
Photo & Video appLoops shows a short-video network can run without ads, surveillance, or engagement traps, and its fediverse plumbing is genuinely clever. What it hasn...Good7.3Adobe 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 ...Good7.3Flickr
Photo & Video appA serious archive and critique community wrapped in a phone app that still leans on the website for its best tools. Worth paying for if you shoot seri...Good7.1Marco Polo
Photo & Video appMarco Polo is built around one good idea — video conversation without the tyranny of the calendar — executed with restraint. It's also an app that has...Good7.8Glass
Photo & Video appGlass is a rare social app built on subtraction rather than addiction, offering a calm, craft-first place to look at photographs — but the $39.99-a-ye...Good7.6Micro.blog
Photo & Video appMicro.blog trades likes, follower counts, and algorithmic feeds for a real website you actually own, and charges honestly for the privilege. The iOS a...Good7.6
VSCO
Lifestyle appVSCO's film-emulation presets and editing tools remain genuinely excellent, but the gutted free tier and an insistent upsell make it hard to recommend...Mixed6.4Prisma
Photo & Video appPrisma still produces some of the most convincing neural-style transformations on mobile, but a bloated 500-filter library and an aggressive paywall h...Mixed6.1Cosmos
Design appCosmos is a beautiful idea executed with restraint — a quiet, ad-free sanctuary for visual creatives that mostly earns its 4.7-star store rating. Its ...Great8.2Alight Motion
Photo & Video appAlight Motion packs real motion-design power into a phone, and nothing else in its class matches its keyframe depth. But a steep learning curve, a wat...Mixed6.9Retro
Photo & Video appBuilt on deliberate friction, Retro trades the hollow dopamine of public metrics for the quiet satisfaction of actual friendship. It is one of the ver...Outstanding9.0Emby
Photo & Video appEmby is a genuinely powerful, server-first media client that respects data ownership, but a paywalled mobile playback model and platform-specific roug...Mixed6.0Snapseed
Lifestyle appSnapseed remains a defiant anomaly in the mobile ecosystem: a professional-grade, non-destructive darkroom that costs nothing and asks for even less. ...Outstanding9.1Locket Widget
Photo & Video appLocket Widget is a surgical strike against the algorithmic bloat of modern social media, reclaiming the phone's most valuable real estate for actual h...Great8.2Pixelfed
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...Mixed6.7Seek by iNaturalist
Education appSeek by iNaturalist strips citizen science down to its most friction-free form: a privacy-first, free identification tool that turns a walk outside in...Outstanding9.4LumaFusion
Music appLumaFusion is the definitive proof that mobile devices are no longer just for content consumption; it is a surgical, professional-grade video editor t...Outstanding9.4Immich
Photo & Video appImmich is a credible, privacy-first alternative to Google Photos, with a polished native app and genuinely local AI search—provided you're willing to ...Great8.8CapCut
Photo & Video appCapCut packs desktop-class editing tools into a free mobile app, but an aggressive "Pro" paywall, performance friction on the free tier, and thin pare...Mixed6.7VLC Media Player
Photo & Video appVLC Media Player remains an essential utility — a free, open-source workhorse that plays nearly any media format thrown its way, prioritizing robust f...Great8.1Krita
Design appKrita is a remarkably powerful digital art suite that rivals its premium counterparts, available on Steam for $9.99. It demands patience to master its...Great8.2Twitch: 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...Good7.4
