Best Android Apps & Games
Expert-reviewed Android apps and games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 31
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
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CoMaps
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...Good7.1Couchsurfing
Lifestyle appCouchsurfing still offers something no booking engine can: a stranger's spare room and a local's view of the city. But the paywall, a shrinking pool o...Mixed6.1Wanderlog
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...Mixed6.5Swarm by Foursquare
Lifestyle appSwarm remains a solid free option for keeping a searchable record of everywhere you've been, and the automatic travel journals are a genuine reason to...Good7.1Transit
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...Great8.2Mapy.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...Good7.3Trivio
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...Mixed6.0
Polarsteps
Travel appThe rare travel journal that fills itself in, Polarsteps turns passive GPS capture into a map worth keeping and a hardback book worth buying. The rout...Great8.2StreetComplete
Travel appStreetComplete solves the hardest problem in crowdsourced cartography — not motivation, but expertise — by refusing to make you an expert at all. It i...Great8.8italki
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...Good7.3PeakFinder
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...Great8.2Google 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...Great8.9Speak
Education appSpeak is a language app built to make you talk, using large-language-model tech as a tireless conversation partner. The speech recognition occasiona...Good7.4Waze
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...Good7.4Beli
Food & Drink appBeli replaces the tyranny of the 4.3-star average with a ranking engine built from your own comparisons, and it's a genuinely sharp piece of design — ...Great8.1Gaia 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...Great8.7Satori Reader
Education appSatori Reader succeeds where standard dictionaries and textbooks fail by contextualizing native Japanese texts with remarkable precision. It is a stro...Great8.8WireGuard
Travel appWireGuard is a radical rethink of secure networking that trades legacy bloat for lean, efficient design, delivering faster connections and stronger se...Outstanding9.3AllTrails
Health & Fitness appAllTrails remains the leading name in trail discovery, but its increasingly aggressive monetization of essential safety features risks alienating the ...Great8.1LingQ
Education appLingQ is a high-powered engine for serious learners who want to dismantle a language word by word; it's a clear recommendation for disciplined student...Great8.5OsmAnd
Navigation appOsmAnd is a brutal, brilliant, and uncompromising mapping powerhouse that trades mainstream polish for deep offline capability and privacy. It is a st...Great8.3
