Best Android Apps & Games

Afterimage is one of the most beautiful Metroidvanias ever drawn and one of the most confusing ones ever written. Aurogon Shanghai built a sprawling, ...

ELSA Speak does one hard thing better than almost anyone — it tells you *exactly* which sound in which syllable you got wrong, instantly, without judg...

Shazam solved its problem so completely that it stopped being an app and became a verb. Twenty years on, it remains the most reliable single-purpose u...

Spotify remains the smartest music recommendation engine on the planet, but its relentless push to become an "audio everything" app has left the once-...

Fortnite stopped being a game years ago and became a platform—a chaotic, generous, occasionally exhausting entertainment machine that gives away the w...

A hypnotically satisfying store-running sim that turns barcode-scanning and shelf-stocking into genuine flow-state pleasure—magnetic on Steam, comprom...

A genuinely clever mash-up of *Stardew Valley* comfort and *Slay the Spire* tactics that pulls off the fusion better than it has any right to—so long ...

Fastmail's mobile app is a fast, reliable, privacy-respecting email client that asks a fair price for the radical act of not selling you out—but it's ...

A gorgeous, big-hearted throwback that coasts on charm and comedy more than mechanics — short, funny, and genuinely touching, so long as you don't com...

A solo-developed comedy RPG that treats every battle as a chance to reinvent itself — sometimes you fight, sometimes you draw the boss yourself. Uneve...

A pile of tiny, unglamorous AI utilities that solve a real neurological problem better than any $12/month productivity suite on the market — and then,...

RetroArch is the most capable retro gaming software ever built and one of the least welcoming. Push through the menu system and you get 100+ consoles,...

Cascadeur is the rare AI-assisted tool that makes you better at your craft instead of doing it badly on your behalf — a focused, physics-literate anim...

Beli replaces the tyranny of the 4.3-star average with a ranking engine built from your own comparisons, and it works better than it has any right to ...

9 Kings is the rare Early Access roguelike that already knows exactly what it is — a tight, vicious, twenty-minute engine for building combo machines ...

Gaia GPS is the most serious backcountry navigation app you can buy, offering a depth of map data that shames dedicated GPS hardware costing three tim...

Two Dots is one of the most elegantly designed puzzle games ever made for a touchscreen — and one of the most quietly persistent about separating you ...

Pocket City is a small game with a big spine—a genuinely respectful, paywall-free tribute to classic SimCity that fits in your pocket and refuses to r...

*Prune* is a rare thing — a mobile game with the soul of an art installation and the discipline to never overstay its welcome. Ten years on, it remain...

A wordless, hand-painted meditation on regret and reconciliation that hits like a short story you'll remember longer than most 40-hour epics — just do...

More than a decade on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense still sets the standard—tight, funny, and ruthlessly well-designed. If you own a screen and a ...

A hand-drawn hidden-object game that ditches the exploitative freemium playbook for something rarer — patience, craft, and 2,000 sound effects made wi...

Alto's Odyssey doesn't reinvent the endless runner—it perfects it. This is a mobile game built for people who think they hate mobile games, and its Ze...

Ringotan is the rare free tool that does one hard thing exceptionally well — teaching your hand, not just your eyes, to know 3,500 kanji. It's ugly, o...