Magnifying Glass - Use your device’s
camera to zoom in on things
Price: Free
Magnifying
Glass - Use your device’s camera to zoom in on things
Magnifying Glass lets you use the camera on
your Android smartphone to magnify text for a much closer look. A simple user
interface makes zooming in a piece of cake and the app uses the focus modes and
flash of your device’s camera to ensure the image you’re looking at is crystal
clear.
Google Keep
Price: Free
Google
Keep
Keep track of your thoughts, ideas and
plans with this stylish and easy-to-use note-taking app from Google that syncs
across all of your desktop and mobile devices.
Vivino Wine Scanner
Price: Free
Vivino
Wine Scanner
Take a photo of the wine you’re drinking
and this app will match it with its database m of over
500,000 tipples, showing you reviews and tips.
Running Trax
Price: Free
Running
Trax
Sick of jogging to the same old songs? Running
Trax updates weekly with 40 new songs to keep you running, for a subscription
price of just $6 a month.
Viddy
Price: Free
Viddy
Instagram for video. Capture a 15-second
clip, add one of a wide range of different and exciting filters, then upload them
to your social networks and share with your friends.
Gifinator
Price: Free
Gifinator
A brilliant app that lets you quickly
create an animated gif, then share it with your friends. Fun to use and
surprisingly addictive, you’ll be ‘giffing’ everything.
Toucher - Everything you need right at
your fingertips
Price: Free
Sometimes it’s the simplest ideas that you
get the most out of. That’s especially true with Toucher, an app that lets you
put a single finger in charge of the most important aspects of your Android
device. Once you’ve installed the app you’ll see a grey circle at the side of
your screen - tapping that opens up the Toucher launcher, which gives you
access to a variety of different options. You can set up your favorite apps,
for example, and access them at anytime by tapping the circle, which handily
hovers in the corner even when you’re in a different app. You’ll also get quick
access to a set of toggles that let you play with the basic settings of your
phone, like turning off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth or changing the brightness. It’s
great to have constant, quick access to the apps you use the most, and you can
customize them too, if something new enters your app rotation. Throw in
downloadable themes that let you change the way the launcher looks and you’re
left with a strikingly simple idea that gives you an extra degree of control
over your Android device, and looks brilliant while it’s at it.
Tapping
on the Brightness button lets you cycle through four different settings to pick
the one that’s right for you. If you need to turn Toucher off, simply go to the
app and hide the touch point
Up close with Toucher
Set the position
Set
the position
Long press on the Toucher point to move it
around the screen. When you’re happy with where it is, just lift up your finger
and it’ll stick in that spot.
Choose your apps
Choose any of the apps on your device to
sit in the favorites section. Tap on the one you want and it’ll be there next
time you open the app.
Emoji Keyboard - Turn your Android
keyboard into a hotbed of signs and symbols
Price: Free
Turn
your Android keyboard into a hotbed of signs and symbols
Rooting your Android device gives you lots
more freedom to play around with the way things are presented, swapping out the
fonts, for example, so they display tiny, cute emoticons. Obviously you’ll need
some way of sending these Emoji, and that’s what Emoji Keyboard is for. With a
few taps you can add a massive array of faces, symbols and signs. Simple and
fun, Emoji Keyboard lets you express the gamut of human emotions, all from the
comfort of your rooted device.
Gesture Launcher - Open apps with a
quick onscreen scribble
Price: Free
Gesture
Launcher - Open apps with a quick onscreen scribble
If you’re sick of searching when you want
to start an app then Gesture Launcher could revolutionize your Android use. You
can set different scribbles to different apps so all you need to do is open
Gesture Launcher, doodle the right shape on the screen, and your app will load.
Lock Pattern Generator - Create new lock
patterns to protect your Android device
Price: Free
Lock
Pattern Generator - Create new lock patterns to protect your Android device
The lock pattern on your Android device is
probably pretty easy to crack, but this app lets you generate complex patterns
to make sure your phone or tablet doesn’t get any unwanted attention. Fast and
simple to use, this takes one of Google’s innovations and moves it a step
further.
