Top 20 Best Android Apps 2021! By HowToMen

2021 is finally here, and I'm so glad that 2020 is over with to start the year off right. I wanted to show you 20 amazing apps that you probably didn't even know existed. A lot of them are also free to download, and none of them are sponsored, or, in other words, have paid me to include them in this video. I genuinely think that every single one of these apps are fantastic, no matter how many downloads they have so thumbs up for that. I've also been doing this yearly series for over six years now. So, if you want to binge-watch the previous years after watching this video, the playlist will be in the right corner. If you like to watch this video or other videos that I made in Spanish be sure to go to my second channel called how to men in Español link is in the description anyways, it's a tradition to show off a beautiful wallpaper before jumping to the apps this year.

I found this background with an outer space theme and with a pinwheel in the middle. It honestly fits in perfectly with the planets and bubbles and the colors give it this fun and poppy look. It also has this grain effect to make the picture look vintage and no matter what widgets or icons that I use the wall suits it well, I found it within an app called true pix, prime, it's called grain art 4. If you don't like it, they also have a ton of other amazing backgrounds to apply, and the app can also give you a few setup ideas. You do have to pay to unlock the full version, but I'll be giving away 30 promo codes to unlock it for free on my Twitter and Instagram at bottomed, so make sure to follow me there.

Now. The first app of 2021 is beta maniac for those of you who don't know in the play store. Some apps have a beta program that you can join so that you can get the newest features before it gets released to the public, but it's kind of hard to figure out which of your apps have a beta program. If you use beta maniac it'll scan all of your installed apps and quickly tell you which of your apps, have an open beta program, and you can even join it within the app itself. On top of that, some play store apps limit the number of people who can join their beta program so once they're full, you can't participate unless some users leave or the developer expands.

The limits' beta maniac will scan the beta programs periodically and will send you a notification once a closed beta program opens back up. It's extremely useful, and I've never found myself uninstalling it if you're annoyed by apps or websites having intrusive ads or want to protect your privacy by blocking malware tracking, phishing, etc. You can use personal DNS filter to block any ads and filter out unwanted hosts within your apps or websites. Just by allowing it to make a VPN connection and making sure to enable blocking is checked, the app will block those unwanted scripts. You can also whitelist apps to support developers who aren't overusing pop-up ads and honestly.

The best part about this app is that it's on the play store, and it's entirely free. These type of apps usually tend to get removed from the play store, so I'll, be sure to put a mirror link, just in case for this next app you're going to want to pull out your old family pictures because it will let you turn your black and white photos into a colorized digital picture. The app is called colorize and within it and within it, you just press and hold the record button. It'll scan crop and colorize the photograph, and then you can save it to your device or share it. It honestly works like magic and works really.

Well. Furthermore, it also shocks me how this app has less than a thousand downloads, especially since it has unlimited photo colorization, and you can save or share your colorized pictures as many times as you'd, like just keep in mind that the app does have a 3d trials. So I would scan all of my photos right away if you're trying to avoid buying a subscription, a cool feature within iOS 14 is that you can double tap or even triple tap the back of the iPhone to launch a certain task, such as the camera, flashlight shortcut, etc. Android phones, don't have this feature, but you can download an app called tap to get it. So I set my phone to launch Google Assistant when I double tap the back and if I double tap it again immediately after it'll launch another task, such as switching to my last used app.

I can even enable a triple tap action to launch something else. Like the camera app or snappy screenshot within tap, you can customize. The actions have certain restrictions of when the taps shouldn't be enabled, such as when the screen is off, because that would be annoying and even change the sensitivity of the gesture. It's not on the play store, but it is still free to download off GitHub. With most of you using headphones to listen to music, you may not be getting the full audio listening experience to begin with stock android doesn't even have an equalizer, so you can't even optimize your sound and even if it did, there are so many headset models out there that a simple equalizer with a few presets still wouldn't give you the best quality possible.

That's why you should download wavelet since the app supports over 2700 pre-calculated presets for specific headphone models, so within the app once you've connected to your headset wireless or not, an option will pop up called auto EQ you'll be able to search for your headphone model, and if you find it, your sound will be a lot more neutral. Cancelling out any manufacturer specific preset equalization. I've managed to find a headphone profile for my Galaxy Buds plus and now the sounds have a much richer tone. If you like to increase the bass or get more effects, you'll need to make an in-app purchase to unlock all the app's features. I'm not going to lie whenever I connect to a Bluetooth device, such as my speakers or headphones.

The process is pretty annoying. I need to jump into the settings, go through various menus and tap on the Bluetooth device just to connect to it now with Bluetooth audio device widgets. I no longer need to do that. Furthermore, I just place a widget on my home screen that will automatically connect to my desired Bluetooth device just by tapping on it, and once I'm done jamming out, I can just tap on it again to disconnect pretty useful and within the app I can even enable a quick settings tile set a specific volume, level etc. Moving on, I'm not sure if you know this, but whenever you grant an app access to your phone's camera or microphone, they can use it silently.

In the background, it's kind of scary, that's why I downloaded access dots, which puts a dot in the top right corner of the screen, for whenever your camera or microphone is being used. The green die is for the camera and the orange one is for the microphone simple and necessary. If you ever wanted to customize your status bar. The best way to do so is with super status bar. This app adds a ton of useful features to it.

For example, I can change the brightness or volume level by just swiping left or right on it. I can get a preview of my notifications without having those obtrusive heads-up pop-ups OG. Android users will remember this from the android lollipop days. You can also change the theme of the status bar, such as having it look like iOS Samsung's, one UI, mini, etc. You can change the color and have the color match the theme of the app that you opened have a battery bar to show you the battery level of your device and even have gestures such as tapping on the status bar to do certain tasks or launch apps.

Furthermore, you won't find any other app that does it better than super status bar now that you've modified your status bar. Furthermore, you can use volume styles to change up the look of your volume panel. The best part is that it's been created by the same developer, who created the previous app you can make your volume controls, look like the ones found within iOS one UI, 3, mini oxygen, OS windows, 10 the old iOS volume panel. You can have a volume knob I mean the list goes on and on, and these sliders are very fluid and change the volume level instantly. It works so well that I sometimes even forget that it's an app that did this the best part is that they even have community styles, so you can use other people's creations to get a fresh look uh every.

So often that's why I love using this over the competition plus you can customize a lot more, such as adding a brightness slider, changing its position, dimming the background, etc. Now, before I move on to the next best app of the year, I wanted to give a shout-out to brand for sponsoring this video every phone that I've used this year has been skinned to provide a bit more personalization uniqueness or to make each phone a bit more drippy. They have a wide variety of skin textures. To choose from two of my favorites are the pastel and matrix skins they give the phone a professional and minimalistic look at the same time, but if you prefer the protection over the looks, you can pick up their grip cases, which are extremely heavy duty and the drippiest cases you can get so go to dbrand. com, Ottoman or just click.

The link in the description, if you like to customize your phones back, if you ever want to share your internet connection between your phone and computer Tetris is the best option, but just enabling USB debugging from within the developer options connecting your phone to your desktop with an USB cable downloading. Their server application to your PC, download link is in the description and then within the app pressing connect, and then your preferred tether mode you'll be able to browse the web on your computer, using your phone's mobile data, or you can scroll through Instagram on your phone using the Wi-Fi connection from your computer. This is perfect if your carrier doesn't allow you to have an unlimited hotspot or if your phone is having a hard time connecting to your Wi-Fi, but your computer has a stable connection since it's connected via an Ethernet cable. Do you ever wonder if your phone is silently killing apps in the background when you lock your device or how fast, or frequently it kills those apps, but with a benchmark, app called, don't, kill my app? It will let you know if your phone is overkilling background tasks. While the screen is off, you just tap on start benchmark and select how long you'd, like the test to run for longer the better.

Once you start the test, you shouldn't charge your phone or use it until the time is up. Otherwise, you may not get the most accurate results. You can edit early. If you prefer, and once the test is finished, you'll get a score. The closer you are to 100 the better since it'll indicate that your phone is doing a great job of handling background apps.

Otherwise, if you have a low rating and a ton of random white space in the graph, you'll know that your phone is overkilling and if that's the case, the app will let you know how to limit background restrictions. I've tried it on most of my devices and I found that OnePlus phones are the worst at handling background apps. I know some of you love to customize your home screen, but keeping up to date with all the latest customization apps, such as wallpapers, icon, packs, widgets, etc. , can be a bit tough. Luckily, an app called bit lit keeps you up to date, it'll inform you of every app update, promo code, giveaways, new app launches, etc.

, and they categorize everything really well trust me. I've discovered so many phenomenal customization apps, and it's awesome to know which apps still have an active developer, plus it's completely free with no apps. If you continuously receive spam notifications or want a better way to control your notifications, instead of just turning them off completely check out buzzkill, it's a notification manager that lets you create automated actions and when a notification matches a rule, it'll follow it. For example, one of the rules that I created is that when I receive a notification from the phone app that contains the keywords missed or call, then it'll remind me to call them back every 30 minutes or if someone messages me multiple times in quick successions, I can have them only buzz me once instead of numerous times, those are just a few examples. The possibilities are endless, and the best part is that there are a ton of pre-created rules that can be enabled quickly under the explore tab.

If you have a big phone, then you know the struggle of trying to use it with one hand. I got sick of the hand repositioning, so I downloaded quick cursor. This app helps me reach those top areas in the screen real easily, since a cursor will pop up. Whenever I swipe from the edges of the screen, I can drag it around to move the cursor and tap on it to click. The d-pad then disappears when I tap away from if it's perfect, for when I try to tap on Instagram stories or reach the top toolbar.

The only annoyance is that those back gestures can't get in the way if you're, on android, 10 or above, so you'll need to expand the trigger size to an appropriate amount to avoid any overlaps. If you're looking to transfer some big files quickly and easily smash file transfer is a fantastic option. The app is extremely straightforward. You just tap on the smash button and select the file or files that you like to send. Once it finishes uploading.

You can share the link with anyone, including desktop users, and then you can download the files easily. It has no file size limits, no compression the files are available to download for an entire week and your transfer data stays encrypted. It's simple, free and no signing is needed if you've been looking for an alternative browser, because you're, tired of using chrome, check out Vivaldi browser, it's mostly focused on your privacy and has many unique features that most browsers don't have you get an ad blocker native protection against ads? You can force enable dark moon on all sites, there's a tab bar interface to switch between your tabs, easily screenshot, a webpage without grabbing the entire screen and a lot more. The browser is also very snappy. I had no trouble scrolling through large web pages or opening multiple links at a time.

It's one of my new favorite browsers. If you only curved phone and frequently find yourself having accidental palm touches edge block is your hero. It just blocks the touchscreen on the edges of your screen and, depending on how much curve your screen has, you can increase the width of the blocked area. That's it nothing more, nothing less! There are hundreds of thousands of games on the play, store that you can download, and most of the good ones are hidden deep within the trenches. So if you're, tired of the play, store's lack of game discoverability check out mini review, this app is run by an Andrew gamer who's, also a YouTuber, and he reviews a ton of games within this app you'll.

Be able to tell how amazing a game is through a 10 point rating system. There's a brief description of the author's overall experience and a 5-star rating on the controls, gameplay, monetization, etc. The best part is that you can filter the search results to find your favorite type of games. Honestly, it's helped me find some extremely addicting gems, and it's much more pleasant to use than the play store's somewhat biased interface. If you tend to use multiple cloud storage, you can sync them all up using auto sync: you need to log into whatever storage devices you have, whether it be Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, mega, etc.

Then you create a folder within your phone storage and within your cloud storage called auto sync. This can be done through the app then every time you put something in that folder, whether it be your phone storage or the cloud storage. That file will automatically sync to everything. Last but not least, if you ever want to lock the screen of your phone or tablet, say you're, giving it to a toddler to watch a movie or play music, and you don't want them to accidentally start messing with your apps. I recommend you download touch locker.

It puts a notification in your notification panel and whenever you want to lock the screen, you just tap on the lock button and that's it to unlock the screen. Again, you just swipe down on the status bar and press the unlock button. The app does have a pro version, so I'll be giving away a whopping 100 promo codes thanks to the developer. So again follow me on Twitter and Instagram anyways. That concludes the 20 best android apps of 2021.

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