Best Free Audio & Video for Android

Best Free Computer Piano for Android

My Piano

(6.5 MB), a superb piano app comes in with studio quality sounds, various intruments and sound effects, multi-touch, optional two actaves, an integrated recorder with save and load functionality, plus a plethora of other features good for beginners and advanced users. Ad-supported.

Magic Piano

(17 MB), experience the fun of playing piano with the keyboard in a variety of styles or by tapping on the beams of light to create melodies, share your musical skills with friends, enjoy a large catalog of songs or listen to other players' performances, all in this popular app. Additional songs require in-app purchases.

Best Free Lyrics Player for Android

Musixmatch Lyrics

, find lyrics of your music while you play it from within the app, identify music through the microphone with the Music ID, or search lyrics from a rich database of over 6 million lyrics in 18 languages.

Medoly

plays synchronized and unsynchronized lyrics offline, either from external lyrics files in a folder you assigned or from internal lyrics embedded in mp3 files. (App of the Week)

Best Free Media Player for Android

MX Player

(6.8 MB), a powerful video player supports for multi gestures such as pinch and unpinch to zoom in and out videos to fit your screen, left scroll to adjust brightness and right scroll to adjust volume, multi-core decoding, CPU optimization and better subtitle readability. (Review)

MoboPlayer

(5.7 MB), playback videos in various formats with features including thumbnail displays, subtitles, slide up/down on the left/right side to adjust volume and brightness, long press a file to add to playlist, view properties and more. (Review)

QQPlayer

(6.7 MB), a video player supports for most popular formats including avi, flv, mp4, 3gp, mkv, mov and more, with added features such as on-screen volume adjuster and a zoom button.

mVideoPlayer

(1.4 MB), offers three modes of video zoom, supports for subtitle, playlist and a video library browser with thumbnails, video info, search and other optional tweaks. A good replacement of Android's built-in video player.

RealPlayer

(2.6 MB), enjoy your favorite multimedia content all in one app—either watch a video, listen to music or view a slideshow of photoes. Features include select music by artists, albums, genres or ratings, photo thumbnail previews and various settings. (Review)

Best Free Media Server and Renderer for Android

Flipps

(11 MB), formerly iMediaShare, a popular app supports for DLNA

or UPnP

devices and turns your smartphone into a media server to stream your personal and online media to your TV via local WiFi network. It also acts as a media renderer to play back media content streamed from another compliant device.

Best Free Media Streaming Software for Android

Qloud Media Free

(5.7 MB), play your PC-based music, video and picture files on your mobile device everywhere you go, without the need to copy or upload the files as the Qloud Server

on your PC streams your shared folders to your mobile via the Internet connection. Ad-supported.

Best Free Movie Resource for Android

IMDb Movies & TV

(1.4 MB), watch trailers, browse photos, find latest releases, explore popular charts, rate movies and share movie info from a huge resource of more than 4 million titles, and 6 million celebrities, actors and actresses, directors and crew members.

Best Free MP3 Tag Editor for Android

Star Music Tag Editor

, a neat, capable and convenient tool to edit tags of mp3 or other supported audio files. You can edit most music tags including searching cover art as well as unsynced lyrics from the Internet. (App of the Week)

Pimp My Music

(2.4 MB), auto fetch missing lyrics and album art covers in various sizes and edit most common tag fields including artist, title, album, genre, lyrics, track, year, composer and comment. It comes with a built-in player and supports formats including mp3, ogg, flac, aac, mp4, m4a and wma.

Best Free Music Player and Organizer for Android

Rocket Music Player

(6.5 MB) is a solid, fast and useful app with a good set of features including auto-playlists, 5-band equalizer, song rating, tags editing, embedded lyrics, setting a ringtone or even a sleep timer. (Review)

TTPod

(5.0 MB), play your music files by titles, artist, albums, genres, folders, favorites or playlists, supporting rich features such as a skinnable player, visualization, 10-band equalizer, auto search and display album art and synchronized lyrics, shake to change songs, sleep timer and basic tag editor. (Review)

Winamp

(6.8 MB), easy to use with a clean user interface. You can play music by albums, artists, songs, genres or playlists, sync files wirelessly with the desktop Winamp, access to Internet radio stations with SHOUTcast, download free music from Spinner or stream it from CDLP. The free version is Ad-supported and has no equalizer. (Review)

MyMusicOn Music Player

(488 KB), a good directory music player with supports for album art and lyric displays, via either online searching for synced lyrics, LRC files or lyric ID3 tags saved in your music files.

³ (Cubed)

(895 KB), enhance your experience in playing music with this creative player viewable in Cubed, Wall, Boring or Morph Flow mode, with other useful features inclusive of playlists, a graphical equalizer, widgets, fetching missing art covers and preference settings.

Best Free Music Streaming for Android

Deezer Music

(138 MB), stream and listen to music from a huge catalog of more than 36 million tracks in this popular app accessible in more than 180 countries, find out more music from New Releases, Top Playlists and Mixes, play with lyrics and add to your Favorite Tracks or playlists for playback. (App of the Week)

Best Free Radio Broadcasting for Android

TuneIn Radio

(9.0 MB), listen to local or worldwide ratio station streams on the web, find an extensive selection of local radios, music, talks, sports and podcasts from over 100,000 stations, and preset your favorite channels at ease. (Review)

Best Free Remote Control for Android

Gmote 2.0

(319 KB), turn your mobile device into a remote control unit to browse and play music and video files on your computer—install this app on your device and Gmote Server

on your PC, once it's set up, just sit back in a sofa and enjoy.

Best Free Ringtone Changer for Android

ZEDGE

(2.1 MB), search and preview ringtones by categories, download any you like and set it as your default or contact ringtones, replacing the Android System ringtone which has fewer options. Searching wallpapers for your home screens is included. See also Wallpaper Changer.

Best Free Ringtone Maker for Android

Ringdroid

(365 KB) incorporates an audio player with a volume unit (VU) meter—easy to use, just slide the start and end markers to make a ringtone by cutting an audio file down to size or recording a new one directly on your device. Supported file formats include MP3, Wav, AAC and AMR. (App of the Week)

Best Free Video Downloader for Android

TubeMate YouTube Downloader

lets you search and download YouTube videos directly on your Android mobile. Easy to use, search a video, press the green Download button, pick a resolution and a file format, then TubeMate does the rest for you. (App of the Week)

Best Free Video Sharing for Android

YouTube

(6.0 MB), search, share and view videos from the popular video sharing site YouTube with this official app in a clean user interface, or upload a video to YouTube right away from your mobile device.

Best Free Video Trimmer for Android

AndroVid Video Trimmer

(7.0 MB), split a video file into two separate clips, trim away unwanted parts in a video, or grab a video frame in an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. You can also convert videos into MP3 audio files with this app. Some special effects are only for the Pro version.

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Best Free Desktop, Home Screen & GUI for Android

Best Free Automation Tool for Android

MacroDroid

automates your daily tasks with more than 70 preset triggers and over 100 actions, with optional constraints. You can also pick an existing macro or task shared by others from the template section. (App of the Week)

AutomateIt

(4.3 MB), automate your device by the rules you set—if this is triggered then do that for me. Easy to use, just select a trigger and an action from the lists, tap Save and it does the jobs for you whenever the conditions are met.

Best Free Battery Saver for Android

JuiceDefender - battery saver

(828 KB), extend the battery life of your Android device easily with just one tap, as it equips with preset profiles and automatically manages battery draining components for you. Some advanced features are limited to the paid version.

Battery Dr saver

(1.1 MB), view battery usage by display, cell standby, Wi-Fi, phone idle and the system; check battery temperature, level and health; turn off unused services, kill tasks and adjust screen and volume to save battery life. See also Task Manager.

Best Free Clipboard Manager for Android

Clipper

(3.7 MB), a simple yet powerful clipboard and snippet manager for your mobile device to keep track of anything you copied to the clipboard and make it available right from the notification bar to view, edit and paste.

Best Free Default App Manager for Android

Default App Manager Lite

(940 KB), which is your default browser or music player? Try this app which gives you a list of apps whether they are set to run by default and allows you to set or reset any of them easily, saving you the trouble of going through multiple steps to change a default app.

Best Free Desktop Search for Android

Google Gesture Search

(842 KB), find a contact, a bookmark, an application, or even a music track on your device by drawing alphabets and/or numbers on the screen, and instantly launch the app associated with the search result.

Best Free Installer for Android

Easy Installer

(93 KB), search and install applications (.apk files) from your SD card, with batch install, filtering and sorting. What's more? long press an apk file to do more, for instance, sending an app to friends by email.

Best Free Onscreen Keyboard for Android

GO Keyboard

(5.3 MB), a popular onscreen keyboard with support for multiple languages and keyboard layouts, correct words as you type, suggest words from the dictionary, sms and contacts, Emoji and fantasy text output, touch-and-slide to select a key variation, keypress sound varieties, voice recognition, themes and plugins. (App of the Week)

Best Free Program Launcher for Android

GO Launcher EX

(7.6 MB), support multiple home screens with a pinch to quick jump to any of them, enhanced with themes, resizable widgets and a more powerful app drawer, where you can choose to close all running programs at one go, clear history, hide apps or add a folder to group apps. User preferences can be set for display, dock, app drawer, operation and more. (App of the Week)

Best Free Remote Desktop for Android

AirDroid

(3.7 MB), easy to use with a clean and excellent interface—just run it and press Start on your mobile to get an address, enter it into a web browser on your PC, log in with a default password, you can then interact with your Android device wirelessly over a local Wi-Fi by clicking some pretty icons from your PC browser. (App of the Week)

WiFi File Explorer

(1.8 MB), access files on your mobile from a PC browser and copy files between two devices via a local WiFi connection without needing a cable. You can also drag-and-drop files and folders around your device. Some features such as create a new folder, zip and unzip files, transfer multiple files are only available for the paid-for Pro version.

Browsix Lite

(844 KB), browse the contents of your phone easily from a PC via wireless connection—just enter browsix.com in your browser and you can view pictures, play music and videos on your PC. You can also send and receive SMS from the PC too. Some features such as file operations didn't work well when tested.

Best Free System Information for Android

Elixir 2

(5.7 MB), displays detailed info of your device: battery, internal and external storage, processor, memory, telephony, Wi-Fi, bluetooth, location, display, airplane mode, sync settings, ringing mode, camera, camcorder, installed applications, running processes, services and tasks. (App of the Week)

Best Free System Monitor for Android

SystemPanel Lite

(710 KB), a good system monitor to show usage of CPU, memory and storage, network traffic, active applications and internal system processes. It also doubles up as a task manager to terminate applications. See also Task Manager.

Best Free System Toolbox for Android

ZDbox

(3.0 MB), a handy and superb multi-purpose toolbox including Battery Info, 2G/3G Traffic, Silent Mode, App Lock, Task Killer, Uninstaller and App to SD all in one place. Clean and simple user interface with key status available at a glance and a quick tap to use any tools.

Best Free Task Manager for Android

Advanced Task Killer

(160 KB), just one tap to instantly conserve memory or stop your selected apps from running without the need to wait until the system does it for you. You can also touch and hold a running task from the list, then from the context menu select 'ignore' to move it to an ignore list, or force stop that particular running app or service.

Best Free Task Switcher for Android

Task Switcher

(150 KB), press the Home button to reveal the open apps, tap one of them to jump to it or tap and hold to close it. Press the Home button again and you are back to the Home page. You can also use this tool to select your preferred Home app and show widgets.

Best Free Uninstaller for Android

Easy Uninstaller

(62 KB), search and sort the apps by name, size or date and multi-select those you wish to uninstall from your device. It makes the process easier and quicker.

Best Free Wallpaper Changer for Android

PicSpeed HD Wallpapers

(477 KB), browse more than 170,000 HD beautiful wallpapers by categories in high speed on the Internet, mark the ones you like most as your favorites and cycle them for your wallpaper at a time interval you set.

Flikie Wallpapers HD

(2.7 MB), auto change wallpapers from a selected folder or online from Flikie at time intervals you set, and allow you to search, save and share high quality wallpapers from a great resource.

Backgrounds HD Wallpapers

(144 KB), search popular wallpapers and tap one you like to set as wallpaper or add to your favorites list. You can also enable slideshow to auto rotate wallpapers from the list at fixed time intervals.

Best Free Widget Maker for Android

Widgetsoid

(2.7 MB), making new widgets on your home screens has never been easier than this—long press a homescreen and tap Widget, select a size of Widgetsoid Switcher, tick the items you need from the various sections and click Apply. That's it and you can do more with many customization options.

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Best Free Disk and File for Android

Best Free App Backup for Android

App Backup & Restore

(380 KB), easily backup your installed apps to your SD cards, send apps to friends via email, or upload to Dropbox if already installed. Others features include restore or uninstall apps, auto backup, share market links, check app details and more.

Best Free File Archiver-Zip Utility for Android

ZArchiver

(2.66 MB), create archive files in zip, 7zip, gzip, bzip2, tar or XZ format, and unzip or decompress archive files in even more supported formats. Features include view and edit archives, password-protected archives, multi-part archives and more.

B1 Free Archiver

(3.7 MB), create password-protected zip and b1 archives, unzip more than 30 archive formats, open encrypted and splitted archives in supported formats. You can also browse files inside archives and extract only selected files, hide files from media scan and do more. (Review)

RAR for Android

(2.5 MB), an official app allows you to create RAR, RAR4 and ZIP archives, decompress RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, X7, 7z, ISO, ARJ and multi-part RAR files, with options to repair damaged ZIP and RAR files, perform a registry recovery, encrypt files and accelerate data compression or decompression. (App of the Week)

Best Free File Cleaner for Android

1Tap Cleaner

(819 KB), a handy tool to free up more internal storage space on your device by clearing cache files, data files, search and navigation history records. Also includes a default cleaner to list default apps and clear their settings.

Best Free File Encryption Utility for Android

File Locker

(200 KB), protect your files from unauthorized access by encoding the content and file names as well. Smart searching through folders for documents, locked and unlocked files is a plus but it can't unlock a file that has been renamed.

Best Free File Manager for Android

X-plore File Manager

(1.4 MB), a file manager with a well thought-out split screen view allows you to transfer files between folders on the same device and manipulate files and folders between devices easily. Loads of features, such as built-in viewers for images, video, audio and text. No adverts. (Review)

ES File Explorer

(2.7 MB), explore files on your device, LAN shared and FTP servers in a list or icon view with settings such as theme and layout, search files by type or name, plus app manager, SD Card Analyst and other optional modules. (Review)

ASTRO File Manager

(2.4 MB), manage your files in Icon or List view with sorting, bookmarks, searching and other common features, plus some useful tools like checking SD card usage by folders. On the downside, the free version comes with a small ad. (Review)

Best Free File Transfer for Android

Send Anywhere

(5.0 MB), send any files of any size to anywhere in the world across multiple platforms without the need to sign up or login, using a temporary 6-digit key to receive files within a time limit; or send and receive files between logged-in devices more conveniently without a 6-digit key.

Dukto

(40.3 MB), an effective tool to send files, folders or text snippets to another device on a local area network (LAN) easily with no Internet connection required. It works across multiple platforms and allows sending data to auto detected devices or a destination with a device's IP address. (App of the Week)

SHAREit

(6.0 MB), transfer files wirelessly between Android, iPad, iPhone and Windows devices at fast speed without going through the cloud, plus advanced features such as stream and backup photos, remotely view files and control PowerPoint slideshows on your PC. (App of the Week)

Best Free Online Backup for Android

Dropbox

(6.9 MB), upload and access files from your Android, and sync them between your computers and mobile devices on the go. Easy to use—tap a file to view or press and hold it to access the menu for managing files and sharing links. (Review)

Google Drive

(15 MB), store your files including documents, photos and videos in this free cloud storage up to 15GB for backup and access anywhere. You can share any files with your contacts or access files shared with you, and make files available offline. Opening up document, spreadsheet or presentation files from this app goes to the respective apps Google Docs

, Google Sheets

and Google Slides

installed separately.

OneDrive

(11.8 MB), previously known as SkyDrive, offers 7 GB of free online storage as part of Microsoft services for new subscribers. The app allows you to upload files, photos and videos from your device to OneDrive, open files in other apps and share files by sending a link. The built-in feature Camera Backup lets you upload photos and videos automatically.

Best Free Storage Manager for Android

AppMgr III (App 2 SD)

(1.9 MB), take a glance where the apps are installed and move them from internal storage to the SD Card to save limited space on your device. Also clear the cache to make more space. The free version is supported by a small unobtrusive ad.

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Best Free Education for Android

Best Free Articles and Answers for Android

HowStuffWorks

gives you instant access to over 30,000 articles, audio podcasts and videos with clear explanations of how things work. You can browse topics by category or choose the latest stuff updated everyday, or type your own question and search for the answers which are made simple and easy to understand. (App of the Week)

Best Free Astronomy Software for Android

Google Sky Map

(2.2 MB), point your device at the night sky or browse the skies in manual mode from anywhere at anytime and it helps you identify the stars, planets, constellations and other celestial objects with labels. You can also zoom and search the objects with this absolutely fun and good educational app.

Best Free Language Learning for Android

A Word A Day

(235 KB), learn today's English word from Merriam-Webster dictionary, or download the episode and listen to it, with good examples and meaningful word origins. You can also practice your English word pronunciation with Google voice.

Duolingo

(4.9 MB), a popular and high quality app for you to learn another language from the language you're familiar with, either it's Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, or English. It's fun, addictive and allows you to track your progress with shiny achievements. No fees, no ads and no gimmicks.

Best Free Publishing and Reading for Android

Free Books - Wattpad Ebooks

(21.7 MB), a remarkable app connects writers to readers instantly and has a huge library of millions of books and stories available for free. Writers can easily publish their work, build a fan base and receive feedback, while readers can collect stories into reading lists, post comments, vote for their favorites and share with friends.

Best Free Sports Tracking for Android

My Tracks

(832 KB), record your GPS tracks and view live statistics including time, speed, distance and elevation while hiking, cycling, running or participating in other outdoor activities. You can also share your tracks by sending them to Google My Maps and Google Docs.

CardioTrainer

(5.45 MB), an excellent application to track and record your fitness activity with GPS and pedometer functions. Voice notifications, schedules and reminders, music integration and many more features are included.

Best Free Talks and Lectures for Android

TED

(4.4 MB), talks at TED events usually last around 30 minutes and cover everything from technology to art to medicine to music. Almost all of the talks are online for you to watch at your leisure or they can even be downloaded with the app for offline viewing.

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Best Free Games for Android

Best Free Action Game for Android

PapiJump

(624 KB), tilt your device to move the Papi guy left and right for him to go up higher, game over if you let him drop. Three levels of gameplay in this simple yet addictive jumping action game.

Fruit Slice

(4.4 MB), swipe the screen to cut as many fruits as possible and get scores in this fast action game. It's game over if you slice a bomb or let more than 3 pieces of fruit fall off in the Classic mode. Fast enough? Try Pipeline and Time modes as well.

Tank Hero

(13 MB), destroy your enemies with cannons, heat seekers and howitzers, and become a tank hero with this fast paced 3D tank action game. Easy to maneuver and just tap to fire.

Labyrinth Lite

(686 KB), tilt a classic or 3D wooden labyrinth and move the steel ball to the goal while shunning the holes along the path. Limited to 10 levels but you can also edit your own levels in this lite version.

NinJump

(7.73 MB), tap to jump from one wall to the other, clear obstacles from the air but avoid them on walls, and rise to the top to become a ninja master. A game of fast action and precision, with original sound and music.

iStunt 2

(21 MB), hit the slopes for incredible stunts, escape deadly buzz saws and balance the snowboarder by tilting your device in this fun and fast moving multi-levels game, with awesome music and beautiful sceneries. Ad-supported.

SoulCraft - Action RPG (free)

(230 MB), fight against evil demons for victory and play as an angel in this action role playing game, with awesome graphics and great gameplay in five different game modes. Ad-supported and some features require in-app purchases.

Critical Strike Portable

(28 MB), play the exciting first-person shooter (FPS) against the bots or other players on the web and on other mobile platforms, with customizable touch controls, popular game types and unique maps. The context menu looks too small to read on small screen devices though.

Best Free Air Hockey for Android

Glow Hockey 2

(7.1 MB), play a computer opponent at 4 difficulty levels, or against a friend to see who dominates the air hockey table in 2-player mode. Features include two table themes, four selectable paddles and pucks, colorful glow graphics and realistic physics.

Best Free Backgammon for Android

Backgammon Free

(6.2 MB), bear off your checkers and win this popular classic game with strong AI, 5 difficulty levels, two different boards and piece sets, hints, undos and stats, designed for both phones and tablets.

Best Free Billiards and Pool Game for Android

Pool Billiards Pro

(3.4 MB), play this top free pool game with realistic 3D ball animation and user-friendly design. Choose the Single Player mode for straight pool game, the VS mode to challenge another player or against the computer, or the Arcade mode with a limited number of cues in multiple challenging levels.

Best Free Card Game for Android

250+ Solitaire Collection

(2.5 MB), more than 250 Solitaire card games including Freecell, Klondike, Canfield and others in one place, with undo and redo moves, help for rules and demo for each game.

Hearts Deluxe

(2.7 MB), embrace the Queen and shoot the moon by winning all 13 Hearts and the Queen of Spades in this well-designed Hearts game with sound and animation effects. The Omnibus variant for winning the Jack of Diamonds is optional.

Best Free Casual Game for Android

Talking Tom Cat Free

(14.19 MB), a popular fun game to cheer you up for a good moment—talk to Tom and he will repeat everything you say with a funny voice, pet his body to make him purr, or otherwise he will yawn or sneeze... Definitely a good try and other variations are available, mind the file size though.

Paper Toss

(5.92 MB), getting bored at work? Try this casual game to toss a ball of crumpled paper into a metal trash basket, bearing in mind that paper can be blown by the wind to the left or right from a fan spinning at varying speed. Six levels of difficulty, easy to play and oddly satisfying.

Best Free Computer Chess for Android

Chess for Android

, a popular chess app with a built-in engine and a GUI with various board colors, piece sets, and full navigation buttons to correct moves and analyze games. Touch and hold an empty spot and you get to save and load games, set up positions, install and uninstall third-party UCI or XBoard engines for Android

. (App of the Week)

Chess

(734 KB), play chess against the computer in 10 levels or Internet chess by connecting to the FICS servers. Useful features include save and load games, import and export games in pgn format, set up the board, puzzles, and support UCI engines

including Robbolito, Stockfish and Bikjump. Better still, no annoying ads.

Best Free Computer Go for Android

GOdroid

(1.4 MB), play this strategy game against your friend or computer opponent with 10 levels of difficulty in multiple board sizes. Other features include undo/redo, setting handicaps, compensation points (komi) and rulesets, load or save games in SGF format. (App of the Week)

Best Free Dressup Game for Android

Androidify

(2.1 MB), dress up the little green Android, customize and stretch or shrink it, then save and share it with your friends, set it as a photo in your contact book or use it as an avatar. It's fun and more than a game.

Best Free Gomoku for Android

Tito Gomoku

(646 KB), the best five-in-a-row game in two board designs with free and pro rules for you to compete against a human buddy or computer AI with different strengths and styles. Trace your progress and start out the game at a rating of 1000 against computer opponents. (App of the Week)

Best Free Jawbreaker for Android

Bebbled

(2.3 MB), pop the bubbles in this easy-to-play and entertaining game, featuring dynamic difficulty levels and different types of gameplay in three modes—Campaigns, Freestyle and Online.

Best Free Jigsaw Puzzle and Creator for Android

Jigsaroid

(1.0 MB), select a favorite image or photo either from your Gallery or the Internet, and create a digital jigsaw puzzle for solving. You can set the number of pieces depending on your Android device, with useful features such as thumbnail, background image, tray control and saving games.

Best Free Match-2 Puzzle for Android

Flow Free

(4.4 MB), connect two dots in the same color with a pipe to form a flow, and complete a level by filling up the entire board with pipes without crossing or overlapping. Simple yet addictive, with different board sizes, multiple levels in the free-play mode, and various durations in the time-trial mode. (App of the Week)

Trainyard Express

(8.4 MB), lay down tracks to guide trains from their starting points to the stations matching in color, with skills needed for crossing over, merging trains and mixing colors as you try to solve more than 60 puzzles in this fun and addictive game good for all ages.

Best Free Match-3 Puzzle for Android

Candy Crush Saga

(51.3 MB), crush candies by matching three or more of them and meet a target within limited moves for the next level in this popular addictive game, with more than 300 levels to win and free lives to get from Facebook friends. Advance features need in-app purchases.

Jewels

(1.92 MB), like Bejeweled match-3 puzzle, it's an addictive game good to play for hours in three challenging modes—normal, timed and infinite, with nice graphics and sounds, supports for resuming games, saving local and global scores.

Bubble Blast 2

(5.5 MB), touch and burst bubbles to trigger a chain reaction in order to eliminate them, complete at least 20 levels in the Puzzle mode before you're allowed to enter the Arcade mode. A good game of guess and check with plenty of addictive levels.

Puzzle Blox Arcade!

(2.0 MB), enjoy this award-winning match-3 game inspired by Tetris, Bubble Breaker and Bejeweled. It comes with a different twist with unique tilt-and-touch game play and endless play modes for all ages.

Move the Box

(3.6 MB), move, drop and swap the boxes to match three or more boxes of the same kind in a line, and clear them with a limited number of turns. More than 100 exciting levels of difficulty waiting for you to solve.

Best Free Physics and Chemistry Game for Android

X Construction Lite

(2.3 MB), build a strong bridge with enough supporting girders to let the train safely cross the valley. Is it possible that your bridge collapses even before the train starts moving? Give it a try.

Angry Birds

(34 MB), use the unique powers of angry birds to destroy the fortresses of pigs who stole their eggs. A challenging physics-based gameplay in multiple levels needing logic, skill and force to solve. Advanced features require in-app purchases. (App of the Week)

Angry Birds Rio

(32 MB), a special edition that pairs the original game Angry Birds with unique twists based on the hit motion picture, Rio, containing 6 fantastic episodes with multiple levels to achieve and special hidden fruits to discover. Advanced features require in-app purchases.

Cut the Rope: Experiments FREE

(23 MB), cut the ropes by swiping across them and feed candy to the creature Om Nom. It's not always easy to win as you need to think out of the box in this game, which combines realistic physics with precise controls. Constant free updates with new levels and animations but ad supported.

Where's My Water? Free

(49 MB), dig trenches through the dirt and guide water through the pipes to the bathtub for Swampy to get squeaky clean in this popular physics-based Disney game that's fun, strong and engaging with multi levels in various chapters, suitable for all ages. (App of the Week)

Pinball Deluxe

(17 MB), a nicely designed pinball game with three different tables and unique play styles—Carnival, Space and Underwater—with precise physics, gorgeous graphics, optional sound and vibration effects.

Alchemy Classic

(9.2 MB), start with four basic elements—Air, Earth, Water and Fire—and combine them to create new elements. How do you make Stone and Alcohol, or can you get a total of 238 elements?

Best Free Simulation Game for Android

Hay Day

, get back to nature and experience the simple and lively life of working the land and fishing the waters in this popular farming game, which allows you to produce and trade goods with neighbors and friends, participate in team competitions and more. (App of the Week)

Smurfs' Village

(66 MB), combining elements of FarmVilla and Sim City, this app allows you to grow crops and build a new village with your own creativity for the Smurfs to call home. A popular and addictive farming simulation game to engage you for days and months without paying a cent unless you opt for speed-up credits.

Ice Age Village

, help Scrat build a happy village and achieve goals at each level of this city-building game featuring the same characters as in the successful animated film Ice Age, with mini games like Kung Fu Scrat and Sid's Egg Rescue to earn more mileage. (App of the Week)

Air Control Lite

(3.6 MB), draw lines to direct airplanes to runways and helicopters to helipads but avoid any mid-air collisions. A simple yet addictive ATC (Air Traffic Control) simulation game with classic and puzzle modes that can engage your interest and attention for hours.

Best Free Reaction Game for Android

2 Player Reactor

(2.0 MB), challenge your friends to a battle of reflexes, basic wits and knowledge, and determine who wins in this fast reaction game, with supports for configurable game modes and multiple languages.

Best Free Reversi for Android

Reversi Free

(3.9 MB), flip your way to victory by challenging the CPU engine with 10 difficulty levels or going for a 2-player game, plus features like hint, save and resume, animation and sound effects, optional piece sets and boards.

DroidZebra Reversi

(3.2 MB), improve your skills in this excellent app with a strong built-in Zebra engine. Can't beat it? Set the strength of the engine by limiting the number of moves it can analyze, or play in the practice mode where it evaluates the best move for you.

Best Free Running Game for Android

Alto's Odyssey

sets you to an endless sandboarding journey to explore and discover secrets in a vast and majestic desert with smooth, pleasing graphics and original relaxing music, complete with multiple levels and preset goals to achieve. (App of the Week)

Temple Run

(23 MB), take the idol from the temple and see how far you can run away from its guardians who will chase you down the ancient temple walls and sheer cliffs. Easy to play—just swipe left or right to turn, up to jump, down to slide and tilt to run by the side to avoid obstacles and collect points to gain more power-ups from this addictive and endless running game.

Jetpack Joyride

(30 MB), guide Barry to run around a secret lab as far as possible and to avoid obstacles such as lasers, electrified zappers and incoming missiles, while get him to pick up vehicles to drive along the path faster and collect coins to upgrade. One-touch controls, easy to play and yet equally challenging.

Sonic Dash

(56 MB), play as Sonic the hedgehog to jump over spikes, dash below overhangs, collect rings and spin your way across stunning 3D environments in order to achieve high scores and challenge your friends on the leather boards in this fast-paced endless running game. Some power-ups require in-app purchases.

Best Free Shooting Game for Android

Defender

(11 MB), defend your castle and shoot arrows to kill your enemies before they reach your stronghold. It's never an easy battle as your enemies become fiercer while you try to add more power to your weapons. Definitely a challenging and addictive shooting game.

Best Free Sliding Puzzle for Android

Mouse

(2.9 MB), help the mouse escape from the trap by sliding blocks and find the exit in a maze. A highly addictive game challenges your skill and patience, with many levels of puzzles to solve.

Best Free Sudoku for Android

Sudoku

, a well-designed puzzle game with an intuitive user interface and completes with four difficulty levels from Easy to Extreme, pencil marks with auto-refill and erase options, an intelligent helper, global leatherboard and more. (App of the Week)

OpenSudoku

(219 KB), a simple open-source sudoku game with clean and clear design. In addition to the preloaded 90 puzzles in 3 difficulty levels, you can also get more free puzzles of higher levels online to import into OpenSudoku easily. See also Google Goggles.

Best Free Word Game for Android

Wordfeud FREE

(1.9 MB), play up to 30 separate word games simultaneously with your friends or against random opponents at your own pace using English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian or Danish dictionaries, with shuffle, swap, scoring tiles, chats and other features. Ad-supported.

Words With Friends Free

(13 MB), build words with your friends or a random opponent over the Internet, play up to 20 games simultaneously with the turn-based design, and stay in touch with friends and family with in-game chat messaging. Ad-supported in the free version.

4 Pics 1 Word

(27 MB), identify something in common in the four pictures shown and give your answer in one word in this easy-to-play addictive puzzle game, with multiple levels to unlock for free but a fast track requires in-app purchases.

wordoid!

(819 KB), hone your linguistic skills and form words on the letter grid within seconds in this simple yet challenging game, featuring wildcards, bonus tiles and high scores.

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Best Free Home & Office for Android

Best Free Calculator for Android

Mobi Calculator FREE

(176 KB), an excellent and easy-to-use calculator with math expressions, memory and history entries that can be edited for a recalculation without the need to enter them all over again. It comes with scientific functions and other useful features such as radix mode, time calculation and more.

RealCalc Scientific Calculator

(296 KB), a scientific calculator that's fully featured and complete with unit conversions. Useful features include result history, digit grouping, 10 memories and more. Handy to use on a mobile device.

handyCalc Calculator

(1.3 MB), powerful enough to solve equations with variables and functions, draw graphs for math expressions, and with unit and currency converters built-in, though it didn't respond well to a long expression when tried. (If the keypad doesn't work, please try the previous version from the developer's site

.)

Best Free Calendar for Android

Jorte

(5.8 MB), a good calendar in a monthly or weekly view with a scheduler function and other useful features such as data import and export, acquire national holidays, sync events and tasks with Google calendar and more.

aCalendar

, a free versatile calendar using Android's native calendar backend and sync, shows text in day, week and even month views, with flexible recurrences, adjustable font size, fullscreen widgets and other user settings to the way you want.

Best Free Comic Book Reader for Android

Perfect Viewer

(3.7 MB), equipped with five viewing modes to fit your screen, this fast comic viewer supports archive file formats including cbz/zip, cbr/rar, 7z/cb7 and lzh and common image formats such as jpg, png, gif and bmp. It also supports viewing pdf files with Perfect Viewer PDF Plugin which is also free.

A Comic Viewer

(673 KB), a lightweight comic book reader opens various file formats including cbz/zip, acv, cbr/rar, jpeg, png and bmp. Some useful features include scale images to suit your screen height or width, adjust screen brightness, and set left-to-right or right-to-left reading to your liking.

Best Free Compass for Android

3D Compass+

(2.0 MB), a handy 3D compass to check for direction or everything that is location-based. Great features include reality view, map, coordinates, address and speed in the same view. Ads supported.

Best Free Dictionary and Thesaurus for Android

Dictionary - Merriam-Webster

(20 MB), type in or speak a word to look up its definitions, audio pronunciations, example sentences, synonyms and antonyms which are accessible offline. Most words including highlighted ones are hyperlinked for a tap to search deeper. Other features include Daily Word and Recent Searches. Ad-supported.

Dictionary.com

(3.6 MB), includes more than 2 million definitions and synonyms from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, with audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search, hyperlinked words, favorite words list, Word of the Day, homescreen widget, offline dictionary, etc. Ad-supported.

Arcus Dictionary

(6.3 MB), fast and ad-free dictionary with more than 165,000 words, definitions and synonyms without requiring network access after install, supports for text-to-speech, word hyperlinks, favorites and other options.

Best Free E-Book Reader for Android

FBReader

(3.6 MB), a highly customisable ebook reader with non-nonsense menus delivers an excellent way to read an ebook. The app supports epub, rtf, fb2 (.zip), mobi, and plain text file formats, text-to-speak and other plugins, and integrates with external dictionaries. (Review)

Moon+ Reader

(5.7 MB), read books in various formats such as ePub, txt, html, chm, fb2, umd or zip, with user settings for visuals, controls and themes. You can also bookmark, highlight, add notes and lookup words, and get free ebooks from online libraries. (Review) (App of the Week)

Cool Reader

(6.5 MB) supports a multitude of ebook formats including epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM), and pml, with loads of settings such as bookmarks, text to speech, fonts, etc., that make reading a book more interesting. (Review)

Best Free Encyclopedia for Android

Wikipedia

(1.5 MB), search in your preset language for useful information from millions of articles written collaboratively by volunteers around the world with this official app optimized for your Android device, with today's featured article, save pages for offline viewing and other features such as optional font size, copy and share.

Wikidroid (Wikipedia Browser)

(377 KB), a good alternative to the official Wikipedia app, Wikidroid allows you to view all Wikipedia articles formatted perfectly for your device in a fast and sleek interface with zoom, bookmark, copy, share and other features including save pages to SD card. Ad-supported.

Best Free Flashlight for Android

Tiny Flashlight + LED

(1.3 MB), use your device's camera LED flashlight or screen as a bright torch, with adjustable light sources and support for warning light, police light, color flashlight, strobe flashlight, morse code and more.

Best Free Genealogy or Family Tree for Android

Ancestry

(2.8 MB), an easy-to-use app to build and update a family tree of yours, or scour the research library by name to trace historical records with individual info, family, photos and evidence.

Best Free Notepad and Notebook for Android

Evernote

(11 MB), take notes, ideas, pictures and recordings with your mobile device, and sync them instantly to your Web or PC version. Not only can it index all your notes, Evernote recognizes the actual text within the pictures so that you can search them easily.

Best Free Office Suite for Android

WPS Office

(27 MB), view, create and edit Microsoft office documents including Word, Excel and Powerpoint with multiple supported file formats such as doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt and pptx. Saving as txt and export to pdf are supported. Basic editing and formatting tools are mostly available.

See also: Google Drive

Best Free Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Android

Text Fairy

, scan and convert images and printed documents into text and searchable pdf files with this app with OCR capabilities at good speed, supporting multiple languages and text editing, free, open source and no ads. (App of the Week)

Best Free PDF Reader for Android

Adobe Reader

(6.6 MB), view PDF files clearly on selectable viewing modes such as fit-to-screen, continuous scroll or reflow text, supports for multi-touch zoom and navigation, and sharing PDF files via bluetooth or email.

Best Free Personal Finance for Android

Financisto - Expense Manager

(2.2 MB), an open-source personal finance manager lets you record and monitor your daily transactions with multiple accounts in any currency you choose. Useful features include scheduled and recurring transactions, budgets, reports, backup and restore database, export to CSV or QIF files.

Expense Manager

(222 KB), easily manage your expense and income accounts by categories and scheduled transactions. Supported features include payment alerts, expense reports and charts, password protection, import and export of account activities, etc.

Personal Finance

(601 KB), on top of Expense Manager, you can do more with stock portfolios, market overview, financial news, real-time stock quotes, market indexes and rates, currency converter, loan calculator and more.

Best Free Programming Editor for Android

QuickEdit Text Editor

, a sleek and quick text editor for creating and editing programming or normal text files on your device or cloud storage via Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, complete with code highlighting and line numbering. (App of the Week)

Best Free Reminder / To-do List for Android

Any.do

(6.7 MB), a very sweet To-do list app with alerts, speech recognition, cloud sync, backup and more. It's easy to use, press a task to change its priority, folder, alarm and note or share it; and long press an entry to move it around. (Review)

ColorNote Notepad Notes

(535 KB), a handy note taking app in the form of text and checklist by color, with reminder, password, search and backup functions. You can easily schedule your notes and to-do lists in a calendar, pin a reminder on the status bar or stick a note on your homescreen via widgets.

Remember The Milk

(3.4 MB) allows you to add and complete tasks on the go, organize tasks with priorities, due dates, time estimates, repeating, lists and tags, and sync with Remember The Milk online. Some features including unlimited sync and push notifications are only for Pro version.

Best Free Text Editor for Android

JotterPad

, a plain text editor making full use of the screen estate of a small mobile device with minimalist user interface, allows you to focus on writing either on your local device or cloud storage without distractions of a full-blown word processor. (App of the Week)

Best Free Timer and Alarm Clock for Android

StopWatch & Timer

(667 KB), where to look for other than this well-designed stop watch and count down timer? It's clean and simple, with optional colors and alarm sounds. A reliable tool to get ready for use.

AlarmDroid

(3.1 MB), besides most basic features, it has flip-and-snooze allowing you to turn the alarm clock back into snooze mode by turning over the phone, speaking clock announcing the time and local weather conditions, music or an Internet radio stream for alarm tone, and more.

Alarm Clock for Android

(3.9 MB), not just a simple wake-up alarm clock, but also a reminder for all what matters in life such as birthdays, anniversaries, conferences or any important events that you don't want to miss. Settings such as notification, ringtone and others are a plus.

Best Free Translator for Android

Google Translate

(4.9 MB), instantly translate words and phrases between more than 60 languages with voice input and text-to-speech supports. Other features include offline access to history and favorite items, display translations in full screen mode, handwriting and more.

Best Free Unit and Currency Converter for Android

Unit Converter

(828 KB), Wopnersoft's Unit Converter converts most common units of measure and currency in a simple and clean design. It's easy to use and allows for saving commonly used conversions to a favorites list.

Exchange Rates

(750 KB), set a base currency you like, add other currencies to the conversion list and long press one of them to view charts in a time range you choose. Overall, it's an elegant currency converter that's easy to use, rich in features, integrated with a calculator, supporting online or offline mode and has no ads.

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Best Free Internet and eMail for Android

Best Free Bookmark Manager for Android

Pocket -formerly Read It Later

(2.6 MB), ever come across something on the web you'd like to view but can't at that time on a browser? Add it to your Pocket bookmark list from your PC or mobile for viewing at your leisure. This app downloads articles or web contents (except videos) in the list to your Android device for offline viewing too. (App of the Week)

Best Free Download Helper for Android

Download All Files

(438 KB), tried to download a file but greeted with the message Content not supported? This app helps you download all file types (except for streaming media) and save email attachments to your SD card.

Best Free Email Client for Android

K-9 Mail

(1.83 MB), a powerful and open-source email client for replacement of Android's default Email app, supporting standard protocols such as IMAP and POP3, with search, push email, multi-folder sync, flagging, signatures, bcc-self and more.

Best Free Navigation for Android

Maps

(6.9 MB), an excellent mobile mapping app by Google to get directions to go from one place to another, search for any business or place to find more info, or see where your friends are right now on the map and so on.

Waze social GPS maps & traffic

(18 MB), a voice-guided navigation app complete with live maps, turn-by-turn directions, automatic re-routing as conditions on the road change, and community generated real-time traffic and road alerts including accidents, hazards, police traps and more. (App of the Week)

Best Free News Reader or Feed Aggregator for Android

Flipboard

(3.6 MB), flip through the news from websites, or the updates and photos on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, etc., all in a magazine layout that's easy and fun to read. You can also customize your Flipboard with the sections you like, share articles and photos, or comment on posts.

Pulse News

(8.3 MB), manage your news sources in tabbed pages, browse stories by sliding visual mosaics and tap one to read in full. What's more? Add stories to your Pulse.me accessible on the Web, or share them with your friends via Facebook, Twitter or email. (App of the Week)

Google Play Newsstand

(7.4 MB), read news and magazines on your mobile devices with highlights and categorized stories, add favorites to the library, bookmark articles for offline viewing, explore new topics and subscribe to the RSS feeds you like.

World Newspapers

(2.4 MB), take a few you like from a directory of thousands of local and international newspapers, magazines and websites, and add them to your favorites for reading with optimized display. You can also download webpages for offline viewing, mark Pocket (formerly Read It later), etc.

Best Free URL Manager for Android

URL Manager

, an all-in-one app for you to shorten, expand or scan any URL links, with support for various shorteners including goo.gl, bit.ly, is.gd, v.gd and j.mp. Moreover, analytics of clicks on short URLs are provided for selected providers.

Best Free Weather Alert and Monitoring for Android

GO Weather

(5.2 MB), monitor live weather conditions and forecasts at your location or other places you selected from around the world, with a desktop widget, video or image background, alert notification and other features. No ads.

Best Free Web Browser for Android

Dolphin Browser HD

(4.8 MB), a powerful browser with multi-tab browsing, bookmarking and syncing, multi-touch zooming, back and forward navigation, better HTML5 support, versatile add-ons, optional mobile view and many more features. (Review)

Chrome

(23.9 MB), a popular browser for you to search and browse fast, sync your open tabs, bookmarks, passwords, and omnibox data from your computer to your phone or tablet, and open a tab in Incognito mode to browse without saving your history. Runs on Android 4.0 and up.

Firefox

(17 MB), enjoy the mobile version of the desktop Firefox. You can switch tabs with live thumbnails, control privacy, customize with mobile add-ons, and sync your desktop history, bookmarks and passwords to your mobile devices.

Opera Mini

(908 KB), a good alternative to Android's Web Browser to provide fast pageloads as it uses powerful servers to compress Web pages by up to 90% before sending them to your mobile device, with Speed Dial to get you to favorite sites quickly too. (Review)

Skyfire Web Browser

(1.7 MB), gives you more features with tabbed browsing, loading pages as an Android user agent or desktop browser, support for HTML5 flash videos, easy access to Facebook and Twitter news feeds, various useful settings and more.

Maxthon Android Web Browser

(5.5 MB), a fast and handy browser with supports for tab browsing, gesture commands, forward and backward navigations, full-screen browsing, favorites manager and sync, download manager, add-ons and many more features.

Best Free Web Search for Android

Google Search

(608 KB), search the Web, as well as the applications and contacts on your device, with this official Google Search app and get search results and suggestions instantly as you type.

Google Goggles

(3.0 MB), snap a picture and search the web for the info you want—either it's barcodes, print ads, landmarks, books and DVDs, contacts info, logos, some text to translate or even Sudoku puzzles to solve. (App of the Week)

Best Free Webmail for Android

Gmail

(2.5 MB), a dedicated Gmail application with email pushed automatically to your phone. Supports for multiple Gmail accounts, search and access synched messages when offline and other common features.

GMX Mail

(4.4 MB), access your GMX mails on the go using this official app optimized for your mobile device. The app also includes a Mail Collector for you to read and send emails from your multiple email accounts, such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and more, all in one place.

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Best Free Networking for Android

Best Free BitTorrent Client for Android

aDownloader

(1.2 MB), download files from torrents in your SD Card, or long press a link to torrents from websites and select Share link via this native BitTorrent downloader, with break and resume features. Better still, get the version with search engines from here

and install it using an installer.

Best Free FTP Client for Android

AndFTP

(896 KB), a fast and reliable FTP or SFTP client comes with both a device file browser and a FTP file browser, allows you to manage several FTP configurations and makes your tasks to upload, download and manage files easier.

Best Free Network Speed Test for Android

Speedtest.net

(3.0 MB) is widely used for giving key measurements on ping, download and upload speed to determine the performance of your Internet connection. Try this app which is the native version to measure the network speed of your Android device.

Best Free Network Traffic Counter for Android

3G Watchdog

(632 KB), set a quota for yourself and monitor your mobile Internet (3G, Edge or GPRS) data usage, with a status icon shown in the notification bar and a detailed report on your data usage for various durations of time.

NetCounter

(214 KB), a great tool to keep track of your data usage over cellular and WiFi internet connections for the current day, week or month. Various options are available such as adding or removing a counter, setting duration and data alert. (Review)

Best Free Remote Access Software for Android

TeamViewer Free

(1.5 MB), access remote computers from everywhere, give spontaneous support and access to unattended computers. The free full version of Teamviewer

is required on remote computers. Free for private use only. (Review)

Best Free Wi-Fi Analyzer for Android

Wifi Analyzer

(452 KB), find a more stable and stronger Wi-Fi channel around you by using this app that turns your device into a Wi-Fi analyzer, equipped with various views: a signal meter, channel graph, time graph and others. It's also quick and easy to change a view by swiping left or right.

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Best Free Photos & Graphics for Android

Best Free Background Remover for Android

Background Eraser

, a convenient app to remove unwanted background of an image and make it transparent with various tools in three editing modes. You can then use it like a stamp on another image with a photo editor.(App of the Week)

Best Free Barcode Scanner for Android

Barcode Scanner

(988 KB), a small yet efficient tool by ZXing Team to scan data matrix and QR codes

containing URLs, contacts, products info, etc. If you've not installed it on your Android device, this is the right one to use for scanning the QR code for an Android app. (App of the Week)

QR Droid

(6.8 MB), more than a scanner, it's also a reader and generator—scan QR codes from camera, decode them from saved images or from URLs of images, create QR codes from your contacts, installed applications, bookmarks, SMS and more.

Best Free Camera App for Android

Retrica

(81.5 MB), take photos with your device's camera with this app loaded with a huge set of real-time unique filters and useful features like selective focus, light exposure, timer, making collages with interval shooting, sharing and more.

Best Free Business Card Reader for Android

CamCard Free

(15 MB), capture business card images and save card details such as name, contact numbers and email addresses into your contacts automatically. Basic editing tools and multi-languages are supported, but more advanced features are only available to the full commercial version.

Best Free Document Scanner for Android

CamScanner -Phone PDF Creator

(10 MB), scan multi-page documents and save into PDFs with tags for sharing with others by email, SMS or upload to cloud storage. Auto crop and auto enhance images but exported PDFs come with watermarks. Ad-supported. (App of the Week)

Best Free GIF Animator for Android

Giphy

, search and share GIFs and stickers from a huge library on your social channels, or create and save your own with its GIF maker by choosing multiple images or trimming a video. (App of the Week)

Best Free Image Editor for Android

Snapseed

(24 MB), a capable and powerful photo editing app which is good for both professionals and amateurs. It's easy to use at your fingertips, either swipe left and right on top of the photo to adjust what a filter does, or swipe up and down to gain more controls of the filters. (App of the Week)

Photoshop Express

(1.3 MB), edit photos on your mobile device easily—touch to crop, rotate, adjust color and add artistic effects, then save them or upload to Facebook, Photoshop.com or TwitPic. Nice interface but no resizer is included.

PicSay - Photo Editor

(1.2 MB), get a picture to add titles, balloons, stickers and special effects, or to resize, crop and straighten, flip or rotate. More special effects and some advanced features are for the paid-for Pro version.

Pixlr-o-matic

(6.5 MB), adding special effects to your photos is as easy as you count one, two, three—snap a photo from your camera or select one from your gallery, then choose a color filter, a lighting effect and a good frame from the many choices included, and save or share your cool-looking photo with friends. (App of the Week)

PhotoFunia

, enjoy your fun-filled experience by adding more effects to your photos easily—select a scene from more than 150 choices such as billboards or magazines from the app, then take your picture or get one from your gallery for it to integrate with the scene and download to your mobile for sharing or saving. (App of the Week)

PicsArt Photo Studio

, besides common editing such as crop, rotate, resize and adjust colors, this all-in-one image tool lets you take photos or load images and do more manipulations including collage, add frames, masks, clipart, text, draw and apply artistic photo effects before saving or sharing your results. Rich in features and easy to use.

Best Free Image Stitcher for Android

Photaf Panorama (Free)

(5.6 MB), easily create 360-degree panoramas from your Android device—just aim and move your device's camera around, then press Stitch Images and it does the rest for you automatically. You can export your panoramas to a folder, send to your friends or upload to Photaf Panoramas Gallery

for sharing.

Best Free Image Viewer for Android

QuickPic

(380 KB), light and fast, gives you a high-resolution thumbnail preview fit into your screen, touch or pinch to zoom, rotate and other additional features including slideshow, crop, share, set wallpaper and more.

JustPictures!

(1.2 MB), not only can you view pictures from your SD card, but also browse photos from Picasa, Flickr, Facebook, Smugmug, Photobucket, Windows Live, Tumblr and Deviant Art in a unified and clean user interface, with slideshow and other features.

Best Free Paint Program for Android

SketchBook Mobile Express

(4.4 MB), a high quality app allows you to draw on your mobile screen using a variety of digital brushes and pencils with simulated pressure. The interface is streamlined with tools including an eraser, redo/undo, color and transparency, flood fill, symmetric mode, layers, import photos and export to a png file.

Best Free Photo Collage for Android

Photo Grid

(4.6 MB), select the photos you like and tap 'Create' to collage your photos easily. You can manually select a layout or just shake your device to change it. Support various modes such as grid, free style, high and wide modes, with frame, background and editing features.

Best Free Screenshot Capture for Android

Screenshot Easy

(5.2 MB) allows you to take a screenshot on your mobile device easily in a way you like—simply tap an app icon or a shortcut, shake your device, or use a button combo, etc., with screenshot adjustments and configurations too. (App of the Week)

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Best Free Security and Privacy for Android

Best Free Ad Blocker for Android

Blokada

, an open source and DNS-based ad blocker for protecting your Android mobile from ads and tracking. It blocks ads across apps and browsers and works on non-rooted mobile devices. Easy to use, simply tap the shield icon to enable or disable the blocker. (App of the Week)

Best Free Anti-malware for Android

avast! Mobile Security & Antivirus

(8.5 MB), a feature-rich security app includes not only a virus scanner to scan all your installed apps and SD card content against viruses, but also other useful tools such as privacy advisor, app manager, web shield, SMS and call filter and anti-theft. It also adds a firewall which works only on rooted phones. (Review)

Lookout Antivirus & Security

(7.7 MB), protect your device and data easily by blocking viruses, spyware or other malware and scanning every app you installed with automatic antivirus updates, backup your contacts to the web or restore data to an existing phone, find your missing phone and more. Privacy Advisor is only available to the paid-for premium version. (Review)

TrustGo Antivirus & Mobile Security

(4.9 MB), a simple yet powerful security app with awesome anti-malware capabilities, secure web browsing and a secure app advisor. This app has low impact on your device's resources. (Review)

CM Security - FREE Antivirus

(9.7 MB), tap on a big Scan button to start scanning the installed apps and file system to detect any viruses, trojan, vulnerability, adware and spyware that could exist on your device. It's lightweight and its scanning process is pretty fast. (Review)

VirusTotal for Android

(492 KB) helps get your system and user apps in your device scanned by more than 40 antivirus vendors and flag any malicious apps. Tap a flagged app and you can view its detailed scan results from the vendors.

Best Free Apps Protection for Android

AppLock

, protect your installed apps with a number or pattern lock using this handy app, with other useful features such as locking the install and uninstall functions, incoming calls, settings, hiding the AppLock icon, hiding photos and videos, and short exits without the need to unlock again. (App of the Week)

Perfect App Protector - FREE

(3.7 MB), lock your selected apps with a password or pattern, reduce screen brightness and control screen rotations on the apps you chose, plus stealth mode and other useful features.

Application Protection

(328 KB), easily help protect applications and data on your device with a passcode to prevent unauthorized usage. Upon first running, press "?" to get the original code, add apps to the list then set your own unlock code.

Best Free Device Tracker for Android

Wheres My Droid

(651 KB), finding your misplaced phone is made easy—use another phone to text "Where's my droid" to make your lost phone ring even if it's on silent mode, or text "GPS my droid" to know its whereabouts. Simple as that.

Prey Anti-Theft

(3.0 MB), "Once the device has been instructed to go into missing mode, the app springs into action and does whatever you've told it to do. You can either trace your device, lock it or delete the files on it." (Review)

Best Free Password Manager for Android

LastPass

, sync and manage all your passwords in the account across multiple devices securely and reliably with encryption and decryption done on your device and not on the servers. (App of the Week)

KeePassDroid

(1.3 MB), too many passwords to remember? This app helps manage passwords easily—just remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock them. A good implementation of desktop software KeePass Password Safe

or even KeePassX

.

Keeper Password & Data Vault

(4.6 MB), a simplistic app that saves all your passwords onto your mobile phone with a master password. Features include optional self-destructs after entering five wrong passwords but cloud bakcup is only available on the paid version. (App of the Week)

Best Free Private Gallery for Android

Gallery Lock

(4.4 MB), manage your private photos and videos by hiding them into folders accessible only with your password or pattern lock. The app supports slideshow and other options, but stealth mode and backup are available only on the paid version.

Best Free Virtual Space for Android

Parallel Space

creates a second space or environment for you to run the second account of the same app at the same time on the same device with password and fingerprint protection as well as other great features. (App of the Week)

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Best Free Social, Messaging & Mail for Android

Best Free Browser Texting for Android

SMS Text Messaging -PC Texting

(399 KB), enjoy receiving and sending SMS from your PC's browser using your phone number, just like you normally would on your phone but without touching it. Unlimited SMS, supported only on Chrome with the MightyText extension

installed.

Best Free Call & Message Filter for Android

BlackList

(1.5 MB), block unwanted calls and SMS easily and effectively by adding a call number to a black list from your contact, call logs, message logs or manually. Features include auto reply, logging and other various options. An exception list is limited to the paid version.

Best Free Contact Manager for Android

aContacts

(602 KB), speed up searching contacts by favorites, alphabets or groups, send email or SMS to groups, complete with T9 speed dials, advanced call log, setting for grid or list view and more. Ads free.

DW Contacts & Phone

(3.2 MB), easily search for a contact by group, organization or title, manage contact groups, send emails or SMS to a person or group, set group ringtones and icons, etc. The free version is supported by a small ad.

Best Free Contact Sharing for Android

Bump

(2.9 MB), bump two devices together and share your contact info instantly without the need to type or write with a pen on scraps of paper. With a built-in messenger, you can also easily send photos and instant messages to the devices you bumped. (App of the Week)

Best Free Dialer for Android

Dialer One

(2.4 MB), better than the default Phone app, it comes with a smart T9 dialpad with speed dial, simultaneous search on calls and contacts, horizontal swiping to navigate between call log, contacts and favorites.

Best Free Instant Messaging for Android

eBuddy Messenger

(1.8 MB), a popular instant messaging service support multiple accounts including GTalk, Windows Live Messenger, Facebook, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, MySpace and more. Useful settings include hiding offline buddies and blocking unknown users. Ad-supported.

WhatsApp Messenger

(9.4 MB), chat with your friends and family using this messenger across multi types of devices including Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Nokia phones. You can send text, pictures, audio and video messages. This app is free for the first year.

Best Free Messaging Client for Android

GO SMS Pro

(8.1 MB), easier to find a contact or group to send an SMS or MMS with useful features such as message popup, quick reply, messages and folders view, emoji support and more. A good replacement of the default Messaging app.

Best Free Social Networking for Android

Google+

(12.3 MB), find and invite people to your circles of friends and family, share your profile, thoughts and photos or hangout with them, tap Home to get their updates and see what people nearby are saying, or type instant messages using the app.

Facebook for Android

(2.53 MB), share your personal profile, check out news feed, send messages, upload photos and chat with friends on Facebook using this app, a better interface optimized for use on a mobile device.

Twitter

(1.93 MB), a dedicated Twitter application for Android to post a tweet on the go super simple and to discover what's happening right now anywhere in the world.

Instagram

(13 MB), use this popular photo sharing app to add special effects such as filters and borders to your photos easily before you share them with your friends, or follow photos uploaded by other members on the network. (App of the Week)

Foursquare

(9.8 MB), find the places around you, record the places you visit by 'checking in', invite friends and view their locations, broadcast your location by 'shouting' to friends, get their comments or insider tips and more.

TweetDeck

(814 KB), monitor and post status updates to your Twitter accounts, Facebook profile, Foursquare and Google Buzz, all from a single place simultaneously. You can also add links and photos, view and comment on news feeds, open links in a browser and more.

Best Free Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for Android

Skype

(15 MB), make free Skype-to-Skype calls over 3G or WiFi network on the move, or cheap calls to landlines or mobile phones at Skype rates. No video calls is available and some handsets may not be supported.

LINE

(11 MB), a light and popular messenger supports both free messaging and voice calls. Features include automatically identify your friends using LINE, send photos, unique stickers and emoticons, create or join group chat rooms.

Tango Text, Voice, Video Calls

(13 MB), make free voice and video calls over 3G, 4G and WiFi network on the move. From my contacts, it automatically finds the friends I can Tango. More mobile devices are supported but the desktop client has yet to be developed.

Best Free Walkie-Talkie for Android

Voxer Walkie-Talkie PTT

(5.6 MB), turn your phone into a live walkie-talkie or a handheld transceiver with this app easily. Besides talking with friends, you can also send text or photos to them using Android or iPhone devices over WiFi, 3G/4G or EDGE. (App of the Week)