This is finally the year 2021, we wish you all a happy new year. In this post, we are going to give you 12 incredible Android Apps. Let us get straight into the list of best Android Apps January 2021.
1. Auto Photo Compress
Auto Photo Compress claims to compress your photos and save up to 90% of your photo storage without compromising the quality of the photos. Now if you want to preserve the original quality that’s fine too. It’s worth noting anytime you compress a photo. We can assume that some quality is going to be lost, whether it’s noticeable or not that’s a different story.
This app is really great for those of you who are really trying to free up some extra space. So what’s also cool are you can backup your original high res photos to your cloud storage provider. You can then compress the photos that haven’t already been compressed to free up some space. You can schedule compressions on preset days and times. And it’s also worth noting that this app supports popular formats like JPG and PNG.
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Requirement: Android 5.0 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
2. Spotted by Locals
If you’re looking for new restaurants or things to do in your city, Spotted by Locals is a great app to have. Instead of using algorithms or ads like Google Maps, this app uses real local people to highlight local gyms in your area. What’s also neat is the app works completely offline, so you don’t need any internet connection to access it.
With that said, right now, only the most populated cities are available like New York City, LA, Chicago and a few others in North America. The app currently has 80 cities all around the world. So if you live in a big city, you should give this app a try.
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Requirement: Android 4.1 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
3. Mark – – Auto Screenshot Deleter
Mark might be the most simple yet useful app on the list. What it does is, it will auto-delete your screenshots after a certain amount of time. After you take a screenshot, you’ll be notified with a notification, with a yes button. If you want that screenshot to be deleted automatically.
There’s even the option to just automatically clear the notification after 40 seconds. So you don’t get spammed notifications and get overwhelmed. And of course, the screenshot will also get deleted. It’s really that simple though, and it could be useful as if you are taking a lot of screenshots.
Price: Free
Requirement: Android 5.0 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
4. Geometric Weather
Geometric Weather is a fantastic weather app that offers real-time temperature, air quality index, a 15-day weather forecast. The Sun and Moon cycles and much much more. It offers pretty much all the information you could possibly want without having to really hunt for that information.
What’s also cool is you can change the service provider of the weather data, there’s a dark mode as well. This app is great, especially if you need a new weather app gestures and tap them down.
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Requirement: Android 4.4 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
5. Rush Hour 3D
Rush Hour 3D is such a simple yet addicting game on the list. All you got to do is drive your car and try and overtake the car in front of you. You have to do this without bumping into the cars coming and driving the opposite direction.
The goal is just to see how far you can get. There are various car models to acquire, each with a different driving field. It’s a lot of fun, and just easy to pick up and play.
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Requirement: Android 5.0 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
6. Pix Wallpapers
Pix Wallpapers offers a ton of fresh new wallpapers for your Android device. There are all sorts of different types broken down into categories that might interest you. It’s just really easy to tap and apply the wallpaper you like or save it to your device.
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Requirement: Android 5.0 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
7. Bluetooth Audio Device Widget
This app lets you add a custom widget for every Bluetooth device you have. It’s much better than having to navigate to your settings and search for Bluetooth speakers or a pair of earphones of yours. You can customize settings for a specific device. For instance, Spotify is automatically opened up when your device is paired and connected to your phone.
You can get a notification when your device is connected. You can even customize the volume levels for each specific pair of earphones you have and a few other things. So it’s really handy and simple, give it a look if you’re an avid wireless music listener.
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Requirement: Android 5.1 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
8. Race or Rocket Arena Car Xtreme
Race is an early access game that looks very promising. You basically engage in 3d offline race battles, where you fire rockets at your enemies and counter their attacks with your shield. Of course, there’s an extra boost to go faster and help you compete against your enemies.
There are four different racing modes and you can level up your vehicle as high as level 30. So you should be able to play this game for quite a while before it gets old.
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Requirement: It varies with device
Get it from Play Store.
9. Touch Lock
Touch Lock, lets you lock your touchscreen, so you don’t accidentally press it when you don’t want to. Some use cases include for cooking, so you can keep the screen on while you read the recipe, watching a TV show that the fear of it being interrupted. Maybe you’re displaying a photo album and you don’t want anyone to mess up the slideshow feature.
There’s just a lot of different use cases, you can use the fingerprint scanner to lock or unlock the screen. You can even lock the volume keys which is also pretty handy for its own set of reasons.
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Requirement: Android 4.2 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
10. Liquid Teardown
Liquid Teardown offers an inside look at your phone internals while being able to quickly look at how much your battery is charged. You can customize the battery colour and percentage colour. The only downside is the app doesn’t support every Android device out there. Hence the reason why it has a relatively low rating on the Play Store.
The developer is adding more and more all the time, and the app UI does work well. So if your device is supported, you should definitely check this app out.
Price: Free
Requirement: Android 8.0 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
11. WWE Undefeated
WWE Undefeated has been getting a ton of praise online. This app is apparently designed from the ground up for mobile devices offering real-time, head to head competitions. So you can play quick session matches and collect and upgrade moves to build up your arsenal to defeat your opponents. If you like Mortal Combat and of course you’ll really enjoy this game.
Price: Free
Requirement: Android 5.1 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
12. Buzzkill
Buzzkill is a collection of tools to help you keep your notifications under control. With this app, you can create rules which tell buzzkill which notifications to activate for, and what to do with them. You can filter the notifications based on a word or a phrase by images, notifications and more. It’s a really powerful tool that would be great if you love to heavily customize your device.
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Requirement: Android 7.0 and up.
Get it from Play Store.
Those are 12 of our favourite Android apps for the month of January 2021. We hope these apps will prove their usefulness when needed.
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