#Android: Best Apps You've Probably Never Downloaded Before (Part 1)

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This list isn’t about the apps that everyman and his dog has – the Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify and WhatsApp-type apps of the world. No, this one’s focused on the apps that might have slipped under your radar; the lesser known but equally useful applications available inside Google Play. Basically apps that make your Android handset all the more useful in everyday scenarios.
As more and more applications are added to Google Play it becomes increasingly hard to whittle out the wheat from the chaff. Flappy Bird springs to mind here: it came, it exploded and now, two weeks later, no one really cares – aside from all the developers attempting to cash in on the trend with similarly named titles and games. Iron Pants, anybody?
There are currently around 750,000+ applications inside Google Play. Deciding which app to download is often a case of opening Play and checking the Top 10 charts, and that’s great for the most part – but you do miss a lot of good stuff. And that’s why we decided to put this list together. Oh, and we’ll be adding new apps to this list every week. Yes, it’s a grower.

Hodor Keyboard – 59p

Game of Thrones has taken off in a big way and one of the most popular characters has proved to be the simple giant Hodor. If you haven’t watched the show before, the character of Hodor is half giant and only has one word in his vocabulary, his own name.

It makes for some quite funny scenes throughout where Hodor just says...Hodor. Now you can be like Hodor too with this simple keyboard which allows you to write the word Hodor in as many ways you can imagine.
Maybe it’s not worth the full 59p it’s asking for but the keyboard does provide at least a few minutes entertainment for any Thrones fan. If you hold the Hodor key you’ll get a maximum Hodor whilst swiping left will delete a Hodor. George RR Martin should be proud.

My Fitness Pal – Free

Fitness buffs need to have this in their app arsenal. This app helps you to record everything from diet to exercise to work out how successful you’ve been on your weight loss regime. As long as you keep it fully up to date you’ll be able to work out how well you’ve been doing entering in the weight you want to be and by when.
The app has a huge user base already which means a load of food stuffs have already been entered into the system so there’s no need to try and work out how many calories you’ve had. My Fitness Pal will do it all for you.

My Fitness Pal combines with a truck load of other services to help you enter in your fitness data. Other popular applications such as the Fitbit tracker, Map My Run or Run Keeper can be combined to automatically sync in your exercise data making it even easier than before. For anyone trying to lose weight or keep to a strict diet and exercise plan, My Fitness Pal is a godsend.

Ringo: International Calling – Free (Call Charges Not Included)

Ringo is the latest competitor to Skype’s monopoly over internet based phone calls. We don’t think it has much to do with the former Beatle, it’s likely it’s just a catchy way of combining the words Ring and Go. It allows you high quality, low cost international calls without the need for internet.

You don’t need to use your 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi to use Ringo. You do pay some international rates this way but they’re dead cheap compared to what some other services offer. The app works by connecting your international calls and making them sound as good as high quality local calls.
You first call comes in free, plus you get extra free credits for every friend you recommend to the service. It’s a pay-as-you-go service which costs up to 90% less than other calling services of the same nature.
To check out the rates and learn more head over to the official site. If you live in the US, UK or 14 other countries around the world you can use Ringo without a need for expensive internet.

Google Opinion Rewards - Free

Everyone likes free money. This app will offer you free credit on the Google Play Store. We say free, you have to work for it, but it’s not too strenuous. Essentially it’s answering surveys. For each 4 or 5 question survey Google will give you 50p Google Play credit which you can spend on apps, games, music or movies.

Survey questions are usually about how much you use your smartphone and in what way so you’re not exactly giving away a lot of your private information. It does start off with a survey about yourself though which can get pretty complicated and can take quite a while to authenticate before you get your first official survey.
Once you do though it’s quite nice to get that credit in your Google Play account.

Lingua - Free

We included Duolingo in this list of applications so by default we thought we’d include a competitor. Lingua.ly is a serious competitor which will help you learn a bunch of new languages you want to. It’s a translator for at least a dozen languages and helps you learn the language from scratch as well.

It’s own audio guide makes sure you’re pronouncing the words correctly and from there it’ll quiz you to keep you revising about your new language you’re trying to learn. It mostly teaches you by making your learn individual stories unlike Duolingo which encourages you to learn a sentence at a time.
Web stories which it uses can get complicated very quickly though so it allows you to tap on each individual word which will then come up with the English definition. The best bit about the application are the lack of adverts or in-app purchases which means you can learn your new language on any kind of budget.

TaskRabbit – Free

You know those days when you don’t feel like cleaning the house, fixing that problem with the shower or filing away that massive pile of paperwork? TaskRabbit is here to help you get those jobs done with minimal effort.
Download and sign into TaskRabbit with either your Facebook, Google+ or email account and it’ll prompt you for your postcode. Once you’ve entered all those details, you’ll be ready to outsource any of those jobs you’ve got knocking around the house, for a price.
TaskRabbit offers a huge amount of services from house cleaning to grocery delivery and, bizarrely, even queuing. You can pay someone else through the service to go and queue for those pesky theatre tickets for you.
Although the services don't come particularly cheap, most are over £10 per an hour but you may find it worth it. Other options include pet sitting, transporting furniture and general errand running. Each tasker employed by TaskTabbit has been ID verified and interviewed by TaskRabbit to make sure it offers the “best and safest experience getting your tasks done.

BBC iPlayer Radio – Free

Here’s one specifically for the UK. It’s likely you’ve heard and used BBC iPlayer, the fantastic free on demand service from the BBC. This app is the same deal as the normal iPlayer app – here it's just focussed on radio. All of the BBC Radio stations are available from within the app where you can listen live. Internet only stations such as BBC Radio 6 Music are all available with just a couple of taps.
Stations are easy to find with a fantastic looking turnwheel which feels slick and shows what each station is playing at a time.
On top of the live radio service, there’s access to a load of on-demand programmes from the week before as well as the ability to download podcasts directly in the app.
Audio quality is amazing no-matter whether you’re listening over Wi-Fi, 3G or ultra fast 4G. It also allows you to connect Bluetooth audio devices so you can listen to the radio wirelessly. Another great feature is the radio alarm which means you can wake up to the sound of the radio, a feature most people lost when switching to a mobile phone.
Thanks to the BBC, if you’re in the UK, BBC Radio iPlayer is free and listening to content won’t cost you a penny. Plus the interface isn’t bombarded with adverts which is always a nice touch.

Duolingo – Free

Most people say they want to learn a new language; it’s near the top of a lot of new years resolution lists. Finding the time and money to actually sit down and learn it though, that’s a different matter. Duolingo wants to help you get to learn the basics of your preferred language in some easy to learn chunks.
Simply download the app to your phone, sign up, choose a language and you’re away. You have French, Spanish, German, Portugese, Italian and English to choose from. It’s set out in a game form making you want to come back daily for your next language lesson.
Loads of different techniques are used including picture rounds, normal sentence structure and even speaking aloud through your smartphones microphone. Don’t worry if you’re in a crowded place though, these rounds can be skipped to save embarrassment.
The best part is it’s entirely free. Some people have found a few problems with the language translation but when you’re having difficulties there are forum sections with advice from real-life speakers of each language.

RunPee – 99p

When you sat down to watch The Wolf Of Wall Street with your extra large soft drink, you didn’t exactly know it’d be three hours long. By the half way point your bladder is fit to burst after draining that drink within the first half hour. You just have to go to the toilet before you can begin to enjoy the film again. But when is the best time?
Long gone are the days of intermissions in epic film adventures so we need another way to tell you when to run off for that quick loo break. RunPee is here to help. After you’ve bought it for 99p, it’ll tell you exactly the right time in the film you should run off for a tinkle.
All the major films are included, mostly in a list of release date specifically for the cinema. It then tells you how long you’ve got to pee and what you’ll miss whilst you’ve gone. It even lets you know whether there will be any extra scenes at the end of the credits so you don’t have to sit around waiting.
Turned up late to the film? Just check your phone and it’ll tell you what happened in the first 3 minutes.

The Mindfullness App - £1.41

Ever wanted to feel like Neo once he wakes up and knows everything in The Matrix? That’s what one member of the KYM team compared this app to. High praise indeed but with 400k users maybe The Mindfullness App is on to something here.

Essentially it’s an app to sweep your brains clear of all that useless junk. It works through meditation techniques and aims to make you more self aware and therefore less stressed. The app claims it is useful for beginners and practiced meditators alike and uses a load of different meditation types including guided and silent options.

SleepBot - Free

Want to improve your sleep more? SleepBot will do it for free. Unlike a variety of other sleep tracker applications, SleepBot doesn’t cost a penny and will track how you sleep just through placing it on the bed next to you.
It brings with it a tracker to tell you how good your nights sleep was and how you can improve. There’s also a optimal alarm which means it only wakes you up whilst you’re in a light sleep. This way you’ll wake up feeling more refreshed and ready to start the day.

There’s also the option of multiple alarms, this way you and your partner will be able to use the same alarm clock even if you get up at different times. It has a rating of 4.2 on the Google Play store which shows how popular it has been.

C25K - Free Trial (99p Thereafter)

You might have heard people talking about Couch To 5K. The concept is an app which gives you a structured approach to going from someone who does no excercise to being able to run five kilometres. There are now several apps which do the same thing, but C25K Free by RunDouble is one of the better ones.
It's pegged as a fully featured trial with no restricted features for the first two weeks, but if you want to carry on using it after that you need to buy the full version for 99p - hardly bank breaking.
The app features include:

• Prompts you to change pace while working through the Couch to 5K training program.
• Tracks your time, distance and pace, announcing these to you at the end of each interval.
• Plays a playlist of your choosing, from your personal music selection. Or alternatively, use another app to play music.
• View your previous runs
• Additional pace updates at set intervals
• Half way marker
• Programmable pace warning (target pace)
• Support for heart rate monitor (Polar Wearlink+ Bluetooth)
• Cloud service: Track your progress, View your route on a map, View detailed statistics about your workout

Meme Generator - Free

Maybe you don't like Memes, in which case you should probably skip this one. For the rest of us, sometimes when you want to say something it feels like only a Meme will do, and that's where Meme Generator comes in.
Meme Generator Free by ZomboDroid contains a full collection including most of the internet's most popular Meme images and allows you to use these as a template to make your own. You can pick a Meme image from an alphabetical list, add your own text and then have the option of saving the Meme to your phone or using the built-in sharing to send it via email, chat or text, or to put it out there via social networking platforms.
Better still, you can create your own Memes entirely from scratch by loading in an image from your phone's storage, so downloaded images or ones you have capture with a handset's camera can all be Meme-ified.

BandsInTown - Free

If you’re not constantly checking gig pages, it can be really difficult to keep track of where your favourite bands are playing and when. BandsInTown aims to help you out. Whether you’re looking for gig tickets to your favourite acts or just looking for something to do on a spare weekday night, the app has you covered.
It’s free to download and connects to either your Facebook account or your Google+. From there you can then connect into a number of other music based networks including Pandora, Last.FM, Google Play or your music based Facebook likes. It then reads what kind of acts you’re into and lists them before your very eyes. Depending on which city you live in, it’ll then bold out the ones who are playing near you in the next few months. The latest gig we got was for July, a whole 5 months time.
There’s even a recommended section so if you’re stuck for something to do tonight, log on and you can find a nearby gig to try out some new music. Inside the app you can then find tickets or other details about the show including telling your mates if you’ll be there or not.

Spendee - Free

Always find yourself spending more than you budgeted? This helpful app will aid you in limiting the amount of money spilling from your pockets. Every time you earn or spend money, enter it into the app and it tracks whether you’re keeping to your budget, simple.
You can split the data you enter in to different categories, for example bills, hobbies, food, drink and shopping. The app then generates a series of graphs to help you visualise how you’ve been spending your money recently. You can set up regular expenditure such as rent and bills but the app is really easy to use.
Worried someone may be able to grab your phone and know a load of your personal spending details? Just password protect the app with a 4-digit pin code.

Swiftkey – £2.99

This application really does come under MUST HAVE. It’ll revolutionize the way you type, work and use your Android smartphone and tablets. There is a free version available, but we’d urge you to just spunk the cash on the premium one – it really is worth every penny.
Swiftkey as the name suggests is a keyboard application, which might sound a bit boring, we know, but take it from us: Swiftkey is anything but. Swiftkey learns how you type, what your favorite words and abbreviations are, and syncs them to its cloud servers, so when you install it on another device –– say your tablet –– it pulls everything down.
SwiftKey can predict your next word before you’ve even pressed a key. It also intelligently learns as you type, adapting to you and your way of writing. It takes a few days, but once Swiftkey “gets your style” typing becomes a ridiculously intuitive experience. After a week or so you’ll never be able to go back to anything else.

Snapdragon™ BatteryGuru - Free

Everyone knows the feeling: you're late to meet a friend in an unfamiliar part of town and you're using google maps to make your way there. Suddenly, you realise you've got a low battery. If you're lucky, you'll make it there in time and find your friend. If not, you've got a world of pain waiting for you on your answerphone and big apology to make once you finally find a phone charger. But it doesn't have to be this way. The Snapdragon Battery Guru app learns your behaviour a couple of days after download and then works in the background to adjust your smartphone setting and help your battery last longer. Simples. Plus, it works on the majority of Snapdragon powered devices.

Google Goggles - Free

Imagine you’re on holiday in the middle of Paris. There’s a recognisable tower right in front of you, but its name escapes you. You can’t be bothered to go through the hassle of asking a French person as you flopped your GCSE French exam and came out with little more than how to say hello and the days of the week.
Here’s where Google Goggles can help. The idea is that you use the camera to take photos of objects and Google searches its databases to find out everything you need to know, a Google search without the words. As well as acting as a barcode and QR scanner it can now also recognise famous landmarks and can you give you detailed information on what you’re pointing it at.
The idea is great and the app now supports multiple languages including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and can translate all into other languages. This means you can take a photo of some foreign language text and Google Goggles will do its best to try and translate it for you. It can also recognise paintings, books, DVD’s, CD’s and will do its best to solve Sudoku puzzles for you.

Free Song of the Day - Free

We all love music and we all love free stuff. The marriage of the two is why torrenting is so popular and artists are struggling to make ends meet. Will someone please help out Gaga, she won't be able to afford her meat dress.
The love of free and music made Google come up with the idea of Free Song of the Day which is available through the Google Play Store. The service offers popular songs for free, not the smaller artists which iTunes offers through its free single of the week deal. Past artists on Google’s service include Ellie Goulding, Disclosure, Lady Antebellum and Swedish House Mafia, stuff which dominates the charts.
This app gives you a reminder every day to go and check out what song is available. Once using the app you can find a link to download it whilst it supplies you with artist and album information so if its someone new you can learn more about the artist.
Some songs are free for more than the day and the app comes with a handy list of all the previous titles so you can check to see if they’re still available. Although free to download, you can also upgrade to a premium service which avoids those nasty adverts trying to make their way into your eyes. Premium users will soon be offered additional free songs which the free users won’t be able to access.


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