Android Must have Apps

MUST HAVE ANDROID APPS

Compiled by - CA RAVINDRAPATIL

                                   

1.      Contacts +(http://contactspls.com/)

Contacts+ is your everyday contacts &dialer app, powered with text messaging, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and much more - all in one place.

With Contacts+ you can send free and regular text messages without switching apps, auto-sync beautiful pics to your contacts from Facebook, and get birthday reminders so you’ll never forget a birthday again!

Features:
★ Beautiful contacts design
★ Integrated Dialer, Call log and Messages list (swipe left/right)
★ Light / Dark themes
★ Groups &favorites contacts display
★ Grid / List contacts view
★ Smart contacts prioritization by Frequency or sort by A-Z / Recents
★ Send FREE & regular text messages to your contacts from one place
★ View contacts messages history (thread) in their profiles
★Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin& Foursquare integrated in your contacts
★ Navigate to your contacts addresses from their profiles
★ Auto pictures and birthdays sync with Facebook, including cover photos
★ Auto pictures sync with Google+
★ Merge duplicate contacts (supports most devices)
★ Contacts widget
★ Birthdays reminders
★ Fast T9 & Gesture search by names, numbers, emails and company
★ Quick call - press & hold a contact pic to call from your main contacts screen
★ Speed dial

2.      Cerberus anti-theft(https://www.cerberusapp.com/)

Cerberus is a complete anti-theft application, the best protection you can get to recover your misplaced, lost or stolen Android device. This is a free trial for one week, then you can buy a lifetime license for a small price (2.99€) from within the application: no monthly or yearly fees, just a one-time payment. License is associated to your Cerberus account, if you have multiple devices you can use all of them (up to 5) with the same account.

It has three ways to protect your device:
- Remote control through the website www.cerberusapp.com
- Remote control via text messages
- SIM Checker (for devices that have a SIM card): you will automatically receive alerts if someone uses your phone with an unauthorized SIM card

Remote control allows you to perform many operations on your device, like:
- Locate and track it
- Start a loud alarm, even if the device is set to silent mode
- Wipe the internal memory and the SD card
- Hide Cerberus from the app drawer
- Lock the device with a code
- Record audio from the microphone
- Get a list of last calls sent and received
- Get information about network and operator the device is connected to
- And much more!

The app works even if the device does not have an internet connection thanks to remote control by sms messages. Also, the SIM Checker feature allows you to know the new number to send texts to, if the SIM card is changed. Texts received and sent for Cerberus remote control will not start any notification and will not appear in the Messages application.

Cerberus does not drain the battery because there is no background service running: it will activate only if there is a remote control request and will stop afterwards.

3.      AppLock(http://www.domobile.com/)

AppLock can lock SMS, Contacts, Gmail, Facebook, Gallery, Market, Settings, Calls and any app you choose, with abundant options, protecting your privacy.

AppLock can hide pictures and videos;AppLock empowers you to control photo and video access. Selected pictures vanish from your photo gallery, and stay locked behind an easy-to-use PIN pad. With AppLock, only you can see your hidden pictures. Privacy made easy!

• Protects any apps using password or pattern
• Photo Vault, hide pictures
• Video Vault, hide videos
• Customize background, set your favorite photo
• Themes
• Fake cover
• Profiles, easy to change the locks
• Automatic lock at given time
• Automatic lock at given location
• Random keyboard
• Lock switch(WiFi,BT,3G/4G Data...)
• Widget for quick locking/unlocking
• Locks incoming or outgoing calls
• Lock system Settings
• Lock Google Play Store
• Quick lock switcher on status bar
• Re-lock policy: allow short exit, no need to unlock again
• Prevent apps from being uninstalled
• Hide AppLock's icon from launcher
• AppLock can be prevented from being uninstall
• AppLock cannot be killed by task killers
• Little memory footprint and power-saving

4.      CamCard HD Free-BizCard Reader (http://www.intsig.com/)

CamCard is a fantastic business card reader with high recognition accuracy and many handy features. Simply take a picture of a business card, CamCard recognizes the contact information and saves in Card Holder or Address Book. Then feel at ease to manage piles of business cards on the go across smartphones, tablets, Mac/PC and etc.

Key features in CamCard HD:
1. Superior accurate recognition: simply take a picture of a business card, the contact information is accurately recognized and saved into address book, Gmail, Outlook or other Exchange account.
2. Real card flipping feel and premium visual effects: multiple browsing modes to sort out business cards easily on the go.
3. Unique smart features:
• Auto-detect text orientation
• Auto-detect card language
• Auto-detect card image rotation
• Auto-crop card image
• Auto-enhance business card image
4. Fast access card information: send emails, browse web sites and locate address on maps by directly clicking on card image
5. Seamless synchronization across multiple devices: manage card information with smartphones, tablets and Mac/PC.
6. Auto backup: sign up with CamCard and auto backup in the cloud.

5.      CamScanner -Phone PDF Creator(http://www.intsig.com/)

Use your phone camera to scan receipts, notes, invoices, whiteboard discussions, business cards, certificates, etc.Smart cropping and auto enhancing make the texts and graphics look clear and sharp. Easily share docs in PDF or JPEG format with others via social media, email attachment or sending the doc link. Set passcode for viewing important docs; meanwhile, when sending doc link, you can set password to protect it

6.      FoxitMobilePDF - PDF Reader (http://www.foxitsoftware.com)

FoxitMobilePDF provide you the best way to easily access, annotate, manage and share PDF files on your Android phone or tablet. It delivers industry leading capabilities to utilize PDF documents on the go. FoxitMobilePDF is based on the same technology as Foxit Reader. Now, with FoxitMobilePDF, you can start to enjoy your comfortable reading trip on PDF documents anytime, anywhere.

7.      Kingsoft Office (http://www.ksosoft.com)

kingsoft or WPS Office is freeware. You can make free word processor, spreadsheet program and presentation maker. These three programs help you deal with office tasks with ease:

Writer - Efficient word processor;
Presentation - Multimedia presentations creator;
Spreadsheets - Powerful tool for data processing and data analysis

8.      SwiftKey Keyboard + Emoji (http://swiftkey.com/en/)

SwiftKey Keyboard is a free, award-winning keyboard app for Android that delivers the best next-word prediction, smarter autocorrect, support for over 800 emoji, emoji prediction and much more! SwiftKey is an alternative keyboard that gives you smart, fast typing on Android - free. It's the best keyboard for Android for fast SMS, chat, text and email, becoming the default across all your apps. It’s packed full of customization features including over 30 colorful themes, layouts for all screen sizes and devices, and supports over 60 languages.

9.      RAR for Android (http://www.rarlab.com/)

RARLAB'sRAR for Android is an all-in-one, original, free, simple, easy and quick compression program, archiver, assistant, extractor, manager and even a basic file explorer.

RAR for Android can create RAR and ZIP and unpack RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, 7z, ISO, ARJ archives. List of functions include repair command for damaged ZIP and RAR files, benchmark function compatible with RARLAB's WinRAR benchmark, recovery record, usual and recovery volumes, encryption, solid archives, utilizing multiple CPU cores to compress data.

Additionally to standard ZIP files, unzip function supports ZIP and ZIPX with BZIP2, LZMA and PPMd compression also as password protected ZIP. Unrar command is available for all versions of RAR archives including the latest RAR5, password protected and multipart files.

10.  MX Player

The best way to enjoy your movies

Hardware acceleration can be applied to more videos with the help of new H/W decoder.

MX Player is the first Android video player which supports multi-core decoding. Test result proved that dual-core device’s performance is up to 70% better than single-core devices.

Easily zoom in and out by pinching and swiping across the screen. Zoom and Pan is also available by option.

Subtitle Gestures - Scroll forward/backward to move to next/previous text, Up/down to move text up and down, Zoom in/out to change text size.

Kids Lock - Keep your kids entertained without having to worry that they can make calls or touch other apps. (plugin required)

Support multi languages

11.  Any.do Task List & To-do List(http://www.any.do/)

Any.do makes it easy to manage your lists, plan your agenda,and organize your daily calendar! “You have tapped into the awesome.”

Any.do is a simple todo and task management app that you can organize your daily agenda,lists,projects and items. You can customize your to do lists, set calendar reminder, share tasks with your friends, family members or colleagues and sync with your google tasks perfectly.

Key benefits: Seamless cloud sync, Speech recognition, Web App access on your computer, Alerts, Any.do Moment, Snooze tasks, Google Task Sync, Notes, Sub tasks, Amazing Widgets, Repeating / Recurring Tasks, Missed call, Auto complete, In app actions, Gesture support & much more!