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1 | Tested on Droid Turbo (5.1). Some may not work with some devices/versions. ♥Essential *IAP/upgrade available †publically added | |||
2 | Application | Price | Description | MD? |
3 | Useful | |||
4 | ♥Google Keyboard | Free | The stock keyboard on some devices, but a great download if it isn't. Has a beautiful Material Design themes and customizable sound/vibration intensity. Pretty big though. | Yes |
5 | ♥Fleksy | Free* | Probably the best all-around custom keyboard, with tons of (also paid) themes, customizable size, sound and vibration, and brilliant autocorrect gestures (swipe up to revert to what you originally typed, or swipe down to scroll through suggestions). | Yes |
6 | ♥Nova Launcher Prime | $4.00 | An absolute must-have for customizing and organizing your home screens and app drawer. Lets you change app icons, animations for scrolling/folders, create folders in the app drawer (Prime only), and generally make your device a bit sleeker and faster. Also looks very close to stock Android in uncustomized form, and behaves very similarly. | Yes |
7 | †Action Launcher 3 | $4.75* | A nice alternative launcher that includes some unique features. | Yes |
8 | ♥KK Widget | Free | A super useful and customizable clock widget compatible with DashClock extensions to instantly give you alerts, show you the weather and battery info, etc. | |
9 | ♥Power Toggles | Free | Extremely versatile widget that lets you quickly toggle WiFi, Bluetooth, or anything else, or function as a shortcut bar. Can show the battery % or date in the status bar, too. | |
10 | ♥Heads-up Notifications | Free | Displays a 5.x-style card on-screen when a notification arrives, along with relevant actions, that can easily be expanded, swiped away or dealt with without opening the notifications bar. Color and font themes available. | Yes |
11 | ♥One Calculator | Free* | Fantastic Material Design calculator with matric, graphing, and unit conversion functions all in one! Completely free with no ads, though donations and paid themes are available. | Yes |
12 | ♥Cabinet Beta | Free | Material Design file explorer app. Simple and beautiful. | Yes |
13 | ♥Clip Stack | Free | Keeps track of everything you add to your clipboard, and allows you to add new clips | Yes |
14 | ♥QuickPic | Free | Free, simple Material Design gallery with lots of helpful features like moving photos, WiFi transfering, and per-album view and sort settings | Yes |
15 | ♥AppMgrIII | Free* | App manager to move to SD Card, clear caches, uninstall apps, etc. Very handy. | Yes |
16 | DashLight | Free | An extremely simple, lightweight flashlight app. Has a KK/DashClock plugin that lets you turn on your flashlight right from your clock widget or lockscreen! | |
17 | Alarmpad | Free* | Great alarm app. Tons of extensions to show you the weather, inspiring quotes, etc when unlocked. Loads of customization options, like to only unlock by scanning something or solving a math problem available. | Yes |
18 | Textra | Free* | A robust Material Design SMS app. Tons of options, and a handy quick-reply popup. Looks really nice, too! 1 week free, then ad-supported (or 99 cents for no ads) | Yes |
19 | AWSMS | Free* | Still in alpha, but already an amazing SMS app with beautiful material design and lots of customization options, from font size to padding. | Yes |
20 | Google Messenger | Free | Google's official, light SMS app. Clean Material Design. Now with quick reply popup! | Yes |
21 | Google Camera | Free | Handy, simple camera with great panorama and tilt-shift features | Yes |
22 | Twilight | Free* | Automatically dims and adds a red filter to your screen at night to be more eye friendly | Yes |
23 | Opera Max | Free | VPN that compresses your data, potentially saving you some on a limited plan. Also comes with a very handy data manager to see what apps are using your data | Yes |
24 | Freetone | Free | If you have a WiFi-only device, this is a godsend. You get assigned a real, working phone number and can make calls and texts using credits you purchase or complete surveys/download apps to earn. Texts/calls within the USA are completely free! | |
25 | †Tasker | $2.99 | Allows you to automate tons of tasks, like managing WiFi and brightness settings, etc. Lots of flexibility. Also has plugins for other apps. | |
26 | †Telegram | Free | Allows you to send messages, images, voice messages, gifs, etc to friends for free, for ever. Also lets you do secret, encrypted chat with auto-destruct. | Yes |
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28 | Helpful | |||
29 | ♥Google Drive | Free | Google's OneDrive/Dropbox alternative. 15 GB of free storage with every Google account (shared with G+ Photos and Gmail). Very easy to use on mobile and comes with its own lightweight office suite (Docs, Sheets, and Slides, each a standalone app) to collaborate in real-time on documents and do editing/additions on the go or offline. | Yes |
30 | ♥Google Photos | Free | Automatically backs up your photos and videos, unlimited free storage if you choose the "High Quality" option, and automatically enhances, creates collages and slideshows, etc out of them. Must have for shutterbugs. | Yes |
31 | ♥Google Keep | Free | Google's light note-taking app. Think more Post-It than notebook. Lets you take notes very quickly with the widget, and syncs them with Chrome and your other Androids. | Yes |
32 | ♥Google Opinion Rewards | Free | Ocassionally gives you short product surveys that pay in Google Play Store credit. It's not much (a few bucks a month), but free money for apps, music, etc is great! | Yes |
33 | ♥Chrome Beta | Free | The bleeding edge version of Google's default browser. Sleek, fast, and with tons of experimental options to tinker with under "chrome://flags" | Yes |
34 | ♥Flynx | Free | Unique browser that opens links in bubbles on the side of the screen that load in the background and expand when tapped. Useful when Googling, browsing Facebook etc. | Yes |
35 | HERE Maps | Free | Nokia's map app. Lets you download maps of any country to view and navigate offline. | |
36 | IFTTT | Free | Extremely versatile app that lets you create links between other apps and websites/services through "IF This Then That" recipes. For example, you can save all the Facebook photos you're tagged in to your Google Drive, or get a notification whenever it rains. Very useful in conjunction with the next 3 apps. | |
37 | Evernote | Free | The notebook to Google Keep's Post-It notes. Good for lists, notes, or anything else. | Yes |
38 | Wunderlist | Free | Great app for making lists, of the shopping or "to-do" variety. Also lets you share lists. I share my grocery list with my mom so she knows what to get at the store, for example. | Yes |
39 | ♥Pushbullet | Free | Lets you sync notifications with your other devices and Chrome, and push links, notes, images, etc to them in seconds. Also lets you reply to SMS messages from your computer with the Chrome extension! Useful with IFTTT for getting custom notifications. | Yes |
40 | Free | Lets you save articles, news, and most other text-heavy webpages to read offline in a clean, uniform format. Extremely useful in tandem with Flynx. | ||
41 | Duolingo | Free | A beautiful, completely free language learning app. Almost a dozen languages for English speakers, and a gamified interface with daily XP goals and friend leaderboards! | Yes |
42 | Cookpad/Allthecooks | Free | A fantastic all-in-one cooking app. Easily search for recipes, save them for offline use, create a shopping list, and start timers, all from within the app! | Yes |
43 | Weather Timeline | $0.99 | A beautiful, highly-acclaimed weather app that displays the upcoming weather in the form of, well, a timeline. Easy to follow and very accurate. | Yes |
44 | Opera Mini beta | Free | Low-fi browser that can save up to 90% on your data by loading stripped-down webpages. Perfect for reading articles, wikipedia, etc. | |
45 | Muzei | Free | A great, easy-to-use live wallpaper that cycles through a custom gallery of your pictures. There's also a plugin that adds the top posts on some image subs! | Yes |
46 | †500 Firepaper | Free | This app allows you to choose from lots of categories of pictures like nature, portraits, abstract etc. It will change your wallpaper throughout the day at every 30 minutes or whatever you set it as. This app also allows you to have static or live wallpapers. | |
47 | Zedge | Free | Gives you access to hundreds of wallpapers (live and static) and ring/notification tones. | Yes |
48 | Word Nest | Free | Great offline material designed dictionary, also has a unique floating bubbleto search words anytime, can be set to open when a word is copied or a certain app is opened | Yes |
49 | Unit Converter | Free* | Stripped-down interface; just a Google-like search bar you type one measurement into (i.e 10 cm) and it returns conversions to other common units (inches, meters, etc). | Yes |
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51 | Icon Packs | |||
52 | Iride UI Icon Pack | $1.06 | One of the best paid icon packs for custom Launchers. Material Design inspired icons for over 2,000 apps, and tons of colorful generic ones, too. | Yes |
53 | Glim | $0.99 | Another fantastic material icon pack. Huge amount of alternatively colored icons for many apps, and friendly, reponsive developer! | Yes |
54 | ColorShamu | Free | Yes | |
55 | CandyCons | Free | Yes | |
56 | Polycon | Free | Yes | |
57 | Fun | |||
58 | ♥Google Play Music | Free | Google's answer to iTunes. Free album every week and tons of free songs in the Play Store, and you can upload up to 50,000 of your own songs to Google's cloud for free and stream or download them to any of your devices | Yes |
59 | ♥FeedlyReader | Free | Easy to use, fantastic material RSS reader. Need a Feedly account | Yes |
60 | ♥Journal by Journey | Free* | Beautiful diary app with Material Design. Automatically logs the date and location, and lets you add a photo to each entry. Syncs between devices and the Chrome App too! | Yes |
61 | ♥reddit is fun | Free* | The most well-known reddit app, and for good reason; despite its plain interface, it has almost all the functions and interface of the full site, and intuitive navigation between subs, posts, comments, and users. Also comes with the indispensable feature of letting you post pics directly from the app or share menu without a link. | Sorta |
62 | Reddit News | Free* | I find this app better for browsing and light commenting. It has a beautiful Material Design interface, and a neat option to quickly switch between links and the comments section. It also has great mod features (including banning, unseen in any other app) | Yes |
63 | Reddit Sync | Free* | Another good browsing app with Material Design and a cool card-based UI. | Yes |
64 | Yahoo News Digest | Free | A fantastic news app that summarizes 8-12 of the most important stories twice a day, with interesting stats, graphs, maps, and link to more in-depth articles. | |
65 | News Republic | Free | A great customizable news feed, where you can choose what topics you're interested in to display on the home page. Also has great headline widgets. | Yes |
66 | SmartNews | Free | A newer news app that works a bit differently; it brings you the top stories from your choice of sources or broad topics (USA, sports, health, etc) and downloads them in a Readability-like view that's usable even offline! | |
67 | Elevate | Free | A fantastic brain-training game voted Apple's iOS GOTY 2014. The games are genuinely fun and are a lot more direct than the more abstract Luminosity or Peak. | |
68 | Jack's Music Widget | Free* | Music widget that works with most music players, featuring nice customization. | Yes |
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