App developers are pushing the envelope on a daily basis trying to improve and enhance our smartphone and tablet experiences. In fact, so many Android apps come out every day that it’s difficult to keep track of them all. It’s difficult to usurp the best of the best but if you’re getting bored with what you’ve got and want to try something new, check out the best new Android apps from the last month! You can watch the videos from past months by clicking here! You can check out our selections for the best Android apps from 2018 in the video above!
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Calendar Notify is a newer calendar add-on for Google Calendar. It offers quick access to all of your appointments and calendar entries. In addition, there is a host of calendar widgets available, all with a decent amount of customization. Some additional features include excellent customization for both app and widgets, backup and restore functionality, and some additional stuff in the premium version. The premium version is a single payment with no additional in-app purchases, ads, or subscriptions. It's right up there as far as calendar widgets go and it worked quite well during our testing.
Epix Now is the official streaming app for Epix. The service boasts 1,000s of movies and TV shows, including curated collections, a bunch of information about various actors, crew members, and other stuff as well. It also keeps track of the stuff you already watched. It's not all that much better or worse than most channel-specific streaming apps. You pretty much know what to expect if you've ever used one before. This one runs for $5.99 per month for access to all of the content. You can also check out a seven day free trial to see if you like it or not.
Flowkey is a new instructional app for the piano. It teaches piano basics along with more intermediate and advanced stuff. The big draw with this one is the song selection. Flowkey has a bunch of songs from artists you probably know about. The idea is to make learning more fun by learning stuff you like along with the usual boring stuff like chord progressions, two-handed playing exercises, and scales. The app gives you a small amount of stuff for free. It might as well be a trial. It's a tad difficult to actually recommend this because of its rather high price tag. It's a solid app with good knowledge and a lot of learning exercises. However, we'll leave it up to you whether or not the price of entry is worth it.
Hidey Hole is an entertaining app for Samsung Galaxy S10, S10 Plus, and S10e owners. All three devices sport a punch hole camera. This app finds wallpapers that integrate those holes into the wallpaper itself. The app scans through r/S10wallpapers for its content so you can always search for this stuff without the app. However, the app makes it significantly easier. Some of the wallpapers are pretty creative as well. In any case the app is completely free with no ads or in-app purchases. We think every S10 series owner should at least try it.
Lens Distortions is a new photo filters app. It offers a bunch of filters and most of them aren't the kinds of ridiculous ones you usually find. You can add subtle filters like ran, fog, snow, or natural sunlight. There are a bunch of others. The app offers five filters from each available pack for free. The rest are available via in-app purchases. There is also a subscription service for $0.99 per month. We only recommend that to people who really like this app. Otherwise, you should just purchase the packs. The app is in beta, so you can expect some bugs here and there. Otherwise, it worked pretty well in our tests.
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Lookout by Google is a new app for people with low vision or total blindness. It uses the camera sensor to see and identify things. The app then tells you what they are. Google recommends putting your phone in a shirt pocket or wear it necklace style. That way the camera can see what's directly in front of you. There is even a read mode where the app reads books, menus, magazines, etc to you out loud. It's a basic app so don't expect too much here. However, it seems to be genuinely helpful. Currently, it's only available for Pixel devices with Android 8.0 or higher. We hope it spreads to other devices eventually.
MyScript Calculator 2 is the sequel to one of the most unique math apps on Android. You literally write your equation out on the screen. The app uses OCR to recognize what you wrote. It then solves the problem for you. It works for most grade school and some early collegiate level math depending on how far into the math program you are. That includes basic operators, some trigonometry functions, logarithms, and some constants. The app has a few bugs and the occasional issue with things like decimal points, but it otherwise works as well as the first MyScript Calculator. It's a surprisingly fun math app.
Night Video Player is a newer video app for Android. It boasts support for basically all video codecs, file types, formats, streams, and more. The app even supports IPTV if you use that. The other big feature here is sound normalization. It makes voices louder, explosions quieter, and just levels everything out. It basically tries to fix those uncomfortable audio mixes that don't change just because you don't watch it in a theater. The app is totally free with no ads or in-app purchases as of the time of this writing. It's not bad if you have a lot of locally stored movie files.
OH Web Browser is a new one-handed style browser. The features include minimal permission requirements, an ad blocker, privacy browsing, a download manager, and a web archive converter. In addition, it can read and convert PDF files. The big feature is the one-handed use. The UI elements are all at the bottom of the app. That makes it easier to use one-handed. You may need to play with the settings a bit. In addition, the gesture controls take a day or two to get used to. Otherwise, it's a solid little web browser.
WalkBy is a drawing app with an interesting premise. It uses Bluetooth and location services to detect nearby phones. You then exchange messages with that person. The app lets you draw out your messages. You can write out words or draw simple pictures if you want to. The transmission rate is about 10-60 seconds overall. It's a little weird to use and it's a super niche product. However, we thought the technology was neat. It basically emulates Nintendo's Street Pass, but with pictures you doodle. The app is still in beta so expect bugs if you want to try it out. I wish I'd had something like this in high school. It would've made note passing a lot easier.
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