The app market is filled
with millions of app. We are always busy in installing and using the most known
and apps developed by major tech companies. But there are many other apps in
play store which are smaller in size but efficient than the most downloaded
ones. These apps don’t get heavy updates too often and is easy to use without
complications. Here are the 10 lesser
known (equally useful) android apps that you should definitely try:
1. Google Arts & Culture (Education)
It is an educational app
that allows you to explore the traditions
and history of various parts of the world. A person who is interested in
getting deep into the history of a country can use this app. We can go through
photos, videos, artworks, museums and all. With Google’s 360* technology and VR we can explore every other museum
in different countries which gives us a real life experience. Artist display
their artworks on this app. Through GPS we can find out the historical places
and museums near us. The feature I
like is that it gives us daily remainder of the historical event happened on
that particular day.
2. Notebook by Zoho Corp (Productivity)
This app is similar to
Google keep where you can take notes,
set remainders and you can also
record audio files and save pictures as a remainder. The material design is a good feature of
this app. You can create notebook and organize your tasks accordingly. Syncing
with Cloud and other device is also
possible, so no fear of data loss. We can even use multiple colors on our note
page and even share our notes through E-mail. Gesture writing is also a given feature of this app. Comparing google
keep and notebook, notebook has more exciting and advanced features and is easy
to use.
3. Learn Hindi Numbers by Ajeic (Education)
A person coming from south
India will always have a problem of speaking Hindi. So, this app allows to
learn Hindi numbers as fast as
possible with it’s tips and practice sessions. We can listen to the
numbers and write which will definitely make our Hindi good. Those who have
problem in conversing with shopkeepers, drivers regarding some money talk can
install this app and make yourself comfortable in the near future. There are
numbers from 0-1000. Flash card practice is there to
remember the right words for the right numbers.
4. 30 Days abs Workout Challenge by PlaySimple (Health
& Fitness)
Are you fat?, do you want
the perfect body with 6 pack abs, so download this app . It is a 30 day workout app which guides you
with various exercises starting from crunches, kicks, lifts and pushups. A
total of 10 exercises are there for
everyday to perform for 30 days. It keeps daily
record workout you do. We can set reminders, reset time and the workout
as well. We can set the difficulty level
of the exercises according to our ability. If we really have a good diet
and an app like this, then we can really achieve a good physique. It is simple
and free and no instruments
required.
5. Ridlr by Birds Eye System (Travel & Local)
It is one of the best travel app which you can
definitely use if you are in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad and
Chennai. Ridlr app has support from public as well as private transport
companies in the state. You can know every details regarding a Bus, Metro and Rail. We can have the real time data of arrival and departure
as well as book tickets and recharge
travel cards. The best thing is that you can get real time traffic data which saves a lot of time. Parking information is also available through this app. Through GPS,
nearby stops can also be located.
6. Learn Programming by Jan Tursky (Education)
If you are a code creator
then you should install this app as this app has more than 30 programming languages in it. We can have interview questions,
tutorials, documentation, source code of any language we want. Some of the
major languages include .Net, java, Html5, C, C#, Hadoop, linux, php and many
more. It is like a digital textbook
of software languages. We can even write codes on the built in IDE and test it to find out the mistakes. It is built on a
material design. Comparing other apps like Udacity and SoloLearn , this app is
free to use and does not require internet.
7. Birthdays for Android by Open me (Social)
In these busy days, it is
difficult to remember everyone’s birthday but ‘birthdays for android’ helps us
in doing that. The main feature is that it syncs
with our Facebook account and
transfers the birthday list to the app which reminds us through daily notification or widget and we never forget to wish any
friend. We can also save anniversaries and important event, set remainder for
the next birthday, see the zodiac sign
of a person and even send gift cards. The data will never be lost and can be
transferred from one device to another. The person’s age is also visible with the birthday date.
8. BatterySaver System Shortcut by Florian Draschbacher
(Tools)
This app helps in saving
the battery by switching on the battery
save mode in just a click. It is
better than the DU battery and cheetah’s battery doctor as the size of the app
is just 45Kbs and does not use much
resources in the phone. It is free and no rooting is required. A toggle shortcut is created on the home
screen from where we can launch the battery saver mode whenever we want instead
of taking a long route through the system settings. It works only on android 5.0 lollipop and above. It is a must
app for every smartphone which eats out a lot of battery power.
9. Bluetooth App Sender by Lucky Developer (Productivity)
This app helps in sending
any kind of app from one device to another through Bluetooth technology as the
name suggests. It is very easy to use, we just have to select the app and then send
button and then the recipient. Not
only through Bluetooth but with Dropbox,
E-mail, Social networking sites like Whatsapp also we can share apps. The
apps apk file is send to the other
device with this app. In the app list we can see a long range of apps from the
inbuilt system apps to the apps we have installed from the play store. It works
like ‘share it’ app but is less complicated to use.
10. Unclouded-CloudManager by Christian Gollner
(Productivity)
Unclouded is an app that
help you in managing multiple cloud
accounts that you have. Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive, Box and Mega –
these are the accounts that will be linked to the Unclouded app and we will get
every details from storage spaces to duplicate
files in the various account. We can see which files are using maximum
space, know the various categories like image, video, documents etc. We can
also see the most recently added
files in Last modified section. This a must needed app as it helps in managing
our most important cloud documents.
These are some of the
unknown efficient apps that available in the market. Hope you liked the apps
mentioned above and if you have any other less known apps , mention in the
comments below or at http://julinjames.bloggspot.com.
