The smartphone is a multifunctional tool that we use every day to make calls, send SMS, check Facebook, use the GPS navigator, surf the internet.
In addition to these that we can call basic activities, there are many other applications that can be more or less useful depending on the person and personal preferences.
Among these, we see in this list 10 apps that are really useful to everyone because they make the system smarter and because they perform essential and fundamental tasks, so much so as to make you think, after installing them, how we could have been without up to now.
Below, the 10 most useful apps ever for Android, on smartphones of any brand: Samsung, Asus, Huawei, Honor etc.), free and multipurpose.
READ ALSO: Most useful widgets for Android smartphones to start the day
1) Google Authenticator
This is an app that should be pre-installed on every smartphone, which allows you to activate, on the supported sites, double password verification.
In practice, in order to access Gmail or Facebook, in addition to the login password, the code generated by Google Authenticator is required and it changes automatically every 30 seconds.
In this way, if even someone knew our password or if we kept it on a friend's PC or on a public PC, they will not be able to access our account without having our smartphone with Authenticator installed.
In another article I explained how it works and where to activate double password verification.
2) Google Go files
This application provided by Google immediately became one of the most useful for every Android smartphone because, in addition to offering all the standard file management functions, it also includes automatic tools to remove obsolete files, bad photos received in Whatsapp groups, duplicate files and also for get recommendations for uninstalling or deleting app data that is never used.
Files Go also has a sharing utility for sending large files to other Android devices on the network.
3) TrueCaller
With this application installed you can do two important and useful things: automatically detect and avoid advertising calls from call centers and also to recognize who is calling if the number is unknown.
4) PushBullet
Who works with the computer all day, can control all the notifications of the Android smartphone directly on the PC thanks to this fantastic and very useful application.
In this way you can receive and read SMS and Whatsapp messages on your PC and you can remove uninteresting notifications without wasting time picking up the phone.
Pushbullet is also convenient for passing files from mobile to PC and vice versa.
Although it has been somewhat limited in its free version recently, it remains a great app to have absolutely.
5) Google Drive
This should be an app that everyone knows, that allows you to save files online, which also includes tools to open and create Office files.
Google Drive is also an excellent app for transferring files from PC to phone and vice versa.
In addition, thanks to Google Drive it is possible, by pressing the + clearly visible on the main screen, to scan any document with the camera of the mobile phone and transform it into PDF automatically.
Google Drive is also a convenient app, for example, to save the ticket of an airplane flight without having to print it, then showing the mobile phone screen at check-in.
6) AMDroid
AMDroid is an intelligent alarm clock in which to create profiles for different types of situations and days, with individual settings configurations.
For example, on weekdays, you can set a post-alarm confirmation to be sure that you have not accidentally touched the button to stop it instead of the one to postpone the alarm.
You can also activate functions automatically, such as the flashlight or Wi-Fi, set challenges as mathematical problems to be able to deactivate it and then also display an alarm screen with the weather.
AMDroid also has the function of pre-alarm, to wake up gradually and gently with personalized intervals and volumes.
There are also sleep monitoring and habits statistics.
7) Opera Touch is the most modern Android browser currently.
This is an ideal browser for those who have difficulty navigating on large screen phones, with a single management and navigation key that can be positioned wherever you want and thanks to the gestures that allow you to slide your finger in various directions to be able to switch to another tab, reload, search.
Opera Touch also has the ability to synchronize the sites visited between the Opera browser on PC and Opera on Android.
8) Google Photos
This application is now in almost every list of best Android applications because it is really useful and indispensable.
Its most useful function is to save photos online and automatically free up space in the phone's memory when it is running out.
It therefore becomes impossible to lose the photos that remain visible on the mobile phone when connected to the internet and even if the smartphone breaks.
9) Drupa (telephone and contacts)
Drupa is one of the best applications for managing the address book and changing the telephone keypad.
The app offers a scrolling user interface that makes it easy to select a contact to send him a message or to call him even by recording the call.
10) Waze
As a navigator we all or almost use Google Maps on Android which now works even offline without internet connection.
Waze is instead useful in a different way and, as explained in another article, it is the perfect app to use in the car to get to each place first.
Thanks to its precise indications on traffic and on any accidents, checkpoints or work in progress, Waze becomes the ideal travel companion to use also every morning to go to work and every evening to go home.
11) Telegram
While everyone uses Whatsapp to message with friends, Telegram offers so many accessory functions that it becomes very useful for other purposes, even without the need to use it for chatting.
It is therefore possible to use Telegram as a clous archive for temporary files, as a tool to transfer large files with other people, to create supergroups, to follow blogs and news sources by receiving updates (there is also Navigaweb) and much more.
I refer to the guide on Telegram tricks to find everything you can do.
12) Elixir Widget
While each Android phone has the switch button in the notification bar, with Elixir you can create a bar of custom buttons directly on the main screen, useful for launching each function of the phone quickly (for example to activate the wifi, bluetooth, mode plane, synchronization, etc.).
13) Google Keep
A note application is essential on the phone and Keep is not only easy and immediate in the interaction of notes, but is also capable of synchronizing them on the cloud, so you never lose them and find them on any computer or other phone.
14) Mi remote control
If you lose the remote control at home, you can use your Android smartphone with this application to change channels on your TV, which supports practically every TV or remote control device, even air conditioners and audio systems.
It is also convenient for changing channels on any TV, even at a friend's house or in a bar.
Obviously, to work, the smartphone must be equipped with an infrared sensor (many have it by now).
15) SwiftKey
Gboard is now the most configurable keyboard app with more options, but SwiftKey offers certain very important useful features, such as automatically translating messages into other languages and synchronizing writing suggestions even with the Windows 10 PC.
BONUS: Navigaweb Tech is the most useful Android app ever, which allows you to follow this blog in a direct and constant way like I don't do!
READ ALSO: Android and iPhone app for office, work and study
In addition to these that we can call basic activities, there are many other applications that can be more or less useful depending on the person and personal preferences.
Among these, we see in this list 10 apps that are really useful to everyone because they make the system smarter and because they perform essential and fundamental tasks, so much so as to make you think, after installing them, how we could have been without up to now.
Below, the 10 most useful apps ever for Android, on smartphones of any brand: Samsung, Asus, Huawei, Honor etc.), free and multipurpose.
READ ALSO: Most useful widgets for Android smartphones to start the day
1) Google Authenticator
This is an app that should be pre-installed on every smartphone, which allows you to activate, on the supported sites, double password verification.
In practice, in order to access Gmail or Facebook, in addition to the login password, the code generated by Google Authenticator is required and it changes automatically every 30 seconds.
In this way, if even someone knew our password or if we kept it on a friend's PC or on a public PC, they will not be able to access our account without having our smartphone with Authenticator installed.
In another article I explained how it works and where to activate double password verification.
2) Google Go files
This application provided by Google immediately became one of the most useful for every Android smartphone because, in addition to offering all the standard file management functions, it also includes automatic tools to remove obsolete files, bad photos received in Whatsapp groups, duplicate files and also for get recommendations for uninstalling or deleting app data that is never used.
Files Go also has a sharing utility for sending large files to other Android devices on the network.
3) TrueCaller
With this application installed you can do two important and useful things: automatically detect and avoid advertising calls from call centers and also to recognize who is calling if the number is unknown.
4) PushBullet
Who works with the computer all day, can control all the notifications of the Android smartphone directly on the PC thanks to this fantastic and very useful application.
In this way you can receive and read SMS and Whatsapp messages on your PC and you can remove uninteresting notifications without wasting time picking up the phone.
Pushbullet is also convenient for passing files from mobile to PC and vice versa.
Although it has been somewhat limited in its free version recently, it remains a great app to have absolutely.
5) Google Drive
This should be an app that everyone knows, that allows you to save files online, which also includes tools to open and create Office files.
Google Drive is also an excellent app for transferring files from PC to phone and vice versa.
In addition, thanks to Google Drive it is possible, by pressing the + clearly visible on the main screen, to scan any document with the camera of the mobile phone and transform it into PDF automatically.
Google Drive is also a convenient app, for example, to save the ticket of an airplane flight without having to print it, then showing the mobile phone screen at check-in.
6) AMDroid
AMDroid is an intelligent alarm clock in which to create profiles for different types of situations and days, with individual settings configurations.
For example, on weekdays, you can set a post-alarm confirmation to be sure that you have not accidentally touched the button to stop it instead of the one to postpone the alarm.
You can also activate functions automatically, such as the flashlight or Wi-Fi, set challenges as mathematical problems to be able to deactivate it and then also display an alarm screen with the weather.
AMDroid also has the function of pre-alarm, to wake up gradually and gently with personalized intervals and volumes.
There are also sleep monitoring and habits statistics.
7) Opera Touch is the most modern Android browser currently.
This is an ideal browser for those who have difficulty navigating on large screen phones, with a single management and navigation key that can be positioned wherever you want and thanks to the gestures that allow you to slide your finger in various directions to be able to switch to another tab, reload, search.
Opera Touch also has the ability to synchronize the sites visited between the Opera browser on PC and Opera on Android.
8) Google Photos
This application is now in almost every list of best Android applications because it is really useful and indispensable.
Its most useful function is to save photos online and automatically free up space in the phone's memory when it is running out.
It therefore becomes impossible to lose the photos that remain visible on the mobile phone when connected to the internet and even if the smartphone breaks.
9) Drupa (telephone and contacts)
Drupa is one of the best applications for managing the address book and changing the telephone keypad.
The app offers a scrolling user interface that makes it easy to select a contact to send him a message or to call him even by recording the call.
10) Waze
As a navigator we all or almost use Google Maps on Android which now works even offline without internet connection.
Waze is instead useful in a different way and, as explained in another article, it is the perfect app to use in the car to get to each place first.
Thanks to its precise indications on traffic and on any accidents, checkpoints or work in progress, Waze becomes the ideal travel companion to use also every morning to go to work and every evening to go home.
11) Telegram
While everyone uses Whatsapp to message with friends, Telegram offers so many accessory functions that it becomes very useful for other purposes, even without the need to use it for chatting.
It is therefore possible to use Telegram as a clous archive for temporary files, as a tool to transfer large files with other people, to create supergroups, to follow blogs and news sources by receiving updates (there is also Navigaweb) and much more.
I refer to the guide on Telegram tricks to find everything you can do.
12) Elixir Widget
While each Android phone has the switch button in the notification bar, with Elixir you can create a bar of custom buttons directly on the main screen, useful for launching each function of the phone quickly (for example to activate the wifi, bluetooth, mode plane, synchronization, etc.).
13) Google Keep
A note application is essential on the phone and Keep is not only easy and immediate in the interaction of notes, but is also capable of synchronizing them on the cloud, so you never lose them and find them on any computer or other phone.
14) Mi remote control
If you lose the remote control at home, you can use your Android smartphone with this application to change channels on your TV, which supports practically every TV or remote control device, even air conditioners and audio systems.
It is also convenient for changing channels on any TV, even at a friend's house or in a bar.
Obviously, to work, the smartphone must be equipped with an infrared sensor (many have it by now).
15) SwiftKey
Gboard is now the most configurable keyboard app with more options, but SwiftKey offers certain very important useful features, such as automatically translating messages into other languages and synchronizing writing suggestions even with the Windows 10 PC.
BONUS: Navigaweb Tech is the most useful Android app ever, which allows you to follow this blog in a direct and constant way like I don't do!
READ ALSO: Android and iPhone app for office, work and study
