For the pictures
Take photos, edit them, send them… It's not always very easy with the basic Android apps. Google Photos is essential for its ability to save all your photos while offering some easy editing tools.
To learn more
Our selection of the best photo editing apps
Be careful, however, to the new policy of the Mountain View firm which puts an end to free unlimited storage.
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Download Google Photos Free APKWe would not recommend you highly enough too PhotoScan. This application allows you to scan your printed photos into Google Photos, from a photo album or under a glass frame. Your family, school or childhood memories are scanned in seconds, cropped and enhanced automatically. It may not serve you every day, but it is still a pleasure when used.
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For music, we really advise you to give a chance to Youtube music, now preinstalled on most Android smartphones. Besides the fact that the service has improved a lot in recent months, you often have between one and three months of subscription offered with a new smartphone, which is far from negligible. You will be able to find the musics and covers available on the enormous library of YouTube, and finally because you can sometimes enjoy YouTube Premium for a few euros more and that this will allow you to remove the advertisements from the service.
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Which music streaming service to choose
For videos
Here are the two video players that we can recommend with your eyes closed and which play almost all video formats. First of all VLC, which is a benchmark for both computers and smartphones, while remaining completely free and open source.
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XPlayer offers an ultra pleasant interface - especially thanks to its very elegant dark theme. The player supports all video formats, 4K content, and plays them in high definition.
To learn more
The best video players on Android
It also takes into account subtitle files and has a private folder to store your confidential videos. XPlayer is available in a Premium version to get rid of advertisements, but these are already very discreet on the free version.
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We no longer present the essentials Netflix, Amazon, Prime Video or even Disney +.
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Download Disney + Free APKIf your thing is more of the country production or HBO series (Watchmen, Chernobyl, Westworld, etc.), we recommend the service OCS while myCanal offers you a nice catalog with in particular the Canal creations. For a truly enlightened choice, we especially recommend that you read our comparative report of the different SVoD platforms.
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The DRM problem on Android
We have even concocted a similar comparison for you, but dedicated to Japanese animes! You will be able to choose between Anime Digital Network, Crunchyroll et Wakanim to recite nobody else but them.
Finally, to watch of the country television comfortably, the best thing to do is to go through the application. Molotov, which also allows direct enjoyment of TNT channels and other services. We greatly appreciate this editorial service!
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There are tons of great games out there on Android, and we've written several themed guides to help you choose. We are forced to evoke Among Us. This title was a phenomenal success and it is well deserved!
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App of the week: I sabotage my friends' spaceship without getting caught
Between laughter and small betrayals between friends, the game is incredibly simple to take in hand and yet you can spend hours there.
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Download Among Us Free APKIf your thing is more to live adventures worthy of those that can be experienced in the games of the Zelda series, and more particularly Breath of the Wild, we highly recommend that you take a look at Genshin impact and its beautiful graphics. An epic journey awaits!
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Download Monument Valley 2 for € 5,49Finally, you can also consult our suggestions for games that work offline. It's always practical to get on a new smartphone!
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The best free games on Android
For cloud gaming
If you are fond of video games and rather fan of console or PC gaming, then you can go for cloud gaming services. There is a plethora of them today.
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Which cloud gaming service to choose
Google Stadia or the Xbox Game Pass service for example are very interesting for players on smartphones.
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Subscription services for your games
In addition, with the deployment of 5G in your country - our package comparison is there just in case - cloud gaming has a bright future ahead of it to the point where one can even wonder if it will not become the best. way to enjoy the most greedy games in the long term.
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For accessibility
Accessibility is an important point to address when looking at smartphones. It is indeed necessary to ensure that everyone can fully enjoy their Android device. There is still a lot of work to be done in this area, but fortunately some practical applications already exist.
To learn more
Technologies and disability: why everyone is concerned
Thus Rogervoice et Ava thus allow you to display what the hearing impaired cannot hear.
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To read the news
To take your news everywhere, there are a lot of solutions on Android. Le Monde, and more particularly its application The Morning, is surely what is done best to be able to know the news quickly every morning thanks to an article selection system.
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Download La Matinale du Monde free APKThe application Feedly is essential to easily follow the news of its favorite sites, like of course. With the same principle, Flipboard offers quality content, organized by theme or according to your areas of interest. You can customize your space to see the topics that interest you first and even create your magazine by grouping articles. You can share it with your friends.
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The application Google News is also a safe bet when it comes to obtaining information, always checking the quality of the media chosen as the source.
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For podcasts
Between music, podcasts, video… You really won't get bored.
To learn more
The best apps for listening to podcasts
For podcast management, the best of its kind for those who don't want to shell out too much is hands down Podcast Addict, both comprehensive, intuitive and above all free. You will find podcasts on all subjects, in English and of the country.
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Always in your pocket or nearby, the smartphone is the ideal tool for quickly jotting down items. On the application stores, there are many choices in this category, and above all, there is something for everyone.
To learn more
The best tools for taking notes on Android
Google Keep is an application designed for taking little notes and getting to the point, old-fashioned Post-It style.
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From a simple shopping list to a full semester of classes to organizing a trip, OneNote is the go-to app in this category.
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To organize yourself on a daily basis, it can be practical to create "To Do List", lists of things to do.
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The best "to do list" applications to organize your tasks
To keep it simple, we recommend Microsoft To-Do, inherited from the takeover of Wunderlist by the American giant.
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To quickly create a document to share with your contacts, the best is still Google Docs. The application is also very effective in quickly modifying a document created beforehand on a computer.
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Yes, on Android, file managers allow you to do a lot of things: copy, paste, cut, extract… All the tools are at your fingertips. Plethora of applications offer to organize your documents in a simple and efficient way.
To learn more
The best file managers
Google offers its own file explorer with Files by Google, which offers an easy-to-learn experience. It will even give you recommendations to free up space on your smartphone and even back up your files to the cloud.
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Managing your files online is even better to access them wherever you want. The two main clients for this are dropbox et Google Drive. OneDrive is also a solid alternative that works with a Microsoft account. Note that your operator can also provide you with online storage space, with a dedicated application.
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There are some really good alternative keyboards that can really improve your typing. The two market references are Swiftkey, one of the oldest and today under the control of Microsoft, and Gboard developed by Google directly as the default keyboard for Android.
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The best alternative keyboards for Android
For your SMS
On Android, you can also use an alternative SMS client to the one installed by default.
To learn more
The best SMS apps for Android
The simplest, but effective, is none other than Google Messages. It allows you to manage SMS, MMS and even RCS chat. And you can play the complementarity with your computer to receive and send messages from it.
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In the “Security” category, we are certainly not going to recommend an antivirus. Common sense will be your best ally: don't take apps anywhere and watch them by avoiding giving them access to information that would be useless to function.
However, we recommend that you install the application Locate my device which allows you to find or erase your smartphone remotely (in case of theft).
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To customize the interface
Manufacturers generally modify the interface of Android. The operation can be successful, but sometimes it can slow down the user experience. Fortunately, on Android, you can do everything, including changing the "launcher".
Since Google Now Launcher is no longer available, Nova Launcher is THE reference in the field.
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In addition to the popular Google Maps, there are several apps we recommend for your getaways. The first is CityMapper, which provides access to the best of public transport in several cities around the world.
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To connect your computer and your smartphone
It is possible to create real links between your computers (PC, Mac or whatever you want) and your Android smartphone. To do what ? Access your phone remotely, write your SMS on the keyboard, easily transfer files… The solution offered by Microsoft - Your Mobile Assistant (Your Phone) - deserves your attention.
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- How to Remotely Access Your Android Apps on Windows 10 PC
- Microsoft Your Phone: how to control your smartphone with your PC
Conversely, you can access your PC from your Android device, with Chrome Remote Desktop.
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A smartphone also allows you to better manage your budget, in particular by gathering information from your bank account (s). In the matter, Linxo allows you to know your balance, your last transactions and sort them to better manage your money.
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The best apps to manage your budget like a pro
For the weather
Access the weather forecast from anywhere, the dream. And there are plenty of apps available to you for that. Weather your pay ou Carrot will do the job just fine for the simplest forecasts, while Meteociel will go much deeper into the information given.
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You can automate all the tasks you want. Would you like some examples ? Send an SMS automatically when you get home, activate WiFi when you arrive in the open-space, upload your photos to Dropbox and Google Drive at the same time or even automatically post your Instagram photos on Twitter ... Bags et IFTTT allow you to do thousands of useful and unnecessary things.
To learn more
IFTTT: our favorite recipes!
For patient people who aren't afraid to experiment, as setup can be a bit tedious.
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Widgets have long been the hallmark of Android - before iOS 14 allowed iPhone owners to experience these joys. There are thousands of them, to make your life easier and easier to access key application features directly on the launcher. The ones we use and strongly recommend: Beautiful Widgets (which also offers a paid version), but above all KWGT Kustom Widget Maker which we were able to demonstrate.
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And in bulk, to finish. Google Translate which now allows to translate dialogues on the fly, but also to use the camera to translate billboards on the fly. As for alarms, it is an excellent alarm clock thanks to which you are sure not to have pillow failure. Latest practical application: Wikipedia . Because there will always be an answer to one of your questions.
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