Tech Thursday: Top utility apps you should have

Adobe Apps

Adobe are one of the most known apps out there. There are a lot of useful apps under their belt. Their apps generally range from utility apps to photo editing. You can buy Adobe Acrobat (PDF reader), Adobe Lightroom and Photo Express (photo editing), Illustrator Draw (drawing), Scan (document scanner), Premiere Clip (video editing), and others under Adobe's parental role. These apps are very useful, handy and free to download. But some apps may requires an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to get all of the features.

 

Cam Scanner

It is one of the best app to scan any document using a mobile. Cam Scanner allows the user to scan any document and convert it to PDF format. You can then use the file to save it to your phone, mail or even fax it. This app is useful for all the business people out there or to the students who missed the lecture and need a copy of the lecture.

 

AirDroid

AirDroid is one very useful app and allows the user to connect their android phones to their PC or viceversa. With this app, you can share files, get notifications, quick reply to a few messaging apps, and more. There is a paid version which opens all the functions but you can use the free version to see whether you like the app or not.

 

 

Google Drive Suite

Google Drive and its Suite apps are probably most popular apps in the utility/productivity category. Suite apps includes Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Keep, and Google Photos. You have a full-fledged office suite in your hand thanks to Google drive and its suites app. Google drive also gives 15GB cloud storage to backup all your photos, videos and documents for free.

 

 

Ticktick

One of the best to do list app out there. Its very useful to those who are forgetful or their life is too hectic to remember all those small daily tasks. You simply put all the tasks to do and the app reminds you to do them. App also featurs collaboration feature, this allows to share tasks among family members or colleagues if needed. There is a paid version of this app for heavy business users but for all the general users free version will suffice. Applock tired of people snooping into your phones. Applock is the answer for you. Privacy is important- anyone will agree to this. Applock will help you keep your private photos videos and memory, private.

 

 

Snapseed

Simple yet powerful photo editor out there. Snapseed has been here for a while and has constantly evolved to be one of the best photo editor play store has to offer. There are a lot of filters and effects to enhance your photo greatly as well as support of RAW format is present in the app. Finally yay to no-ads or in-app purschases.

 

Find my device

One of the most important app to download right after the first boot. This app is very useful as it helps you locate your lost Android and lock it until you get it back. This app has many features which include ring the phone in full volume even if the phone is in silent, Erase the device or lock it with a custom message and contact number on lock screen, Navigate to your device with Google Maps by tapping the device location and then the Maps icon. This app is most have so that you can recover your precious phone and the memory within it, in case of theft or misplacing your phone.

 

 

Pixtica

Pixtica is a camera app and one of the best camera app. There are a bunch of nifty features in these app that differentiate it with other apps. Some of the feature include live filters, an above average manual mode, exposure control, a slew of photo options like a panorama mode, and even stuff like slow motion. Even though it might not replace your stock camera, it has a good image quality and is a good option to change the photos according to your mood.

 

 

Zedge

Zedge can simply be defined as one-stop-shop for things like wallpapers, ringtones, notification tones, and alarms. Zedge has a large library of all these things in variety of genres like fantasy, mainstream, funny, and pretty much whatever else you can think of.

 

 

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