r/androidapps • • May 27 '26

📢 MOD POST 📢 r/Androidapps Mod Update: Quality Over Quantity

64 Upvotes

Hey r/androidapps,

Today, we are announcing a few minor updates to the subreddit, in order to focus on the quality of posts moving forward:

  1. First off, the sub header has been updated to reflect the goal of the subreddit: to be a place to talk about Android apps, ask questions, get help, or find new app recommendations.
  2. Rule 3 has been updated: effective immediately, all self-promotion content, new app ideas, or app feedback must be posted in the dedicated sister sub r/droidappshowcase. This means there is zero tolerance for any of this content here in r/androidapps.
  • The goal for this change is to promote meaningful discussion around all Android apps and clean up all self-promotion, whether it is up front or a veiled attempt.
  • We felt that the Weekly Megathread got too inundated with spammed posts that it led to a less-than-ideal place to advertise a real app someone made, especially when it got buried down in the comments. So we have also removed the Megathread going forward.
  • Additionally, we've seen an uptick in fake self-promotion: posts where the user "found this amazing new app" in order to get around the rules.
  • r/androidapps is not the place for advertising apps, nor are we a subreddit focused on developers. This is a place where end-users can get support for apps they use or find new ones to use.

We know we cannot please all members of the community, nor do we expect everyone to be happy with the change. Again, we hope this encourages positive discussion in the subreddit around all apps, not just be an advertising ground.

We encourage all users to report any content which breaks these rules.

We expect to see an increase in the mod queue due to the new rules and automod code, so please be patient with us as we work through everything.

-- r/androidapps Mod Team


r/androidapps • • 11h ago

QUESTION/HELP Moving away from CapCut mobile — what are the best free alternatives without heavy ads or forced watermarks?

7 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I've been using CapCut on mobile to edit my videos, but lately, the workflow feels super frustrating and time-consuming. Between intrusive ads, export limitations, watermarks, and quality drops unless you pay for Pro, it's slowing me down a lot.

I’m looking for mobile apps (iOS) that are:

  1. Beginner-friendly with an intuitive interface.
  2. Free or low-cost without forcing giant watermarks on export.
  3. Capable of exporting high-quality video (1080p/4K) cleanly.

What mobile editors are you using right now that don't constantly lock basic timeline tools behind paywalls? Appreciate any recommendations or tips!


r/androidapps • • 38m ago

LOOKING FOR APP [ Removed by Reddit ]

• Upvotes

[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]


r/androidapps • • 10h ago

QUESTION/HELP Samsung My Files Or Files By Google In Your Opinion And Why?

4 Upvotes

Which Android Phone App is better Files By Google or Samsung My Files in your honest opinion and why? I currently have both of them installed on my Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 Device. But I'm thinking about removing/disabling The Samsung My Files from my phone and keeping The Files by Google Android App. I'm going to be getting The Motorola Razr Fold 2026 on Halloween👻🤡🎃🍬🍫🍭Do you think that I should just keep both of The Apps on my Device/Phone? How many of you are currently using The Samsung My Files and The Files by Google on your Android Phones/Devices? Do you think that it would be a good idea to remove/disable The Samsung My Files Android App since I'm going to get a brand new phone soon? What is your honest opinion?


r/androidapps • • 5h ago

LOOKING FOR APP Vocabulary Application

0 Upvotes

My friend and I want to learn and practise new vocabulary together. I was wondering if there’s an app for that.


r/androidapps • • 9h ago

LOOKING FOR APP Exploring file explorer

2 Upvotes

Can anyone suggest an alternative opensource or free app for solid explorer 🙂


r/androidapps • • 6h ago

LOOKING FOR APP Photo map app to share with family while traveling

1 Upvotes

Im going to Japan for two months and i want my family to have some idea where i am and what im up to without having to send pictures and updates all the time.

Is there and app or something that shows a map over where i am where i can upload pictures and they see the pictures on the map where i took them/uploaded them.

Then i can just share that map with everyone.


r/androidapps • • 7h ago

LOOKING FOR APP Need an app to save my money

1 Upvotes

Hey there, I am looking for an app where i can save my money for future purposes , like actually store my digital/online money to the app in diff jars or something related.

I just can't save money , that's i want to put it diff jars , to complete my goals and other expenses where i can reedem the money back easily too.

so please lmk if there is any app like that


r/androidapps • • 7h ago

LOOKING FOR APP Alarm clock app that can be synced to a playlist? (m3u8)

0 Upvotes

I wonder if there's an alarm clock app that lets me select a playlist (preferably an m3u8 file, or similar) and picks a random song from the playlist to wake me up to.

I really like to select different songs for different days of the week, but selecting them manually is kinda tedious, and the apps to select the songs from my files are not very great are filtering and organizing the songs.


r/androidapps • • 7h ago

LOOKING FOR APP App that forces desktop mode on a wireless display

0 Upvotes

I have a tv that supports miracast and I want to see if theres an app that can force the desktop mode of my phone on the tv.

Desktop mode works normally through a cable.


r/androidapps • • 12h ago

QUESTION/HELP AptX Adaptive & Spotify

1 Upvotes

Im having issues with Spotify mainly, other music apps dont seem to create issues. So my earbuds (BOSE QC Ultra gen2 earbuds) support Snapdragon sound, so does my phone (Motorola Signature). However, when im streaming spotify, it will stop the music briefly whenever i lock and unlock my phone. For some reason it streams the music on 48khz which is quite unnecessary since the format does not match it.

This only happens with Spotify, local music apps or others such as SoundCloud or Bandcamp work alright.

Any reason why this happens?


r/androidapps • • 23h ago

QUESTION/HELP Is The Google Drive Android App Safe For Storing All Of Your Audio/Music Files?

0 Upvotes

I'm asking because I'm going to be getting The Motorola Razr Fold 2026 on Halloween🍭🍬🎃🤡👻And I want to make sure that all my Music Files/Songs🎵🎶🎤🎧are completely safe when I transfer everything from my Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 Device to The Motorola Razr Fold 2026 without any issues. Do you think that it would be a good idea to transfer all of my 1,907 WMA Songs/Audio Files to The Google Drive Android App before I transfer everything to the new Phone/Device? What has been everyone's experience with using The Google Drive Android App and Backing Up all of their Songs, Pictures, Documents, and all other important Files? If I could get some advice I would really appreciate it.


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

QUESTION/HELP How to use Essentials App?

3 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I hope you're all doing great

A few weeks ago I saw many people talked about an app called Essentials and many people are saying an amazing app and so on. However, I can't use it right now, even when I'm giving it all the permissions needed. I have the Shizuku app and connected them together but when I open the Essentials app, I feel like it's full of features and many of them I don't even know what they actually are.

I just want some help from people using it and tell me how to benefit from its features and advantages to make my Android phone customized and give it some life. I feel like the app has SO many features but unfortunately I can't use them, cuz I don't understand what each feature does or changes in my phone and sometimes I fear of changing something in the system that will lead to crash or bugs.

For people who didn't know the app, or simply don't know what I'm talking about, here's the app repo on GitHub, and shout out to the developer sameerasw who spent so much time working on this project (even if can't use it 😅 )


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

QUESTION/HELP Rooting to remove bloatware?

7 Upvotes

I have 2 Samsung phones I originally bought from TracFone.

They no longer have sim cards. I use them as ebook readers and to watch videos only.

A21 and A11 models.

Neither have functioning memory card slots, I'm told that is a common Samsung issue.

Both full of bloatware I can't remove. Both were cheap with limited memory so the bloatware takes up most of the memory.

How hard would they be to root so I can remove all of the Samsung garbage?

Would I have to factory wipe the phone and all of the pictures and ebooks first?


r/androidapps • • 23h ago

LOOKING FOR APP Is there a highly trusted, privacy-respecting Android app that mimic the Brick?

0 Upvotes

Just want an app that can do the same as Brick. Anyone have any experience with Curbox?


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

QUESTION/HELP Android Keyboard

0 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I have a problem with Android, I've been with Android all my life, my wife has iPhone and I always prefer Android, but there is one thing that is tremendously bad, and that is the keyboard, every time I use your iPhone I never make a mistake no matter how crazy I write and on Android it is impossible to write a sentence without a letter sneaking in from next to it. I know you're going to call me gboad and SwiftKey but they're just as bad, there's no solution to a good and accurate keyboard like the iPhone?


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

LOOKING FOR APP Gallery management

0 Upvotes

Are there apps that use SLMs for managing gallery?

All I see are tinder style swipe apps with blur and Duplicate detection!

Please help, need to manage my 30K+ sized gallery


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

QUESTION/HELP Is anyone using CalcNotePlugin for Drive with CalcNote?

0 Upvotes

I'm looking for people who have experience using the paid CalcNotePlugin for Drive to automatically back up their CalcNote files and drafts to Google Drive.

- Does the plugin still work correctly?

- Does it work on Android 12+ and newer versions?

- Have you experienced any compatibility issues or crashes?

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has purchased and used this plugin.

Thanks!


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

QUESTION/HELP Dictation App: accuracy or your voice staying private?

2 Upvotes

You can usually get only one: A) Best accuracy, voice goes to the cloud B) Voice stays on your device, a few more errors

Which do you pick, and why?


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

LOOKING FOR APP Any app to reduce vibration intensity or change vibration patterns?

0 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I’ve just started using a Motorola Edge 40 and I find the vibrations way too strong. I’d like to reduce their intensity or possibly change the vibration patterns.

Unfortunately, I can’t find any settings for adjusting vibration strength in Android’s settings on this phone.

Is there any app that can help me with that problem? I’m also open to solutions using Shizuku or ADB.


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

LOOKING FOR APP I need a Video player with private folders

2 Upvotes

I already use MX player but I want folders inside the private folder I have anime episodes and it gets messy fast


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

QUESTION/HELP Anyone notice this?

7 Upvotes

Whenever I've been using any sort of app that includes a full video ad that takes up the entire screen, there's a button that has the x to take you out that has a "open play store" text on the side of it, which you're forced to press the button and it redirects you.


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

LOOKING FOR APP App with different album art and first song art?

1 Upvotes

Hello!

I own some albums where every song has its own art, but the album art is different from the first song's art. I either have to change the first song's art to the cover art or have the album art displayed as the first song's art.

Is there an app that lets me have separate art for the album and first song?

Thank you!


r/androidapps • • 1d ago

LOOKING FOR APP Android app for floating lock screen button without granting accessibility?

1 Upvotes

Kind of an edge case, but is there an Android app that creates a floating button that locks the screen, since my physical power button is no longer working in an otherwise functional phone. Almost all that I see in the Play Store require accessibility access, which in turn prevents me from opening my banking apps.

While I am aware there is a double tap on home screen, I want something which can lock my screen while inside an app (I use my recorder + note taking app over long durations and I dont want to go to my home screen everytime I want to lock my phone to save some battery)

My current workaround is using an in-built quick tile in my notification shade, but requires a bit of thumb gymnastics.

TIA.


r/androidapps • • 2d ago

QUESTION/HELP Have you guys tries Zenith

2 Upvotes

Zenith is an app that I downloaded from fdroid izzyondroid repo. The purpose of downloading this app was to limit doomscrolling whether it is youtube or reddit. It has good features but it reacts late, like after 1 to 1.5 min of app opening, sometimes it reacts fast. I am thinking of giving it android accessbility permission. The developer has said that it doesn't collect data or uses internet. Also as an additional security, I disabled its background data usage from android settings and disabled its data and wifi permissions from Rethink firewall.

I was asking, should I give this app assessibility permission, I have banking details and apps on same phone. Also if someone has tried this app or using this app or want to suggest me some security tips, please feel free to do so.

Zenith Github

Edit 1 : Also I would like to apologize for my grammer, as I am a resident from a far planet and new to this corner of universe, my first language I learnt while entering earth's atmosphere was english, and my space ship is parked in New York.

Edit 2 : Tried* instead of tries in title😭 (I can't find edit option)