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Radiohead's PolyFauna app for Android is interesting and innovative.
It’s time for this month’s roundup of the best new Android apps on
the Google Play store. From this month onwards, we’re splitting out apps
from games: you can find the link to the separate Best Android Games
roundup at the end of this piece. Prices are correct at the time
of writing, and from this month we’re also including a notification when
apps that are free to download also use in-app purchases (or IAP, as
we’ve marked them). Read on for February’s list, and let us know your recommendations by posting a comment.
This
is an official app from Radiohead, based on the song ‘Bloom’ from their
‘King of Limbs’ album. Described as “an experimental collaboration”
with studio Universal Everything, it’s an eerie interactive experience
as you explore virtual landscapes. Interesting and innovative, albeit
one for fans.
New
from browser-maker Opera, this is an app that aims to help you save on
your data usage – potentially invaluable if you travel overseas a lot
and thus get regularly whacked by roaming fees. The app aims to compress
data used by “almost every” app on your smartphone, not just the
browser.
Me
Books is an app for buying and reading digital children’s picture
books, including those based on brands like Peter Rabbit, Peppa Pig and
Charlie and Lola. The books, which mostly cost £1.99 each, offer voice
narration and the ability to record your own dialogue and sound effects –
good news for budding Daddy Pigs everywhere.
Another
impressive children’s app for Android, this is the latest release from
Toca Boca. It has a scientific focus, as kids explore the periodic table
by spinning, heating, cooling and mixing up the elements – as
represented by cute characters. It’s a playful and creative introduction
to the science that kids will meet later on in their academic careers.
For
Nexus or Google Play edition Android devices only, this is an upgrade
to the native Android launcher application, making the company’s Google
Now software easier to access by swiping right from the main homescreen.
You can also use the “Ok Google” voice command to trigger apps and
commands when on your homescreen.
If
you spend a lot of time managing complex business projects, chances are
you’ve encountered the Basecamp service. Now it has an official Android
app, helping you keep tabs on projects from your mobile device,
including accessing documents and posting comments to team discussions.
If
you live in a shared house and experience the odd… difficulty,
Fairshare may be an essential download. Developed in Australia and now
going global, it aims to help you set who does what chore, divide up
bills and plan dinners and other joint activities. A happier household
will (hopefully) be the result.
This
is potentially very useful for fashionistas: an app that you can use to
take a photo of a garment you like, and find similar items on a range
of stores. Partners include Topshop, French Connection, New Look and
Net-a-Porter, with the results based on the cut and colour of clothing –
meaning you should find some good matches.
This
is an intriguing idea, sitting somewhere between games and traditional
fiction, it’s billed as a “home for interactive, visual stories” – a new
spin on Choose Your Own Adventure tales with visuals reminiscent of
social mobile games. Romance, detective fiction and other genres are
included.
There
are plenty of apps for sharing photos, but not so many that do a good
job of helping you organise the thousands of snaps you’ve already taken.
Tidy is hoping to do that: it groups pics by time, place and “shapes”,
then helps you navigate around them. It can also do the sharing thing
though, including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
This
is a simple, but rather impressive idea: an app that sets your
lockscreen PIN as the current time or date, meaning it’s constantly
changing, yet easy for you to remember. You can use it for free, but
some additional features are unlocked using an in-app purchase.
A
fun social app, this, turning photos into animated “cards” that can be
sent to friends and family. It draws on photos stored on your device or
previously uploaded to Facebook, and can share the resulting
video-slideshows to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, as well as sending
them via email.
I
remember the early days of Apple’s App Store, when “find your car after
you’ve parked it” apps were popular. The genre hasn’t gone away: Auto
Finder is the latest app aiming to help you get back to your motor, with
the schtick here being its ability to mark your car’s location
automatically, rather than you having to do it.
More
photo-sharing, but this time restricted to your closest contacts.
Togethera is aimed at families – extended, so grandparents, aunts and
uncles etc too – who want to share photos, videos and other updates. You
set up the groups as you see fit, and the service runs across
smartphones, tablets and computers.
Depop
is the latest shopping app for Android – an alternative to eBay in its
ability to help you buy, but also sell. The latter is slickly handled,
as you take a photo then create a listing for a device, then share the
link to it on various social networks. For buyers, there are
neatly-organised categories and item-following features.
While
we’re on a shopping tip, Zwallet is a new take on the idea of a mobile
wallet, taking in payments, loyalty schemes and discount vouchers. The
company behind it is British, so the retail partners are suitable for
the UK: Ask, B&Q, The Body Shop, Zizzi and more are all working with
the app already.
Billed
as “the first alarm clock to do good deeds”, this is a new app from
Samsung whose twist is that while you sleep, it decrypts protein
sequences for the University of Vienna, sending them the results when it
wakes you up. A good idea, although it does rely on you connecting your
device to a charger overnight.
Why
buy a brand new baby monitor when an older Android device might fit the
bill? This app connects Android devices enabling one to be used as a
child monitor, alerting the parent when their child cries out. You get
four free hours of monitoring a month in the initial download, but can
pay for unlimited use via in-app purchase.
This
is most useful in the US, where the ability to get photos printed and
delivered either to your home or a nearby retailer works. Otherwise,
it’s a handy app for sharing photos or whole photo albums, while
organising the pics already on your Android device, and commenting on
the snaps of your friends.
Launched
as a beta by Qualcomm, this lockscreen app promises to focus on
whatever’s new since you last glanced (hence the name) at your
smartphone. It also syncs with the existing Snapdragon BatteryGuru app
to get information on the apps you use most – so it requires the latter
app to be installed first.
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