10 extra enjoyable, area of interest, bizarre apps for Android (quantity 2)

There are such a lot of apps within the Google Play Retailer. The final time we checked, there are over an estimated 3.5 million of them. Not each app is supposed for recognition. In any case, there can solely be so many note-taking apps. This checklist goes to cowl stuff that’s a bit extra area of interest. We now have already written the primary quantity of area of interest, bizarre apps. That is going to be quantity two. Listed below are ten extra glorious enjoyable, area of interest, and peculiar apps for Android.

BuzzKill is a notification filtering app. An instance of an app like this being helpful is when somebody messages you a number of instances in speedy succession. The app can let the primary notification by means of after which filter out the opposite two. It may well additionally manipulate your notifications in different methods. For instance, you will get reminder notifications, customized vibration for particular apps or contacts, and extra. It’s form of neat as a result of notifications can are available in massive waves, and apps like this one can preserve issues affordable. It’s $2.99 out of the gate, however there are not any extra in-app purchases.

EKA2L1 is a Symbian emulator. It’s able to emulation a number of model of Symbial, together with S60v1, S60v3, and S60v5. It’s largely used to play outdated video games like many nice Android emulators, as you’ll be able to see within the screenshot above. As such, among the options are for gaming. There’s customized key mapping and body fee adjustment for many who need it. Symbian isn’t identified for its gaming platform, so this can be a pretty area of interest product, however it works nicely, and that’s why it’s right here.

MacroDroid is quite a bit much less area of interest than different apps on this checklist. It has north of ten million downloads, in spite of everything. Nevertheless, with apps like Tasker and IFTTT getting lots of the automation love, MacroDroid is usually the odd man out. It’s an automation app, much like the aforementioned apps, and it could automate fairly a number of various things. You choose a set off, decide the motion, after which configure it farther from there if essential. IFTTT is undoubtedly extra highly effective, however MacroDroid is nicer to make use of if you happen to simply wish to automate some primary, on-device features. We expect it needs to be within the dialog extra.

Bought Apps

Worth: Free

Bought Apps is a straightforward app. It reveals you the entire apps and video games you’ve bought within the Google Play Retailer. The Play Retailer helps you to see purchases you’ve made within the Funds and Subscription setting, however this one is a bit cleaner, so it’s nonetheless helpful. You too can kind by put in apps, uninstalled apps, and by buy kind so yow will discover simply apps that you simply paid for or in-app purchases solely. It’s good if you wish to discover an outdated app or recreation you acquire years in the past.

Sensor Take a look at

Worth: Free / $3.99

Sensor Take a look at is an app that helps you discover points along with your cellphone. It may well take a look at a wide range of sensors in your cellphone, together with the gyroscope, accelerometer, gravity, gentle, pedometer, coronary heart fee monitor, and another sensor your cellphone might need. Clearly, your cellphone must have the sensor for the app to check it. In any other case, the app works fairly nicely and might help you slender down potential points in case your cellphone is having issues. Some OEMs, like Samsung, have variations of this that it’s best to use as an alternative, however many OEMs nonetheless don’t.

Shizuku is a power-user app that most individuals gained’t ever want. Functionally, it helps apps entry system-level APIs so that you simply don’t want root to run one thing. Sometimes, you’d must grant the app permission for some of these issues with root or with ADB. Shizuku does it for you so that you simply don’t should do both of these issues. It doesn’t work in each situation, however there are some apps that may mod your cellphone that use one thing like this to make life simpler. Once more, you’ll nearly by no means want one thing like this, however if you happen to ever do, right here it’s.

Sq. Dwelling

Worth: Free / As much as $4.99

Home windows’ Metro design wasn’t the most well-liked factor on the planet, however it did have its followers. Sq. House is a launcher that brings an identical kind of UI again to your Android cellphone. it places widgets, apps, and different features in squares on your house display. It brings that Home windows Cellphone really feel to your Android cellphone in a approach few others do, and it provides you a break from the standard icon and dock fashion of extra well-liked Android residence display launchers.

SuperImage is an AI-powered picture upscaler. Meaning it makes use of AI to take blurry pictures and make them sharper and higher wanting. It’s a neat piece of expertise that does truly work. We simply perceive that the marketplace for picture upscaling isn’t significantly massive. In any case, SuperImage is without doubt one of the newer apps on this checklist, having been launched in 2023. We expect it’s a enjoyable app that works nicely, even when its viewers isn’t large. We even checklist it on our greatest AI apps for Android checklist.

Water Resistance Tester

Worth: Free / $0.99 – $99.99

Water Resistance Tester is an app that went a bit of viral after its launch. All it’s a must to do is squeeze your cellphone, and the app tells you if the water resistance continues to be intact. The humorous factor is that it does truly work, and it really works fairly nicely. You squeeze the cellphone, the app measures the strain, and if the strain is over a sure threshold, it provides the all-clear. It clearly doesn’t work for each cellphone, so that’s one thing to bear in mind. Nevertheless, it labored superb on all three of our tester telephones. The value appears exorbitant, however it’s an non-compulsory donation, so you’ll be able to pay as little or as a lot as you need.

What3Words is a navigation app. It takes a location, divides it up into 10-foot squares, after which every sq. is given a singular three-word identifier. You then use these identifiers to search out the precise location of the place you wish to go. Clearly, navigation apps can do that since at present’s GPS areas are fairly spot on.

This app is most helpful when on the lookout for issues in a crowded space the place the situation isn’t terribly apparent. For instance, a selected house in a posh with a singular format. It is a checklist of area of interest apps, in spite of everything, so clearly, this isn’t going to usurp Google Maps, however you’ll be able to truly ship the situation you discover right here to Google Maps or another nice navigation apps, so it really works in tandem as an alternative of as a substitute.

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