Indian Joe / Android Salad
App developers are skipping things on a daily basis, trying to improve and enhance the experiences of our smartphones and tablets. In fact, there are so many Android apps released every day that it can be hard to keep track of them all, especially when Google doesn’t provide any resources to help find new ones.
The best new Android apps as of April 2023
Find that picture
price: Free / $6.99
Find that Photo is an app for browsing photos on your phone. It indexes images and uses artificial intelligence to sort them using a variety of keywords. You can then search through your photos to find the one you’re looking for. It worked well in our tests, though there are some improvements that could be made over time. Normally, you can only get features like this from a cloud storage app like Google Photos. If this continues to improve, you will be able to do this on your phone with your non-backup photos.
Galaxy Enhance-X
price: free
Galaxy Enhance-X is an app only available for Galaxy S23 series phones. It is an AI photo editor that uses different types of filters to help improve your photos. It doesn’t do much with photos taken in good light or those really sharp ones. However, it can beautify some unwanted photos. You can import an image into the app, use various filters to adjust the look, and then save the result if you’re happy with it. Samsung intends to bring this to more phones in its lineup, so Galaxy owners should keep an eye on this one.
Mood Journal
price: Free / $4.99 per month / $39.99 per year
Mood Journal is like most of the other mood journals in the Google Play Store. You open the app, tell it how you feel, and get in the habit of checking your mood over time. This sets itself apart from the others by having a video component. Users can take a video selfie describing their feelings and then replay the videos later to see how they were. You also get the usual stuff like tracking your mood over time, complete with graphs, along with articles for improving your mood. It’s not very different from what’s there, but it rearranges a few things a bit so this will work if others don’t.
PlainApp is an app that allows you to manage your phone using a web browser on your computer. The phone self-hosts a webpage that you can access from any computer using a web browser. From there, you can control the phone and make it do different things. Some of the features include playing video and audio, streaming videos to TV, and more. It does not contain any analytics besides 256-bit AES encryption, so your information is generally safe. There are some other things too, like the ChatGPT functionality, though it seems out of place here. Anyway, the app is open source and ad-free.
Prosper is a mental health app. It basically helps you deal with your feelings in a more constructive way. Yes, that means it’s mostly a mood journal. This one has your mood journal features like daily check-ins and stats over time. However, this one focuses more on the how-to side of things with a collection of self-care videos and articles. This kind of thing is generally very difficult, some people simply need different kinds of help than others, but it’s not the worst example in this kind, and it might help someone.
bobbin maker
price: free
Reelsy Reel Maker is a video editing app designed for short videos as you see on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts. There are plenty of those on the Play Store, and Reelsy adds another one to the mix. It features a collection of templates across ten different categories. You can use them to follow trends or create videos that viewers might want to watch. The app works as intended. However, the developers have neglected to add the autosave or save draft feature. Mix that with the crash bug that’s happening right now, and we recommend waiting for the developers to fix this bug a bit. However, it passed the test, assuming you can avoid the crash bug.
SoundCrowd Music Player
price: free
SoundCrowd Music Player is a music player designed for SoundCloud. The app features better controls, a modern Material Design user interface, and more when compared to the official SoundCloud app. It also includes plug-ins that let you play music from YouTube, Spotify, and Beatport as well. According to the developers, this device is designed for longer tracks, such as live sets or DJ remixes. It still needs some work, given its Google Play rating, but it worked in our testing for the most part.
SparkReceipt
price: Free / $5.49 per month / $54.99 per year
SparkReceipt is a receipt scanner and storage app. It is mostly useful for commercial use. You can scan your receipts and then find them again when taxes roll in to get your deductions. OCR is used to scan receipts, which is nothing new, but still nice to see. Some other features include cloud storage for your receipts, a collaborative feature so you can track expenses with other people, and organizational features to keep your expenses organized for tax season. It’s a little pricey for what it is, and there are cheaper examples elsewhere. However, collaborative features are hard to find in an app like this.
SuperImage is an AI-based image upscaling tool. For starters, this means that this app takes low-resolution photos and renders them to higher resolutions. It claims to do this with minimal loss of detail, and our testing has already shown very promising results. The user interface is very simple. You can import an image, select the mode and output format, and then hit the upscale button. It takes some time, especially with lower-tier or older devices, but the results are surprisingly good. Don’t be shocked if we put this on our best of the year list in December.
voidpet
price: Free / $3.99 per month / $39.99 per year
Voidpet is another mood magazine, but this one mixes premise and game. Part of the game makes you collect different pets. There’s a bunch you can get your hands on, along with color variants, so it’ll take a bit to get them all. Part of it makes you express your true feelings for animals. They don’t judge, after all, so it’s not a bad way to do it. The people who use the app are split between using this app as a journaling app and just playing the game. You can really go with it either way. However, it does have a subscription, like an app, and not IAPs like a game, so we put it in our apps list instead of our games list.
If we missed any great new Android apps, tell us about them in the comments.
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