Top Best 10 Android Utility Apps

 Mobile utilities serve as bread and butter for every phone. Android phones have got themselves a complete library of utilities in every aspect including flashlight, translator, security etc. Below we discuss some of the best utilities which users would find fascinating. All of these are free apps and can be downloaded from Google Play store.

1. Clean Master (Cleaner)

• It is a very important memory saving app for android users as wastage of memory slows down the phone.

• It allows clearing cache files and cleaning newly installed files.
• It also contains a reminder in case the user forgets to clean the cache.
• Shows the space free in internal and external memory.
• It can also clear browsing histories and call logs.

2. Google Translate

• It has ability of translating words, phrases and even web pages.
• It supports text and voice translation in over 70 languages.
• It can even translate a scanned text or picture.
• It even works in offline mode where users can download languages and save for translation.
• Users can save favorite translations and afterwards sync them with other devices.
• It works on voice translations although all languages are not supported in this.

3. Swype keyboard

• When users swipe their fingers through the screen, the keyboard automatically predicts the words and even complete sentences sometimes.
• It offers a wide range of languages.
• It has excellent voice recognition system supporting many accents.

4. AirDroid

• Excellent PC-mobile interface and sharing device.
• Files and photos can be shared, transferred and stored in PC.
• Provides a backup for the android device in PC.

5. Firefox 4 for Mobile

• Desktop and mobile synchronization of the browser is very easy.
• It provides various add-ons to choose from.
• It has ability to move around the screen along with zoom at the same time.
• Users can save a page in PDF format.

6. Lookout Security & Antivirus

• It protects phone’s personal data and looks out if the phone is stolen.
• The lost phone could be located through Google maps and an alert signal can be made by it.
• If phone is stolen, users receive an e-mail with picture and information of the thief.

7. Onavo

• It is a data monitoring app which keeps track of used data.
• Allows users to set data caps and notifies them is cap is exceeded.
• Provides a scheduled view of used data.
• Alerts if any app is consuming data secretly.

8. Dropbox

• It is a cloud based solution for android devices.
• Users can beam their photos or videos directly into the cloud.
• No upload manager is required.
• Provides 500MB free storage when the first picture hits the cloud with max. Capacity up to 5GB.

9. Eye in the Sky Weather

• It can predict the weather forecast of different locations.
• It can give predictions for next 15 days.
• Icons and widget are excellent.
• It has a dash clock extension too.

10. Tunein Radio

• Great app for radio fans.
• Contains an archive of 70000 live radio stations.
• One shortcoming being it takes a lot of internet speed.
The list contains the most popular utilities. Some of the very obvious utilities have been omitted as every user is aware of them.