31+ Awesome Android Apps and some Runners-Up
AppBrain App Market
These are the best, the most amazing, the cutting-edge, pick-of-the-crop, Android apps available on the Market.
Many men died to bring us this information. We must honor their memory and celebrate the freedom they died to protect… by enjoying all of the free apps we can get our fingers (or thumbs) on. We must go forth and start customizing their configurations, tweaking their settings, and rating them in the Market!
- LauncherPro - Best replacement Home application for Android
Runner Up: ADW Launcher - Google Maps – GPS-enabled maps, step-by-step voice-guided navigation & directions
- mVideoPlayer - best video player app for Android
- Pandora - Internet Radio that plays what you like
Runner Up: Last.fm - Google Voice – Google Visual VoiceMail, SMS and more
- Gmote 2.0 – Touch Pad, Keyboard and Media Controller for your PC over WiFi
Runner Up: RemoteDroid - EStrongs File Explorer – Best file manager and file explorer for Android
- EStrongs Task Manager – Absolutely the best task manager/task killer for Android
Runner Up: TaskPanel Lite or TaskPanel X - MySettings - Quick toggle settings on your Android
Runner Up: Quick Settings - AppBrain App Market – Best way to search, sync and manage your beloved Android apps – also use Fast Web Installer
- Shazam - Music Discovery Engine
- Awesome Drop (File Sync) – Drag and drop to sync files to your phone from a web browser
- myRemote - Best WiFi remote control for Windows Media Center
- Boxee - WiFi remote media controller for Boxee
- RoMote- Roku DVP remote control over WiFi
- Personal Finance by PageOnce – Track all your bank, credit cards, bills, and other accounts on your phone
- Dropbox - Synchronization and cloud storage across all of your PCs and Android devices
Runner Up: ASUS WebStorage - PayPal - PayPal is now powered by Bump!
- QuickDesk Beta – Enhancement to Home Application
Runner Up: Launch-X
- Toggl Timer - Track your time on the go with the official Android app for Toggl.com
- Skyfire Browser – server-assisted video pre-compression and streaming services
Opera Mini - server-assisted webpage pre-compression – save money on bandwidth - Facebook for Android- updates your status, view your News Feed, upcoming Events, and friends, upload photos, read messages
- PdaNet Free Edition – USB Tether and Bluetooth Internet connection sharing
Runner Up: EasyTether Lite
- WYSE PocketCloud RDP/VNC -Beta – Very fast Remote Desktop Connection over RDP/VNC protocols
- AppMonster - Backup, restore and manage your apps
- Mobile Banking - Do virtually everything you can at a Bank of America ATM or branch
Runner Up: Wells Fargo Mobile - Bump - BlueTooth powered contact info and file sharing
Runner Up: BlueTooth File Transfer - RingDroid - Make ring tones by taking samples from audio files on your phone
- Google Gesture Search – Search your phone contacts, apps, emails, messages and more with gestures
- Google Goggles - Augmented reality browser/camera, Android barcode scanner and more
- WordPress - Write new posts, edit content, and manage comments with built-in notifications
Top 50 finalists of the Android Developer Challenge
$275,000 Award Recipients
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cab4me Konrad Huebner, Henning Boeger Ever been looking for a cab? cab4me is the answer. Anywhere. Anytime. |
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CompareEverywhere Jeffrey Sharkey Shop smarter using your phone. Compare prices, read reviews, and connect with local stores. |
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Ecorio Jeff Kao, Gary Pong, Robert Lam, Taneem Talukdar Ecorio |
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GoCart Rylan Barnes Scan a product’s barcode with your phone’s camera and view all the best prices online and at nearby, local stores. |
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Life360 Chris Hulls, Dilpreet Singh, Luis Carvalho, Phuong Nguyen, Steve Potell From |
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Locale Carter Jernigan, Clare Bayley, Jasper Lin, Christina Wright Locale is an advanced settings manager that automatically changes your phone’s settings based on conditions, such as location. |
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PicSay Eric Wijngaard Easy to use image editor that enables you to quickly personalize your pictures and share them with friends or photo sites. |
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Softrace Staffan Kjellberg, Thomas Kjellberg Turn your workout into a thrilling race and challenge the world in real time. |
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TuneWiki TuneWiki Inc. TuneWiki |
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Wertago Kelvin Cheung,Teresa Ko, Peter Ree, Robert Sarvis, Douglas Yeung The |
$100,000 Award Recipients
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BreadCrumbz Amos Yoffe BreadCrumbz |
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Cooking Capsules Mary Ann Cotter, Muthu Ramadoss Inspiration |
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Maverick Virgil Dobjanschi Maverick |
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PebbleBox Yin Wang, Tao Jin A |
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PhoneBook 2.0 Voxmobili PhoneBook |
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Piggyback Christophe Petit, Sébastien Petit Piggyback is a revolutionary real-time carpooling |
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Pocket Journey Anthony Stevens, Rosie Pongracz Pocket |
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Rayfarla Stephen Oldmeadow Have fun with music. Play music based games and make music with your phone using a range of virtual musical instruments. |
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ShareYourBoard Mikhail Ksenzov ShareYourBoard is an Android application for capturing, processing and sharing whiteboard data. |
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Teradesk e-Storage José Augusto Ferrarini Teradesk is an application for Virtual Storage and Remote |
Finalists
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B4E Mr. Che, Mr. Happy C. B4E |
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Beetaun Sergey Gritsyuk, Dmitri Shipilov Beetaun |
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BioWallet José Luis Huertas Fernández Biometric |
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City Slikkers PoroCity Media and Virtual Logic Systems City |
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Commandro Alex Pisarev, Andrey Tapekha Commandro |
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Diggin Daniel Johansson, Aramis Waernbaum, Andreas Hedin Play |
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Dyno Virachat Boondharigaputra Dyno is an application used to evaluate vehicle performance on the road. |
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e-ventr Michael Zitzelsberger e‐ventr is your personal event organizer and friendship scout for your mobile. |
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Em-Radar Jack Kwok Em-Radar keeps you informed of severe weather and emergencies near |
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Fingerpaint Rob Mickle Fingerpaint is a collaborative drawing application. Draw by yourself, or together with friends – anywhere in the world. |
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FreeFamilyWatch.com Navee Technologies LLC Free location-based services helping family to navigate |
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GolfPlay Inizziativa Networks Provides support to all real time necessities of a golf player during a game. |
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gwalk Klaus ten Hagen, Marko Modsching, Christian Klinger, Rene Scholze Discover |
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iMap Mobile™ Weathertop Consulting, LLC iMap |
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IMEasy Yan Shi IMEasy is an IM based application designed particularly for touch screen mobile users. |
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JOYity Zelfi AG JOYity is a platform for next generation mobile |
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LifeAware Gregory Moore, Aaron O’Brien, Jawad Akhtar Be aware of your surroundings and the location of your |
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Marvin Laurent Pontier Publish in private, to your peer network or to the world, |
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mobeedo Sengaro GmbH mobeedo |
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MyCloset Mamoru Tokashiki Manages photographs and information about the fashion items you own, and coordinates and records your daily outfits. |
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PedNav RouteMe2 Technologies Inc. PedNav is a location-aware day planner that allows you to |
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SafetyNet Michael DeJadon SafetyNet |
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ShapeWriter ShapeWriter Inc ShapeWriter |
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SocialMonster Tommy Ng, Ben Hui Stay on top of your social life with SocialMonster and |
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SplashPlay Andreas Ipp, Keith Sturch, Friedger Müffke and Ronan Schwarz SplashPlay |
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Sustain Niraj Swami Sustain is a utility that helps its users naturally and fluidly communicate with their contacts. |
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SynchroSpot Shaun Terry Service |
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The Weather Channel for Android The Weather Channel Interactive Inc. The |
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TokPlay Sung-Suh Park TokPlay |
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Wikitude Philipp Breuss Wikitude |