It is that time of the month again when we test out some newly discovered apps to help you enhance your Android experience. This month, we found an app to help us answer how six months in 2023 flew by, an app that lets us use ChatGPT as we type, and more. Here are the seven best Android apps you can try in July 2023!
Hundreds of apps are uploaded to Play Store every week, but the ones featured are already popular. Therefore, finding a few hidden gems is a task.
That’s precisely why we plan to write this list of the best free Android apps every month so that you stay updated with the latest apps for Android. Besides, all these apps are free to use. Read on to check our list of the best free Android apps for this month!
1. Screen Protector: Secure Your Screen
While we all get excited by the features and the conveniences our smartphone offers, we shouldn’t forget to consider privacy. Bad people on the internet find new ways to steal your data with each passing day. Did you know that apps can maliciously capture screenshots or record your screen without knowing? The first app in this list is here for rescue.
The app is quite simple. All it does is work in the back end to protect you from apps that try to steal your data by screenshots and screen recordings. The app says it blocks screenshots and adds a black screen to all screen recordings, keeping your information safe.
However, the free version of the app only offers the basic toggle to either enable or disable the main feature. For example, using the app’s protection services on specific apps only is a feature that you must pay for.
Price: Free; Paid Version: $1.49 onwards
2. Yearly Progress: Watch Time Go By
It only seems like yesterday that we were writing the best apps to use for January 2023. Turns out it is already July now. How does the time go by so quickly? Wouldn’t it be better if there was a constant progress bar in our life, reminding us how much of the year is complete? Yup, you guessed it right – here’s an app for that.
Yearly Progress is a simple, well-designed app that has widgets showing the day, month, and year progress in percentage. What’s good is that it also follows the Material You design language, and the colors of the widget adapt to the colors of your wallpaper. All you need to do is select the widget you want to add, and it will be automatically added to your home screen.
The app is free to use, and ads are present only within the app’s interface and not the widget. We love interesting widgets, therefore, we were indeed tempted to add Yearly Progress to this list of best free Android apps for July 2023.
Price: Free
3. Statista Daily Data: Get Unique Insights
In the 21st century, the world runs on data and statistics. Agencies like Statista have been computing statistics and numbers and providing them to organizations and individuals upon request. But recently, Statista used the statistics they’ve evaluated throughout the years and have built a fun infotainment app called Statista Daily Data.
If you love numbers and stats, this app is a must-have on your Android device. Where news apps are filled with opinions, and skewed and questionable headlines, Statista is a good change – it only focuses on numbers. You can see different statistics daily, with colorful infographics and companion text. Further, you get to see all statistics based on different categories. To make it better, you also get subcategories that go deeper into specific data.
You can save the cards you like and even share them with your friends. Our favorite feature has to be the motion cards, which show how the numbers have evolved throughout the years. The app is well-designed, entirely free to use, and has no ads. Thus, deservedly grabbing a place in this month’s list of best free Android apps.
Price: Free
4. CardZap: Create a Digital Buisness Card
Gone are those days when you’d keep a stack of freshly printed business cards on your desk. When was the last time you ever handed over someone your business card? That is correct – we don’t remember doing it too. However, apart from sharing your contact details or manually crafting a digital business card, there hasn’t been a dedicated app or a tool to do it. But it looks like CardZap is here to change that!
CardZap lets you add all the information you want onto a digital business card. You can also add a photo to make it look detailed. A good level of customization is offered, and you can even customize the font style and size on your card. Once you create your card, you can generate a QR code for the same, and anyone can scan it to access your business card.
Further, you can add information on the other side, like a double-sided physical card. If your contacts use the app, you can view their business cards in the Contacts tab. The app is free to use, and we did not notice any ads either.
Price: Free
5. CleverType: ChatGPT on Your Keyboard
Is any tech-related content complete without mentioning ChatGPT at least once? Nope. OpenAI has set out to completely change how we interact with technology. Once they released GPT to the public with a chatbot-like interface, they parallelly gave scope for a million more use cases. A ChatGPT keyboard for an Android device seems to be a good one, and here’s an app called CleverType.
CleverType has ChatGPT integrated into its keyboard. Hence, whatever you type, you can ask ChatGPT to evaluate the same and start a conversion with you. Further, there’s also a built-in paraphrasing tool, a grammar correction tool, and a translation tool – all of which we immensely appreciate. The keyboard also has a bunch of themes to make it look the way you want. Overall, the keyboard performed well in our usage.
However, the app has a 2000-word limit, after which you need to use your Open AI API key to continue using the keyboard. If you do not want to do that, you can refer your friends to earn some tokens with which you can continue using the keyboard.
Price: Free; Paid Version: $0.49 onwards
6. Sense Weather: Feel the Weather
Weather apps have found their niche on Google’s Play Store. Every now and then, we see a unique app that boasts of showing every kind of weather data possible. But do all of us even understand these complex weather metrics before Googling them? Therefore, finding out how exactly the weather would end up being counterproductive. OnePlus – yes, the smartphone maker has brought in a solution for this problem – Sense Weather.
Sense Weather is a project of OnePlus’s OneLab. They claim that you can ‘feel, read, and interpret’ the weather using this app. Once your location is detected, or you select a city, you are greeted by an abstract color visual, which looks like a heatmap. The colors change according to the temperature and the weather conditions. Once you long-tap your screen, you get haptic feedback plus a combination of sounds to help you interpret the weather.
Further, the app also does not miss out on any important weather data as well – so the focus isn’t just on the aesthetics. Overall, it is a refreshing new weather app to use, with a beautiful user interface.
Price: Free
7. CocoonWeaver: Best App for Audio Journaling
Self-talk is a proven way to improve mindfulness, and we use audio journaling for it and listen to our voice. However, we always wished to have a dedicated app that helped us capture audio notes effectively. The default voice notes app was pretty barebones and did not offer any more features. To solve these shortcomings, here’s an app called CocoonWeaver, and we wish this existed back in the day!
CocoonWeaver is essentially a speech-to-text app that helps you record audio and automatically transcribe them accurately into text. The app focuses on audio journaling, and the user interface feels relaxing. You can easily create different categories of voice notes and color code them for efficient sorting. Overall, the app certainly provides a good number of tools for audio journaling.
However, a downside is that the user interface takes some time to get used to. We were a bit puzzled to create and use new folders. But after using the app a few times, you’ll be comfortable.
Price: Free
That was the list for July. Missed out on our best free Android apps for June? Don’t worry! Scroll down to see the list.
7 Best Free Android Apps to Try in June 2023
1. Pixel Search: Use Pixel’s Search Bar on Any Phone
One of the biggest advantages of using a Pixel phone is its few exclusive features, unavailable on any other Android device. Since they’re developed by Google, these features find some admiration on the internet – and one such feature is the universal search bar on Pixel phones. Thanks to an app called Pixel Search, you can bring this feature to any Android device.
You’re greeted by the beautiful Material You interface once you open the app for the first time while it asks you to grant the necessary permissions. Once you provide the permissions for contacts and files, you’re good to go.
You can search anything on your phone – an app, a file, a contact, and more. Further, you can also type a search query and directly find results from apps like YouTube, Spotify, Netflix, Maps, and many more apps. This, in our opinion, will change the way we all use our Android phones. You can also place a search widget that lets you access this app right from your home screen.
Moreover, the app is customizable to a good extent, is ad-free, and is completely free to use. Therefore deservedly grabs a spot in this month’s list of best free Android apps.
Price: Free
2. Flip DND: A New Way to Use Do Not Disturb
The quickest way to guilt trip yourself in 2023 would be to check your screen time stats, we’re sure the numbers are through the roof. That’s okay, we’re not here to make you feel bad about it. Instead, we want to show you an app that’ll help you reduce your screen time and yes, you can thank us later!
DND – or do not disturb is a feature that helps us disconnect from the digital world and stops our phones from sending notifications that can convert into an hour-long scrolling session. Flip to DND is a great way to use the feature. The app enables DND every time you flip the phone. The moment you flip it back, DND is turned off and you’ll be available for notifications.
Once you flip your phone, you get vibration feedback after two seconds that confirms that DND has been enabled. The app is fully free to use and does not come with any advertisements.
Price: Free
3. Positional: Well-Designed Geographical Info App
Whenever we use the Compass app on an iPhone, we’re in love with the user interface and the beautiful design. Sure, the functionality has come in handy too – but we’ve always wondered why there isn’t something similar on Android. However, we found an app called Positional which performs a similar function.
Positional is an all-in-one geographical information app. It shows your current location and all the information regarding the same – the coordinates, exact address, time zone, etc. Further, there’s also the compass and the level tool that’ll help you figure out the direction and orientation of objects. There’s also a well-designed motion clock that shows all data regarding sunrise, sunset, sun and moon position, and other related information.
The app packs in a good amount of useful tools that can make your phone a digital Swiss Army knife. The app is also free from advertisements and all the features are fully free to use.
Price: Free
4. ImageChat AI: AI Computer Vision App
Look to your left, look to your right – an AI app will certainly be within your sight. This seems to be the scenario in 2023. Every new app that is released is ‘powered by AI’. Don’t get us wrong; we’re not complaining. After all, OpenAI and GPT can potentially add value to our digital lives. Here’s an app that is quite fascinating; it’s called ImageChat AI, and here’s everything you need to know.
It is a computer vision app that detects the contents and details of an image you capture or load from your gallery. The app uses a model called ‘ImageChat-2’, which is developed by a company called Cooch. Once you upload an image, the app describes it in detail in a chatbot-like interface. Once it reveals all the details, you can continue a conversation regarding the same.
For example, the app detected a bowl of pasta from an image that we uploaded. Further, we asked the app to provide us instructions to cook the same and it did so. In another case, you can also see the app describe a scenic image and the description was quite accurate.
The app is free to use and does not have any ads, but it requires you to sign up to access all the features.
Price: Free
5. Aerodocs: An Efficient Document Manager
When we had to travel, we’d open the safe at home at the very last minute and search for that one document in panic while the cab for the airport waited outside. But over the last few years, we haven’t encountered this situation because most of our documents are on our phones. However, our phones are as cluttered, if not more, than our closets and, eventually, end up panicking anyway.
If you relate to the situation we mentioned, we have an app for you. Aerodocs is an app that lets you easily organize and arrange all of your digital documents. Be it related to your medical plan, education, work, or travel documents; you can sort them all with relevant titles and folders.
You have a few preset folders into which you can start adding documents. Further, you can also create new custom folders based on your needs. You can also add tags to organize these folders and add important notes, if any, within the app. You can also sign in to the app with Google so that you can sync your documents and use this app on other devices as well. Further, you can also add 2FA to secure them.
The app is free to use, but it has a few ads that interfere with the user experience. You can purchase the premium version to get rid of the ads, which also provides an upgrade over the free 500MB cloud storage to store the documents.
Price: Free, Pro Version: $7.49 onwards
6. One Deep Breath: A Mindfulness App
In all the hustle and bustle, struggles, and joys of our daily life, there’s one thing all the seven billion of us collectively and subconsciously do – which is to breathe. The impact of a deep breath is often underestimated. It is a proven technique to quickly relax in overwhelming situations, and this app will surely help you do that.
The app has a great collection of breathing exercises to help you in different ways. Some exercises help you calm down in an anxious situation, while others help you get ready to sleep. The good part about the app is that it contains detailed information regarding all the breathing exercises and how and why they can help you.
You get plenty of free exercises, but if you want to unlock all, you must buy the plus version. However, the app does not have any ads, but we wish the user interface was a bit more optimized for smoothness. All in all, we like this app, and we’ve only learned how important activity breathing is and how we’ve been taking it for granted.
Price: Free; Plus Version: $4 onwards
7. Nutrition Tracker: Improve Your Eating Habits
While physical exercise is important, what goes hand in hand is your diet. Good eating habits with a balanced, nutritious diet are vital in keeping you fit. Given how we use our phones for everything today, why not use them to track how and what we eat?
You can track everything you eat and also add details of your physical activity within the app. Once you do that, the app will calculate a score that helps you visualize your habits. You can also see what you need to increase in intake or reduce based on your score. The app also has extensive tracking metrics and, thus, deserves a spot in this list of best free Android apps.
There’s also an ‘Ask Dietitian’ feature that helps you fix your score and understand how you can do better and also recommends what you can eat. The app requires a mandatory sign-in, but it does not have any ads, and all the features are free to use.
Price: Free
Time to Enhance Your Android Experience
These were our recommendations for the best free Android apps for July 2023. We hope you give all of these a try. We’re sure some apps will stick to your phone for a while.
Meanwhile, if you found a new app you like, leave it in the comment section below, and we will test and recommend it if it’s a great find. That is it for this month. See you soon!
Last updated on 03 July, 2023
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Thanks for the list. Another great app that I have recently discovered is Image Analysis Toolset (IAT).