With so many options for apps on the Android, you might end up spending more time looking for and testing time-saving apps than the time you would save with those apps. Luckily for you, here's a look at the five best Android Apps that will streamline your work, cut down the frustration level, and just make your life easier.
1. Evernote - Quite simply, this free Android App will turn into your second brain. Evernote is a notetaking web service, a Mac or Windows software program, and an app all rolled and interconnected, into one. It's super easy to use. If you know how to create playlists and add songs in iTunes (before it was ruined with that clunky iTunes 11 update), you'll be able to keep track of your life in Evernote's streamlined, simple interface. Just add a new notebook, and add notes inside that, and before you know it, you're organized. Evernote syncs your notes from the web, your home computer, and your mobile device so that you're always up to speed with yourself. And you can even add plug-ins to most web browsers to save a page to your notebook at the click of a button. Finally, both the app and the desktop software lets you save audio notes, so when you're on the go you can remind your future self about your fleeting thoughts quickly and painlessly.
2. Dolphin Browser - Nothing ruins productivity and generally frustrates like waiting for what seems like hours for a simple web page to load on your Android device. Sometimes the wait isn't your carrier's fault, just Android's default web browser. Install Dolphin Browser for instead, and you'll be cruising through quickly rendered webpages in no time. Some additional features like the voice controls are a little gimmicky, but Dolphin also has myriad plug-ins to customize your browser including tabbed browsing, thumb-nailed favorites, ad-blocker, and screenshots. So try out Dolphin Browser and quit waiting for your pages to load. This isn't 1995 and you don't have a 56k modem anymore!
3. Pocket - Earlier known as Read It Later, this app lets you save interesting web pages, news articles, videos and other web content offline, so you can check them out when you have the time. The app is pretty simple and bug free, and it's great for getting some needed reading done while you're waiting on line somewhere where there's no wireless signal or commuting in the subway.
4. Facebook - You might think Facebook is an anti-productivity app that technically doesn't make your life easier. You might also think it's an app with limited features and a somewhat clunky interface. You'd be partially right, but as I wrote about earlier, Facebook is adding more and more features, and since Facebook voice calling is available on the iPhone Facebook Messenger app right now, look for it to be expanded to you Android sooner or later. Not getting voice overage charges on your phone bill? I'd say that makes life easier.
5. iGun Zombie - Okay, so this one isn't about productivity at all. Still, it's an addictive first person shooter with a simple premise, simple gameplay, and great graphics and sound. Download it, and start tapping on the screen to shoot attacking zombies, and have some stupid fun. That makes life easier, doesn't it?