New Android Apps and Games: The Best of October

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The most interesting and useful news on Google Play this month.

Applications

Life hacker

This is our new application, rewritten from scratch. Now the main screen displays the sections "New", "Top of the week" and "Top of the month", management has become more convenient, and the feed with articles has also been changed. In addition, it became possible to customize the font and size of the text of the articles. Hope you enjoy!

Ratio

A minimalistic launcher in which apps are sorted by priority, so you only have the apps you need most visible. This is done in order to help the user get rid of their smartphone addiction. The application has a dark theme, as well as the so-called solar mode, with which it will be more convenient to view the contents of the screen in bright light.

ClipDrop

The program allows you to "copy" an object from real life and paste it into your drawing. ClipDrop takes a snapshot of an item, then crops the surrounding background and uploads it to your library, from where you can paste it anywhere. You take a photograph of the subject and in a second add it to your Photoshop template - convenient! There are versions for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. However, only 10 objects can be saved for free.

Catcode

A very interesting application that works like a QR code scanner. But instead of them, the program reads the cat heads you have drawn.

For example, you are writing a lecture note and want to attach a link to material from the Internet to it. Writing URLs by hand is utter folly. But you can draw a cat's head in the margins, remove its Catcode, and paste the URL into the app.

Whenever you need to access the material, just take a picture of the drawing of the cat's head in the margins, and the link will open on your smartphone. Any digital content can be encoded in this way - text, links, audio, video and images.

Blocks Live Wallpaper

If most of the "live wallpapers" on Google Play seem overly fanciful for you, try Blocks. This minimalistic Android-style screensaver displays multicolored 3D shapes to add some variety to your home screen.

Loudly Soundtracks

The program is useful for those who create their own content for YouTube and other sites. Loudly Soundtracks has a lot of free, open source music. You can download tracks in high quality WAV (lossless) and MP3 formats. There is a search by mood, genre, instrument and so on.

Games

Dark Forest: Lost Story

A horror about demons and ghosts, in which you have to travel to various gloomy places to shoot paranormal phenomena on camera. You will have to be afraid of a wide variety of monsters, including Slender Man and the good old Baba Yaga.

BreakBoard

A puzzle game with hundreds of levels that can captivate you for a long time. You have to break the blocks from which various shapes and drawings are made here. An interesting feature of the game is that it is all hand-drawn. From time to time, puzzles are diluted with boss battles so that the player does not get bored.

Spooky Squashers

A simple Halloween-themed toy. You play as a pumpkin with a racket that fights against ghosts, trying to kill them all with a tennis ball. Naturally, the more ghosts you kill in one roll, the more bonuses you get.

Mergetin

Another puzzle game where you have to combine colorful blocks with numbers. Something like Tetris, but not about geometry, but about arithmetic. Continue adding numbers until the entire playing field is full and see how many points you score.