Lifehacker's Best Android Productivity Apps of 2016

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

Lifehacker and cashback service have compiled programs for Android for you, which helped us to better cope with our tasks this year. Among them, you will find applications for communication, convenient text input, browsers, readers and much more.

Telegram

Telegram is one of the most convenient messengers for personal and business communication. For example, the Lifehacker team uses it to organize work processes. This year, the developers have tried very hard and rolled out several major updates: new,, and reading mode appeared on Telegram.

Instapaper

is the main competitor of the popular lazy reading app Pocket. It has even more features, but the most "delicious" of them, until recently, were available only by subscription. Now Instapaper is completely free, so it's time to start using it.

Google keep

At the time of its appearance, everyone was struck by its simplicity and a small number of functions. However, the developers did not sit idly by and, over time, equipped this note-booker with such a set of features that many users did not even dream of.

In 2016, this process continued, so today we can safely call Google Keep the best application for storing various information that should always be at hand.

SwiftKey

is one of the most popular alternative keyboards for Android. It differs from competitors first of all by an excellent prediction algorithm that guesses the words you are typing literally from the first letters.

This year, the program began using a new prediction algorithm based on self-learning neural networks. This allows the keyboard to truly understand your text and suggest words based on its content.

Moo.do

If your work is almost entirely about email, then you can make it much more productive with. This app allows you to turn Gmail into the control center for all your emails, tasks and plans.

Drupe

- an application that will speed up the execution of the same type of actions and save your time. The utility makes life easier for active users of instant messengers and social networks, as well as for those who have to call frequently. With the help of Drupe, it is much easier and faster to contact any person you need.

MacroDroid

Not everyone knows what Android automation apps are capable of. offers each user hundreds of ready-made automation scripts that have already been tested and loved by other users. You can also use them to teach your smartphone how to do the right things yourself.

Opera Mini

In the past year, the developers have made so many changes that now it can safely compete with "adult" browsers. First, the Norwegian browser got a built-in ad blocker. A little later, there were color themes, saving web pages for read lazy and the function of downloading videos from social networks and forums. Not bad, right?

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Yandex. Keyboard

Fans of multifunctional items will be delighted with "", because this is a real Swiss knife among keyboards.

Users can instantly translate text from more than 50 languages and check spelling, as well as voice input of messages. In order not to explain to the interlocutor on the fingers where you are, the keyboard has the ability to share your location or coordinates of nearby places.

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Inbox

We all love Gmail very much. However, one cannot fail to notice Google's new mail project. This year he armed himself with artificial intelligence, learned new algorithms for sorting mail, got the opportunity to use signatures in letters and much more.