8 Android Apps That Will Make iPhone Users Jealous

BENGALURU: Android apps make your Smartphone awesome and full of potential to do lot many things without much hassle. The best part is, iPhone users crave for some awesome android apps made exclusively for Android phones. As compiled by Business Insider let us have a look at the top Android apps making your Android Smartphone smarter than iPhones.

#1 Google’s sky Map, Price: Free

Google is the creator of this app called Google’s sky Map, and it helps you to learn more about the stars above through your phone. By just pointing your phone up to the sky, you can see what constellation you're looking at and gain information about them. It’s a fun app tailor-made for star lovers and night-star gazers.

#2 Muzei, Price: Free

It is made in New York by Roman Nurik. Muzei is a transliteration of the Russian word, which means “museum.” Muzei is a live wallpaper that changes your home screen each day with famous works of art. It also gets into the background, blurred and dim to keep your icons and widgets in the main focus of visibility. Simply double touch the wallpaper or open the Muzei app to enjoy and explore the artwork. Alternatively, you can choose your favorite photos from your own gallery or other apps to use on your home screen. To keep your wallpaper fresh and new, Muzei will rotate through your favorite photos every few hours.

#3 HoverChat

With HoverChat, you can message as well as do another tasks simultaneously. the idea is to make messaging part of a user’s multi-tasking workflow. The app is more flexible, as it lets you read and reply to incoming messages, identified with a round “chat head”-like avatar, without leaving your current screen. You can even adjust the transparency of the messaging interface, making it translucent enough to see the content behind it. That way, you can message while doing other things, like browsing the web or watching a video, for example.

#4 Google Keep, Price: Free

 Google Keep is an android app able to capture your thoughts and lets you note it down at an instant. It works like a record book where you can be reminded of things at the right time. You can click a picture, of a receipt, record a memo and store it to use it later. You can color code the recorded notes for quick recognition and easy search.

#5 Cover, Price: Free

The app is exclusively tailor-made for Android. Android allows cover to make the phone think and thus in process improve the core features of the phone or specific app being used. Cover automatically recognizes when you’re at home, work, or in the car and learns which apps you use most in each context. So when you’re in the car, maps are right there. At work, your calendar and documents are at your fingertips. You can set a custom ringer volume and wallpaper for each location.

#6 Light Flow, Price: Free

This app allows you to take control of your notification LED colors and helps you flash those colors by turn. It also allows you to set repeating sounds on vibration pattern for your notifications. It uses the Navigation Drawer introduced in the Android design guidelines for navigation. The active notifications view has a cards interface displaying the app’s icon and the notification with a color highlight indicating the set LED color. The Notification Settings view lists the apps and settings configured with easy access to options like ringtone, vibration type, LED frequency and LED color.

#7Cerberus, Price: Free trial, 2.99 Euros for one-time upgrade

As the name suggests Cerberus, in Greek mythology is a 3-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades. You can control your phone remotely using the Cerberus web client by going to www.cerberusapp.com and filling in the username and password you’ve just created. And in an instant you get full access to your phone from your computer or other devices. This app automatically enables GPS if it is off earlier and you try to locate your stolen device. The app also has the SIM checker feature, which allows you to send messages to the new number if the number is changed.

#8 Lux, Price: $3.80

Lux intelligently adjusts the brightness of your display based on the environment you're in. If you step into a dimly lit room, Lux will automatically lower the brightness of your display to make it not only comfortable to read, but to also preserve battery power. Lux is also able to adjust the screen temperature of your display automatically to make it appropriate for night usage. If the backlight is too bright or dim, simply open the provided Dashboard, adjust the brightness slider to the level you desire, and then hold the link button. Lux will use this new 'link' as a reference in future.

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