Best Android Apps For 2018

The Tech Advisor team has also recommended a range of apps that don't easily fit into any of the previous categories, but that we find useful aids in our daily life. One of my favourites is App Lock, which lets me lock down only the apps I want to hide from prying eyes without password- or PIN-protecting my entire phone. Tech Advisor's Publisher Simon Jary likes Fitbit, the companion app for Fitbit activity trackers that helps you keep tabs on goals, progress and fitness levels. Ashleigh Allsopp, Tech Advisor's Engagement Editor, likes StarWalk. It's not free, at £1.97, but it's a great app for budding stargazers, showing you an interactive star chart of the night sky and providing all the information you need on stars, planets, satellites and constellations. And Editorial Director Matt Egan is a fan of Podcast Addict and Heat Genius. While Heat Genius is applicable only if you have a Heat Genius smart home heating system, keep in mind that if you have any type of smart home tech there will be an app for it. Has this article inspired you to get a new Android phone or tablet, Check out our round-ups of the best Android phones and best Android tablets.

They’re great at being functional, they just don’t delight. Due Today has it’s own foibles, chipping in with Floating Tasks! The other main problem, was the inconsistent experience. Not a fault of any individual app but nevertheless a problem as a whole. Take projects for example; TODO calls them lists, Due Today calls them projects and Toodledo calls them folders. They also have different special lists. Due Today has one called Future, TODO has one called Focus. The split boxes work differently too, TODO shows in gray the total number of tasks and in red the number that are overdue. Whereas Due Today shows in grey the number of tasks not overdue and in red those that are overdue. So for 4 tasks, 2 of which are overdue. This is for you, if you are a power user and are after an app/s that is extremely customisable, has tons of features, has multiple clients to choose from and you can live with fugly UIs.

It’s designed specifically for GTD and I think it aligns itself with GTD perfectly. For example when tasks are created, they’re in the inbox (which is not a special folder but more a classification or focus). When you process the inbox the task, it can then can be reclassified as Today, Next, Scheduled, Someday and Waiting. On top of this, independently you can then add to projects and contexts (plus tags for good measure). Unfortunately Doit.im’s Mac app, is unusable. Android) and feel abandoned. Simple things like putting something into ‘Next Action’ means it will never be seen again in the app and there’s no projects for you to browse either. Sadly that just leaves the Web app for managing tasks on the Mac. It’s good and matches the Android app but I did experience slowness at times and it’s not so good off-line or with a slow Internet connection.

They also just announced premium pricing of 20USD, which I think it’s great. It provides some re-assurance that they have a way to make money and stick around. Something I was concerned about previously, having been around a long time without making money and not publicly announcing how they would. This is for you, if you’re after a complete GTD style trusted system in one - for Android, iOS and Web. Astrid & Producteev - The Winners! It was a close call but I think these pair just edge it. There’s a great desktop app for the Mac (Producteev) and the best task app I’ve seen for Android (Astrid). They’ve got a host of features and even missing the odd one but I think the User Experience won it over for me. Both make me smile and that’s important. It compels me too look at them, collect on them, organise on them, review on them. I’ve had Astrid on my phone for a while (as an inbox to collect stuff on the go) and it’s fun to use. I’ve seen it get better and better with each update, which occur frequently.