10.10.2024

New apps and games for Android: the best of May

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Dmitry Sazhko

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New apps and games for Android: Best of May

Applications

1. Console Launcher

Curious launcher for geeks and fans of mobile titles and retro projects. It gives your Android device a console-like interface to play games like on a PlayStation or Xbox.

The app can be used in a number of ways, if you have the right imagination. For example, if you install the program on a TV-box, add several games to it and connect a gamepad, you can get an impromptu game console with convenient control, as they say, from the couch.

And if you put the application on your smartphone and add a gamepad with a mount, the old device will turn into a kind of Nintendo Switch. The program is still raw, but it already works well and is actively developed.

Console LauncherK2 MediaPrice: Free

New Android Apps & Games: Best of May

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2. Backtrack

An app for nostalgic music fans who don't know what else to listen to. You enter your year of birth and the program selects the most iconic songs that were popular during your youth. A time machine for music lovers.

Backtrack – Music NostalgiaChristoffer TörnroosPrice: Free

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3. NothingbutWallpapers

A very cool collection of minimalistic wallpapers containing over 500 files. And it continues to grow with every update. You can choose and apply a background for your home screen right from the app. All this looks much nicer than the standard Xiaomi wallpaper installer.

NothingbutWallpapersAsdlorDesignsPrice: Free

New Android Apps & Games: Best of May

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4. Bromite

Don't you think that Google's Chrome with each update is acquiring inconvenient features that only interfere with its use? Take, for example, the replacement of the excellent image search with the completely obscure Google Lens. Or an extremely unintuitive grouping of tabs, added for no reason.

If you want to use Chrome without all these misunderstandings, and also without being tracked by Google, try Bromite. It is a browser based on the Chromium source code for Android. Its interface is completely identical to Chrome, but the program is devoid of all the intrusive additions of the Good Corporation. In addition, it is equipped with an ad blocker.

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5. VK Messenger

If you are not a fan of social networks and use your account only to occasionally correspond with friends, it makes no sense to keep the full VKontakte client on your smartphone. You can do with one messenger. There are group chats, audio and video calls, stickers, music, photos, videos, sharing geolocation and files up to 2 GB and other necessary functions.

VK Messenger: Communication, callsVK.comPrice: Free

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6. Chess Timer

A program with such a simple and cool idea that you wonder how no one thought of doing this before. This is a chess timer that displays two electronic dials facing each player.

You launch the app and start the game by tapping the screen with your opponent in turn to start and stop the countdown. A great way to play a blitz without a heavy and bulky chess clock.

Chess Timer – Stylish Game ClockSimpleInnovationPrice: Free

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7. Dream by WOMBO

An application for mobile photographers who want to make their pictures bright and colorful. You feed a picture to the program, and with the help of neural networks, it turns it into a canvas painted in oil, pastel, watercolor or composed of fire, fractals or geometric shapes.

Dream has many filters and patterns by which AI paints your photos. It is enough to choose the one you like, wait a bit, and you will receive a masterpiece of avant-garde art.

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Games

1. Apex Legends Mobile

The long-awaited mobile port of Apex Legends, one of the most popular games in the world. This is a “royal battle” with a bunch of characters with different abilities, and a mountain of weapons for every taste and color. A great way to have a good time in fun battles.

Apex Legends MobileELECTRONIC ARTSPrice: Free

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2. Physics! Fun

This is not so much a game as a kind of anti-stress application. A sort of real-world simulator that allows you to create interactive geometric shapes that obey the laws of physics.

You can rivet balls, squares, cubes, rag dolls, particle clouds, and then make explosions, pushes and create gravity fields that will affect objects in one way or another. Stupid, but extremely exciting.

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3. Love is… in small things

Relaxing meditative game, comic puzzle, made in a watercolor style, and even accompanied by a pleasant soundtrack. You have to color in black and white pencil drawings while solving riddles and looking for hidden elements, numbers, shapes and symbols in the pictures.

Completing tasks, you advance the plot of an exciting romantic drama. The game has 300 levels divided into 30 chapters.

Love… in the detailsLunosoftPrice: Free

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