The best apps of 2015

What an exciting year this has been for smartphone users. We list the best apps that were all the craze in 2015

A smartphone is as good as the applications it is able to run smoothly. Today, the market place is saturated with innumerable apps, both paid and free that cater to different needs of smartphone users. In this list, we try to give you a glimpse of the most popular apps from different categories that have made the life of smartphone users simpler as well as exciting.

Avast Mobile Security and Antivirus

This free antivirus programme is one of the best in the market. It takes very little space and is not heavy to run in the background. This programme provides you with a comprehensive protection suite, which not only detects malware and viruses, but can also go through your browser history, inbuilt memory, and microSD card.

In addition, it also comes with an anti-theft feature that allows you to keep track of your stolen phone and even enable remotely wipe data to protect your private information from falling into wrong hands. 

Google Hangout

Anyone who has a Gmail account is very likely to have the hangout app on his or her smartphone to chat with others and even post text messages for free.

Google has made it a multi feature app that takes care of the varied way of communication the user wants to use including voice calls, video calls, and even your device’s SMS messaging service.

To make use of this free messaging app, you need to have a Google account in the first place.

Camera360 Ultimate

Many smartphones that come to the market with powerful sensors but without adequate photo editors are not able to perform to their fullest potential. To meet the challenge a number of photo editors have been made available in the market, wherein the most talked about happens to be Camera360 Ultimate.

The major USP of this app is the presence of around 200 filters that give you a perfectly made template, thus enabling you can take the best shots by the smartphone camera.

In addition, it also includes NFC photo sharing, which has a wide range of one-touch fixing tools. All these make the app among the best that allows user to take shots like a true professional with the humble smartphone camera lens.

WhatsApp

This is another messaging app just like the Google hangout, but more widely used especially among the teenagers. The best thing about this app is the presence of numerous features, which are more polished and trendy then the SMS messaging app pre installed in your smartphone.

This app allows you to share videos, audio files, photos and even text files over the Internet. It also has good emoji collections that allow you to express your feeling a lot better than in words.

The USP of this messaging tool is that it does not have any data limit on the files sent and the quality of pictures sent is very good as well.

VLC Player

If you are not satisfied with the default video player on your Android phone for its limitation of playing varied formats or its inability to allow users tweak its settings, then we suggest you use the VLC Player, which is one of the most downloaded media apps in the Android market.

In addition, among the many positives of this app is its ability to support a huge number of video formats, besides sporting a wide range of adjustable settings including hardware acceleration to create the viewing experience you desire.

ES File Explorer

Do you find it a herculean task to browse through onboard as well as external storage through the inbuilt file manager? If yes, we urge you to try out the most powerful file manager in the market called the ES File manager. The ES File Explorer has been our go-to file explorer for years, wherein this easy to use app allows you to find any file buried under a heap, very easily.

The file manager allows you to look at the inbuilt and the microSD card storage separately. Also, the file manager allows you to easily remove unused files with a single touch and does not give many notifications. It’s easy to understand interface is also a plus point.

Google Drive

If you want some extra secured space in the cloud to store files that can be accessed by some smart device like a smartphone or a tablet from any part of the world, then Google Drive is a very useful application. For when you sign up you get 15GB of space for free and if you have a greater need, then you can pay to buy some more storage space to create a backup for photos, videos, audio files or any other file format.

An added incentive of this app is that it also provides an office type application integrated into it like a word editor and a spreadsheet editor. The inclusion of office type applications helps the user to use the same and share it with other people.

JEFIT Workout Exercise Trainer

The most precious thing in a person’s life is his/her health, and staying fit with regular workout lowers one’s cholesterol & blood pressure besides improving the muscles and stamina. The JEFIT Workout Exercise Trainer is a health and fitness app that comes with numerous features including a database of 1300 exercises that allows users to select the best routine matching their requirements.

This app keeps track of your physical activities through a short high-intensity routine, which is scientifically proven to aid weight loss and improve cardiovascular function.

SwiftKey Keyboard

If you are not satisfied with the inbuilt Android keyboard of your smartphone, then we suggest you install the amazing SwiftKey keyboard in your smartphone. This app has many features, which the traditional keyboard does not provide like swipe function, change in theme, change in layout and numerous language support option.

It also keeps track of the words used by the user overtime that in turn improves its predictive text feature immensely.

Google Play Music

This music player from Google is a complete music app that allows you add up to 20,000 songs to Google servers, which can then be accessed by any smart device logging onto your Google music account. It helps in reducing the space required for storing music on your smartphone.

The overall interface of this app is clean and easy to use. The paid version of Google Play Music app allows some additional features. The user of this app can also buy music directly from the app itself.