The best Android apps 2020

Our Android experts have combed the Google Play Store for the very best Android Apps, putting them through their paces and picking only those that are truly special.

We test apps from across the whole Play Store, including camera apps and photo editors, health and fitness apps to improve your wellbeing, and security and customization tools to help personalize your phone so it works for you.

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- Camera apps and photo editors
- Art and design apps
- Education apps
- Entertainment apps
- Health, fitness and food apps
- Music and audio apps
- Office and writing apps
- Productivity apps
- Security and customization apps
- Travel and weather apps

There are so many Android apps in the Play Store, it can be hard to know which are best. Reviews can be helpful, but can also be subject to manipulation, and editor's picks only skim the surface.

That's where we come in. Like you, we want the best apps for our phones. The Android apps that are going to revolutionize functionality or, at the very least, offer something so great that it becomes one of the must-have apps that has to be downloaded whenever you get a new handset.

The following apps will be constantly updated and are a mixture of paid and free ones that have been chosen by our Android experts. So, even if you do dip into actual cash for one of these apps, you can be safe in the knowledge it's a worthwhile purchase.

We’ve also sorted them into categories, so you can find what you’re looking for more easily. Click through to the following pages for those or check out the best Android app of the week below.

Best Android app of the week
This is the latest Android app we've chosen to feature, refreshed every two weeks. Our choices are usually new apps or apps that have recently received a major update, but occasionally hidden gems and other essentials will also be highlighted.