20 Best Amazon Appstore Apps
Evernote
Flipboard
Flipboard is a neat, news aggregation and curator program that takes material you like to read, such as blogs, websites, your social media news feeds
, and into a sleek, magazine-like format. The app allows you to view all the material that's important to you in one neat package. It strips away extraneous content and formatting fluff, leaving you with big images and a magazine-like feel that's easy on the eyes and is a pleasure to read.
Pocket
Pocket is a great offline reading tool that allows you to select and save articles, pictures and videos for later viewing. Its trimmed down, cleaner format means you can enjoy content without a lot of the side clutter. Tagging, cross-device and platform syncing, and many other features make this a total electronic device experience rather than just locking you to a particular device, computer or browser.
A pioneer in consumer cloud storage services, Dropbox allows you to upload your photos, videos and documents to your cloud storage folders, which you can share with friends, family, and colleagues. Data can also sync to your computers and mobile devices. With Dropbox, you'll never leave be away from your most important documents and memories.
SwiftKey is a powerhouse among Android keyboards, allowing users numerous customizations both functional and cosmetic. The app features swipe typing and SwiftKey Flow, a predictive typing system that can complete words for you even as you type. Multiple layouts, such as the thumb-typing friendly split keyboard, are also available. SwiftKey Cloud allows you to link the app with yoursocial networks such as Facebook and Twitter so that the app can learn your typing habits from those, as well as include recommendations based on a regular list of trending phrases. That said, while SwiftKey has decided to go free, the Amazon Appstore version only features the paid version at the moment.
Contacts+ is an address book replacement that helps organize your contacts and integrates with your social media accounts and communications. The app automatically imports information from linked social networks such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn contacts, allowing you to access them all in one place. Cover pictures can automatically be filled in from Facebook or Google+, and you can view your recent communications from each contact. This means you can keep conversation histories for your friends, family and colleagues.
Any.do is an excellent and feature-packed app for creating to-do lists, reminders, events, and other notes for getting things done. Any.do features easy task input, which can be typed in or dictated, complete with a touch interface for easily dragging and dropping tasks into various categories or for marking tasks as accomplished. Reminder notifications bring time sensitive items or events to your attention, and syncing and sharing features let you share tasks and lists with friends, family or colleagues.
The Comics app by Comixology is a great starting place for a mobile digital comics collection, as the app serves as an all-in-one digital marketplace and comics viewer. Featuring content from major comics publishers such as Marvel, DC and more, Comics lets you purchase and read your favorite titles and sync your content across multiple devices. Guided View features assist readers on a mobile screen. The downside is that it's a closed marketplace. You can purchase and read content, but you can't import an existing comic collection.
If you're going to be working on documents, reports and presentations on the go with your smartphone or tablet, then grab Kingsoft Office, a free office software suite that combines a document editor, PDF viewer, spreadsheet editor, and presentation editor/viewer in a great, easy to use package. Kingsoft Office supports a wide variety of common office files, external USB or Bluetooth keyboards, and even allows for syncing with many of your favorite cloud services such as Dropbox, Box.net and Google Drive.
With all the media and data you will undoubtedly stuff onto your Android tablet, you'll inevitably need some sort of file management solution. Some programs include a basic file browser, but if you need something more muscular to copy, paste and delete, and archive, we recommend ES File Explorer. Rooted users will even get some extra utility, with the ability to view and edit files that require root access, allowing you to keep just one file browser for daily use and root work.
Malicious programmers are increasingly targeting Android devices with viruses and malware. BitDefender Antivirus Free provides a high-strength, low performance impact solution for your antivirus needs, using BitDefender's Mobile Security engine and cloud resources to scan and keep your device safe without undue performance or battery drain. The app's simple Autopilot install scanner checks app installations for suspicious activity and quickly blocks them. A premium subscription unlocks further features such as real-time website scanning and anti-theft features.
DuoLingo is a neat free app that turns the process of learning a new language into a game. DuoLingo offers courses in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian in a gamified way. The app features timed quizzes, verbal exercises and other activities presented in a series of minigames, complete with achievements, levels and other tools to keep exercises fun and interesting.
A streaming media juggernaut, the free Netflix app allows subscribers to log in and enjoy unlimited access to Netflix's vast library of movies and TV shows on the go with their mobile device. Powerful search tools let you easily work through a treasure trove of film and television, while a user rating system allows the app to tailor its recommendations to your viewing taste.
The motto of the TED conferences is "Ideas worth spreading," and the official TED app makes it easy to do just that. With this little app, you can download and view more than a thousand TEDTalk videos featuring some of the best and brightest talking about ideas they believe matter, whether it's art, design, philosophy or philanthropy.
Telltale Games continues the story of their hit adventure game in "The Walking Dead Season 2," based on Robert Kirkman's zombie apocalypse graphic novels. Players take the role of Clementine from Season 1 as she is cast adrift in a world overrun by the shambling undead. Hard choices await you as you try to stay alive in a shattered world and the real monsters around you: other survivors. The first chapter is availble free, with other chapters as in-app purchases.
Sequel to the hit puzzle-box game, "The Room Two" delivers bigger and more challenging puzzles while keeping the same creepy atmosphere. Just like the original game, "The Room Two" is a very tactile experience, with swipe, tap and pinch controls cleverly designed to make you feel as if you're manipulating a mechanism or contraption. The sequel improves upon the original with larger environments and multi-stage puzzles going on at the same time, making lateral thinking between different puzzles just as important as obsessing over a single mechanism.
Gameloft's "GT Racing 2" is a full on broadside against Real Racing's dominance in the realistic driving simulator field. Billed as "The Real Car Experience", "GT Racing 2" features more than 60 licensed cars that you can race on 13 tracks. Players can try game modes such as Duels, Knockouts and Overtakes, or participate in classic races across more than a thousand different events, or even try your luck in multiplayer races. Numerous camera modes and a built-in screenshot function let you enjoy the slick graphics and weather effects.
A modern day high-tech game of building blocks, "Minecraft Pocket Edition" ports Mojang's much beloved block crafting game to mobile. Starting with nothing more than their bare hands and ingenuity, players in Survival mode need to craft their own tools, build shelter, and keep themselves safe from wild animals and well fed. Creative mode ditches the Survival mechanics to focus on building your own structures, Rube Goldberg machines, and whatever else strikes your fancy. You can enjoy it by yourself, but the game really shines in local multiplayer mode. The game itself is in constant development, with a flurry of updates regularly releasing new features to the mobile version.
Amazon's Appstore may have been a scrappy upstart when it first debuted in 2011, but tight integration with Amazon's services, pride of place in the Kindle family of Android devices, and a variety of sales and a daily free app have won Amazon Appstore a loyal following. In fact, the number of apps has ballooned in recent months to a whopping 240,000. With Amazon's Kindle devices being so popular and with the announcement of the new Fire Phone, it's time to take a look at some of the best Android apps available in the Amazon Appstore today.
apps available in the Amazon Appstore today.
Evernote
Evernote is one of the premier cross-platform note-taking services, allowing users take and upload notes, pictures, audio and video snippets and organize them into cloud notebooks that can be synced across different devices. Loaded with powerful organization, formatting and sharing options, Evernote is still king even with the rise of competitors such as Catch Notes and Google Keep. The free version lets users upload 60MB worth of content monthly, with paid accounts allowing more options.
Flipboard is a neat, news aggregation and curator program that takes material you like to read, such as blogs, websites, your social media news feeds, and into a sleek, magazine-like format. The app allows you to view all the material that's important to you in one neat package. It strips away extraneous content and formatting fluff, leaving you with big images and a magazine-like feel that's easy on the eyes and is a pleasure to read.Pocket is a great offline reading tool that allows you to select and save articles, pictures and videos for later viewing. Its trimmed down, cleaner format means you can enjoy content without a lot of the side clutter. Tagging, cross-device and platform syncing, and many other features make this a total electronic device experience rather than just locking you to a particular device, computer or browser.Dropbox
A pioneer in consumer cloud storage services, Dropbox allows you to upload your photos, videos and documents to your cloud storage folders, which you can share with friends, family, and colleagues. Data can also sync to your computers and mobile devices. With Dropbox, you'll never leave be away from your most important documents and memories.TweetCaster
While there is an official Twitter app in the Appstore, third-party alternative TweetCaster is still one of our favorite Twitter clients. TweetCaster provides users with a boatload of options, settings and customizations that make tweeting and viewing other people's activity a snap. TweetCaster supports multiple simultaneous accounts, customizable viewing filters, a ZipIt feature to automatically ignore specific users or hashtags, color-coded tweets, scheduled posts, and more. There's even a provision for posting to Twitter and Facebook simultaneously.
SwiftKey
SwiftKey is a powerhouse among Android keyboards, allowing users numerous customizations both functional and cosmetic. The app features swipe typing and SwiftKey Flow, a predictive typing system that can complete words for you even as you type. Multiple layouts, such as the thumb-typing friendly split keyboard, are also available. SwiftKey Cloud allows you to link the app with yoursocial networks such as Facebook and Twitter so that the app can learn your typing habits from those, as well as include recommendations based on a regular list of trending phrases. That said, while SwiftKey has decided to go free, the Amazon Appstore version only features the paid version at the moment.Contacts+
Contacts+ is an address book replacement that helps organize your contacts and integrates with your social media accounts and communications. The app automatically imports information from linked social networks such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn contacts, allowing you to access them all in one place. Cover pictures can automatically be filled in from Facebook or Google+, and you can view your recent communications from each contact. This means you can keep conversation histories for your friends, family and colleagues.Skype
Skype allows for free video and voice calls to and from other Skype users, regardless of their platform, and cheap long-distance calls to mobile phones and landlines. Skype is a good, free option for video calls and catching up with friends, family and colleagues. While there are many other competing video call services and apps out there, Skype still wins out for its ubiquity.
Any.do
Any.do is an excellent and feature-packed app for creating to-do lists, reminders, events, and other notes for getting things done. Any.do features easy task input, which can be typed in or dictated, complete with a touch interface for easily dragging and dropping tasks into various categories or for marking tasks as accomplished. Reminder notifications bring time sensitive items or events to your attention, and syncing and sharing features let you share tasks and lists with friends, family or colleagues.Comics
The Comics app by Comixology is a great starting place for a mobile digital comics collection, as the app serves as an all-in-one digital marketplace and comics viewer. Featuring content from major comics publishers such as Marvel, DC and more, Comics lets you purchase and read your favorite titles and sync your content across multiple devices. Guided View features assist readers on a mobile screen. The downside is that it's a closed marketplace. You can purchase and read content, but you can't import an existing comic collection.Kingsoft Office
If you're going to be working on documents, reports and presentations on the go with your smartphone or tablet, then grab Kingsoft Office, a free office software suite that combines a document editor, PDF viewer, spreadsheet editor, and presentation editor/viewer in a great, easy to use package. Kingsoft Office supports a wide variety of common office files, external USB or Bluetooth keyboards, and even allows for syncing with many of your favorite cloud services such as Dropbox, Box.net and Google Drive.ES File Explorer
With all the media and data you will undoubtedly stuff onto your Android tablet, you'll inevitably need some sort of file management solution. Some programs include a basic file browser, but if you need something more muscular to copy, paste and delete, and archive, we recommend ES File Explorer. Rooted users will even get some extra utility, with the ability to view and edit files that require root access, allowing you to keep just one file browser for daily use and root work.BitDefender Antivirus Free
Malicious programmers are increasingly targeting Android devices with viruses and malware. BitDefender Antivirus Free provides a high-strength, low performance impact solution for your antivirus needs, using BitDefender's Mobile Security engine and cloud resources to scan and keep your device safe without undue performance or battery drain. The app's simple Autopilot install scanner checks app installations for suspicious activity and quickly blocks them. A premium subscription unlocks further features such as real-time website scanning and anti-theft features.DuoLingo
DuoLingo is a neat free app that turns the process of learning a new language into a game. DuoLingo offers courses in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian in a gamified way. The app features timed quizzes, verbal exercises and other activities presented in a series of minigames, complete with achievements, levels and other tools to keep exercises fun and interesting.Netflix
A streaming media juggernaut, the free Netflix app allows subscribers to log in and enjoy unlimited access to Netflix's vast library of movies and TV shows on the go with their mobile device. Powerful search tools let you easily work through a treasure trove of film and television, while a user rating system allows the app to tailor its recommendations to your viewing taste.TED
The motto of the TED conferences is "Ideas worth spreading," and the official TED app makes it easy to do just that. With this little app, you can download and view more than a thousand TEDTalk videos featuring some of the best and brightest talking about ideas they believe matter, whether it's art, design, philosophy or philanthropy.The Walking Dead Season 2
Telltale Games continues the story of their hit adventure game in "The Walking Dead Season 2," based on Robert Kirkman's zombie apocalypse graphic novels. Players take the role of Clementine from Season 1 as she is cast adrift in a world overrun by the shambling undead. Hard choices await you as you try to stay alive in a shattered world and the real monsters around you: other survivors. The first chapter is availble free, with other chapters as in-app purchases.The Room 2 ($2.99)
Sequel to the hit puzzle-box game, "The Room Two" delivers bigger and more challenging puzzles while keeping the same creepy atmosphere. Just like the original game, "The Room Two" is a very tactile experience, with swipe, tap and pinch controls cleverly designed to make you feel as if you're manipulating a mechanism or contraption. The sequel improves upon the original with larger environments and multi-stage puzzles going on at the same time, making lateral thinking between different puzzles just as important as obsessing over a single mechanism.GT Racing 2
Gameloft's "GT Racing 2" is a full on broadside against Real Racing's dominance in the realistic driving simulator field. Billed as "The Real Car Experience", "GT Racing 2" features more than 60 licensed cars that you can race on 13 tracks. Players can try game modes such as Duels, Knockouts and Overtakes, or participate in classic races across more than a thousand different events, or even try your luck in multiplayer races. Numerous camera modes and a built-in screenshot function let you enjoy the slick graphics and weather effects.Minecraft Pocket Edition ($6.99)
A modern day high-tech game of building blocks, "Minecraft Pocket Edition" ports Mojang's much beloved block crafting game to mobile. Starting with nothing more than their bare hands and ingenuity, players in Survival mode need to craft their own tools, build shelter, and keep themselves safe from wild animals and well fed. Creative mode ditches the Survival mechanics to focus on building your own structures, Rube Goldberg machines, and whatever else strikes your fancy. You can enjoy it by yourself, but the game really shines in local multiplayer mode. The game itself is in constant development, with a flurry of updates regularly releasing new features to the mobile version.
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