- Finding the best Android apps is difficult, especially given the fact that you are surrounded by so-called 'popular apps' out there.
- We took it in our hands to find the best collection of apps for you, every month, and here's our August 2025 edition.
- These apps are meant to ease your day, improving your daily activities and experience on your beloved Android smartphone.
Search for the Best Android Apps on Google and I bet you will be led to pages offering apps sorted by their demands or popularity. But most of the time, you are simply using apps that you know are popular, leaving millions of apps on the Play Store undiscovered or underrated. You might be looking for apps that really work in ways you never comprehended or if you are looking for alternatives to popular apps, here’s our pick of the month.
Braindump
Category: Note Taking
Ideas may come at random times and often, they vanish in a few seconds or minutes if you don’t jot them down or memorize them. With Braindump, you don’t have to take that stress but simply drop in a voice memo of the idea that might’ve floated in your mind, and gotcha, it stays there. Braindump is a note-taking and transcription tool offering 99.9% accuracy in over 98 languages along with summaries for an instant glance.
The app is smart, it takes all your voice memos (aka ideas) and uses AI for speech-to-text transcriptions. It even modulates the background noise that might have caused issues in the conversion itself. It is great for those momentous ideas, lectures, meetings, and brainstorming sessions that might bring the best of you in some shape or form. Moreover, it secures back up with Google Drive which means your memos are never lost. You can play it on the app, share it or export it using messaging or email apps, rewind, fast-forward, and more with Braindump.
Download: Braindump
Piko
Category: Twitter Alternative
We had to include Piko in this compilation of ‘Best Android Apps’ in August 2025 because it is worth (only if you use Twitter — now X — a lot). Piko is available on GitHub and not on the Play Store, but we have the link right under this.
Piko is an excellent alternative app for X (formerly Twitter), it brings back the oldie blue birdie logo back online. You can select what you want to see in terms of features, such as Grok AI, and deselect the ones you no longer want to see. It actually clears the excess fluff that could be ruining your user experience. Moreover, Piko lets you check out new features that the actual ‘X’ might not have or are probably under testing. Piko takes your Twitter experience to a whole new level.
Download: GitHub
Data Monitor
Category: Tracker / Consumption
Today, we are all hooked to the internet whether it’s for social media, video streaming productive apps, etc. It’s either your mobile data or a Wi-Fi connection that feeds you data and depending upon the availability, you could be using more data than you comprehend. Remember, all those doom-scrolling on Instagram or YouTube consumes a lot of data, but how can you tell?
Data Monitor, as its name suggests, is a free app that displays just that. The app monitors your data usage, both upload and download, and segregates by type and per-app basis. It is great to analyze which app you use the most or what app might be consuming more data than usual, etc. It is a great way to keep your phone usage in check as the data actually shows your data consumption by the day. If you use the internet more than usual, there will be an uptick in consumption over a long period giving you warnings on reducing the usage hereon.
Download: Data Monitor
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GreaseMilkyWay
Category: Accessibility
I came across an app that lets you lock out of social media such as Instagram after using it for a said period. However, GreaseMilkyWay works a bit differently. Instead of locking you out of apps entirely, it limits your exposure to features that can act as a rabbit hole where once you enter, it’s just all about scrolling and consuming content left and right.
The app lets you lock out a few features on Instagram, YouTube, and WhatsApp, among others, making your user experience much calmer. For instance, I was able to lock ‘Shorts’ on YouTube, ‘Reels’ on Instagram, and ‘Channels’ on WhatsApp keeping me out for less visual disturbance. I mean who even uses Channels on WhatsApp? Well, even if you don’t, these features can catch you off guard and thus, it’s better to lock ’em out.
GreaseMilkyWay is still in beta with a few working functionalities. We are certain the developers will keep adding more stuff giving users a much better phone user experience hands down.
Download: GreaseMilkyWay
Lumina Wallpapers
Category: Wallpapers Catalogue / Curation
You can’t change your phone every now and then but surely, there’s something you can change to make it new again. I love wallpapers and what better app than Lumina Wallpapers. More than 100K downloads prove Lumina is great for its use case. It has mesmerizing wallpapers generated by AI and curated by humans on-board offering you aesthetically-amazing wallpapers to quench all your moods and styles. Go from abstract to waves and beyond, Lumina offers an incredible interface and more than 1000 wallpapers to choose from.
Download: Lumina Wallpapers
Wrapping Up
Now and then, we come across apps that may not be on the radar of your favorite tech publications or tech creators. True-Tech brings such useful and interesting apps from the expanse of Google Play Store, and GitHub starting with this edition. It unlocks possibilities that were only distant with the popular apps you might be aware of on the Play Store. Let us know which app actually kicked off any of your bucket lists, in the comments below.
