With the beginning of new year 2025, marks the start of a new era and with that, we bring our take on 5 best Android apps that you must try in January 2025. As with our previous best Android apps listicles, this edition gives a peek into five magnificent apps that will help you kickstart your new year and the new resolution(s) with a bang.
Starting with everything from travel to productivity to apps that bring the best of you, here’s our edition of apps that you should be trying next. It’s a no-brainer that these apps will surely bring cheers to your daily life.
Sleep Monitor
Category: Vitals Monitoring / Tracker
Trust me, your sleep is as important as the food you eat and the exercises you do. It helps the body recover from the damage it endured during the day and rejuvenate. However, several factors affect our sleep quality such as inadequate sleep in the REM state, sleepwalking, snoring, sleep talking, coughing, etc. With Sleep Monitor, you can analyze all these stats giving you an outlook on your sleep quality and take preventative measures to improve it.
The app gives you a sleep score showing sleep statistics, sleep noise levels, set-up alarms, soothing lullabies and white noise on the app, etc. This is certainly one of the best Android apps for January 2025, so you should give it a try. The only catch is, that all stats are paid. If you are skeptical about what’s preventing you from getting quality sleep, I think you should definitely give it a try.
Download: Sleep Monitor
Texpand
Category: Productivity
Do you know, that a person wastes 15 minutes a day writing the same word/phrase at an average? Well, although these stats are dubious, there’s some legitimacy to it. We all waste a few minutes a day typing the same information such as full name, address, or any other phrase. Texpand or Text Expander is an app for you. Simply type your text shortcuts and bingo, the app will populate words or phrases whenever and wherever you type the short abbreviation or a key clue.
For instance, I can mention ‘Fadd’ and enter my full address and whenever I enter ‘Fadd’ in a text editor, the app will swing into action giving you instant expansion to the prescribed full address. Use different variables, global text expansion, and beyond, or add multiple outputs to an abbreviation completing your tasks asap. Sheer magic, isn’t it?
Download: Texpand
Qustodio
Category: Parental Control / Tracker
With the pronounced use of smartphones in kids, parents are always concerned about what their kids are doing online, with whom they are interacting, what apps they use and their locations. Well, Qustodio is a parental control app made just for you.
The app offers unprecedented control over your kid’s device including web filtering, screen time setup, tracking of individual apps, and so on. It gives you a minute-by-minute location of your kid’s whereabouts so that you exactly know where they are.
We emphasize on using this app for good and legit reasons (and not to follow or stalk someone), this is one of the best Android apps for parental control. You can download it from the Google Play Store, although it might not have call or text tracking features available only through Qustodio’s website.
Download: Qustodio
Location Changer — Fake GPS
Category: Spoof / Tracker
There are times when you can’t or don’t want to share your actual location. It could be for security or privacy reasons or just the fact that you don’t want your location information out in the public. With Fake GPS in the works, you can change your current location to mimic a fake location. What this does is, when you share your current location, Google Maps points out a fake location that you can set and viola, it’s done. The app works even if you reboot your phone, however, all you need is to press the ‘Stop button’ for the fake location to stop.
Download: Location Changer — Fake GPS
Casherwise
Category: Expense Tracker
A skill that should be taught at schools but isn’t is a budget and expense tracker for better planning. It puts a lot of pressure on a working professional or those keeping an eye on income and expenditure when it comes to where the money is coming from and where it is going.
Casherwise is a smart and frill-free budget and expenditure tracker. It allows you to track all your income and expenses, and monitor these transactions by categorizing them on a centralized platform. This is great if you want insights to make your budget and financial goals in the long run. As the app gives you financial data by categorizing expenses, it makes it easier to track pointers where it is causing more damage to your finances. The app can also curb your impulsive spending habits to optimize your financial health, which is the ultimate goal that people should have.
Download: Casherwise
Conclusion
Whether you want to track your expenses or change your location for privacy or security reasons; improve your sleep or keep a tab on what your kids do on their phones, or even create shorthand to make your typing on the phone a bliss. This edition of Best Android Apps to try in January 2025 will surely make a huge dent in your life on a day-to-day basis.
Let us know which one of these apps are actually worth a shot. Have something else that can outshine them? Get it in touch in the comments, and we shall include them in our next edition. Meanwhile, check our all our editions of the best Android Apps you must try.
