- July 2026 marks our picks for the five best Android apps that you must try.
- It brings a charismatic budget tracker to a news aggregator made for cybersecurity updates and more.
- The aim is to bring apps from the expanse of Google Play Store that are often underrated or under-discovered.
Searching for the best Android apps on the Play Store isn’t easy, especially when there are a bazillion apps and only a handful of them are either very popular or bank on marketing to push their visibility off the roof. This means many apps that are worthy and useful enough are often left in the shadows.
With True-Tech’s best Android apps listicles, we tend to bring such lost souls of apps—5 picks at a time—giving you access to apps that you might not have heard about but are definitely worth a try.
5 best Android apps to try around in July 2026
Well, here we go!
Hacki for Hacker News
Category: News Feed
One of the biggest news feed apps for Hacker News, Hacki from YCombinator is your app to go. From hacker news to ancestor lookup, in-thread search to filters, to reply and filter, Hacki is there to keep you satiated with what’s happening across the globe. The UI looks less overwhelming with listicles for news articles and more that you can refer to without getting lost in the hustle and bustle of the user interface.
The app lets you search for more relevant news within a thread, share it, or block it if you don’t like it. The minimalist approach with an orangish accent on-board Hacki is what makes me consume more information, and as said, knowledge is an asset.
Download: Hacki for Hacker News
Liftora
Category: Fitness / Health Tracker
There are 100s of fitness tracker apps out there on the Play Store, and yet, almost all of them are either too cluttered or generic. With Liftora, the app brings uniformity to tracking your fitness endeavors. The app tracks your steps, reps, sets, weights, and rate of perceived exertion (RPE).
Choose from 100+ animated exercises and video demos, ensuring you understand and repeat exercises as appropriate. The app has cloud-based backup that ensures your progress is never lost even if you change your device. The app is appropriate for beginners and experienced athletes, ensuring users can achieve a disciplined routine required to live a healthy life.
Download: Liftora
Buckwheat
Category: Finance / Budget Tracker
You know how salary is credited to your account, and in a jiffy, rents, travel expenses, groceries, utilities, and other major costs are debited almost right away. But to be honest, I can keep track of such major expenses, but it is usually the smaller thing that adds up to quite a lot. I am a tea lover, which means whenever I am out of the office on a break, I’ll sip on tea or sometimes coffee.
Maybe you picked up a newspaper on the road, or you gave charity, or maybe you lent someone a few pennies and you did a quick recharge on your travel card, or maybe that shawarma was finger-lickin’ good. Well, that’s what adds up quite significantly, and you won’t even be able to keep track of it. Luckily, Buckwheat is the app that makes it super easy to track expenses. Simply add a new expense as if you were using a calculator, add the category “Transport” or “Groceries,” etc., and voilà.
The app gives you daily, weekly, and monthly expenses, segregated into categories so you know where exactly you spend more. It’s just a great way to plug where it leaks the most.
Download: Buckwheat
Toxly
Category: Smart Ingredient Scanner / Utility
Every day, you walk into a supermarket and get your favorite chips or snacks, thinking they are light on your body. Maybe it’s that ‘Zero Sugar’ drink or those ‘Trans Fat Free’ biscuits; you could be driving yourself into the abyss of such marketing practices. Of course, all the ingredients are mentioned on the packaging, but either you don’t have time to go through it all or you don’t understand the impact of it.
With Toxly, the app lets you scan the ingredients of the item, and the app utilizes AI to find ingredients, allergens, toxins, combinations, and embedded chemicals. The app is great if you want to find what ingredients were used and whether they will cause damage to your body.
The app also puts a risk-level identifier, making it easier to understand if these products are causing you more damage. The app prioritizes privacy, and thus, it doesn’t store any scanner images or habits. It works impeccably even in low network conditions, which is another great thing to have, especially when you are traveling.
Download: Toxly
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Habit Tracker
Category: Habit Tracker
You made a pact to walk 10K steps a day, but you lost track of it after a few days. You could be willing to invest AED 1,000 every week, but the second installment didn’t go through, as you forgot to transfer funds on that date. From fitness to finance, to work, and self-care, and anything in between, you make habits thanks to repetition. Similarly, when you want to build another habit, such as walking 15K steps a day.
With Life Engine, the app offers an impeccable layout offering a tracker to plan your habits and observe in a disciplined system. The app lets you create and track unlimited habits across categories, set up timers, weekly or daily frequency, and engage in sessions or deep work, ensuring you are disciplined with what you want to achieve, little by little. What I loved about Life Engine is its super impressive UI/UX, organized habits, widgets for monitoring, and almost everything you can comprehend.
Download: Life Engine
Wrapping up!
And that’s a wrap on our take for the 5 best Android apps you must try in July 2026. Just as every month, we concluded the list at 5 picks of the month, thereby giving you (as our readers/visitors) the chance to glance and skim through the apps and see whether they end up in your daily drawer of apps on your Android phone.
