My Essential Android Phone Apps

The launcher for maximum efficiency and minimum distraction.

I'd like to avoid Google products at all costs.

My favorite PDF reader with a fair amount of free editing tools.

Great email client.

There's no real good alternative to this if you work with Word documents and Excel sheets.

Doesn't need a description!

Hands down the best music player.

If you're a PC user, you'll most likely find video players as a major letdown in the Android system, even VLC doesn't offer that much of a well-made app. After lots of trials, I decided to have MPV as my main video player.

An isolated space for the work-profile apps.

YouTube without Google services and the ads, can be buggy at times, but I use it mostly for the download feature.

To manage my KeePass vault on my phone.

A simple straight-forward file manager with a couple of network file transfer protocols.

I live in one of the world's biggest cities, Istanbul, where locals themselves sometimes don't know the directions or the best routes. Citymapper has been a life saver to me as foreign living there.

I use Anki to keep refreshing my short-term memory on new things I learn.

Sometimes it comes in handy.