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Jet Audio
As a pure audio player, this is just about the best app out there. The free version has almost all the features of the Plus version with ads. 10-band graphic equalizer with 32 presets, great collection of sound effects, compatibility with almost any audio file type, playback speed control, cross-fading, AGC and much more.
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. Price: Free, Plus version costs USD 3.99. 2.
Any.do
Still the easiest app out there to manage tasks. Seamless cloud sync, speech recognition, alerts, snooze, Google Task sync, notes, sub tasks, widgets, repeating/recurring tasks, missed call, auto complete, in-app actions, gestures, and much more make this one feature-packed app!
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. Price: Free. 3.
AndrOpen Office
This is the world's first, fully featured port of OpenOffice for Android to view, edit, and export office documents. Better used on a tablet than a phone imo. Includes Writer (a word processor), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentation graphics), Draw (drawing), Math (equation editor), and Base (database).
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. Price: Free. 4.
Google Keep
Apart from creating notes, photos, and checklists, this can easily double up as a portable songwriting tool too! Makes it super easy to write lyrics or record melody ideas using voice notes. A standout feature in Keep is voice notes are transcribed automatically! Also comes with widgets, color-coding of notes, reminders, and syncing.
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. Price: Free. 5.
Music Maker Jam
The only free app of its kind makes it easy to start playing with music and mixing your own songs. Provides access to thousands of professionally produced loops, live editing on an 8-track mixing board, adjust tempo and key or apply cool sound effects in real time. Includes 4 free styles: Hip Hop, Dance, Electric Jazz, and Rock Ballads. The interface is easy to use too. All-in-all, a cool app to try your hand at making music—especially for songwriters.
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. Price: Free. 6.
Ultimate Guitar Tabs & Chords
The mobile version of the world’s largest catalog of guitar tabs and chords! That’s over 600К tabs! Features include daily updates, offline access to favorite tabs, search, chord diagrams with variations, auto-scroll, and more. Also has app extensions for more functionality like interactive tabs, metronome, instrument tracks, etc., which need to be purchased separately.
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. Price: USD 2.99. 7.
Timely Alarm Clock
Probably the best looking alarm clock for Android with a beautiful user experience, and cloud integration to backup and synchronize alarms with multiple devices! A swipe and drag is all you need to do to set an alarm. Provides a delightful waking-up experience with hand-crafted, high quality sounds. An innovative Smart Rise feature greatly reduces the pain out of waking up! Also had color themes, design-tool, snooze, stopwatch, tablet compatibility, widget, Google Now inte gration, animations, and more.
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. Price: Free. 8.
Newsblur
A personal news reader that easily replaces Google Reader on a mobile device. Share stories, read feed subscriptions, and talk to like-minded people with this free app. Features include sync, RSS feed support, sharing and commenting with friends, access from mobile or desktop, save, multiple viewing options, and more.
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. Price: Free. 9.
Swiftkey
The best alternative keyboard app for Android, period. Type, swype, sync words & phrases, and more. Apart from significantly faster text input, the app actually makes the text creation process comfortable, and even enjoyable. The more you use it, the better its text predictions become across devices. Multiple language support, themes etc. are its other notable features.
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. Price: USD 3.99. Have you tried any of these? What are your favorite Android apps?