The most underrated app is?

[MaxTO]

In your mind, what is the most underrated app on the market?

Tell us, what little gem do you love that might not be getting the exposure that it deserves?

One application that I put to daily use has to be Pulse. It's a great little app that allows you to access current information of your choice.

Another app that I use a lot is Note everything. Note everything is a great, basic, notepad app. Simply functional and lag free, it makes taking and organizing notes easy.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

This is a great idea for a thread. Thanks for starting it.

I agree re Pulse. It's really nice on Honeycomb, with the scrollable panels. Another app I will nominate is JS Backup. It integrates and complements cloud-based services, and allows you to backup and restore (or move to another device) all kinds of things that would otherwise be impossible or take several steps. It's surprising to me that this is so relatively unknown and under-rated, since it's made by the same people that make the #1 calendar app - Jorte Calendar.

 

[GoNavy]

My vote goes to "No Lock"...within two days of having my Avail Z990 I was sssoooo tired of having to slide to unlock every single time I picked up my phone, and if you use a pin or motion key that's two steps for no reason. Phone operates as it should now, this should be a standard app with these phone.

 

[leeanne172]

I would say 'B-Folders', I love it for keeping the odd log ins that I may need and in the Toronto area it would be 'Transit Now' this app has the bus and streetcar arrivals down to the second, simply great app .. I have the full pro versions of both

 

[Adauth]

Lightflow.

 

[walpow]

Elixir and Elixir Widgets. The first has a ton of system information, the second has the most flexible widgets I've found.

 

[EarlyMon]

Google Gesture Search, can't do without it, and lots of people have never tried it.

 

[Android Wax]

I also use Note Everything all the time. Simple and easy to use and not crammed with a bunch of unnecessary stuff. Great thread.

In your mind, what is the most underrated app on the market?

Tell us, what little gem do you love that might not be getting the exposure that it deserves?

One application that I put to daily use has to be Pulse. It's a great little app that allows you to access current information of your choice.

Another app that I use a lot is Note everything. Note everything is a great, basic, notepad app. Simply functional and lag free, it makes taking and organizing notes easy.

 

[Gekko]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.jimblackler.quickcalendar

 

[saptech]

GasBuddy, helps you find cheap gas...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gbis.gbandroid

 

[leeanne172]

Google Gesture Search, can't do without it, and lots of people have never tried it.

Just installed this, looks like a keeper and a bit fun too thanks

 

[SteamStarter]

For simple notes and reminders, without going thru a calender I like AK Notepad.

For converting all things, such as mph to kph, all weights, measures, distances, etc., ConvertPad.

 

[pwalt]

Evernote.

Kind of like Dropbox on steroids. Dropbox is just a 'net based file folder. With Evernote you can create notes on the fly, take pictures and attach them to the note and/or attached files such as Word, Excel, PDFs, etc. Create notebooks to keep things organized, add tags for searchability ... and it keeps your notes chronological. Awesome.

 

[tcat007]

Widgetsoid2 has any widget you could want and you can make them look any way you want so they blend with and screen you put them on.

But I can't say enough good things about Xscope browser.

and one more... GTasks: Notes, Checklist, Calendar agenda, all very simple and easy to view, auto syncs to Google Tasks and Calendar, with all items in a scrollable widget.

 

[aysiu]

Not exactly underrated, but I just actually gave Poweramp a try, and it's got all the functionality I want in a music player... even some stuff I'd been hoping Tasker could accomplish (but can't).

I was hesitant to even try Poweramp at first, because all the reviews seemed to be from audiophile power users who actually wanted fine-tuned control over equalizer settings and needed gapless playback. I don't really care about those things.

I also have to be honest and say the interface for Poweramp (even with the different themes) is a bit gaudy. It also took me over a minute to figure out how to get to my iSyncr playlists.

So what I do like about Poweramp:

• I can set it up to start playing where it left off once I plug in my headphones and then stop playing when I unplug my headphones.
• I can set it up so that long-pressing the up-volume button skips to the next track and long-pressing the down-volume button skips to the previous track.
• I can set up a sleep timer (and to finish the currently playing song once the timer is up).
• I can set it up to pause when a notification comes in and then resume once the notification finishes.
• ID3 tags for genres are properly read (this wasn't true of a couple of other music players).

 

[aysiu]

Also, since it's so trendy to like Swype-like keyboards, I would have to say the most underrated keyboard is the Gingerbread Keyboard. With it, I can type (or even mistype) two or three letters, and several appropriate suggestions come up in autosuggest.

Unfortunately, in Ice Cream Sandwich, this has been trimmed to only three suggestions, with the ability to long-press on the middle suggestion to get even more suggestions.

 

[RyanB]

There is a pair that I would like to mention as well. First is Swipepad, where it allows you to launch a bunch of apps/widgets/shortcuts by touching the bezel and dragging your finger to what you want to launch. The second is Andshare, which replaces the stockv sharing menu. What names it different is that there are checkboxes after each option, so you can choose more than one way to share something, without having to repeat the process each time.


Swipepad (http://market.android.com/details?i...ePad&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=contextpanel)

Andshare (http://market.android.com/details?i...ePad&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=contextpanel)

 

[Fuzz Ball]

My guess would be probably one that no one knows about. there is like 200 000 apps with less than 50 downloads.

 

[Dan Davies]

Love Moon+ Reader for ebooks. I came from Palm and despaired of getting a decent reader on Android - it is great! Everything that TealDoc and others had and more!

 

[Dan Davies]

Google Gesture Search, can't do without it, and lots of people have never tried it.

This is great, but if it could search by company name in contacts, I would pay for it.

Dan

 

[chanchan05]

Mantano Reader. Surprises me when I see people who haven't heard or tried it for their ebooks.

 

[Tradusonline]

In your mind, what is the most underrated app on the market?

Tell us, what little gem do you love that might not be getting the exposure that it deserves?

One application that I put to daily use has to be Pulse. It's a great little app that allows you to access current information of your choice.

Another app that I use a lot is Note everything. Note everything is a great, basic, notepad app. Simply functional and lag free, it makes taking and organizing notes easy.

I am using this apps really graet

 

[lexluthor]

I don't think enough people know about Waze.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze&hl=en

It's like google navigation, but adds crowdsourced traffic, police and camera notifications.

In areas were there are a lot of users, I find the traffic calculations to be much more reliable than google nav.

 

[MaxTO]

Some great apps mentioned guys!