Google has announced the best Play Store apps and games of 2025. The best overall app was Focus Friend while Pokemon TCG Pocket was chosen as the best overall game. Other winners include Instagram’s ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Ditch default Google apps for cleaner, privacy-first alternatives: use Proton Mail instead of Gmail, Mega over Drive, Samsung Internet instead of Chrome, Here WeGo or Mappls for Maps, and Fossify ...

As has become tradition, Google Play has returned to mark the end of another year with its roundup of the best Android apps and games from 2025. Considering just how obsessed the tech community is ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Editors' Note, May 6, 2026: With this update, we added Google Gemini and Ground News to our recommended Android app lineup and removed Pocket and Stitcher. The existing picks have been vetted for ...

Long gone are the days of pulling origami-like paper maps from your car’s glove box to determine your location. In contemporary times, nearly everyone has a smartphone with a first- or third-party map ...