It’s not new that staring at your screens for prolonged hours can have a bad impact on your eyes. Though it is not really possible for some people to stay away from them as it is their work, there are certain things they can do for reducing the bad impact. Here is a list of 5 apps to stay healthy while working on your mac.

Time Out

There is a popular rule out there you might have heard of; known as the 20-20-20 rule, it states that every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away for 20 seconds. This is considered to be one of the handiest rules to release the stress on your eyes.

You can instruct the time after which you want the app to kick in and distract you from the screen. When the app kicks in, it changes the theme and changes the background color to dark after the specified time. You can also decide the apps in which you don’t want Time Out to interrupt you. This will probably include the apps you use for watching movies. Also if you are work needs continued focus, you can postpone a break.

Time Out is a handy little app for Mac that encourages the user to take short breaks after a specified time. You can use the 20-20-20 rule or set custom time. The app is available as a free version which is highly customizable. You can also donate to the developer and buy a paid version.

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f.lux

The blue light emitted by a screen is the main culprit for damaging your eyes. It reaches deeper into the eye and causes damage to the retina. You can feel the tension in your muscles while experiencing headaches, eye fatigue, and sleep deprivation.

f.lux manages to keep the strain minimum by introducing a yellow tint to the screen. You can control the amount of tint you want. You can also add location according to which the app would change the colors of the screen. Initially, this may look weird, but with time your eyes will adjust to the color. This is definitely not recommended if you are editing photos or color grading videos. But otherwise, a perfect companion for your eyes.

The app also has an overkill “dark mode”. It is pretty aggressive and turns the screen in a black-and-red shade which is helpful if you work at night. The app is free and is available for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.

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Nekoze

Nekoze is that handy app which can save you from those lower back pains due to back posture. If you have a desk job then it can be hard to stay straight all the while working on your pc. This app notifies you if you are slouching while you use your Mac or MacBook.

It is a menu-bar app for Mac and requires calibration. For calibration, the app uses iSight camera. It tells you to sit straight to calibrate your ideal posture. Once you are done, it monitors your posture continuously. You can set the frequency if you think the app is being too aggressive.

Yes, the camera may consume more battery if you are not plugged in. You should also be comfortable with the fact that you are being monitored all the time. If those are not your concerns, then this is the perfect posture friend for you.

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Noizio

When focusing on work, audio disturbances can be a big nuisance. Be it a busy street or construction work going on nearby, Noizio is here for the rescue. This app features you an extensive list of relaxing sounds. Just plug in your earphones and transport to a world where you can listen to calm sounds while you focus on your work.

It offers numerous sounds like wind, rain, forest, sea waves, etc. The best part of this app is that you can mix and match various sounds. You can adjust the amount of each sound you want to hear in the mix. Noizio can greatly enhance your productivity while you work on your mac.

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Tomato One

If you haven’t heard of Pomodoro technique then this would be the right time to learn about it. This technique encourages you to take breaks after every 25 minutes. Don’t underestimate the simplicity of the way this app works- it can surely add a lot to your productivity.

Tomato One is a simple Mac app that follows the Pomodoro principle. It notifies you to take 5 minutes break every 25 minutes. The entire cycle is called one Pomodoro. This can also be done using “time out” mentioned earlier in the list, but Tomato One shows your 2 weeks history to keep you motivated.

This is a must-have app to stay healthy and motivated on your Mac. The app is available for free but also includes ads. These ads can be removed via $1.99 in-app purchase.

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An emulator is a software that allows your device to behave like another device. In other words, it is a virtual software for your pc on which you can check how different apps will work on an actual android or ios phone. You can play your most loved game on a bigger screen and even test the apps if you are developing one.

You can find a number of android emulators for both mac and windows pc but there are rarely any for IOS. To ease your search for the same, I have listed 7 Best iOS Emulators For PC To Run IOS Apps. Just so you know, most of these are free to use but the ones that are premium have a limited free trial period. Also, iOS emulators can be a little tricky to use. So, this blog will be more useful for developer and App testers.

Appetize.io

Appetize.io is the first one on this list because of the ease offered by this freemium (free for a limited period, with a premium version available afterward) service. It is not easy to find a solution like this. All you need to do is to upload the app you want to use on the website and you are good to go.

Appetize.io is a web service that you can use on your browser for the purpose of embedding apps in websites, testing or other phases of development. Coming to its pricing, trial period gives you 100 minutes of streaming time for apps. You can monitor your usage from the dashboard and set up alerts for when you reach your limit. After that, you can go for the premium version if you wish.

Ripple

Ripple does everything like Appetize.io but as a chrome extension. It is popular for the testing cross-platform mobile and HTML5 applications without going through the complicated setup process.

The extension is absolutely free and is targeted towards platforms like PhoneGap and WebWorks. It aims to help developers by providing features like HTML, DOM Inspection, Automated Testing, JS Debugging, and more. Apps can run in different resolutions in real-time and restart is not required if you choose a new device. This makes the app pretty convenient to use.

Also Read Top 5 Android Keyboard Apps In 2019

iOS Simulator in Xcode

In the list of best iOS emulator, we have Xcode. Xcode is apple’s homegrown software and if you use Xcode suite as primary app development, then it is sufficient to emulate different types of interactions like taps, device rotation, scrolling, and other actions performed by the user.

Mac users can directly launch their app from the Xcode project. Safari has an edge here as web apps can be tested by accessing safari directly in Xcode. If you are wondering about the pricing, it is absolutely free.

Test flight

Testflight, now owned by Apple, is the official way according to apple for developers to test their apps using Xamarin.

Testflight’s extensive documentation is a plus point for this iOS emulator for PC. This free app supports apps for almost all Apple interfaces and also includes an option for beta testing of the apps before the final review. The only catch is the technical setup and needs to create an App store distribution profile.

Electric Mobile Studio

First things first, it is a paid service to test and run iOS apps on Windows PC but it has a 7 day full trial period. The app offers full-fledged emulation of iPhones, iPads, and responsive apps, and the ability to use the same product on two machines for common work setup at work and home.

Also read Top 10 free photo editing apps for android device

This is a prior choice for some developers as the emulator has an integrated WebKit and Chrome debugging tools to make the job easy. You can add hot-key navigation keys for mapping your favorite shortcuts. It can easily be integrated with Visual Studio.

Remote iOS simulator for windows

This is yet another popular way to test iOS applications on Windows PC. It comes pre-installed with Xamarin in Visual studio and is targeted towards developers. The detailed documentation available on their website can be of great use.

The tools windows show a useful toolbar at the top that has all the useful options like home, settings, screenshot, etc. You can also enable touch ID-like functionality, and simulate moving conditions such as shaking, rotation, etc. The tool also provides iPhone-like touch gestures and stylus input.

iPadian

There are many tools like iPadian which are popular for providing iPhone or iPad like experience on PC. However, iPadian lets you upload your codes and test them. iPadian will be a good choice if you simply wish to use an iOS emulator that imitates the design and appearance of iOS hardware.

Also read Top 9 Accessories To Buy For Your Laptop

Android has its name for the customization it can provide. Different manufacturers exploit this freedom in different ways. You can find a wide variety of skins for different companies. These skins are based on the Android OS. But sometimes, the phone that you love has everything great except the desktop or user interface.

The best way to overcome this is to use a launcher. Many launchers are free, many paid, but you can get a different experience out of your phone using these. Not only that, you can check out great designs which third-party developers come up with. That being said, let us get you the 10 best Android Launchers for customizing your phone.

Nova Launcher

Alright! This has to be on this list. If you are even a little bit into the Android world, then you have definitely heard about this one. Nova provides you tons of customizations. Icon packs, widgets, search bar options, notifications styles, gestures, themes, custom grid options, and a lot more. You name it and you have it in Nova Launcher.

Nova is not only super customizable but also efficient and fast. According to me, the number of customizations this launcher can provide, you can unleash your imagination and get a fabulous layout. This not only makes your phone aesthetic but makes the experience very very smooth.

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Setting up the preferences though is gonna take some while. Since there is a lot that can be customized, you’ll have to take your time to make your setup “Personal”. But once you are done setting up everything, oh man this is something! Definitely check this out. It is available both as a free version and a premium version. Some features are locked in the premium version.

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Lens Launcher

This is an intuitive and minimal launcher. You’ll understand what I mean when you try this app. If you are someone into minimalism and simplicity, this is a must try. This creative launcher brings one single home screen with all your apps spread on your screen. When you touch the screen and scroll around, the apps zoom in around your finger so you can see them properly. The zoom is like a lens effect, and hence the name Lens Launcher.

Other than being free, it is a small, lite and easy to setup launcher. There is hardly anything you will need to change. But if you wish, you can change animations settings, icon size, spacing, etc. Though this looks nothing like Android, you should try it out for its different design.

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Evie launcher

Evie launcher is for the people who are performance hungry. This is one of the fastest android launchers you can get for your phone. It’s famous for its lightness and smoothness over stock android.

It has a super useful Universal Search Feature within your apps from one place. It also offers a wide variety of home screen shortcuts and customizations. The launcher looks very clean and comes with some beautiful HD wallpapers.

One of the major reasons that Evie Launcher has made it to this list is that it enables you to choose from different search engines. Other than that, you don’t have that many gestures as Nova. But the app balances things off with its speed, light weight and simplicity.

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Apex

Apex launcher has a lot of aesthetics to offer with thousands of themes and icon packs. It is a lightweight launcher optimized for both phones and tablets, which you don’t find very often.

You can add up to 9 customizable home screens and hide apps in the app drawer. The launcher can sort the apps according to the title, installation date or how frequently you use them.

The pro version comes with more gesture options, powerful app drawer customizations, and many additional features. Also, this ranks amongst the fastest launchers for Android.

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Niagra Launcher

Niagra launcher is one of my favorite launchers personally. This is a minimalist focused launcher for your android phone. As it is more minimalism focused, the app does not offer a lot of customizations.

The home page is simple with your most used apps and a clock widget, You can customize the apps you want to see on the home page. On swiping and sliding up and down, you can access all the apps.

The package size is small. This enables the app to run smoothly on low-end devices too. The app helps you to declutter your phone. Even though the launcher is smooth and minimal, it is a bad choice for people looking for gestures and customizations.

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Microsoft Launcher

Don’t be surprised to see an android launcher from Microsoft. Formerly known as Arrow launcher, this one has a lot to offer. It is elegant and fast. The best part that you would find with this is that you can sync your phone completely with your windows pc. You can access messages, share photos and videos, and much more.

The only drawback is that you don’t get as many customizations as you do in other launchers. Also, I found the interface and aesthetics not up to my expectations. But other than that, it can be your daily favorite. So definitely check it out.

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Also read Top 10 free photo editing apps for android device

Google Now Launcher

One of the oldest and favorite launchers of all time. This is for the android users who love the stock android feel. Most of the phones nowadays come with skin over Android. This sometimes is done very well but mostly, not so well. So to get the feel of stock Android.

It has all the basic customizations that you might need. The leftmost scroll on the home screen takes you to Google Now cards page. This is where it gets its name from. Overall a very great experience. Go check it out now.

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Rootless launcher

The Rootless launcher has got that name for a reason. You can root most of the phones nowadays and install custom software. It is not only a complicated process, a dangerous one, but also time-consuming. So instead of going of those hardships, get yourself Rootless Launcher.

This is of course not an OS or mod for your phone but it will never let you feel bad about launcher side of things at least. There is not much to be described her. Rootless launcher gives you a pixel feel on your phone. It doesn’t require root of course. It is aesthetic and fluid.

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Windows 8 launcher

Okay, this one was not to be expected here. But some people might still like this version of the launcher. This brings to you the exact feel of Windows 8 offered by Nokia phones a few years back.  Even though this was not that big of success but the interface deserves some appreciation.

The idea of tiles is something that might still intrigue some people. the live tile features and ease of use of that launcher makes it worth a try.

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Also read Top 5 Android Keyboard Apps In 2019

Consumer Electronics Show (CES), for those of you who don’t know, is one of the biggest shows of the world where you get to the see the latest innovations in technology. You can experience this show in Las Vegas every year in the first quarter. Bringing to you, 5 biggest announcements from CES tech show 2019.

AMD Radeon VII – World’s First 7nm Gaming Graphic Card

This was the first time that AMD stepped in an international trade show. The product that stole the spotlight was the AMD Radeon Vll which is the latest Gaming Graphic Card from AMD. What makes this Graphics card stand apart from others is its 7nm based architecture. This means that the device is built with transistors and components which are around 7nm (nanometer) in size.

Radeon VII is in direct competition to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2080 and brings 29% performance boost when compared to its predecessor Radeon RX Vega 64. Coupled with 16GB of HBM2 memory and 1TB/s memory bandwidth, Radeon VII is what will define the future of gaming.

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2060, a high-performance budget graphic card equipped with artificial intelligence and ray-tracing capabilities, was also a dominant product at CES 2019 when processors are considered.

Dell Alienware Area-51M – World’s Most Powerful Gaming Laptop

This has to be a part of this list. No doubt about every gamer’s dream launched by Dell this year. This is the most powerful laptop you could know. It is so powerful that it requires 2 chargers just to charge the battery. Alienware 51M packs Intel’s 9th Gen i7-8700, i7-9700K, or i9-9900K and when coupled with the recently announced GeForce RTX 2080, the machine is a beast.

The most fascinating part though is not the little things but the fact that the internal of this laptop pc can be upgraded just like a desktop. Yes, you heard me right! Shocked? Everything from the processor to the graphics on this laptop is possible. Apart from Alienware Area 51M, Acer Predator Triton 900 and Asus ROG Mothership were other head turners in the gaming laptop section.

Bell Nexus – A Realistic Hybrid Electric Flying Car

A flying car, as fancy and modern as it sounds, will soon be a dream come true. Developed for Uber’s Elevate Air Taxi program, Nexus is akin to a giant drone aesthetically and is powered by a hybrid-electric propulsion system. The prototype presented by Bell can carry up to 4 people at once and will fly the skies by 2020. This is the kind of technology to definitely look forward to.

Many crazy vehicle concepts were also announced at CES 2019 including Hyundai’s Elevate Concept and BMW’s self-riding motorbike. Also read How To Setup Dual screen on Windows 10 laptop?

LG Signature OLED TV R –  World’s First Rollable TV

This is one of my personal favorites and long-awaited tech for the television industry. LG has featured a 65-inch 4K rolling LED TV. The OLED Panel comes out from a cylindrical housing placed on table or shelf. All the screen and a 100W sound system are a part of this amazing experience. One of the best features, according to me at least, is the halfway roll feature. This feature allows you to change the aspect ration and display just the essentials on the screen. This aesthetically looks top notch.

TVs dominated CES 2019 and Samsung’s 98-inch QLED 8K TV was another showstopper at the event.

IBM Q System One – First Commercial Quantum Computer

This has to be a breakthrough technology from IBM as it announced its first Commercial Quantum Computer. With an aesthetic design, IBM Q System One is a 20-qubit quantum computer that is packed inside a nine-feet enclosure. What makes it extraordinary is its size. To give you an idea, normal quantum computers can occupy an entire room, the Q System One, with its control module, cooling components, and the main computer is fitted in a glass enclosure.  It is still in the prototype phase though.

CES brings the greatest tech of all times every year. This year was no different than the rest. And I always hope to see things we would not even think of otherwise. Also read Top 9 Accessories To Buy For Your Laptop

There is no shortage of apps when it comes to windows but finding fresh apps isn’t that easy. So here is a list of Best new apps for Windows 10. A spoiler alert, they are all free.

Franz

The first app we have here is Franz, cool name by the way. What is lets you do is group a range of messaging apps like Facebook, WhatsApp slack, Gmail into one single screen. so instead of opening 5 applications, you just have to open one. with all my apps inside it. What I really like about the app, apart from it being free, is that the interface of the services running inside it is the same. And you have to spend zero time to understand the interface as it is highly user-friendly.

Also, if you are wondering, no it doesn’t see what you send or receive. The carrier though, Franz, will nudge you time to time to upgrade to the premium version by making you wait for a few seconds from time to time. Of course, you get rid of this by buying a 4 Euro subscription.

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Wox

Consider Wox as spotlight alternative for windows, i.e, an app launcher to help you quickly find files and folders. You can go ahead and search app, Google queries, perform a calculation, open URL and so on. Hitting alt+space triggers the app from any screen. There are tonnes of possibilities with this app. But my favorite thing about Wox is the third party plugin support. So you can do everything from searching youtube to translating languages right from the launcher.

My favorite one is a plugin called everything and the file search is so smooth that nothing comes close to it. You’ll get instantaneous results as you type. I think Microsoft should offer Everything natively as well. Also read Top 5 Android Keyboard Apps In 2019

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Sound Switch

This app lets you switch between your bt devices just by using a hotkey. Suppose you have your Bluetooth speaker and Headphones both connected to your pc now you want to switch the audio output from your hf to the speaker, it takes several steps to do that in windows. In sound switch, all I have to do is press ctrl+alt+f11 and you can effortlessly switch between your audio devices.

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Sand Boxie

We all go through those times installing a fishy app and later regretting it. mostly the solution is to uninstall the app or at times even format your system. One easy way to fix that is by using a small utility called sand boxie. Consider it like a virtual machine but barely eats any resources.

It creates a virtual environment for you to run apps within it. Now the app cannot harm any files and will have to use resources granted to sand boxie only. You can literally run any app inside sand boxie. It is as simple as right-clicking over the app and choosing sand boxie. If the app creates any mess, you can close sand boxie any time and you are back to good. Also read How To Recover Permanently Deleted Gmail Emails

The app has a few bugs and you can see pop-ups now and then which you can ignore. The free version allows you to run one sand boxie environment at a time. In case you want to run 2 environments simultaneously, you better upgrade, it costs $21 annually.

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Chocolatey

Every time you format your computer, you have to install the same set of apps like chrome, VLC etc. Now some of you might be using Ninite for this where you click the programmes you want. It creates one installation file to install all of your selected programmes. Saves you a lot of time.

But chocolatey goes 1 step further than Ninite. It is a package manager where you can not only install apps but also update and even uninstall them. For example, after windows install if you want to install Chrome, Skype, VLC etc. You have to install chocolatey and go to the cmd prompt, right click on it and select run as admin. Then type “choco install chrome” and hit enter and so on. Also read Top 9 Accessories To Buy For Your Laptop

Chocolatey is free, do try it out.

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Simple sticky notes

Talking about multitasking, you may forget your passwords and other useful stuff. Noting down things might be a habit you have developed over time. You have an inbuilt sticky note in windows, but really? It has its own problems, and I mean a lot of problems. Switch to the simple sticky notes. The best thing is the hotkeys. You can quickly hide, show, pin, delete, and recover any note using hotkeys.

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Sharp keys

Ever wondered what are you gonna do two shift, ctrl and caps lock buttons. Pretty useless, right? So here is an app called sharpkeys which lets you map these keys to a different action. For instance, I’ve mapped my caps key to open the calc and pressing right alt key opens file explorer. This can also be done by editing registry key entry but too many efforts, you know. Also read Top 10 free photo editing apps for android device

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Sejda PDF Desktop

Editing or converting a pdf is a task in itself. Adobe pdf reader is free but lets you only read a pdf. One way around is to use pdf escape, a free online pdf editor which is good but it requires an internet connection. A better alternative is Sejda PDF desktop. It lets you edit PDF, convert them to a word file, excel sheet and the list of features goes on. You can add texts and fonts in the existing pdf.

Well yes, the app is free without any watermark, but the limit for the free variant is up to 3 pdf with 200 pages each.

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NOX

Nox not only lets you run Android apps on pc like bluestacks but gives you root access as well. You don’t have to go through the tedious process of rooting ADB Console, superuser, etc, it’s just there. One click and you can use all the root applications. Overall you get a totally different experience of playing a game with a mouse and a huge screen.

Root feature is just an added bonus. It lets you create multiple instances of the emulator and it really helps you out as you don’t have to switch to a rooted app to test the app. The only downside is NOX runs on Android 4, Lollipop (pun intended). Also read How To Enable Google Chrome Dark Mode On Windows?

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Plex Media/Kodi

Oh, you should definitely try this one! If you didn’t already know, plex is a media server app. Simply speaking it lets you serve your music and movies to multiple devices. All you have to do is choose a device to be the server, which obviously should be a computer, as the device needs to be connected to the internet and powered on all the time. Now from this computer, you can host movie, films, photos and this will be available on all your devices.

Plex supports all the devices that you can imagine. The only caviat is that your computer needs to be connected to the internet all the time. You can remove this restriction by getting $5 a month subscription.

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In this world of a large pool of choices, why to rely on the one that comes with your phone? Why not try new ones and get the best out of what these android keyboard apps have to offer? You can get better and customizable keyboards for your android smartphone, available on the play store for free. Presenting to you, the top 5 Android Keyboards that you should definitely check out right now.

Google keyboard (GBoard)

Another great free android keyboard app is offered by Google. Many smartphones nowadays come equipped with this as the default keyboard (like the one plus and Mi smartphones). This app comes with a built-in Google search option. You can search your query by simply clicking the “G” icon given on the Gboard and share it without even needing to leave the app your typing in. Along with this, the Gboard is packed with features like offline speech-to-text, google translate, glide typing, hundreds of different languages, faster emojis and even gifs.

Google is getting linguistic by providing a large variety of languages. And now there is no need to switch the keyboard settings, the Gboard shows you recommendation of words in all the languages that you have selected. Another top-notch feature from Google is the transliteration. Which means it can convert a sentence or words from one language to your desired, selected language within the keyboard itself.

As the provider of this app is Google, privacy is gonna be the priority. You don’t have to worry about security issues with this app as it will not send any of your data to Google except for the searches you do, using the in-keyboard search feature. Apart from all the security promises and packed with features, Google still manages to keep the layout minimal and clean to add to your aesthetics. You should definitely check out this one if you have never done it before.

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Fleksy Keyboard

Fleksy keyboard app is supported on both Android and IOS & this feature of fleksy makes it different from other apps. Apple does not allow any third party keyboard app but you can use fleksy with your emails, messages, Twitter and Facebook. Other IOS apps like GV connect, word box, launch center pro has also collaborated with fleksy.

Fleksy holds the Guinness World Record for fastest keyboard app and has 45+ languages for autocorrection. It is a user-friendly keyboard if you type any word which is not present in its dictionary you just need to swipe up and that word will get stored in its dictionary. Its chameleon theme makes typing experience fun i.e., it is available with different color keyboard for different apps like for Spotify it is green, red for youtube and so on but the chameleon theme would charge you around $ 4.99. Free fleksy users also have control over some colors and themes. Also read Top 10 Alternatives To Google Drive

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Touchpal

Touchpal is one of the most famous free android keyboards with over 500 Million users worldwide. Along with glide typing (which they call “curve”), they provide another method called WAVE which is the combination of gesture control and predictive text that makes it easier and reduces the errors while typing. It shows the predictive word in different languages so no manual change of language is required. It also predicts the words from trending topics on the internet.

Touchpal offers “TALIA” which is an integrated digital assistant. TALIA can do different things to make your typing a great experience. For example, it can suggest you replies to the messages you receive, tell you about the weather, do small math calculations and convert currencies within the keyboard.

Talking of other little perks, it provides you smart GIFs (which you can create by yourself too), thousands of emojis, stickers, and other add ons that can be downloaded. It also comes with Virtual emojis in which you can record your expressions and voice to layer it over the desired emoji like the iPhone.

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Swiftkey keyboard

It is one of the best free alternatives for your inbuilt keyboard. It is easy to use with it’s standard QWERTY layout and also provides you the best gesture control input and predictive text flow. Its prediction game is so spot on that it can predict the words with just a syllable or two. Its new version is equipped with many different features. For example, instead of swiping you just need to connect the alphabets to form sentences. This not only provides a better accuracy but an even faster speed than the swipe gesture.

It comes up with 60 different languages by just tapping anywhere in the word and provides you better prediction result by using your SMS, Facebook, and other social media histories. Also read Top 10 Android Browsers for best Internet speed, security and browsing

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Chrooma keyboard

Chrooma keyboard, having a rating of 4.4 on the play store, gives a good competition to other keyboards. It comes with features like voice typing, night mode, lightweight app, theme adaptation, gesture control and much more. The night mode on the phone is quite smart as it automatically turns on depending on the light in your surrounding. Whenever your phone’s proximity sensor senses low light, the dark mode automatically turns on.

This keyboard, unlike all others, come with an in-built clipboard. So, any text that you copy gets copied on this clipboard and stays there forever untill you manually clear off the clipboard. This sounds skeptical as important messages and passwords left copied on the clipboard would make certain things problematic. Considering this, if you still want to try out funky designs, go check this one out.

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The photography game is changing in today’s world with better technology every day. A number of great smartphones come equipped with cameras capable to click photos thanks look professional. But there still are times when you are not able to get the perfect shot in your mind. This is where photo editing tool comes in. Here is a list of top 10 free photo editors for your Android device to step up your insta game.

Many of these apps are absolutely free while some contain in-app purchases for upgrading. Also, the list is in random order but I’ll tell you the app I prefer the most at the end of the post. So, without any further adieu, let’s get started

Adobe Photoshop Express

After making its name in desktop photo editing tools, the company launched a mobile version of the famous Photoshop for Android smartphones. Though not as powerful as the full-fledged software on the desktop, the app is remarkable at its job. The minimal design of the app complements the functionality it provides. The app comes with all basic adjustment tools like brightness, contrast, crop, perspective, and flip options. It offers you a wide variety of one-touch filters to instantly enhance your photos. Some advanced features are also offered like noise reduction feature and Image Rendering Engine to handle large files.

Being a huge company, Adobe was able to make the app free to download and completely ad-free. This alone is a huge preference to some people because come on, who likes to waste those focused precious seconds in useless ads?

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Snapseed

This photo editing app had to make its name to this list without any doubts. Snapseed, offered by Google, is one of the best mobile photo editors to help you bring that oomph in your style. With the ability to handle RAW format images and easy to use interface, the app can speed up and better your editing process, both at the same time. This application has a lot to offer. Be it face correction, perspective, overlaying images(double exposure), or moody one touch edits, it has everything in its bag. Also read Top 5 Android Keyboard Apps In 2019

Again, being offered by the software giant, the app is completely free and ad-free. Along with these perks, it also offers tutorials in the app for different styles of photography and editing techniques.

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Pixlr Express

This is the perfect photo editor that a person might need. The thing that this editor does the best is the one-touch filters. It comes with a wide variety of one-touch filters. You can still do your basic editing if that is something you are wanting to but the funky filters that come with it are a must try for changing and mixing up your photography style.

Above all, it has the feature to stylize the photos with doodle, stickers, and text. After indulging in all the fun editing process, you can directly share the edited shot on to social media from the app. Also read Top 9 App Lockers for Android devices (2018)

  Pixlr Express

B612-Beauty & Filter Camera

With over 100 million+ downloads and over 5 million reviews on the app store, this one is a no-brainer for this list. You might be already aware of this app. This is not only an editor but also has a camera to offer that has live filters view available. It has a large pool of over 1500 stickers, drawing effects, real-time beauty effects, ARstickers, Boomerang videos and the ability to create a collage. This can be an all in one app for your mobile device. Also read Top 10 free photo editing apps for android device

Though the editing process in this app reduces the quality of image quite marginally, if you are looking for a quick image fixing app to share your stunning photos on the social media, this app would be the perfect one for you. Face sensing on this app is quite remarkable.

  B612 Beauty and Filter Camera

Adobe Lightroom

This is another app from adobe making it to this list. This app is the best if you are into professional photo editing. This app gives you a unique feature to control the tones of your image selectively and also adjust the hue & saturation of individual colors. If you are unfamilier with what this is, this is the technique used by professionals to create that cinematic teal and orange look in photos and videos.

Another great feature with this app is that you can sync your work with your pc if you have Adobe Lightroom CC classic on your pc. This sync is done seamlessly using the Adobe cloud service. You can always come back to your pc to continue your editing process whenever you need to.

   Adobe Lightroom CC

YouCam Perfect

Famous for its beautifying features, this app is heaven for the selfy lovers. It offers a load of stickers, beautify adjustments, face filters, and a live effect camera. There is a huge collection of one-tap filters available which you can use on photos that you have already clicked as well. You can also play around with your facial features like your face height, width, smile length etc if that is something you are really into.

I would surely refer this app to a selfy lover, you’ll not be disappointed. Definitely go give this one a try! Also read Top 10 games like PUBG (Player Unknown’s Battleground)

   YouCam Perfect

PhotoDirector

This is like a multipurpose app for editing photos. You can edit your photos with tools that are simple to use yet powerful in their function. It has an easy to use interface with a futuristic blue neon look. It also comes with a camera that supports live filters as you click a photo.

The app is free to download from the Android Play Store but offers some in-app purchases that you can buy if you wish to.

   PhotoDirector

AirBrush

This is an easy to use image editor. It has some user-friendly retouching tools and produces quite amazing results. This is also a free app but has some in-app purchases to offer. It also comes with a live filter effect camera.

It has an interactive interface and tools such as blemish and pimple remover, teeth and eye whitener, body slimmer, and artistic retouching features, natural and radiant filters. Sharing your photos after editing to your desired social media is then just one tap away from within the app.

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EyeEm

Here is another app that does more than just editing photos. Not only you can edit your photos and apply amazing cinematic filters on your photos using this app, but you can also upload and sell your images from here. Yes, this is also a platform for selling your stunning shots under different licenses. The filters that they offer are pretty good quality.

If you are new and don’t know much about editing, you can use this app to achieve that film look. This is a totally free app and you can link your PayPal account to receive your earnings. Also read Top 10 Lightweight Android Browser For Improving Battery Life

   EyeEm

PicsArt Photo Studio

The editors’ choice, 500 million plus downloads and over 8 million plus reviews, this app is another good one. This is the last one on the list but definitely not the least, this app has a lot to offer just like the other apps on this list. You have all the options to do basic adjustments, add stickers, scribble, one-touch edits and collages. Definitely a good try.

   PicsArt Photo Studio

Which one should you choose?

If you are solely here for the purpose of clicking selfies, then you should definitely try B612 or YouCam perfect. But if you are into professional editing you should check out the apps from Google and Adobe. I personally use Adobe Lightroom and Snapseed in conjunction. Lightroom does the tonal editing better for me and Snapseed for perspective correction if there is any.

In the gaming world, racing games are a heartthrob. With its introduction during the very initial stages of game development, racing games have come a long way to become what it has become today. In the smartphone world, racing games were the first to adapt itself to the lack of buttons. Using the peripherals of the smartphone, racing games have evolved to give users a superior gaming experience.  Vibration with every rough patch on the road and blurred vision with every nitro boost, racing games will be a forever favorite for smartphone gamers.Let’s take a look at best racing games for android.

Real Racing 3

Developed by EA games, Real racing is the third sequel to this already extremely popular racing game. With one of the best simulation present in the market, this Android game is a real heart winner. The graphics is commendable and detailed, giving gamers a very realistic experience of gameplay.

In the previous versions of the game, there was a single time purchase system. However, in the latest released third sequel of the game there is a condition that allows you to upgrade or buy new cars only after a certain interval of time. The worst part is, the game takes up real world time for maintainence and modification, thus restricting your game play time but allowing you to take much needed breaks from the game.

Asphalt 9: Legends

Gameloft is always a name that stands out when it comes to Android gaming. In the Asphalt sequel, Legends is the last released game. With mind blowing graphics, excellent physics and out of the world gameplay, Asphalt 9 Legends will surely win the hearts and minds of the gamers. There are regularly updated events, weekly and monthly events and a lot of action packed in this game. With a variety of upgrades and vehicles to reveal, Asphalt 9 is presently an online game. However, with increasing popularity, this game will soon be a must play for all racing games lovers.

Asphalt Xtreme

May sound like one of the sequels of Asphalt by gameloft, however there is alot of difference in this game. This game is very different from the other games included in the asphalt series as this game provides off road experience with a number of cars on a number of tracks. It is very likely that gameloft will add some more upgrades and features and keep this game lofted.

Drag racing

As the name says, this game is all about drag racing. May not be the game with the best graphics in the field out there, this game gives you the complete independence of upgrading and tuning your car just like the way you want it to. Tuning is the key is the mantra this game follows and you are going to have a true car mechanic feeling when you are into this game. This game has a multiplayer mode with a lot of cars which you can buy. Regular updates is another good thing of this game.

Dirt Trackin

This game is not free but this game has the power to make you buy it. Away from the futuristic times added into games, this game will take you some centuries back when dirt racing had some real dirt in them. With its inspiration from the games of yester years, this game with catch your attention easily. Numerous cars and 10 tracks to choose from, this game allows you to have our controls on screen. Quite amazingly, you can customize this game to have a race of 100 laps as well if you are up for some real long drive experience.

CSR Racing 2

This series of racing games gets the market as soon as it hits it. Primarily a drag racing game, this game will give a boost to your adrenaline. Here you can race against hundreds of opponents in the multiplayer mode our  you can race on a number of racing circuits in the campaign mode. With pretty good graphics and undeniable gameplay, this game is sure to become a gamers favorite in no time. This is freemium game and it is worth trying out.

Hill Climb Racing 2

Yes, you are probably thinking that Hill Climb racing is odd in the list of 3D emulated racing games with high end graphics. However, let me tell you that hill climb racing 2 has one of the largest number of downloads in the world. The low system requirements make this game compatible to most devices, thus making this game a good time pass. Do not underestimate the game because it is 2 D. This game gives you the chance to tune your vehicle to make it adapt to different situations. There are a number of cars to choose from. The out of the box ideas of racing in other planet makes this game a special attraction for gamers who are always searching for innovation. The controls are practically an accelerator and a brake on the screen with which you have to save the car for overturning and snapping the driver’s head. With the idea of collecting fuels on the way, this game is the best time pass in the sphere of racing games.

Horizon Chase – World Tour

This game is special for its android tv support and the NVIDIA shield tv support. Almost all gaming controllers are compatible with this game, thus giving you a brand new experience altogether. There are variety of tracks and numerous cars to unlock. Regular event and updates from the developers has kept the game on the money. Horizon Chase was probably one of the best games if we look back a couple of years. The resonating leader board and the opportunity of  multiplayer see off is another reason why this game is so acceptable.

Real Drift Car Racing

This game primarily emphasizes on drift racing. Sharp turns to make your car drift without touching the walls are your aim in this game. With increasing difficulty with every level, this game provides a variety of tracks and a number of cars to choose from and unlock. The graphics is decent and game is enjoyable. Comes in a paid as well as a free version, this game is worth trying.

Riptide GP Renegade

This is a racing game but here you race on a jet ski. This wave runner game takes you on a mission to win races by competing against your opponent. There are slopes on which you could do stunts with finger gestures and earn XP that will up your level. There are a variety of tracks and dozens of jet ski to choose from. The graphics is mind blowing as you can precisely feel water splashing onto your smart phone screen. The multiplayer mode allows you to race against opponents online. This is however an offline game and is one of the best production of the vector production. You can also customize the racer by changing the gender or choosing the design on the racing suit.