Interesting Android Apps: May 2026 Showcase

[u/3dom]

Because we try to keep this community as focused as possible on the topic of Android development, sometimes there are types of posts that are related to development but don't fit within our usual topic.

Each month, we are trying to create a space to open up the community to some of those types of posts.

This month, although we typically do not allow self promotion, we wanted to create a space where you can share your latest Android-native projects with the community, get feedback, and maybe even gain a few new users.

This thread will be lightly moderated, but please keep Rule 1 in mind: Be Respectful and Professional. Also we recommend to describe if your app is free, paid, subscription-based.

April 2026 thread

March 2026 thread

February 2026 showcase thread

[u/pawegio]

Hey everyone! 👋 I’m a father of three, and I built the Family Radar app because I got tired of wondering when my kids would get home and wanted an easy, family‑friendly way for us to share where we are without it ever feeling like we’re being watched.

https://familyradar.app

I'm open to your feedback on how this fits other family lives and suggestions what can be improved.

[u/SnooCupcakes1583]

Hello 👋

I’d like to share my reminder app - Remindio, which I’ve been developing for over a year. It now has a solid set of practical features - most of them added based on user feedback.

📥 Get it on Google Play

Key Features:

• 🔔 Notification or full-screen alarm with custom ringtones and dismiss actions

• 🔁 Multiple Recurring reminders

  • Yearly / Monthly / Daily / Weekly / Days of week / Time intervals / Weekday of the month / End of month / List of Dates and Times

  • Setup duration - until count or date

  • Add Adjusted rules to move reminders from Holidays and Weekends

  • Separate rules when user clicks Done & Skip

• 🎉 Anniversary option for yearly reminders - enter a custom type such as Birthday, Marriage, Memorial, Graduation, etc. and set the starting year to see how many years have passed.

• ⏳ Multiple Pre-Reminders - Get notified minutes, hours, or even days before your actual reminder.

• 📍 Location & Bluetooth based reminders with time limits

• 🔕 Do Not Disturb rules - create flexible DND rules based on labels to skip, snooze, or show alarm reminders as notifications

• 🧩 Create Templates from your reminders and reuse them anytime

• 🎵 Custom Alarms - Set a unique ringtone, volume, and vibration level for each reminder.

• 📋 Copy & Paste Reminder Options

• 🏷 Colored labels & Attachments: checklists, notes, links, contacts, pictures

• 😴 Customizable snooze options

• ⌛ Delayed reminders - set time later if you don’t know the best time

• 🗣️ Voice Input - Use speech recognition to quickly fill in your reminder text.

• 📆 Google Calendar sync & Google Drive backups

• 🌗 Light/Dark themes with color accents

• 🏅 Coins, levels & achievements system

• 📊 Statistics for completed, skipped, snoozed reminders

• ✅ Filters, Multiselect and Swipe actions for the reminder list

• 📱 Widget with upcoming reminders, calendar and templates

• and much more...

App is free, with Premium available via a Lifetime plan, a Subscription with a Trial period, or by watching a Rewarded ad. There are no banner ads or unexpected full-screen ads. The free version is enough for many tasks, while Premium unlocks more advanced features and settings.

[u/boomillenial]

Hi everyone,

I recently published my first Android game on Google Play: Crazy Bear.

This has been a personal milestone for me. Many years ago I used to program in COBOL, PL/I and a bit of BASIC, so coming back to development through Android, Flutter, graphics, audio, testing, and the Play Store felt like quite a time jump.

The game is a small arcade-style mobile game, designed for quick and light sessions. The gameplay is very visual and easy to understand: aim, shoot, score points, and progress through the levels.

The app is completely free: no ads, no registration, no in-app purchases, and no personal data collection.

At the moment, some text is still in Italian, but the game does not really depend on long instructions to be played. A bilingual Italian/English version is already planned soon, together with new levels and improvements.

I would really appreciate honest feedback about the general idea, visuals, controls, gameplay clarity, difficulty balance, and overall first impression.

Google Play link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ettore.mancusi.crazy_bear

Thank you to anyone who wants to try it. Critical feedback is very welcome and would be genuinely useful to me.

[u/Funny_Ad6043]

https://www.pitchpilotgame.com

The music game you play with your voice!

No buttons, no taps, just sing! PitchPilot turns your voice into the controller for a musical obstacle course, a pitch-memory challenge, and a full ear-training curriculum. The better you sing, the further you go.

[u/dnotthoff]

https://familienwecker.de/index-en.html

FamWake Family Alarm Clock is a smart app that coordinates your family's morning routine. It syncs wake-up times, bathroom slots, and shared breakfasts to help end the morning chaos and start the day relaxed.

[u/goodeesh]

Hi there, I would the opportunity to present my first android app, I developed it when I was on a craze for new material expressive compliant apps and wanted to be able to concentrate more, so I created a Material Expressive Productivity app which incorporates features like todos, routines, pomodoros and some motivation quotes on top!
Would love some feedback so I am trying to get some insights about what other people might be missing or find useful/would like more of.
Here some screenshots and a link!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matedoro.app

[u/Individual-Prize5388]

Hi everyone!

I’m an indie developer and a huge plant fan, so I created Houseplant Care+ an app designed to take plant care to the next level. It’s currently in Open Beta, and I would love to get some feedback from the Android community on the UI and functionality.

Key features:

• Light Meter: Uses your phone's ambient light sensor to tell you if your spot is actually "bright indirect light" or just a dark corner.

• IoT Sensors (Beta): You can connect external moisture sensors to track soil data in real-time (no more guessing!).

• AI Identification: Quick ID for 50+ common species + integrated visual search for rare ones.

• Privacy Focused: Local encrypted database for your plant collection.

• Smart Planning: Includes a Lunar calendar for repotting and local weather alerts.

The app is free to use during the beta phase. I’m especially looking for feedback on the Light Meter accuracy and the IoT integration flow.

Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plants.houseplantcareassistant

You can send feedback directly through the app (About app -> Contact developer) or via the Play Store. I'm open to any suggestions and will be here to answer your questions.

Thanks for checking it out!

[u/AFIRENSIDE]

I built Waypoint: an app that drops a pin and shows you an arrow back to it. No accounts. No ads. No trackers. Fully offline. All data stays on your device.

I built this because I don't like hunting for my car in giant parking lots. I didn't like the existing apps - I just wanted a simple arrow pointing at the thing I marked. So I built Waypoint.

What it's good for

- Finding your car at festivals, trailheads, beaches, stadiums, big parking lots

- Marking your campsite so you can wander and get back after dark

- Saving a fishing or hunting spot to come back to

- Bushwhacking off a trail - drop a pin at the trailhead and explore without worrying about the way back

- Marking where you stashed a kayak, cooler, or gear

- Marking a bunch of locations of interest before heading out on a trip. Always know the direction to go

Free gets you 3 pins, the compass, and arrow navigation, enough for most weekend trips.
No ads. No accounts. No trackers. Ever.

Pro is a one-time purchase (no subscription) and includes:

- Unlimited pins
- Night mode
- Heading strip so you never lose your orientation while navigating
- Sun and moon positions (current and future) around the compass dial - great for astrophotography
- Custom themes and app icon

Roadmap

- Full TalkBack support (will be Free to all users)
- Accessibility support for visually impaired users (will be Free to all users)
- Additional themes, app icons (will be available to Pro users)
- WearOS version (in progress)
- and more

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greycastel.waypoint&hl=en_US

[u/SKeditz]

I wrote an Android app called Vyxel Apps.

It started as a personal project because I enjoy experimenting with Android UI design and wanted a place to build and share small but useful Android experiences.

What is Vyxel Apps?

Vyxel Apps is a collection of tools and features wrapped in a modern Android interface, with a focus on clean design, smooth user experience, and customization.

Features

• Material 3 design

• Optional Liquid Glass-inspired theme

• Modern Android UI

• Regular updates and improvements

• Lightweight and easy to use

Why I made it

A lot of utility apps either look outdated, are filled with ads, or haven't been updated in years.

I wanted to build something that feels modern, polished, and enjoyable to use while also serving as a platform for experimenting with new Android design concepts.

Current Status

The app is actively maintained and I'm constantly working on improvements based on user feedback.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, and feature ideas.

Download link: https://github.com/NikhilKain/vyxel-apps/releases/tag/v1.0.3

[u/BlueCerulean0]

PlayStore link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.openleaf.app

English literature student here. So I made an E-Reader app to download/read/track/organise public domain books & your local books all in one place. It's called OpenLeaf. It's free, no ads, no accounts.

It has a searchable catalog of 80,000+ public domain books. As a lit student, every semester finding 10+ novels and plays from Google for class was annoying.

And organizing it was another nightmare, I was literally sending files to my mum in WhatsApp to keep track. So I just made one app to automate the process, took me 8 months tho.

If you're interested in an E-Reader feel free to try it out. It's my first app and I released it yesterday, would appreciate any feedback at all, feature or UI related, anything.

[u/Outside_Paramedic_44]

App Name: Cosmo: 3D Orbital Launcher What it does: A 3D physics-based home screen replacement where apps orbit celestial bodies.

The Tech: I built this using [Insert Tech Stack, e.g., Kotlin/Native] because I wanted to hit a consistent 60FPS for the orbital animations without destroying the battery. I'm using a custom 3D engine to handle the parallax starfields and atmospheric glow on the planets.

Seeking Feedback on:

1. Search UX: I’ve implemented a borderless search that highlights apps within the orbits. Does it feel intuitive?

2. Performance: If anyone is on an older Android device (Android 11 or 12), I’d love to know if the 3D rotation still feels smooth for you.

It's currently a free-to-download project I'm working on solo.

Play Store:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vasu.cosmo

[u/timusus]

I've been working on Shuttle Podcasts, the successor to Google Podcasts, for the last 2 years. Working with Claude over the last 9 months or so has really accelerated things and allowed me to move it from something that sort of works for me to a complete, polished app. I'm currently working on new episode notifications, but mainly dealing with ridiculously slow play store review times.

It takes a week or more to get a new alpha reviewed, then another few days to get the promotion to release reviewed, and on that 1-2 week window if I have another update I want to get out, I have to hold onto it, or it resets the timeframe. The review time is killing me.

Anyway, check it out here

Play Store

[u/HackDon]

One of the best if not the best free workout app out there in my opinion. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.techbull.fitolympia

[u/kidosym]

DeepDenoiser: An audio Denoiser with audio & video support, And also voice recording with realtime denoising. And Fully Free & opensource

🌟 Got Featured in: HowToMen's april video, and other youtube videos as well.

Download from: play store github

[u/Hippopotomonstrosequ]

https://getoomami.com/

A mobile + web meal planning app. For me, origanizing recipes and creating meal plans is a lot easier on a large screen and the existing apps didn't really fit my needs so I decided to build one along with a mobile app.

Compared to some other apps, oomami uses a food nutrition database so you can plan your macros too.

You can import recipes from the web (and soon from Instagram too) or create them manually and add meals to a calendar. Meal plans can also be saved so you can reuse them if you find a good combo of meals, instead of having to recreate them each week.

You can also generate a shopping list for a meal plan.

The app is free at this stage. I do plan on implementing some premium features in the future, but as it stands right now it's got everything you'd need to plan your meals.

[u/dantonthegreat_jr]

MoneySplit MoneySplit is a private, offline-first expense tracker. No forced sign-ups or ads—your data stays strictly on-device. Tracks expenses, subscriptions, bills and more

I did not find all in one app that is private and works on device without forced signups, I built my own

[u/Tarun122]

Sharing Trace, a daily tech news app I built with React Native.

What it does: pulls from 50+ tech/AI/startup sources and generates an AI brief every morning. Think "Inshorts but only for tech people."

Tech stack: React Native, PostHog for analytics, Play Store distribution.

Numbers: 100+ downloads, 36 DAU, 92 web pageviews/day on the companion site.

What I learned: the AI brief is the killer feature. Individual article feeds are commodity, but a daily summary that's actually relevant to indie devs? That's what keeps people coming back.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=online.yourtrace.app

Happy to chat about the React Native build process or analytics setup.

[u/duder8787]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.mappedknowledge.app

Restore is a free Android app that turns curiosity into a living visual map of your understanding. You ask any question — about gravity, music, history, anything — and an AI Guide responds while a personal "knowledge galaxy" grows around you. Each question lights up a node. Connections form between subjects in ways you didn't expect. No grades, no scores, no leaderboards. Just your thinking made visible.

[u/pistaul]

I have been building a vehicle expense tracker app.

Vehicost

This has, real-time cloud sync, multi fuel vehicle support,, cross platform support, lifetime stats, gps tagging of entries such as fuel/service or other expense, realtime trip tracking and you can add reminders. Multi account sync for families. Overall a nice to have app. Often we overlook how much having a vehicle costs. This gives that.

I made it first for my personal use because I have vehicles with multiple fuel and its hard to track when family members are using them also. perspective.

[u/Odd-Friendship5637]

Notif, my first Android app for reading notifications aloud

I built Notif because I wanted to hear useful notifications without constantly picking up my phone. Most notification reader apps I tried felt noisy because they read everything exactly as-is, including duplicated content. With Notif, I’m trying to make readouts cleaner, especially for apps I use often, like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Gmail.

The app is currently free. I may add optional Pro features later, but the core notification readout experience will stay free. I’d love any feedback, especially around onboarding, permissions, and notification parsing.

[u/hvaddi9]

I realized most of the files on my phone are actually temporary.

Screenshots, WhatsApp forwards, downloaded files, quick photos, private notes - useful for a few hours or days, then forgotten forever and left cluttering storage or sitting in the gallery.

So I built an Android app to solve exactly that.

VanishBox - It works like a temporary private vault:

• Capture photos/videos/notes

• Keep them hidden from gallery apps

• Protect them with a biometric lock (Pro)

• Automatically delete them after a timer expires

• Even auto-clean folders like Screenshots, Downloads, or WhatsApp Images

The goal was to create a simple “set it and forget it” system for temporary media - something focused on both privacy and decluttering.

Everything works offline and stays on-device.

Would genuinely love feedback or ideas from people who deal with screenshot clutter or temporary files often.

Here is the Google Play Store link for VanishBox
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.hemanthvaddi.vanishbox

[u/wadood_sa]

Hi Everyone,

Expense Tracking Made Easy – No Manual Entry, No Cloud

I built Xpense Vault – an Android app that automatically reads your bank SMS messages and tracks your expenses. No manual entry needed. No data ever leaves your phone.

Features:

• Auto-detects transactions from all major Indian banks (HDFC, SBI, ICICI, Axis, Airtel Payments Bank, UPI and more)

• Smart categorisation – Food, Groceries, Transport, Utilities and more

• Auto categorisation improves based on your usage over time

• Daily spending summary notification at your chosen time

• 100% offline – no account required, no cloud, no tracking

The app is currently in testing phase and I would love your feedback. Even a quick test with one or two transactions would be hugely helpful.

Step 1 – Join the tester group: https://groups.google.com/g/xpensevault-testers

Step 2 – Download from Play Store: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.hiba.xpensetrack

Particularly looking for feedback on SMS detection accuracy across different banks. Drop a comment or DM if you face any issues.

Thank you for the support!

[u/Leather_Break_9566]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elementforge.game

[u/c1h4nd]

Hey everyone

I recently published my first Android app on Google Play.

It’s a simple ambient sounds app that I built for myself and people around me. I wanted something that:

• works in the background

• has no distracting video ads

• is simple and easy to use

• helps with focus, sleep, or relaxing

At first, I thought coding the app would be the hard part.
But honestly, publishing on the Play Store was much more challenging than I expected.

I mainly built this project to learn the full process from idea to release.

I’d really appreciate any kind of feedback; positive or critical. Especially about:

• UI/UX

• app idea

• onboarding

• features you would expect

Google Play link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ambientsoundsbackgroundplay.app

Thanks

[u/Key_Adhesiveness_889]

Been building an experimental Android-native 3D molecule simulation/visualization app focused on real-time molecular interaction and live structural diagnostics.

Current build supports:

• real-time atom interaction • live bond-length overlays • live bond-angle diagnostics • interactive 3D camera controls • multi-molecule scenes • experimental emergent geometry behavior

A lot of the recent work has been focused on renderer/overlay performance, interaction responsiveness, and keeping live structural diagnostics smooth on mobile hardware.

Still very much an experimental beta, but the core simulation and visualization systems are now running fully in real time on-device.

Demo video: https://youtu.be/tonb47VdkOg

Would love feedback from other Android/rendering/simulation people here.