Gadgets Now Bureau
28 Dec, 2023, 07:10AM IST
Every month, Google shares a list of just-launched apps on the Play Store that it says it is “most excited about”. To wrap up 2023, Google has picked the very best Android apps from this list. These are the Android apps that the company says, “sparked the most interest across all of this year’s monthly picks.” The apps reflect the mood of Android app users and seem to be a mirror of what mattered to people the most. Here are the top apps that ‘Google loved’ in 2023.
Reelsy Reel Maker Video Editor
As Reels-making increasingly becomes one of the career choices for the digital generation, apps that offer tools for quick content creation are a hit in the market. Reelsy helps users to make polished Instagram reels in a user-friendly way. It offers trending templates to let users quickly customise them with their own set of content clips.
Reelsy rating, downloads
It is developed by Zed Italia Apps, has in-app purchases and is rated 3.9 based on 15.7K reviews. The app has been downloaded over 500,000 times.
Moodistory – Mood Tracker
Moodistory is a mood tracker and emotion tracker app. It allows users to create mood tracking entries in less than 5 seconds, “without writing a single word”. Become aware of your mood highs and lows, analyse the cause of mood swings, and discover triggers for a positive mood. It offers colour-coded stats revealing what correlates with users’ mood.
Moodistory rating, downloads
Moodistory is created Matoph Labs and offers in-app purchases. It is rated 4.3 and have over 10,000 downloads.
Voidpet Garden: Mental Health
Voidpets are Tamagotchi-like creatures eager to improve users’ mental health. The app offers mindful activities, like practising gratitude or reframing negative thoughts, in a fun way. Voidpets love flourishing flora and will come to visit – befriend them by offering kindness, comfort, and cuddles. Users must collect all of the rare species that visit their ‘garden of consciousness!’
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Voidpet rating, downloads
Voidpet offers in-app purchases, is rated 4.4 based on 9400 reviews and has over 1,00,000 downloads.
Threads, an Instagram app
This Meta-owned social platform competes with X (formerly Twitter) and focuses on text-based conversations (though posts can also include images, videos, or links). Users can automatically follow everyone they already follow on Instagram, building their friend base in a snap.
Threads rating, downloads
Threads is developed by Instagram (Meta) has 4.2 star rating based on 280,000 reviews and has over 100 million downloads.
Insight Journal: Learn & Grow
This journaling app offers AI-powered prompts and insights to help users work through issues. Insight Journal can be a mentor to help people adopt the personas of thinkers like Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Virginia Woolf to guide you. Users can try a few exercises without a subscription, but they’ll need Insight Plus to unlock lessons from 3,500+ books.
Insight Journal: Learn & Grow rating, downloads
Developed by UofHappy, LLC, the app also offers in-app purchases, has 3.6 star rating and over 10,000 downloads.
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