Google originally designed the Gboard for the iPhone, and they took their time making it available for Android. The wait was worth it, as Google Keyboard has been rebranded and updated with great new features including integrated web search, Google Translate and GIF search. Gboard is completely free, supports gesture typing for both individual words and entire sentences, a bounty of languages, and a modest choice of themes.

Focus Go is an app that would fit in more in the latter group, as an image gallery that stands out for how lightweight it is, taking up only 1.4 MB, and for focusing on the basics: letting you view your photos in order and share them easily.

There's something awesome about curling up on the couch with a good book, and falling face first into a fantastically written story. With apps on your phone books and the communities that love them are more accessible than ever. From social media networks for book lovers to digital libraries, there is plenty here to love

Today we're in much better straits thanks to streaming music giving you access to precisely the tracks you want to hear wherever you happen to be. From personalized radio stations, to playlists, to full albums, there is plenty to love about streaming music apps.

There are plenty of great apps that can help you throw an excellent party without losing your mind in the process.

Now that we’re getting dangerously close to the end of 2017, it’s normal to start seeing posts where people share their most popular photos on Instagram. You know, the typical post with a person’s 9 most successful photos that you’ve probably already seen a few times floating around your social networks.

Facebook on Monday announced Messenger Kids, a somewhat closed-down messaging app for children ages 6-12. The app doesn't require the child to sign up for a Facebook account, relies on the parent(s) to add any contacts and hides the child from any sort of public searches on the social network.

Want to have opinion of Instagram followers on your new dress or on your new haircut? You do not need to ask them individually.  You can create a Poll and get opinion of them all by posting a single story. Here is how you can create a story on Instagram and can view the Poll results.

Using a VPN is a great way to unlock websites and maintain your online privacy, but even the very best services are likely to reduce your internet speeds.

Virtualization is the perfect solution for testing out software in a controlled environment. Although when playing around with Android apps, it’s typical to use a desktop emulator, you also have another option that’s closer to the real experience, accessing it directly on a smartphone.

Instagram has had a very good 2017. They continue to add great features while leaving Snapchat in the dust. Instagram Live was launched as a way to combat Periscope (do people still use that?) and other live platforms. It has quickly become one of Instagram most popular features and now it’s getting more personal.

Twitter today is beefing up perhaps its most important consumer-facing security measure, two-factor authentication (2FA), with an update to fully support third-party apps. Now, Twitter’s login verification feature (the name it gives its 2FA service) will let you rely on apps like Google Authenticator and Authy, whereas before you had to, by default, input a code sent via text message.

You can get it for free through Plex Labs, the company’s experimental division for employee “passion projects.” Plexamp runs on macOS or Windows and should support "any music format you could dream of throwing at it." Perhaps most exciting, though, is that it features playback visualizer, just like old media players.

Reddit today announced a number of changes to its iOS and Android apps designed to make its mobile software a more interactive and social way of exploring the site.

Widgets are one of the best ways to customize and make the most of your Android homes screen, and while there are a lot of applications that come with bundled widgets, there are also ones that are made solely for creating widgets for making your setup look as fresh as can be.