Apps & services

Adds interactive components like bars and buttons to KLWP live wallpapers.

A bottom-swipe control centre that suits tall screens and can be customised in detail.

A procedurally generated live wallpaper with smooth animation that looks different each time.

A colourful live wallpaper from the same developer with a bit more character.

A minimal launcher that genuinely helps reduce phone distraction by hiding most apps.

Creates custom or random gradient wallpapers for a quick home screen refresh.

Lets you tweak an existing wallpaper with contrast, saturation and invert tools.

A pack of neon-style widgets that slot easily alongside neon wallpapers.

A fast, clean universal search that integrates neatly with Nova Launcher.

A small icon pack best used to swap a few icons as a centrepiece of your setup.

A useful tool for searching icons across multiple packs and finding replacements.

Pulls trending wallpapers from Reddit and updates your wallpaper automatically on a schedule.

Possibly the best Android note-taking app he has used, with voice notes, checklists and locking.

AR furniture app with some of the best object tracking he has seen.

Digestible and fun timeline app for learning history from the Big Bang onwards.

Simple AR app that places animals in your room, one of the best ways to try AR on Android.

A step up for measuring, using ARCore to measure and visualise rooms and objects in 3D.

Photo app that splits an image into colour components so you can add back the ones you want.

White noise app where users submit sounds from around the world on a map.

Saves webpages for later by emailing you a copy, suited to high-priority items.

Calming particle app that is unusual for him to cover but very well executed.

Uses phone sensors to measure objects; still a work in progress but generally accurate.

Part of the six-widget set, it does not line up properly and looks poor on the home screen.

A hideous, low-resolution widget that does nothing and costs £300, so he considers it a waste of money.