Apps & services

Beautiful when it works, but currently not very playable due to pop-in and getting stuck.

His number one pick, with the most detailed textures he has seen on a mobile game and a living-painting feel.

Arun's pick of the collab: it applies consistent, cinematic-looking filters in a couple of taps, though unlocking everything can get expens…

Maybe the most addictive of the mobile games he mentions.

Named as one of his recent mobile gaming highlights.

A strategic game with huge depth, taking hundreds of hours to complete.

Found almost endless replay value in it, with offline co-op on one device.

Less deep than the others but surprisingly creative and likely to make you smile.

Adds animations to navbar presses, and the free version is enough for most people.

Complete system-wide audio tweaking tool that applies across ringtones, YouTube and Spotify.

An absolute must-try for rooted phones, and not hard to do.

Looks dull as a set of menus but gives huge control over how your phone looks and behaves.

Modded Google Camera app that brings Pixel 2 style processing and portrait mode to many Android flagships.

No-root app that turns the fingerprint scanner into an intuitive navigation control.

One of his all-time favourite Android mods, letting you swipe from an edge to exit any app.

Surprised him with a floating bubble that gives quick back, recent apps and clipboard access.

Very simple app that turns the torch on and off with the volume keys, and is faster once you get used to it.

Lets you pin important notifications so they can't be swiped away and forgotten.

One of his favourites, adds moving effects to photos that are subtle but eye-catching when chosen well.

Android keyboard with strong grammar corrections, but not as comfortable to type on as Google's own.

Google app that turns videos into comic books, slow to load but surprisingly good at picking frames.

Forces apps into full screen on 18:9 phones that don't support it natively.

Summarises headlines into short paragraphs for busy people, though it oddly skips weekends.

A favourite privacy browser that blocks trackers and ads and wipes your session with one tap.