Over the years, phones have undergone major changes. We’ve come a long way since we only needed third-party apps to edit a screenshot. Now, most custom Android skins, like One UI on the Samsung Galaxy S20, have most of the built-in options and features, meaning we can skip installing some basic Android apps.
However, no phone is self-sufficient and needs its fair share of third-party apps, whether it’s an image editing app that can parse RAW images or something as simple as a note-taking app.
In this post, we have compiled a list of the top seven (7) must-have apps for the Samsung Galaxy S20 (or Galaxy S20 Plus or Galaxy S20 Ultra) to take the whole experience to the next level.
Lets start.
1. Edit Great Videos: Adobe Premiere Rush
If you record a lot of videos on your Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus and S20 Ultra, Adobe Premiere Rush is a must-have Android app for you. Although it is exclusive to Samsung phones, it is not ready in the operating system. Instead, you’ll have to download it from the Galaxy App Store.
Unlike most existing video editing apps, it provides a polished interface and combines useful features like customizable Motion Graphics templates, audio mixing, AI-powered audio cleaning, among others.
Apart from that, you will be able to rotate the video as you wish. And yes, the built-in transitions make videos look great.
2. Copy Like a Boss: Universal Copy
Over the years, copy and paste on phones has become quite simple. Long press the text you want to copy and the clipboard will come to life.
However, you cannot copy all the text that is there. For example, you want to copy text from PDF, Instagram captions, text from images, among others. This is where the Universal Copy application comes into play.
This application makes it possible to copy text from anything, whether it’s an image or a PDF file. And using the app is easy. Just enable it and copy the required lines. After that, things are as usual.
The great thing about Universal Copy is that you have to tap the sticky notification to activate it. Yes, no hassle of searching in the app drawer. It’s there, at your fingertips.
3. Eliminate Junk: Google Files
Is your new Galaxy S20 already filled with memes and other junk messages? If your answer is yes, it’s time to get the Files from Google App. This nifty app not only manages your files like a boss, but also doubles as a nifty cleaner.
From unwanted duplicate files to memes and large files, it lets you clean them all with just one tap.
And like most Google apps, the app’s interface is simple and uncluttered. Everything is neatly arranged. You just have to press the right buttons.
Apart from that, Files by Google also allows you to share and receive files and photos from your neighbors via Wi-Fi Direct. So if you’re not a big fan of the built-in Quick Share, this is the function you can use. It’s simple and fast.
4. Manage Your To Dos: Google Keep
If you’re not a big fan of the Samsung Notes app because it doesn’t have an intuitive interface, it’s time to go back to Google Keep. One of the main advantages of this application is that it is available on major platforms and has a web version. This means you can continue your work from your desktop. Is not it beautiful?
Apart from that, you can collaborate with your friends and colleagues via shared notes. On top of that, the app is quite intuitive and supports gestures. If that’s not enough, Google Keep’s OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature is pretty awesome.
5. Paint Beautiful Pictures: Snapseed and Lightroom
Clicking a photo is only half the job.
A photo is incomplete unless it is polished with some post production tweaks. While the built-in editing suite lets you do basic things like adjust brightness and saturation levels, sometimes that’s not enough.
That’s why you need image editing apps like Snapseed and Lightroom to come to your rescue.
1. Snapseed
Snapseed is one of the best photo editing apps on the market. From editing RAW photos (Camera settings > Save Options > Save RAW copies) to selective editing to adding HDR, they have a lot of tricks up their sleeve.
So yes, you have sophisticated audio tools like HDR scape and Retrolux scrub shoulders with common tools like Perspective and White Balance.
And similar to most Google apps, the app has many hidden settings. Plus, ready-made filters are the cherry on top.
Find out all the ropes about this app’s settings and filers and you’ll be sorted.
2. Adobe Lightroom
Another photo editing app that lets you experiment with images is Adobe Lightroom.
If you’ve never worked with it before, let me tell you that this lets you play with RAW images. There are also many great and powerful tools like lighting sliders noise reduction, profile based lens corrections as well as standard color correction features. Need I say it’s a tool that photography professionals refer to?
But before I get to the point, let me say that this app interface looks a bit cluttered at first. However, it has many built-in tutorials that help you learn everything gradually.
Note that you may need an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to use all the features of this app.
6. Paint Your Photos in a New Light: Pixlr
Single shot mode is one of the best camera features on the Galaxy S20 and its variants. This nifty short mod records videos using all the lenses of your phone’s rear camera and splits them into neat photos (and short video clips) perfect for collage.
If you want a simple photo editing app with loads of features, Pixlr is the app you should get. It makes editing pictures in the park a walk with plenty of filters, brushes, overlays.
Pixlr also puts together several great templates to make your photos ready for social media.
7. Enhance Display: 4K AMOLED
Do you change the home screen background often? Do you like your phone lock screen to have different high resolution images?
It would be a shame if you don’t animate the background and make the most of the screen. That’s why you should get the 4K AMOLED wallpaper app. As the name suggests, this app combines several awesome and beautiful dark images in 4K to decorate your phone’s home screen and lock screen.
And as you can imagine, there are tons of images spread across many categories. Haze has two options to choose from for any image – 1080p or 4K.
Upgrade the Experience
These were some of the best Android apps that you can install on your Samsung Galaxy S20 to increase the user experience. Apart from the above, it’s good to have a proper backup mechanism to store your photos and files. While Google Photos for Photos may seem like the ubiquitous choice to many, there are plenty of options for files and other documents.
Which application do you use to back up your files?
Next: Is Google Photos the right service to store your photos? Read the comparison below to see if Dropbox better suits your needs.
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