Top 10 'cool' apps for the day: Straw, Picjoy, Beet and more

If you’re looking to get away from the usual list of boring apps, then we’ve created a list of some cool apps to keep you engaged. A few of these are games; the others are purely meant for sheer entertainment. Take a look!

Android

1.  Link Bubble Browser

The Link Bubble browser is an app which loads the desired webpage in the background, leaving the user free to keep using their current app rather than wasting time watching a page load. The app will also locate embedded YouTube videos on web pages, and provides a shortcut to load those videos directly in the YouTube app. Similarly, no longer does clicking an Instagram link in Twitter redirect to a full screen browser before loading Instagram.

2.  Pintasking

This app will allow you to create floating shortcuts in form of pins, on demand and based on their current task and workload. The app includes a whole bunch of options which will allow the user to customise pin size along with pin behavior too. In addition, you can also decide whether you would like your pinned items to remain are you have shut the screen.

3.  GameOn - Sports Chat

A must have for sports-fans, this app allows fans to chat and enjoy real-time news, scores, and highlights. The Public Huddles feature will allow you to chat with other sports fans around the world and get insight from GameOn Athletes as well.

4.  Snowball - Smart Notifications

Snowball is one smart notification manager app which will make sure that user receives notifications which only he/she wishes for. Snowball automatically gets rid of the annoying stuff like ‘10 of your apps were updated’ are others. Instead of always opening apps to do things like reply to Facebook, SMS, and WhatsApp messages, one can simply reply right inline. The Snowball app will also learn to make predictions and suggestions over time.

5.  Accomplish: To-Do list reborn

The Accomplish app is a to-do list that will allow you to remember the tasks that you need to do along with a conventional and simplistic to-do list. It will also allow you to graphically plan out your time, with a daily planner built in.

iOS

1.  Freetime

Freetime is an app which helps you make the most of your free time. Users can now share how available they are with three modes - Going Out, Flexible, or Busy. It’s almost a great way to hang out with your friends.

2.  Straw

The Straw is an easy, troll-free polling app that helps you get advice and opinions from your friends, followers. One can simply ask a question using pictures or text, choose where to post, and get instant, results delivered in real-time right to your smartphone.

3.  Picjoy

Picjoy app is an intelligent photo library that automatically organizes a user’s photos and helps find them with ease. Photos are automatically categorized by date, season, weather conditions, holidays, events, locations, and places so that it doesn’t become difficult to find them.

4. Beet

The Beet app lets you take videos of everyday moments and automatically compiles them into an ongoing personal movie. The app basically revolves around capturing an infinite montage of quick, candid moments.

5.  Slidebox

This is definitely the best tool for deleting photos quickly and organising them into iOS albums. One can simply swipe through their photos one-by-one and quickly swipe up to trash or tap to save to an iOS album.