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The 20 best apps to improve your smartphone
he latest generation of smartphones carries a panoply of apps to help you get started, from email and photography to navigation, weather and video-calling services. But most of those default apps has one or more alternative within the app stores, there will often be dozens more which can represent a huge upgrade.
Here are 20 examples designed to boost your smartphone’s stock features, and possibly provide functionality that could be puzzlingly missing from apps in 2017’s starter packs. A lot of them have got smartwatch extensions, providing upgrading in your Apple Watch or Android Wear timepiece’s features too.
CITYMAPPER
Android / iOS (Free)
Urban travellers recommend Citymapper, which fits for London, Manchester and Birmingham in the united kingdom, and various cities throughout the world. From trains, tubes and buses to cycle hire and walking, it’ll assist you with a to B that has a choice of routes and transport methods.
SLEEP CYCLE
Android / iOS (Free)
Set your smartphone’s default alarm to permanent snooze towards this app, which aims to dispel your morning blues. It uses your phone’s microphone and accelerometer (actions of detects when your phone is moving) to trace your sleep through sound and movement, then wakes you in the lightest sleep phase near your alarm time.
