AndroidTapp.com Best Android Apps & Games Reviewed by Expert Reviewers [Week 24 Recap]
by Antonio Wells
Jun 19, 2011 7:39 AM –
Here are 12 of the best Android apps our expert reviewers thoroughly evaluated this week, we’ve even included Amazon’s free Android apps of the day, and top Android news you may have missed. Be sure to check out our all-time best Android apps list and popular tablet optimized Android apps list. Use our convenient one-click tools below to easily download these top app picks:
Best Android apps reviewed June 12, 2011 – June 18, 2011. Check out the previous week’s best Android apps…
Fruit Ninja
~$1.19 Standard Version, ~$3.17 THD Version
Fruit Ninja. Fruit Ninja is a juicy action game with squishy, splatty and satisfying fruit carnage! Become the ultimate bringer of sweet, tasty destruction with every slash. Fruit Ninja features three packed gameplay modes – Classic, Zen and the new Arcade, featuring powerups including Freeze, Frenzy and Double Score! The bonus Dojo section includes unlockable blades and backgrounds, and you can also unlock achievements and post scores to the online leaderboards with Openfeint.
Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD
$6.99
Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD. Race the world. Feel the adrenaline. Get your adrenaline pumping for the newest edition of the Asphalt series. Discover 42 cars & bikes from world-class manufacturers. Tune your vehicle before tearing up the streets of L.A., Tokyo & other locations rendered in HD. Drive in 11 different leagues with 55 events plus Online/Local Multiplayer for up to 6 players.
Angry Birds Seasons
Free, $0.99 (Ad-free at Amazon)
Angry Birds Seasons. As we all know, every season is an Angry Birds season. After St. Patrick’s, Trick Or Treat and Season’s Greetings, Angry Birds Seasons is back – and now there are chocolate eggs and bunnies!
4 Player Reactor
Free (2 Player Reactor), ~$3.26 (4 Player Reactor)
4 Player Reactor. Match your reflexes against your friends in many action-packed game modes! 4 Player Reactor is a fast, clean and funny reaction game for two to four players on the same device. Challenge your friends (or enemies) to a battle of reflexes, wits and knowledge! Great as a bar game, ice breaker or to decide who has to do the dishes!
GRave Defense HD
~$2.84
GRave Defense HD. Lock and load soldier, and get ready for GRave Defense HD to blow your mind!!! A post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a nuclear war, hordes of zombies hunger for human flesh. But zombies aren’t the only threats you’ll encounter! Face off against some of History’s most notorious baddies, like Dracula and Frankenstein! Obliterate mutant hordes across 20 levels using fire, electricity, lasers and more! Each battlefield is unique: Visit exotic locations like the Amazon Rainforest, the Bermuda Triangle and even alien space! You must use your limited types of towers, some much more powerful than others, and evolving strategies and tactics to survive! Are you ready to be Humanity’s last, best, and only chance for survival???
Grow
Free, $1.99
Grow is a bright bubbly fish game from Epic Pixel and was recently Amazon’s Free App of the day. The simple idea is to float around, out of harm’s way chomping on smaller fish in order to grow bigger and bigger. Once you start munching, don’t stop, keep going until you are the biggest fish in the bowl!. The games features multiple levels and environments, lots of enemies and bonus effects and numerous scoring grades to keep your competitive bones coming back for more.
Talking Tom Cat
Free, $0.99
If you haven’t heard of Talking Tom Cat you must have been living in a cave, either that or a major allergy to felines. Talking Tom Cat is a cute app in which a cat will listen carefully to what you say before repeating it in a silly voice. There is absolutely no end to the range of possibilities and entertainment value. My kids absolutely adore Talking Tom, and with Father’s Day coming up this is a great app to download.
TweetComb
Free
TweetComb is a Twitter client designed and created exclusively for the Android Honeycomb platform. TweetComb gives you a tablet-friendly view of your Twitter timeline, mentions, direct messages, and more.
GO Weather
Free
GO Weather is an uber-cool weather app for your android phones. You are presented with a clean, uncluttered user interface, and satin-smooth animation giving you un-matched user experience.
Thinking Space
Free, $4.84 Ad-Free Pro Version
Thinking Space. Create visual thought maps that help organize and plan your activities and ideas. Thinking Space is a Mind Mapping application for Android. Portable Mind Mapping has never been so much fun! Create visual mind maps that help organize and plan your activities and ideas. Awesome mind mapping tools (links, notes, colors, icons). Great for study, meetings, tasks, planning, or go wild!
Grocery iQ
Free
Grocery iQ – Tablet. Grocery iQ includes all the features you’d expect from a great shopping list app. Build new shopping lists quickly by: saying the item name or using predictive search. Sync/share your shopping list with other Grocery iQ users. Now you can edit your list at http://groceryiq.com and sync it to your phone.
Screenshot It
Free Demo, $3.99 Full Version
Screenshot It. Take a screenshot of your phone’s screen may require a rooted phone (depends on phone). Take a screenshot of your phone’s screen, save as a jpg or png file, and share anywhere! Features: Crop screenshots, Screenshot status bar button, Shake to screenshot, Delayed screenshot timer, “Share” menu integration, Custom save directory, Works on ALL rooted devices, including Honeycomb! To remove superuser permission toast message from your screenshots, go to your “superuser permissions” app and disable toast messages.
Check out more of the Amazon’s free apps of the day after the break.