Free Apps Friday: MS Word, Star Walk 2, Troller Pro

Are you looking to make your smartphone or tablet more useful? Each week, we collect the latest productivity apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone; all of which are 100 per cent free! Here are this week’s highlights.

This is a hand-picked list of free apps we’ve noticed this week while assembling our regular App Deals roundup of new and discounted apps. We haven’t reviewed them and we don’t endorse them. As with the main App Deals column, apps can stop being free at a moment’s notice if they’re discounted, so grab them quickly if you’re interested.

Android

Portal: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Getting pictures, videos, and other files from your computer onto your phone should be quick and painless. Portal helps by making it as easy as drag and drop.”

HTC Sense : FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “To ensure that everyone can enjoy the benefits of HTC Sense Input in the language they want, HTC phones come pre-loaded with several languages. If the one you want isn’t there, just download this add-on to make your language’s keyboard available and improve word prediction while you type.”

Microsoft Word: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Microsoft Word for Android is made for work on-the-go. Word has the familiar look, feel and quality of Office with an intuitive touch experience designed for Android phones and tablets. Whether you want to create a beautiful document or just need to read and make quick edits on-the-go, Word gives you the best productivity experience you want.”

Microsoft Excell: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Microsoft Excel for Android is made for work on-the-go. Sort and analyze your data with Excel and draw insights. Excel has the familiar look, feel and quality of Office with an intuitive touch experience designed for Android phones and tablets.”

Google Photo: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, searchable and organized by the people, places, and things that matter.”

SleepCloud Backup: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “This is an add-on for Sleep as Android to allow backup of sleep graphs to cloud services: SleepCloud, Dropbox and Google Drive. This add-on does not work without Sleep as Android being installed.”

iOS

Star Walk 2: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Star Walk 2 is a next-generation tool for not only learning the exact position of stars, planets, constellations, comets, ISS, satellites, star clusters, nebulae and meteor showers in the night sky but also for investigating its’ depth like watching constellations, nebulae and satellites from aside.”

Verses – Bible Memory: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Memorize quickly and easily with fast-paced memory games. Stay motivated by tracking your progress over time using memory health tracking.”

iShows: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “iShows is the best way to manage and keep track of your favorite TV Shows.”

iLovecraft: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Enter into the world of HP Lovecraft with five disturbing stories to test your sanity and integrity. Enjoy the detailed illustrations while reading and a great music selection and involving sound effects.”

Windows Phone

MyNextDays: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Manage your Windows Phone Calendar appointments and your Google Tasks.”

RealiFit: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Welcome to the revolution in exercise learning. Instead of using 2D graphics or videos, RealiFit let’s you see the motions of each exercise in full 3D.”

Micromix: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “We have a new server for the playlist set hosting with instant streaming, also we added new songs for this week, discover them all!”

Troller Pro: FREE!
From the publisher’s description: “Take pictures of yourself and your friends, or choose from your gallery!
Insert trolled faces, and share photos and mood with your friends! Photo automatically saved to your phone after you click Share or Save.”


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