Android is a mobile operating system developed by Google. It is installed on smartphones and tablets. There are also PC programs that can emulate Android and let you run Android on a regular Windows PC. My Samsung cellphone uses the Android operating system.

There are close to 3 million smartphone apps in the Google store. This includes thousands of free Android applications that you can download, install and use without any fees or subscriptions.
How do you find out what is good?

I compiled a list of 78 free and useful applications that I recommend. There are apps that are completely free, apps that are supported by ads and ad-free paid versions. I use the free versions. After each application description is a link to its download page.
I am not connected or know any of the developers / owners. There are no affiliate links or advertising links on this page.

Note to Apple users: Many of these applications are also available for Apple iOS devices.

Israeli food price comparison application including barcode scanner. The application is written in Hebrew but it is very easy to use. If you do not know Hebrew, let a friend just install it for you. The application lets you easily scan in the barcodes of the food packages in your kitchen and you can add each item to your shopping list. You can check the price range of each product and see which supermarkets near you are the cheapest per item or the whole shopping list.
Another use: If you are having trouble finding an item in an unfamiliar store, you can show the store employee a photo with description of the product you are looking for.

Zap price comparison app presenting more than a million products from 1,300 e-commerce stores. Compare prices for each product, read users reviews on products and stores, get detailed products specs.

Hebrew interface.

WhatsApp Messenger is a free messaging app available for Android and other smartphones. WhatsApp uses your phone's Internet connection (4G/3G/2G/EDGE or Wi-Fi, as available) to let you message and call friends and family. Use WhatsApp to send and receive messages, calls, photos, videos, documents, and Voice Messages.
WhatsApp has over 2 billion active users in 180 countries.

300!! Jewish and Hebrew stickers for WhatsApp.
The Free Android app has 10 sticker packs:

* Mazal Tov and more
* Shabbat and Jewish Holidays 1
* Jewish Holidays 2
* Jewish Holidays 3
* Jerusalem
* Israel
* The Hebrew Alphabet - Alef-Bet
* Hebrew Food Names
* Hebrew Greetings
* Hebrew Phrases

English and Hebrew stickers for WhatsApp!
Free and no ads!

Skype keeps the world talking. Say “hello” with an instant message, voice or video call. Skype to Skype calls are free. Operator data charges may apply. Recommend using an unlimited data plan or WiFi connection.

I use WhatsApp on a regular basis but I have contacts overseas that sometimes call me on Skype.

Pure instant messaging - simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. Over 400 million active users.

I use WhatsApp on a regular basis but I joined Telegram to access several groups.

Stay connected wherever you go - start or join a 100-person meeting with crystal-clear, face-to-face video, high quality screen sharing, and instant messaging - for free!

Award winning Zoom brings video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging into one easy-to-use application.

Moovit is a public transit app and mapping service which features trip planning, live arrival and departure times, up-to-date line schedules, local station maps, service alerts, and advisories that may affect one's current trip. I use the application all the time when I travel by bus.

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, 360° panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions (Google Traffic), and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (in beta), or public transportation.

Weather, Weather channel, Weather forecast app forecasts weather daily & hourly

Vision QR Code Scanner is a simple and easy to use application for decoding QR and Barcodes. It uses the minimum amount of permissions possible for the app to work. We just need access to the camera to scan your codes efficiently.

QR & Barcode Scanner / QR code reader is extremely easy to use; simply point to QR or barcode you want to scan and app will automatically detect and scan it. No need to press any buttons, take photos or adjust zoom.

Waze is the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app. Join drivers in your area who share real-time traffic & road info to save time, gas money, and improve daily commuting for all. Just by driving with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of real-time traffic information to your local community. You can also actively report accidents, police traps and other hazards you see on the road. Get road alerts along your route and find the cheapest gas prices around you shared by the community. Plus, you can add friends, send locations or keep others posted on your arrival time.

Magen David Adom, Israel's national emergency medical response service, has released a sophisticated mobile app that significantly streamlines the process of locating and reaching Israelis in distress. Available in the Google and Apple app stores in Israel only, My MDA lets users press a button to contact EMTs and paramedics operating MDA dispatch centers. Information such as the caller's location and medical record is securely transmitted and displayed to the dispatcher.

One button to contact Israeli police emergency 100.
Your location is also sent to them at the same time.

The official App of the Home Front Command
provides alerts, guidelines and life-saving information
in real time according to your location and
areas of interest of your choice.
In the App, you can get important updates
during an emergency and contact the Home Front Command.
The App is available in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian and English

Uses same user and password as their website. (Hebrew)

Information about over-the-counter drugs (Hebrew)

Gmail is an easy to use email app that saves you time and keeps your messages safe. Get your messages instantly via push notifications, read and respond online and offline, and find any message quickly.

Google Chrome is a fast, easy to use, and secure web browser. Designed for Android, Chrome brings you personalized news articles, quick links to your favorite sites, downloads, and Google Search and Google Translate built-in.

Search for deceased in Israel - Fill in the deceased's information and it will help you narrow the search results according to range of year of passing and cemetery region. The interface is in English. Suggest using Hebrew names (in Hebrew) in the search fields.

Israeli Channel 14 News Station with notifications on breaking news (Hebrew)

Israeli TV Channel 12 News with notifications on breaking news (Hebrew)

Israel Hayom is the most widely-read printed newspaper in Israel.

News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World

Your comprehensive and personalised view of headline stories and local news & weather. Coverage from 75,000 publications. Tune your layout with any of 60 country-specific editions, homescreen widgets and personalised news sections.

With Spotify, you have access to a world of music. You can listen to artists and albums, or create your own playlist of your favorite songs. Want to discover new music? Choose a ready-made playlist that suits your mood or get personalized recommendations.

Allows you to quickly listen to Live Radio Stations from Israel and from around the world.
Also available by web browser (no installation) via www.rlive.co.il

Listen to your favorite radio stations for free with TuneIn Radio. With over 100,000 stations, TuneIn has the largest free selection of sports, news, music and talk radio from around the world.
Also available by web browser (no installation) via tunein.com/radio/home/

AccuRadio offers 1,000+ free customizable music radio channels, unlimited skips, wide variety, and less repetition. Choose from more than 50 different genres of music: rock, pop, jazz, country, classical, electronic, holidays, alternative, comedy, and more. You can customize each channel with unlimited skips, by banning artists and songs you don't like, and by rating the music to influence what you hear.

SpeechNote allows you to use your voice to record your thoughts. Your notes are converted into text automatically allowing you to locate them quickly, review, and use as the basis of an email or tweet.

Internet speed and performance test

4G WiFi Maps & Speed Test. Find Signal & Data Now

By using the app you help crowdsource data - automatically adding networks and wifis to the database. You can turn the feature off.

Share updates and photos, engage with friends and Pages, and stay connected to communities important to you.

Instagram is a simple way to capture and share the world's moments. Follow your friends and family to see what they're up to, and discover accounts from all over the world that are sharing things you love.

Translate between 103 languages

Comprehensive and accurate English Hebrew and Hebrew English dictionary and translation free app.

The Nakdan tool is designed for Modern texts, Poetry, and Rabbinic literature (Mishnaic and Talmudic sages, the Rishonim / Medieval rabbinic texts and the Aharonim / early modern rabbinic texts) - texts that are not written according to normative contemporary standards of Modern Hebrew.

Very useful. I have lived in Israel for over 35 years but sometimes I have a problem reading long Hebrew words (including English transliterated words) without Nikud.
I am on several Hebrew based Whatsapp groups. I just copied and pasted the whatsapp Hebrew text into the Nakdan tool and it worked perfectly.

This Bible / Tanakh search engine enables searching for Biblical words and phrases without being held back by spelling or conjugation discrepancies. The search results include Biblical verses that include the search terms as well as reasonable variations in spelling and conjugation. In addition, one may filter search results according to different meanings. For example: דוד - the name (David) or דוד (uncle - Dod).

Next to each Biblical verse in the search results appears three blue dots. Click on/ press the dots to show morphology details and English meanings of each word in the given Biblical verse.

Jewish to secular date conversion and vice-versa
Dates of the festivals and events, for any year
Parasha of the week
Rosh Chodesh
Shabbat times
Everyday zmanim
Bircas haMazon
Birthdays and Memorials

HebDate is a full Hebrew (Jewish) & Secular Calendar (Luach). Full month views for Hebrew and Secular calendars. You can view any date since creation.
View Day, Week, & Agenda.
Full Android Scheduling Calendar. View and Edit Events.
Chagim, Daf Yomi, and More.
Zmanim for all locations.
Widget that can be added to the home screen.
Countdown timer for all Zmanim.
In-app subscription available for removal of banner ads.

Full Jewish Calendar synced with your local Calendar Zmanim and Shabbat start and ends by your device location Full Siddur

Daily Tehillim reading, Parashat Hashavua and many more Dates Conversion between Hebrew and Standard dates. Dates reminder by Hebrew date (Yahrzeit, Birthday…) Calculators: Bar Mitzvah, Tahara Purification, Numerology, Gematria Synagogues, Mikves and Chabad houses Compass for prayer direction.
Jewish Holidays

A free smart Siddur

Tfilon is a free siddur that shows the prayers correct to the Hebrew date (Yaale Ve'Yavo on Rosh Chodesh, Al Ha'Nisim on Chanuka and Purim) without using the phone's internet. All time and date calculations are done in the phone itself! There is an option to show special things, such as Va'Anenu Bore Olam or a preyer for sick people, and you can select what day you celebrate Purim, and there's much more.

Shows Hebrew with perfect Nikud Shows Halachic Zmanim for 120 cities around the world. Switch dates on sunset
All additions show when needed (except Shabbat and Yom Tov) Random Dvar Torah before Birkat HaMazon Nusachs available: Ashkenaz, Sfard and Edot Hamizrach

Tfilot available in Tfilon: Shacharit (including Musaf when needed), Mincha, Arvit, Kriat Shma on the bed, Birkat Hamazon, Mein Shalosh, Sheva Brachot, Seder Brit Mila, Bore Nefashot, Asher Yatzar, Tfilat HaDerech, Kidush/Birkat Levana, On Chanuka also Candle lighting

Virtual Library of Jewish books.
The full application includes: TaNaCh (Bible) with all the classic commentators; Mishna with the commentaries of Bartenura and Tosfot Yom Tov; Talmud (Gemara) with the commentaries of Rashi and Tosfot; Midrash Raba, Midrash Tanchuma and Yalkut Shimoni. Several versions of Siddurim

Sefaria delivers 3,000 years of Jewish texts (Torah, Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, and more) to your smartphone. All texts in the library are available in Hebrew along with a growing body of English translations. Search by keyword or browse the table of contents to explore texts, translations, and commentaries.

Google Lens lets you search what you see, get things done faster, and understand the world around you - using just your camera or a photo.
Translate words you see, save a business card to your contacts, add events to your calendar from a poster, and copy and paste complicated codes or long paragraphs into your phone to save time.
Find out what that plant is in your friend's apartment, or what kind of dog you saw in the park.

I initially could not download the app to my Smasung A10 phone.
In Google help it says:
You can use Google Lens from:
Google Photos
Google Assistant on most Android phones
The Google app on some Android phones, like Pixel

Google Lens was already factory installed on my phone
but I could only access it thru Google photos (which is also factory installed on my phone).
I tried it on several photos I took of flowers. Easy to use.
I tried it on a photo of a Hebrew printed newspaper article.
It also has OCR features and I was able to cut and paste English and Hebrew text from photos. It also offered to use Google translate on the text.
I copied the Hebrew text into Nakdan to add Nikud.
Super cool!

Files by Google is a file management app that helps you:
Free up space with cleaning recommendations
Find files faster with search and simple browsing
Share files offline with others
Back up files to the cloud

Notepad Free is a small and fast app to create and edit text notes.
I use it to prepare text before pasting into other apps (ie: Whatsapp and Facebook)

Boggle is a word game in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters. Play solo or with a friend. Simple interface: press on first letter then drag a line from letter to letter.

Just Jumble has the wonderful puzzles you’ve always loved in newspapers. Super easy to play. Hundreds of deliciously fun and funny puzzles!

Crossword Puzzle Redstone, also known as "The crossword lovers dream app", is a fun and engaging game app - it is free to download, and all users get access to free puzzles, no subscription required!

This is a railway driving simulation game using video images.
You can experience train driving from the driver's seat.
Let the train reach the correct position of the station according to the timetable.

In Flight Pilot Simulator 3D Free, your duty includes racing against time, control a fire in the middle of the mountains, and land safely on a tiny airstrip (or even on an aircraft carrier warship)

Easy and simple application that contains great sounds and images of many wild animals, farm animals, birds, songbirds, and many other species.

Entertain your baby for hours with "Baby Games - Piano, Baby Phone, First Words", fun, simple, colorful, and free educational games designed with kids and toddlers in mind!

For toddlers and preschoolers.
Coloring Games is filled with fun, colorful, and creative drawing and painting tools that help kids of all ages enjoy creating art on your mobile device.

ScratchJr is an introductory programming language that enables young children (ages 5 and up) to create their own interactive stories and games. Children snap together graphical programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Children can modify characters in the paint editor, add their own voices and sounds, even insert photos of themselves -- then use the programming blocks to make their characters come to life.

Free educational games and books for children ages two to seven

Learn anything, for free: Thousands of interactive exercises, videos, and articles at your fingertips. Study math, science, economics, finance, grammar, history, government, politics, and much, much more.

Explore over 16,000 expert-led courses, available both for free and with a subscription.

Founded by Harvard university and MIT, edX is home to more than 20 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world, and industry-leading companies, offering 2000+ online courses.

This is an application for making beautiful photomontages.
This app has the powerful feature of making the image's unneeded area transparent. ( Background Eraser )

This is an application for cutting pictures and for making a picture's background transparent.
It is very easy to use.

You can add your own personal stickers to WhatsApp messenger by using this app.

200 Mandala coloring pages for adults and kids. Both easy and complex mandala's for everyone.

Relax, enjoy and train your brain with Jigsaw Puzzle Legends, a classic jigsaw puzzle game with 1000's of high quality picture puzzles in variety of different collections suitable for both adults and children. It has no ads so unlike the competitors this game truly safe for children.

Enjoy amazing pictures and have fun while you try to find the differences between them! Improve your concentration and observation skills playing Find the differences 750 + levels.

The Draw Bricks is a fun game that provides a complete 3D space where you can free your imagination and build what you want. In the game you find more than 200 pieces and you can customize the color or choose blocks with textures of grass, wood, stone and so on.

12 play levels (Novice->Expert) This uses intelligent weakening for lower levels. Good for beginners.
-- Casual and Pro modes. Learn on Casual and progress to Pro.
-- Chess Tutor. This powerful option shows a recommended piece to move, excellent for developing chess strategy and avoiding simple mistakes.

Flip your way to success in this classic game.
- 10 difficulty levels, plus hints
- 2 player hot-seat
- 4 Reversi Piece Sets and Boards
- User stats (wins/losses/draws/scores)

-- Strong Backgammon AI
-- 5 Difficulty levels
-- Full match play + Doubling Cube & Crawford rule options
-- 4 Boards and Piece Sets
-- Single Player vs Computer or local 2 Player
-- Hint & Stats

Test your piloting skills from wide open spaces to narrow caves
Simple & intuitive Touch Controls
3 unique spaceships with their pros and cons
Online Leaderboards to compare your best times
31 levels but more to come !

Contains over 9000 common Hebrew words and phrases with excellent audio quality. It serve the purpose for learning and travelers visiting Hebrew. Lessons are divided into category and subcategory.

Sokoban is the world-renowned profound puzzle game since 1982.

Screenshot & photo markup tool.
With Screen Master, you can capture screen
by touching the floating button or shaking device,
lets you take screenshot on your tablet, phone or other Android device the easy way!

Photo Markup:
- Crop and rotate image: can be cut into rectangular, round, star, triangle and other shapes
- Spotlight key info: highlight something with Spotlight
- Add emoji sticker: Make your pictures look lively and interesting
- Add text on photo: can be customized text color, background, shadow, stroke, style, size and more
- Annotate picture, all tools you need: Arrow, Rect, Circle, Pen
- Large picture can be directly annotated and do not have to be cropped first

Not only screenshot but all pictures are supported, you could import photo from gallery, save and share with your friends.

Note from Jacob: When you run the program you can turn on a floating capture menu. When you want to remove the floating menu, run the program again and choose to turn off.

Rav-Kav Online is an innovative way to purchase and top-up contracts to your Rav-Kav, the Israeli public transport smart card, from anywhere, anytime, using your credit card.