Best Android Apps of the Week: Palabre, Dropbox, Pushbullet, and More





It's Monday and even though it's the most boring day of the week, we are going to bring you the Best Android Apps column. Hopefully, our Best Android Apps of the Week post is not as boring as Mondays are.

Whether you are a loyal read or you landed on our Best Apps of the Week post for the first time, you should know that in the list below you will find both new apps and older apps that received noteworthy updates. As you may know already, tons of new apps are released in Play Store every week, but only a handful are worthy of an install.

Also, feel free to let us know in comments if you believe we should have include a specific app in our list. Without further ado, let's have a look at the Best Android Apps of the Week.

Trello 3.1 - Free

Trello is an app that comes in handy when you have to organize projects. Trello got updated to version 3.1 over the past week and it received new features.

In Trello 3.1 you will be able to add unlimited labels on a board. The developers also say they have added four new colors and a new color-free label.

The Trello 3.1 update is now being pushed to users. You can check the app and download it for free in Google Play Store here.

Palabre - Free

If you are tired of your old RSS feeder, you might want to check Palabre. It comes with Material Design interface and support for Feedly sync.

Palabre comes with Magazine or List interface, Readability support, has a built-in browser, and it allows you to manage your sources and categories. You can use it to browse through popular Feedly articles, it has a dark theme for night reading, and support for sharing articles or saving them for later reading.

Palabre is a free app and it can be downloaded from Google Play Store here. If you want the ads removed, you will have to pay $2.47 via an in-app purchase.

Dropbox - Free

If you have a Dropbox account you probably, have the Android client installed on your phone or tablet. The latest update, adds a new feature.

In the latest update, when you open a shared Dropbox link, the file or folder is opened inside the app instead of the browser. This feature makes it easier to transfer files to your cloud storage account.

The new update is now rolling out. Dropbox is available for free and it can be downloaded from here.

Action Launcher 3.2 - Free

Action Launcher 3 was released a couple of months ago and last week it got updated to version 3.2. It packs a lot of improvements and adds quite a few new features.

Action Launcher 3.2 introduces Quick Page which is a fully-featured Home screen accessed from the right screen edge, Quicktheme has received support for customizing the Quickpage appearange, the transition animation can be changed, and you can disable Shutters. It also received Material Design themed dialogues, the ability to lock the desktop, disable the screen edge shadow, and more. You can check out the full changelog here.

Action Launcher 3 is available for free in Play Store and it can be downloaded here. The full version is $4.99 and it can be grabbed via an in-app purchase.

Pushbullet - Free

Pushbullet, is one of the most useful tools ever created for Android devices. The team behind it have been constantly upgrading it with new features.

A while ago, Pushbullet has received support for SMS reply. Now you will be able to use it to reply to WhatsApp, Telegram, Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and Line directly from your PC. In order to be able to use the new feature, your device must run Android 4.4 or higher.

Pushbullet is free. You can download it from Google Play Store using this link.