If you are the lucky owner of an Android device, you might struggle from time to time with finding the perfect apps to fit your lifestyle and meet your needs. And often, the Internet at large can be less than helpful when you're searching for Android-specific applications.

As we saw during Google I/O, the company was demonstrating a fuller-featured, web-based version of the Android Market. It'll likely be seen by consumers soon, but it's always good to have a few more wrenches in your tool belt when it comes to finding and judging apps.

Here are seven websites for your bookmarking pleasure. Each one acts as a directory, a review site, a screenshot gallery and a stats board for the wonderful world of Android mobile apps. Take a look around these sites, and let us know in the comments if we left out any good resources.







We first have the official Android Market website. However, rather than being an exhaustive guide to the Android app universe, the site is currently "a showcase for some of the featured and top ranked applications and games available," according to its landing page. To get the full, official Android Market experience, you'll have to check your mobile device. However, we expect this to change relatively soon, especially as more Android apps become available on devices other than our phones.

The site has a decent list of featured and top apps with brief descriptions and two screenshots each.







This resource has a listing for just about every Android app known to humankind. It's searchable, thoroughly categorized and contains relatively accurate stats for number of downloads and star rating on Android's 5-star scale. It also contains frank user reviews, screenshots, QR codes for download, and, when available, video demonstrations.

One drawback is that the developer-supplied descriptions are often less than descriptive and, in the case of free trial and subscription apps, can be downright deceptive at times. When in doubt, check the user reviews. The UI is also a bit cluttered, and pages can be relatively slow to load.

The site also contains stats, forums and special sections for games and the top app of the day.







For data geeks, Cyrket is the holy grail of Android-related sites. This one-man project uses "advanced data analysis and extraction to help users find apps to buy and to allow developers to learn how their applications fit into the extended ecosystem of the mobile application marketplace," or so says the homepage. There are also plans to include a blog with specific, interesting findings and better ways to discover new apps.

With all this advanced analysis comes a highly useful breakdown of apps' ratings. For example, would you rather know that an app gets 4 stars in the Android Market, or that 80% of users gave the app 4 stars and 15% gave the app 5 stars?

You can also find QR codes, screenshots, descriptions and user comments for most apps. Apps can also be searched and sorted by popularity, rating, price and other factors. Finally, the interface is simple but clean and useful, with a bare minimum of advertising to interfere with your discovery process.







AndroidZoom is a straightforward, easy-to-use app directory. Its app pages contain descriptions, screenshots, rating and QR codes, but no user feedback such as reviews or comments. The site does, however, show similar or related apps from the same and other developers. You can also see the most viewed and most downloaded applications, and you can browse apps by category or search term. Apps can be sorted by popularity, rating, date submitted and whether they're free or paid.

It's a colorful site full of large-text links and friendly-looking icons; this is another site that's simple and gets the app-finding job done.







This site has the usual suspects in features: Search, browsing by category, screenshots, QR codes, etc. A unique factor of App Store HQ is that it aggregates Android app reviews from around the web, including sites such as this one. You can browse through apps that are generating a lot of buzz on the web or apps that are heating up in Twitter mentions.

Posts and tweets are aggregated onto an app's page, so you can get a good idea of real-time activity around an app before you decide to download it. This, we like a lot.







AndBOT is probably one of the best-looking sites when it comes to researching Android apps. It's also thoroughly outfitted with a blog and regular app reviews. You can check out the latest apps, browse featured apps or peruse applications and games in a wide variety of categories.

For each app's page, the site pulls in comments from the Android Market proper and includes stats, screenshots and a QR code for instant download. You can also see developer info and app permissions.







Finally, we have AppBrain. This site has search, rankings, categories, screenshots, related apps and on-site commenting features. It's also got a fairly simple layout. One of its unique factors is being able to see changelogs for new versions and dates for how quickly an app progresses through the number-of-downloads tiers.

Better yet, users can sign in with a Google account to enjoy site membership, which includes the ability to make lists of apps, install apps with a single click and write reviews. Logged-in users can also see "My Apps," a collection of the apps they've installed already; they simply use the AppBrain free mobile application to sync their AppBrain account to their mobile devices.

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