#Best Android apps 2025

Google Play’s Best of 2025 highlights the apps that defined how people learned, created, stayed healthy, and connected this year. Below is a concise look at the best apps of 2025 and what each brings to the table. Google is expanding Gemini’s agentic features, allowing the AI to perform actions directly on Android apps. Microsoft has started rolling out an upgraded Android app mirroring experience on Windows 11, allowing users to view Android apps using nearly the entire desktop screen through the Phone Link app. The new feature, called Expanded screen, lets Android apps take up around 90% of the display, moving beyond the previously limited phone-sized portrait view. While the experience isn’t fully edge-to-edge yet, leaving a small portion of the desktop unused, it significantly improves multitasking for users who rely on Android apps alongside Windows workflows. The new android version also introduces a new taskbar that allows users to switch between different apps. Read more in our articles including "Here are the list of Google Play’s Best Apps of 2025" and "Google Gemini may soon control apps on Android".