New apps and games for Android: the best of January

Applications

Mere Launcher

Launcher for fans of minimalism. It can do three things: display a menu with all the applications installed on your device, add some of them to the desktop, and show two widgets - large or small to choose from. All.

Although primitive, Mere Launcher is useful. Firstly, for those who are often distracted by the phone and want to have only the most basic programs on their desktop. Secondly, for people who do not understand technology or have a weak eyesight, - there are large buttons in which it is hard to get confused.

carnet

A note-taking app heavily influenced by Google Keep. Like the latter, Carnet can create colorful notes, attach photos, pictures, links, to-do lists to them and tag it all with tags.

But unlike Keep, this program is open source and stores your notes locally. So it's a good choice if you're adding important information to your notes that you don't want to be sent to Google's developer servers.

Myne

A handy application that allows you to download and view free books from the Project Gutenberg service. It contains the classics of world literature - more than 60 thousand works. True, there are no books in Russian. But if you are studying foreign language, Myne will surely come in handy.

You can download the application on the developer's website - it is free and has an open source code.

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My Link Manager

A simple application for creating and managing bookmarks. If you work with a large number of sites and need to open them in different browsers, My Link Manager will help automate this partly. Bookmarks can be imported or exported in HTML or JSON formats.

Energy

A simple application that allows you to calculate your utility bills. You indicate how much a cubic meter of water or gas or a kilowatt of electricity costs, then enter your readings counters, and Energio calculates how much money you spend on it per month.

Games

Dragon Siege: Kingdom Conquest

Fantasy kingdom building simulator. You collect an army, support the economy, develop farming in order to protect your state from the onslaught of robbers, barbarians, dragons and other nasty creatures. The graphics here are nice, and the gameplay is quite addictive.

Wordicate

A game in which you have to form English words from random letters on the screen. If you fail on the first try, Wordicate will throw more letters, and so on ad infinitum. Despite its simplicity, this is a very useful application that will help you improve your English.

Frozen City

If you can't wait for the famous Frostpunk on Android, then this game is for you. Frozen City is a city builder in which you have to master the harsh snowy post-apocalyptic terrain and save humanity from extinction by building a cozy city for it.

Cat Snack Bar

An extremely cute toy in which you run a cat diner. Is there anything better than devoting your life to fat, furry gluttons? So the creators of the Cat Snack Bar thought so.

You have to take orders from customers, prepare various dishes for them, earn money and use it to improve your restaurant.

Resonance of the Ocean

A game with simple cartoon graphics made by Japanese developers. Its essence is as follows: you wander along the seashore near the lighthouse, collect various things thrown ashore, craft musical instruments from them and study new sounds of the ocean.

There is no plot and deep gameplay here, but the game will help you relax - all thanks to pleasant audio content and a nice visual style.