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Solid Explorer
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Easy to use
With the amount of functions as well as the two pane browsing, Solid Explorer is very easy to use.
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Costs money
There is a 14 day free trial, but for those that would like to use the app longer, it will cost money to unlock.
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Two panel browsing
Solid Explorer allows for two separate panels to be browsed simultaneously, allowing for easy copy past functions as well as drag and drop.
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Slow SMB connections
Connecting to a Samba server can take 30 seconds or longer.
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Beautiful material design
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No native Office document viewer or video player
There is no native document viewer, except for the plain text editor (SE Text Editor), nor is there a native video player, with the exception of a video casting app (SE Video Cast). The video casting app appears to require a Chromecast device.
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Connects to cloud services
Add Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, and more, all natively through extensions.
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Ability to read and extract ZIP, 7ZIP, RAR and TAR archives, even encrypted
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Rich customization options: icons sets, colour schemes, themes
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A perfect implementation of Material Design
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Multi-Platform Versatility
Solid Explorer has efficient, productive, and fluid interfaces customized for each users' specific platforms. Versatile, intuitive, and productive on small mobile screens, and capitalizes on larger mobiles (tablets), increasing functionality with added screen real estate.
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Cloud file manager: Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Google Drive, Sugarsync, Copy, Mediafire, Owncloud, Yandex
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Ability to create password protected ZIP and 7ZIP archives
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FTP, SFTP, WebDav, SMB/CIFS clients
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Root access makes Solid Explorer a fully functional root explorer
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Detailed file information with storage usage statistics
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Native picture viewer (SE Image) and music player (SE Music Player)
Allows quick opening of images and audio files to preview without opening another app.
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Useful tools: hiding unwanted folders, FTP Server (plugin), bookmarks, Chromecast support, media browser
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Batch rename: change names of multiple files at once using regular expressions and variables
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Indexed search finds your files in a couple of seconds
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Protect individual files &/or folders with a password
If your device has a fingerprint sensor you can use it to open encrypted files without a need to provide the password. The same applies for cloud storages, which can now be accessed with the fingerprint as well.
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Extensibility: more features in separate plugins available in Google Play
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AntTek Explorer Ex
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Beautifully designed
The Holo like UI looks nice as well as operates fluidly with all of the built in features such as the dual pane view.
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SMB support is limited and speed is an issue
SMB support has trouble with larger files. The app also has speed issues when navigating.
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Themes
AntTek Explorer Ex has light and dark themes built into the app as well as support for outside themes.
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It can zip and unzip
AntTek Explorer Ex has built in .zip file support for compressing and .zip and .rar support for uncompressing files.
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Can browse network and cloud files
There is no need to connect a phone to a computer via USB nor a reason to keep all files on the device itself.
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FX File Explorer
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5
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SMB where?
Unable to find the option to connect to an SMB server without upgrading to "pro" version. Can it even be done in the free version?
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Plus add-on for network browsing
FX File Explorer has a paid Plus add-on that add more functionality to the app such as network file browsing and a built in text editor. It costs $2.99 and has a 24 hour return policy.
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Dreadful interface
A great example of what happens when a developer puts form before function. Pretty to look at but awkward and unintuitive to use.
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Material Design
FX File Explorer utilizes the Material Design guidelines set forth by Google.
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New Material Design look is not that great
FX File Explorer use to have a better design to it before the Material Design overhaul.
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PRO SMB2 support
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Supports many compression and uncompression file formats
FX File Explorer features numerous compression file formats such as .zip or .tar as well as a .rar decompression tool.
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Root add-on
There is a free root user add-on that allows root file editing and viewing.
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Tasker
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Infinitely tweakable
Tasker has an impressive amount of triggers, actions, and parameters that can be used together in an incredible variety of ways. It can even accept scripts to follow instructions.
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Awful user interface
While it's incredibly powerful, Tasker's user interface is counter-intuitive, confusing, and just plain clunky at every turn.
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Create powerful custom applications
Tasker has the ability to create custom applications, effectively replacing multiple installed apps in your phone with tasks that are triggered automatically. What's even better is that they will be custom tailored to fit your specific needs.
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Steep learning curve
Tasker lacks good documentation or tutorials, which is important as the learning curve is very high if you want to use its advance features where this app actually shines.
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Can adjust system software
With Root access it can also dabble with system software which other apps are not likely to achieve at the moment.
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Export tasks as standalone apps
Tasker allows exporting workflows you've created as standalone applications that can then be shared or even put on the Google Play store.
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Awesome plugin support
Tasker has awesome plugin support to connect with hardware that usually requires installing specific apps. For example, it has a plugin for Pebble smartwatch so that you can automate tasks that require using Pebble.
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Purchase only once
The dev does not keep bringing out revised apps expecting you to pay each and every time; the same app has been developed consistently for nearly a decade.
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MiXplorer
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Unlimited tabbed browsing and dual panel in landscape mode and drag and drop between panels also supported
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Not on PlayStore
The developer has chosen to not place the app on the Play Store but to offer it for free on the XDA forums. This may be inconvenient for some as the app will have to be side loaded.
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SAMBA, FTP, SFTP, WEBDAV, BLUETOOTH support
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Image browsing
Image browsing has bugs.
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Can do tasks in background
Things like pasting/moving files can be done in background.
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Search
Search doesn't work in landscape mode.
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Extract and create compacted files
Extract and create 7z and Zip/Zip64 (splitted-encrypted), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, GZIP, BZIP2 and extract RAR (splitted-encrypted, RAR5), XZ, APM, CAB, ISO, ARJ, AR, LZH, LHA, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB, NSIS, LZMA, NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, SWM, MSLZ, CramFS, Dmg, ELF, MachO, Mub, PE, Split, Xar, Z, Udf, HFS, SquashFS, PPMD.
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Buggy sometimes
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Queue Tasks
Can Queue every task, copy, paste, move, delete , rename etc.
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Some features are not free
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Root access for all advanced operations
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Theming support
Download and apply a theme or easily create you own.
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Active forum support
Lots of guys giving pointers on the xda.
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Available for Android TV
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Multilingual
Supported languages of the main program: English, German, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,Tamil and many more.
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FTP/HTTP server built in
Share files trough the browser.
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Tasker
Automate tasks.
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All your cloud storage needs accessible from one single app
Choose from 19 providers: Mega.co.nz, Dropbox, Box, Yandex, HiDrive, Baidu, Mediafire, Kuaipan, Kanbox, IDrive, Hubic, 4Sync, Google Drive, Copy, Meo, OneDrive, pCloud, SugarSync, VDisk. clouds which support webdav like (Yandex.ru, OwnCloud, MyDrive.ch, DriveHQ, CloudMe, CloudSafe, ...).
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Root Explorer
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UI feels dated
The UI of Root Explorer is not much to look at and feels a bit dated.
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Root file access and editing
As the name would suggest root file access and editing is something Root File Explorer excels at. It was one of the first to have this function and is still one of the best.
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SMB/CIFS network share support
Root Explorer supports SMB/CIFS network sharing.
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24 hour refund policy
The Root Explorer devs have a 24 hour refund policy despite Google's 2 hour policy. All one needs to do is e-mail the devs within that 24 hour period to ask for a refund.
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Android Assistant
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App backup and restore
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App 2 SD
Get more free internal phone storage space
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Batch Install Uninstall
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System Clean
Cache, Thumbnail Cache, Temporary File, Log File, Empty Folder, Empty File, Browser History, Clipboard, Market History, Gmail History, Google Earth History, Google Map History
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Small Size
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AdAway
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System wide blocking
Use the hosts files to block ads, so it works for everything.
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Needs root (by design)
Needs root to update the hosts file.
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Doesn't consume CPU time or memory
The app updates the hosts file periodically but doesn't need to run in the background in order to block ads, which is especially convenient for older phones.
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Won't block same domain ads
Because the host file can only redirect domains, if the ad and content are on the same domain the ad will be displayed.
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Can use systemless host
Can be used without modifying the system if rooted with magisk.
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Can use custom host files
Lots of people and keep their own updated host files used for blocking ads and ad away supports loading them in or even adding their source for autoloading.
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Platforms:
Android (Host-file)
Blocking:
System-wide
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Sliding Explorer
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Material Design
Sliding Explorer is designed following Google's Material Design guidelines.
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Has trouble reading external SD cards
Sliding Explorer has users reporting that there is trouble with it reading external SD cards.
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Root access
Sliding Explorer has root access support for editing root files on a device.
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ZIP support
Sliding Explorer features ZIP file support for compressing and extracting .zip files.
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IFTTT
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Free
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Recipes aren't guaranteed to work
Sometimes recipes don't work as expected, or fail to launch completely.
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Extremely simple
While this app can complete complex tasks, it is very easy to use.
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Limits only one action per trigger
Instead of allowing users to have a large amount of actions launch based off of one trigger, the limit is only 1:1.
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Platforms:
Web, Mobile
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Zenkit
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Powerful and simple to use tool with a clean design
Easy to use and easily understandable for everyone.
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Many important data views
Data views include Mind-Map, Kanban-Board, Spreadsheet, List, and Calendar. Views can be switched easily.
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Native apps
Native apps for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux.
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Platforms:
Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iPhone
Languages:
English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Chinese (traditional), Korean, Russian
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OsmAnd Maps & Navigation
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Based around crowdsourced OpenStreetMap data
OSM provides a map editable by everyone; just like the web-based encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Using a community edited map allows one to correct isses they encounter. Combined with the monthly turn around, these edits are added for navigation quickly.
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Slow and sometimes poor search
Most often does not find what you are looking for (which is not caused by bad OSM data).
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OpenStreetMap contributing made convenient
One can also utilize features to contribute back to OSM. This includes reporting a bug or adding a POI. This feature doesn't require an internet connection as the points can be uploaded latter upon request.
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Slow rendering
It can take some time for an area to be rendered. This tends not to be a problem during navigation since only a small area must be rendered as the map moves, and this area isn't immediately needed; though likely a bigger issue with smaller screens.
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Works offline once the maps are downloaded
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Poor navigation interface
The interface is not the most intuitive, though is continually progressing. It doesn't provide a 3D view like many navigation apps.
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Helpful lane guidance
Lane guidance can assist in deciding if one should stay in the right or left lanes. OsmAnd provides detailed information on the number of lanes and which are valid for your chosen destination; based on the data available it may show too many or too few lanes.
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Near impossible to scroll through map
Due to the slow rendering (already mentioned) it is near impossible to scroll through OsmAnd's maps. You move the map only slightly and it takes ages to redraw all vector layers.
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Excellent general map viewing
Sometimes one needs more than just navigation, they have a need to view a map or specify a specific route. OsmAnd provides a very nice, detailed map. This can be good for seeing what is around you or showing a place you are talking about to a friend. It also provides a means to add waypoints on the map which can be used to dictate a specific route (not simple enough to do routinely).
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No display when the next speed limit occurs
When driving on unknown streets you are often surprised by speed limits or town signs, so you have to friction brake.
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Routinely updated maps
Utilizing the community driven OpenStreetMap data has allowed for monthly publishing of new maps that the user can use. Though that doesn't necessarily mean the map data has changed.
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Terrible address data
This is a limitation of OSM's data, but it is unreliable for locating an address while offline. Even with internet it doesn't appear that it can locate most addresses.
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Free and open source
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No recorded voices can be found for download, only text-to-speech
Though not generally a problem, since OsmAnd+ favours TTS-based voice prompts it does advertise also supporting recorded voice prompts. However they cannot be downloaded or selected anywhere in the app, so you'll end up with awkward pronunciation, depending on your device's TTS engine, especially when setting your language to English in a non-English speaking area. Disabling street names will help as a limited workaround, but for those looking for clear and well-pronounced instructions, it's better to look elsewhere.
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Shows speed limit
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Being based on OpenStreetMap data can be lacking
The use of OSM also has the drawback of many places not getting the attention needed for updates. Depending on the geographic location OSM may have the most detailed maps or the most bare/outdated map.
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Contour lines enable understanding the terrain
Through the use of an additional plugin OsmAnd Maps & Navigation is able to utilize contour lines on its maps which helps view the landscape and terrain.
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For car navigation, vehicle parameters and specifications can be entered
This helps in optimizing route calculations based on vehicle's maximum speed or a country's maximum speed limits, typical driving speeds, width and height of the vehicle and so on.
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Has an option to FAVOUR (rather than avoid) unpaved roads (remember when you have this selected!)
This helps in avoiding often congested main roads and in casually discovering alternative routes, sometimes dirt roads as well, which are commonly far less-travelled in most places. Odd place for this option though, should be near the section where you can select which types of roads to avoid instead.
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License:
GPLv3
Supported platforms:
Android, iOS
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Nova Launcher Prime
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Has a more customizable stock Android experience
Nova Launcher provides an experience that's similar to stock Android, but adds multiple customization options. Customization ranges in ways that interactions and the user interface can be changed both aesthetically and functionally.
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Lacks automatic backup
There is no way to automatically back up settings or content. Reinstalling the launcher on the same device will lose all settings and content.
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Fast
Speed of Nova Launcher is one of the app's key points. Even with a lot of widgets Nova Launcher performs speedy.
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Overwhelming at first
Nova Launcher offers such a huge amount of customization that at first it is quite a bit overwhelming. There are settings everywhere and other launchers offer more of a step-by-step setup process. Nova Launcher could take you hours to set up how you like it. On the other hand the pure amount of settings allows you to set it up almost exactly how you like it.
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Drawer style options
Options include horizontal pages, vertical scrolling or list. The user is also able to adjust the background transparency. This way the users drawer can look unique while also offering more or less apps on the page depending on their preference.
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Notification count not included
Notification count need tesla Unread app to be installed
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Custom grid size
From the Nova Settings menu, users can create a custom grid size for their desktop and app drawer, up to a maximum of 12 columns and rows. Discriminating users can also adjust the size of the margins on the top, bottom, left and right. This allows for users to set how many widgets and apps can fit on these screens.
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unable to inherit icon size on dock - dekstop - drawer
you need to set icon size separately on dock - dekstop - drawer
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Custom icon packs
Not all custom launchers allow custom icon packs. Nova supports most custom icon packs that are in the Play Store.
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Less icon packs
This launcher has less icon packs. The system icons it has, are not HD quality.
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Infinite home screen scroll
Turning on infinite scrolling allows the user to move seamlessly among all of their home screens, rather than having to scroll backward when the last page is reached. This proves particularly useful if the user has a large number of homescreens. Infinite scrolling can also be enabled in the app drawer.
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Memory utilisation is a bit high
With all of the features and options Nova Launcher offers there is an understandable loss of RAM, though it could always be optimized better.
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Extra dock pages
There are extra bottom row dock pages accessible when swiping left or right on the dock. In Nova's settings there is support for a maximum of five dock pages and a minimum of one. This way you can set up to 25 shortcuts in the dock that can be scrolled though, leaving plenty of room on the home screen for widgets and other apps.
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Tapping & swiping a shortcut can have different results
Nova has the ability to add an assortment of action shortcuts to the home-screen which can be performed when swiping on particular areas or icons (as opposed to when tapping).
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Folders in the app drawer
Nova Launcher has the ability to add folders into the app drawer making for easy sorting of many apps.
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Can automatically sort inside of folders alphabetically
The user can sort their folders in the drawer and home-screen alphabetically.
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Tablet support
The app drawer and widgets take full advantage of a tablets extra screen real estate.
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Outstanding widget support
With the custom grids, most widgets can be sized to specifications which give added control over Android home screens.
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Allows hiding the status bar
Within Nova's setting the user can set the notification bar to stay hidden, allowing for more screen real estate.
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Desktop lock
It has an option to lock the icons and widgets in place as well as locks out the ability to delete apps, preventing accidental rearranging or deletions.
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Folder contents synced between drawer and homescreen
Create a folder in the drawer. Drag the folder from the drawer to a home screen. Add more items to the drawer folder. The item gets added automatically to the home screen folder (because it is the same folder). In addition, the user can set a custom icon for the folder (or for each shortcut).
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Google widget customizations
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Sesame Shortcuts integration
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Gesture support
Use gestures (swipe up, double tap, etc.) to easily launch apps.
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Stable
Solid performance for getting work (and play) done, no crashes, no slow downs.
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Useful visual customization options
Allows you to customize scroll effects, scroll speeds, animation speed, app animations, gestures. All of these options allow for very individualistic differences in how the launcher performs and looks, making for a great way to set ones phone apart from others.
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A free version available
A free version, Nova Launcher is available, but it lacks gestures, unread counts, custom drawer groups, ability to hide apps from the app drawer, icon swipes and additional scroll effects.
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Backup option available.
Users can save their configuration in a backup file and quickly restore it.
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Unread counts
Nova Launcher Prime offers unread counts for all supported apps, a feature not available on all launchers. Although it requires the free installation of TeslaUnread. What TeslaUnread does is add unread count numbers to certain application icons in ones application drawer and home screen, giving a quick overview of how many unread notifications they have in that supported application.
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Publisher:
TeslaCoil Software
File Size:
8.35MB
Required Android Version:
4.1 and up
In App Purchases:
None
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SwiftKey
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Highly acclaimed for its constantly improving prediction engine
The prediction engine of SwiftKey is continuously being improved by using data from social networks, text messages or even emails from the user's device. Predictions appear above the keyboard as soon as a letter is typed. By adjusting to the user's writing habits and style, it really helps to save time when writing.
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Swipe recognition not as smart as Swype
It requires much more precision, if you miss one letter you have little chance of having the desired word, which makes it difficult to use in some situations.
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Can be customized with plenty of themes available
Swiftkey offers a wide range of different themes to add personality to your keyboard (some are free.. others paid for via in app purchases).
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Privacy, automatically saves unknown words
E.g. passwords entered in plain text fields, place names, people names etc.
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Has a large number of languages available
Has 61+ languages available that can be downloaded. So chances are the languages you need will be available.
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High data bandwidth usage
This product consumes several MB per week, sometimes per day. The fact that SwiftKey doesn't fix the bug despite many similar reports is not really reassuring.
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Multiple simultaneous languages
Keyboard can integrate multiple languages into one seamless autocorrect engine.
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No language separation or weighing
If you load several languages, you can choose any keyboard for any of them, but it won't help the recognition algorithm, which insists on giving other language words in the most absurd situations. Again, no help from their support to arrange the situation.
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Can be resized to as large or as small as you want
You can choose between five different sizes to resize the keyboard.
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Cannot remove some options
You cannot remove the emojis or Info button from the keyboard.
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Can be undocked
The feature may seem odd but the ability to undock the keyboard is extremely useful in certain situations. For example when creating content or using difficult websites.
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Themes are in app purchases
Like most third party keyboards, Swiftkey offers tons of themes but of course they cost money and have to be purchased through the app.
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Ad-free
SwiftKey is competely ad-free.
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The smallest layout is too big
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Can be customized to have a numbers row in easy reach
Users can optionally display a number pad above the keyboard.
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High processor/memory usage makes it unusable on older devices
SwiftKey is extremely resource-intensive compared to many of its competitors, and will often lag even on high-end smartphones.
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Gestures typing or tap typing
Swiftkey supports both popular methods of typing. Either way the methods integrate perfectly with the predictions featured above the keyboard.
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Predicting and inserting word combinations faulty
Recent update enabled Swiftkey to predict short word combinations. In principle this should be quite convenient, but so far it turns out this new algorithm is defective and way too aggressive. Too often it inserts combinations that are completely meaningless, or inserts English combinations in Dutch sentences or the other way around. Has almost doubled the amount of corrections needed.
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Fast access to Emojis
When users type the name of the desired Emoji, a small list will come up where the right one can be selected.
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Bought by Microsoft
Will undoubtedly lead to less innovation.
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Free
Swiftkey is free to download and use, though there are in app purchases to unlock more features.
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Users can view in-depth usage statistics
SwiftKey will even provide you exciting data about how you type such as a heatmap. The more you use SwiftKey, the more your heat map will transform from perfect circles into blobs where you tend to press. From the Heatmap you'll know where you tend to make mistakes and how SwiftKey is improved. Other stats provided include: Distance flowed in meters Keystrokes saved Typos corrected Words completed
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Supports Google voice dictation
Even though SwiftKey is a third party keyboard, Swiftkey still uses the preferred Google voice dictation.
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All the typing information saved from SwiftKey is synced across devices
Any learned words, phrases (inc. email addresses) will be backed up to the cloud and available across multiple devices.
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Various convenient layouts available, also for tablets
Among the layout choices is a split keyboard which anchors each half to the lower corners of the screen, where one would naturally hold a tablet device while typing, with the option to place a dedicated 10-key number pad in the unused space between them.
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Cloud backup
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Social Account Integration for learning new languages
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Android
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FairEmail
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Open source
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No Microsoft exchange server support
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Multiple account support
Multiple identities per account, notifications per account or contact.
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UI might be a bit confusing for some
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Actively maintained
It is actively maintained. The used libraries are up to date and bugs are fixed quickly.
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Privacy-Focused
There are no trackers within the app and trackers sent with mails are disabled by default. This app lets you read and compose emails with your privacy in your very own hands.
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Fast and customizable
Privacy features are excellent.
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Lightweight
~ 20 MB.
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Identities support
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Two way synchronization
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Flat conversation threading
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Encryption support
Supports both OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption for total privacy.
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Support for safety and low-bandwidth
Allows to configure maximum size of email downloaded immediately.
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Can show plain text of html mails
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Show links before opening
Some HTML mails may show different links and link texts, this app however will show you the real link before opening, protecting against phishing and scams
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Recognize spoofing internationalized domain names
Some domain names may use non-ASCII characters looking similar to the latin alphabet (e.g. some cyrillic characters). This app will show you the punycode representation of the domain, if that is the case and thus protect you against phishing and scams.
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Reformat the HTML mail for increased privacy
Some HTML mails may include ressources that can track you. This app doesn't load them by default, but reformats the text, increasing both privacy and readability.
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Autoconfiguration with open standards
There are open standards for any email provider to show how an email client should connect to the server. This app supports both RFC 6186 as well as Thunderbird Autoconfiguration standards.
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OAuth support for most common mail providers
Supports authenticating with the mail server using OAuth, thus increasing security.
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Low RAM usage at the right setings
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Platforms:
Android
Price:
Free
Publisher:
Marcel Bokhorst
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OI File Manager
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Few permissions
It asks only for Storage permissions. No other things are required.
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No additional features (suite)
No other features such as networking connections, junk flies cleaner, built-in media player/viewer/editor. But that might be a pro, since nothing else is asked for this app permission.
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Lightweight
The app takes only a few seconds to download, as its size is only about 1.5 MB to download and installed (on MIUI) takes only ~6 MB full size.
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Outdated
At this moment I'm writing, it was updated last in 2017.
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Open Source
OI File Manager is available for free under the Apache License 2.0.
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Ugly UI
The GUI is old and deprecated. But what would you expect for such a small app?
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ZIP file extraction support
OI File Manager supports extracting ZIP files.
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File Explorer
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2
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1
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Completely free and zero advertisements
There is zero cost to using this app as well as zero advertisements in the app itself.
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Can not select multiple files at the same time
There is no multi-select file support in the app, which means no batch copy, paste or deletions.
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Open Source
File Explorer is filed under the GPL v3 license.
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Amaze File Manager
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8
Cons
4
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Open source
Amaze File Manager is an opensource file manager.
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Slow
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Material Design and fast operation
Amaze File Manager follows the Material Design guidelines as well as operates very fast.
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SMB and SFTP fails
Failed to connect to server using either SMB or SFTP.
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Built-in FTP server
That's an easy way to access your phone filesystem from another device. But be careful when using it on untrusted networks, because FTP protocol has encryption.
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Cannot do file actions in ZIP packages
You have to extract all files from "package.zip' package to a new folder 'package' if you want to view a single file.
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Light and dark themes
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No networking tools
Sadly there are no networking tools built into Amaze File Manager.
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Light on resource consumption
This app has a very specific purpose - browsing and interacting with your files. It remains light (no incurred battery usage) and doesn't pollute your phone with new apps to open your files but instead uses your default applications for that.
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Built-in SMB client
Amaze File Manager can connect to SMB shares (AKA samba, AKA window shared folders). Press the "+" button, then "Cloud connection", then "SMB Connection".
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Built-in root explorer
If your Android device is rooted, you can use this app to access system files.
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Great customer support
Support is available 24/7. Your emails will be answered within 24 hours.
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Instapaper
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13
Cons
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Became a paid service again
Most functions, like search, became premium.
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Annotation tools
Allows leaving notes attached to articles and highlighting certain part of the text. Free version of the app is limited to 5 highlights a month.
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Basic search not free
Basic search for link title or website too is part of the premium.
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Excellent typography choices
Instapaper allows you to choose from 14 different fonts, some of which have been designed specifically for the application. You can manually adjust spacing between lines, padding around text and font size to fit your preferences.
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Embedded images and videos are sometimes ignored
Instapaper sometimes saves articles without images or videos.
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Allows listening to articles
Instapaper comes with a build in text-to-speech feature that will read out loud articles. Premium version of the app allows creating playlists.
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Only supports English
It only supports English, and not Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
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Articles can be emailed to Instapaper
You can add articles to Instapaper by sending them to a unique email address associated with your account.
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Tags not implemented
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Pagination
Allows for pagination, not just scrolling.
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Search functions return random articles
The search function is very slow and does not provide accurate results. The user can not filter or reorder the search results, or search the archive or annotated articles.
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Awesome offline mode
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Can look up words in a dictionary and Wikipedia
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Can be set to switch to dark mode based on time of day
Instapaper includes a dark theme and allows switching to it after a set period in time or gradually over the course of the day.
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Rarely seen organization options
In addition to allowing you to sort articles by when you saved them, you can also order articles by length or read progress and popularity.
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Free archiving of deleted webpages
In Pocket, this is a paid function - but Instapaper provides this for free! If a webpage is deleted, it remains in your Instapaper and they even archive pictures of the articles.
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Can playback inline video
Instapaper will play videos from YouTube, Vimeo and other sources that are embedded in articles, but you have to be online for playback to work.
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Has a font designed for readers with Dyslexia
Instapaper includes Dyslexie a font that helps people with reading problems understand the text better.
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Includes optional social features
If you set your Instapaper profile to be public, your friends will be able to see articles you've liked.
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Platforms:
web, Android, iOS
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Quora
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2
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No customization options
There is no way of making your Quora blog different from any other Quora blog. It is only an extension of your Quora profile.
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Tags help promote your content
When you tag your blog post, it will show up in feeds of people following that topic.
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Community interested in learning
Quora has a built-in audience interested in learning new things.
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