There are millions of apps in the Play Store and some of them enable you to use your phone in ways you might not have thought of.

Android has so many apps to explore that it is easy to miss some hidden gems. You usually use your smartphone for everyday activities like calling, messaging, browsing social media, taking photos, and stuff like that. However, there are more unique ways of using your Android device with the help of some rather unusual apps.

So, let’s look at such apps that’ll help you use your Android phone in unexpected ways.

Many of us struggle to fall asleep because we have so many distractions in our busy lives. This disturbance can negatively affect the sleep cycles, which in turn has effects on mental and physical health.

Your Android phone can help you fall asleep every night while you listen to bedtime stories for adults. This app allows you to enjoy calming audio stories on your smartphone whenever you feel like sleeping. Alternatively, you can also check out these white noise Android apps that can help you sleep better.

Download: Bedtime stories for adults (Free)

You often find yourself stuck in a boring meeting or a never-ending conversation. Fake Call is an app that is developed to help you in exactly that kind of situation. This app allows you to schedule a fake call on your phone. You can schedule it to happen immediately or up to 30 minutes in the future.

It also lets you add a ringtone, vibration, and ring time to make it look more realistic. You can give it a custom contact name and number to display on your screen during the call. Various themes are available for caller screens based on devices and Android versions. You can also create a custom theme with options to add colors, two sims, and day and night mode.

Watching a movie and need to use the bathroom? RunPee can help you. It has a list of movies currently playing in theaters and finds the best time for you to use the restroom. It tells you the ideal time you can leave and for how long. The app alerts you with a reminder and also shares brief information about that scene you missed.

It also contains various details about those movies, such as extra scenes in the end credits, spoiler-free movie reviews, IMDb info, and much more. You can also check out these must-install apps for movie lovers and fans.

Download: RunPee (Free, in-app purchases available)

SplitCloud is a unique app that allows you to share your headphones with your friend. It is a streaming app that lets you play two songs at once.

You can listen to one song from one side of the headphones and share the other side with your friend where they can listen to a song of their choice. It also allows you to switch sides from within the app without exchanging the headphones physically.

You can search for your favorite songs online using SplitCloud or play music from your local library. It also has popular and trending charts to listen to the latest hits. With SplitCloud, you can also listen to the radio from any country, and it lets you filter radio stations based on region.

Download: SplitCloud (Free, in-app purchases available)

If you are low on storage, annoyed with ads, or want to extend your battery life, Hermit can help you. Hermit is a browser that allows you to create lite app alternatives for your regular apps.

These lite apps are made from websites. They consume much less memory and storage than normal apps and don’t run in the background, giving you better battery performance.

Each lite app has its own separate window, and you can customize the options for each one, including the settings, permissions, themes, and icons. You may also want to check out the guide on how to use Hermit to turn any website into a lite app.

Hermit provides all its features for free. However, there are some premium features included in its paid subscription. These features include multiple profiles, backup and sync, sandbox, and others.

Download: Hermit (Free, in-app purchases available)

Get Wardrobe helps you organize your outfits and plan what to wear. It allows you to add images of your clothes to the app to create a digital wardrobe.

To manage your wardrobe, you can add tags and sort the clothes based on various filters. It also lets you search for the clothes in your wardrobe and provides customized recommendations based on your body measurement. You can plan your outfits according to the weather forecast, and the app also shows you the US Dollar value of your wardrobe.

Get Wardrobe provides all the listed features for free. However, you can subscribe to a premium version for advanced features such as unlimited wardrobe space, sync support, batch editing, and much more.

Download: Get Wardrobe (Free, in-app purchases available)

Personal safety should be a top priority for everyone. bSafe provides you with various personal safety features. It allows you to alert your designated people about your current location and let them live-stream it from anywhere.

With its SOS feature, your specified contacts can get an immediate alert and notification from you. It also enables an automatic recording feature that activates your phone’s audio and video. bSafe is a free app, but it has limited features in the free version, just SOS alerts and location sharing. All other features require a premium subscription.

Download: bSafe (Free, in-app purchases available)

DreamLab lets you contribute to a good cause for humanity through your Android phone. You can help cancer and coronavirus researchers gather important health data through the computing ability of your phone.

To make your contribution, all you have to do is connect your phone to a charger and turn on Wi-Fi. The app automatically performs complicated calculations in the cloud and sends the results back to the researchers. That’s it. DreamLab is free and requires no effort from you. But it could help the researchers save thousands of lives.

Photomath helps you solve mathematical problems, but it is much more than a calculator. You just have to scan a math problem, be it algebra, linear equations, simple math, or others. The solution is displayed along with the solving steps, which are pretty important for students.

The app also lets you check the history of solved questions which can be helpful while preparing for an exam. Photomath is free but has some premium features such as animated tutorials and textbook solutions that you can buy if you need them.

If you like that, here are some more apps that graduate students can use for learning.

Download: Photomath (Free, in-app purchases available)

The apps we have listed will help you use your Android phone in new innovative ways. With these apps, you’ll be able to solve quite a few problems that you might be facing and may improve your productivity or lifestyle.

Ali has been a tech enthusiast since 2005. He is a power user of Android, Linux, and Windows. He has an Advanced Diploma in Business Management from London, UK, and is an English Literature graduate from Punjab University, Pakistan.

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