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15 best premium apps and paid apps for Android!

A photo of Nova Launcher, one of the best premium apps and paid apps for android
Some of the best apps cost a little bit of money. That’s just the way it works sometimes. However, there are also a bunch of apps that ask for too much, are very expensive, or are simply not worth it. There are millions of paid apps in the Google Play Store and many of them are excellent. However, we think a few stand above the rest. To make this list, apps have to have a single price tag with no additional in-app purchases, subscriptions, or advertising. You buy it once and you get everything. Here are the best premium apps for Android!


1Weather

Price: Free / $1.99
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1Weather is one of the best weather apps on mobile. We like this one in particular because it has a clean interface, all of the basic info, a weather radar, severe weather alerts, and decent widgets. Plus, the little weather fun facts are enjoyable as well. The free version has everything along with ads while the premium version removes ads. It’s a rock solid, single-payment weather app in a market where more and more weather apps have a subscription. Today Weather is also quite good in this space.
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Bouncer

Price: $0.99
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Bouncer was our choice for the best new Android apps from 2019. It’s a security app with a focus on Android permissions. You can manage those permissions on the spot without diving into menus. It also lets you grant temporary permissions that it automatically revokes later. For instance, you can enable location to check into a place on Facebook and set Bouncer to remove that permission later. It’s an excellent bargain at $0.99.
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Bouncer

Nova Launcher Prime

Price: Free / $4.99
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Nova Launcher is the gold standard for Android launcher apps. It features a modern UI, tons of extras, some theming features, and more. You can customize everything from the size of a home screen to the number of icons on the dock and plenty of other things. Tons of people already own this app, though. Thus, if you want to try something new, some other excellent premium apps include Hyperion Launcher, Action Launcher, and the new Apex Launcher.
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Nova Launcher Prime

PhotoPills and SunSurveyor

Price: $9.99 and $7.99
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PhotoPills and SunSurveyor are two photography apps with a somewhat similar purpose. These apps help you plan shoots for photography and filmmaking. It helps you keep track of things like sunrise and sunset, moon phases, and star positions so you can get the photographs you want at the right time. Both of these apps are rather expensive, but we’ve seen virtually no complaints from anybody who buys them. You can go with either one, they are both excellent.
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Pocket Casts

Price: $3.99
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Pocket Casts is one of the best podcasts apps on mobile. It requires only a single payment, but has a ton of features. They include cross-devices syncing, a dark mode, various download and playback speed settings, and support for Android Auto, Chromecast, and Wear OS. It covers almost every base for podcast fans. However, if this one doesn’t make you happy, Podcast Addict and Doggcatcher are two more excellent premium apps for podcasts.
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Pocket Casts


Pulsar Music Player

Price: Free / $2.99
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Pulsar is an excellent local music player app. It covers almost all of the bases. That includes playlist support, Android Auto support, a modern UI, Chromecast support, and more. You also get playback settings like crossfade, ReplayGain, and a sleep timer. It does almost all of the stuff you expect and a little extra so we like it quite a bit. MediaMonkey is great if you want something a little more intense and Neutron Music Player is still great for audiophiles.
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Pulse SMS

Price: Free / $10.99 once / $0.99 per month
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Pulse SMS is an excellent all-around texting app. It works like most texting apps with theming, MMS support, and support for extras like text scheduling. However, if you pay the $10.99 price tag, you get cross-device syncing with your computer, tablet, or almost any other machine. It bypasses the need for subscription services like Pushbullet and it works quite well. If you just need a simpler and cheaper text app, Textra is also great at $2.99.
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Relay for Reddit

Price: Free / $2.99
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Relay for Reddit is an excellent way to browse the massive website. It features a card-style UI and it really helps separate Reddit UI elements. Some other features include inline previewing, moderator features, improved comment navigation, support for the spoiler tag, and more. It also loads comments and links simultaneously and we quite liked that. Its an excellent all-around experience and one of the better premium apps for Android.
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Relay for Reddit

Simple Mobile Tools (several apps)

Price: $0.99 each
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Simple Mobile Tools is a developer on Google Play with several good premium apps. They include a gallery, a calendar, a drawing app, a contacts app, a file manager, and a note taking app. These apps are super simple, open source, and require the absolute minimum permissions requirements. They are also dirt cheap at $0.99 each and have no advertising. This is a great set of paid apps if you want to go with the simplest possible options that also still get regular updates.
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Sleep as Android

Price: Free / $5.49
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Sleep as Android is a sleep measurement app. It uses your phone’s sensors to see when you move, rollover in your sleep, or get restless. You can then see the quality of your sleep. The app also supports S Health and Google Fit along with Wear OS and other wearable platforms. It can even record it when you talk in your sleep. There is a lifetime license for $5.49 available so you don’t have to use the subscription service if you don’t want to.
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Solid Explorer

Price: Free trial / $2.99
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Solid Explorer is easily one of the best file browser apps. It has a simple UI, but enough powerful features to satisfy almost anyone. It supports drag-and-drop functionality and it shows dual windows in landscape mode. Additionally, it supports most popular archive files, FTP servers, and most popular cloud storage websites. You can even stream local media files to your Chromecast. It’s powerful and it’s cheap.
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Tapet

Price: Free / $2.99
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Tapet is a wallpaper generator app. You choose the pattern and colors. The app then makes a wallpaper. All wallpapers are made for your device’s screen specifically so you don’t have to worry about mismatches or low resolution images. Additionally, there are well over 100 patterns and tons of colors to play with. You can save ones you like or apply them from the app itself. It also has a random generator that auto-applies if you want to go that route.
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Tapet

Tiny Scanner

Price: Free / $4.99
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Tiny Scanner is an excellent productivity tool. It uses your device camera to scan documents, receipts, and other items. You can then turn those items into PDFs and save them for future reference. The app supports black and white, grayscale, and color scans. Additionally, you can adjust contrast if you need to. It’s a simple app that does a simple job. However, it does that job really well for a single price tag.
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TouchRetouch

Price: $1.99
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TouchRetouch is an interesting photo editing app. It doesn’t do the normal stuff like red eye correction or anything like that. Instead, it takes out bits and pieces of photos that make it look bad. For instance, you can get rid of a sign on a beach, a power line at the top of a photo, or other small things like that. It works surprisingly well and it can touch up a photo in a lot of ways. It runs for a single $1.99 purchase.
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WolframAlpha

Price: $2.99
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WolframAlpha is an information and education app. It’s also one of the most powerful apps in this space. You can find data for dozens of topics such as statistics, math, physics, chemistry, engineering, astronomy, and more. You can ask it something basic like the tides in Honolulu, Hawaii and it’ll tell you. This is an invaluable tool for college students and likely even high school students. You won’t find a better tool for the price.
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WolframAlpha

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Source of the article – Android Authority