Introduction of Free Interesting Apps

You already pay enough each month for your Android phone's monthly data plan, so why pay even more for apps? The good news is that many of the best options available through the Google Play store are free. The true challenge is sorting the must-downloads from the apps that will just waste storage space. From news readers, utilities, games, to photo editors, media players and social networking tools, here are  our favorite free Android apps.

If you're looking for a versatile, all-in-one media player that'll play just about any file format that you can throw at it, then give VLC for Android a spin. A mobile build for the popular desktop media player, VLC is designed to play just about any file format out of the box, from ubiquitous mp3 and mp4 files to more unusual formats such as mkv and flac. In addition to playing local files, VLC for Android also supports network streaming and media library organization.

Snapseed's an old mobile photo-editing favorite, and Google incorporated many of its editing features into the Photos app, but development isn't dead on this old reliable. Snapseed 2.0 revamps the UI, and combines the old selective area edits with new one-touch edit tools and filters, transform and brush editing tools and a powerful layer for working on your image edits. The new UI and the loss of the Grunge filter hasn't pleased everyone, but Snapseed 2 is an impressive free mobile photo editing app.

Microsoft acquired the excellent mobile email app Accompli last year, extensively reworking and rebranding it into the mobile version of Microsoft Outlook. The new Outlook mobile app is a mobile productivity powerhouse, bringing your email, attachments, contacts and calendars into easy reach. Outlook's built-in analytic engine automatically surfaces important email (across multiple accounts) based on your communications, and quick swipe controls allow you to easily triage your email. It's a great mobile email app, and works with Exchange, Office 365, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and iCloud email accounts.

Rovio's Angry Birds finally receives a sequel with Angry Birds 2, which mixes up the beloved franchise's gameplay and makes the move to free to play. The physics demolition gameplay you know and love is still there as you slingshot the Angry Birds against the Bad Piggies, but the new game changes up the formula by allowing players to choose which bird to use for each shot, allowing for more varied strategies. In addition, Angry Birds 2 features new spells and special abilities, multi-stage levels, and boss battles to mix things up. On the F2P end of things, the game uses a system of lives (recharging every 30 minutes), and a premium currency, gems, which can be earned through daily quests and actions or bought with real money.