If you haven't tried any new apps lately, there are plenty of fresh offerings released in 2021 so far that are worth your time. Let's look at some of the newest Android apps that you should check out, plus a few major revamps of apps that warrant a second look.

1. Glitch Lab

Glitch Lab helps you create varied effects and bring novel elements to the world of digital glitch art. It combines simplicity with power. All its effects are neatly organized into categories to make your work easier. The app gives you a wide range of filters and options around the concept of glitch art.

Glitch Lab brings you over 100 effects, including Streaking, Breaking, Pixel Sorting, Retro, 3D, Art filters, and more. With almost infinite possibilities for configuration, this nifty software helps you express your art in your own unique way.

You can undo/redo and erase parts of your masterpiece as many times as you wish, and even create smooth videos with its powerful animation module.

Download: Glitch Lab (Free, premium version available)

2. Pixtica

Pixtica is a powerful, feature-packed, all-in-one camera app. It also includes a video editor, with a full gallery and an array of creative tools. Created especially for photography lovers, filmmakers, and creative minds, the app is fast, easy to use, and intuitive.

Featuring specialized filters, fish-eye lenses, and even animated stickers, Pixtica helps you create the perfect picture, no matter your level of experience in photography. If your device has manual controls, you can combine the capabilities of the app to create professional-grade pictures, intuitively adjusting the shutter speed, ISO, exposure, focus, and so on.

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Pixtica comes with a document scanner (which helps you scan any type of document to JPEG and PDF), QR scanner, and barcode scanner as well.

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

3. Flexi

Flexi is a new live wallpaper app that lets you make flexible shapes and colors, just by moving your finger on the screen. Want like different colors and patterns? Simply enter the settings to change the shape, color, and speed of the live wallpaper to make unique designs on your screen.

That's about it for this straightforward app; it’s at least a good way to distract your mind for a few minutes.

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

4. Last Time

Last Time helps you maintain a systematic timeline of your activities so that you never forget an important activity or event. Featuring a simple, minimalist user interface, it is easy to understand and use, and comes with light and dark themes.

Last Time stores events in widget form to help you to find and update them when required. You can sort the events by last entry, history count, or date created. The app additionally lets you store notes in each event entry, see the time between entries, and search for entries by a date range. Adaptive notifications remind you about upcoming events.

Last Time is ad-free and does not require special permissions to run on your device. It is free of charge and works offline as well.

Download: Last Time (Free)

5. MoodBites

MoodBites is a free food journal app that keeps track of your diet, plus your food, digestion, and eating habits. Many people tend to eat according to their mood. This app helps you watch your feelings, then track and log the type of food you eat when you feel a certain way.

The app is thus perfect for those struggling with eating or digestive disorders, acid reflux, bloating problems, food intolerance issues, and so on.

Once you log your list of symptoms, MoodBites finds a correlation between what you eat and how you feel. This lets you gain more control over your diet structure and helps you avoid anything that isn’t ideal for your system.

It's important to note that MoodBites is not a medical application. While it helps you keep track of your diet, you will need your doctor to prescribe medication for any serious conditions.

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

6. Scribble Rider

Scribble Rider is a fun game that you can relax with at the end of a hectic day. This multiplayer game lets you scribble on the screen to control an all-terrain vehicle. You'll walk through multiple scenarios, and just have to draw shapes on your device’s screen to guide the vehicle through land, water, mountains, and even air.

While it won't compare to some of the top games in the Play Store, it's still a fun novelty.

Download: Scribble Rider (Free, in-app purchase available)

7. NeuroNation

NeuroNation is a unique scientific brain training app that helps you improve your day-to-day brain functioning. Sitting with this app for a few minutes a day helps you strengthen your memory, enables you to concentrate more sharply, and enhances your powers of thinking and deduction.

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The app requires you to think differently for each of its various games and activities. It then performs a comprehensive analysis of your strengths and the areas you need to improve. With 27 exercises and 250 levels, your brain will enjoy varied types of training to cover a vast gamut of mental activity.

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

8. Focus Plant

Do you suffer from a lack of focus, often lose track of your studies, or easily get distracted by your phone? If any of these describe you, Focus Plant is something to try.

This app presents itself as a game but doubles up as a study timer, making it ideal for students. It helps you deal with phone addiction, thus improving general productivity, self-control, and concentration during study or work.

You can use the app by itself, as well as syncing time with Google Fit, to enjoy the app along with other focus solutions such as Flora, Calm, Headspace, Study Blue, and Eggzy.

Focus Plant keeps record of the time you have focused on your tasks and even rewards you as encouragement to stay on track.

Download: Focus Plant (Free, in-app purchases available)

9. Canva

Canva is by no means a new app. However, we've included it in this list of apps to consider in 2021, as its latest update includes a slew of new and improved features. This gives it a completely different look and feel.

Canva is a versatile graphic design app, photo editor, poster maker, video logo maker, and video editor. It enables you to create colorful designs, cards, social media posts, templates, and share photo memories or collages with family and friends.

You can use this software to create fun banners, birthday and invitation cards, and similar. Available both on mobile and the web for desktop, it offers you the flexibility to work from any platform.

The app’s search feature allows you to find templates faster. Once you decide on your template, you can collaborate with friends and colleagues from within the app, working together to create whatever you need.

The new Nudge feature lets you move elements onscreen by one pixel in any direction. This feature makes tiny adjustments easier.

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Canva 2.0 brings you more space to design, convenient new keyboard shortcuts, improved Animator, a more efficient homepage search bar, autoplay presentations, and much more.

And the company hasn't stopped there, Canva has also announced the launch of Canva for Desktop. The company recently launched Canva for Enterprise, allowing companies to better work with its software.

At the moment, designs created using Canva 1.0 cannot be edited with Canva 2.0. That feature will be available soon.

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

10. Dashlane

Dashlane is a password manager app that goes far beyond managing your passwords. This useful tool not only remembers your sensitive login information, but also manages your payment data and other personal details, making them accessible whenever you need them.

Like Canva, this service and its Android app have been around for some time. But the latest array of updates makes it worthy of mention in this list.

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Dashlane allows you to store an unlimited number of passwords, seamlessly sync your data across every device, create secure passwords with its password generator feature, and import passwords from Chrome and other sources.

It also features a built-in VPN for safer browsing, alerts about potential breaches and hacks, and second layer of protection with two-factor authentication.

Offering multi-platform and multi-device support, it gives you easy access across the web, plus any devices of your choice.

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Dashlane’s latest update includes a newly redesigned password changer, available in beta. This feature helps you securely change your passwords and can now navigate through 2FA codes and CAPTCHAs, while maintaining complete security and privacy.

The password generator has undergone some design changes as well. Added colors differentiate letters from digits and symbols. The system also indicates how strong or weak your password is. Further, beta users have early access to the new autofill engine, powered by machine learning.

The new features will eventually be made available to all users.

Download: Dashlane (Free, subscription available)

The Search Goes On

The Play Store sees such a massive influx of Android apps every day that it becomes almost impossible to keep track of them all. Now you know some of the best Android apps to release in 2021 so far, along with the biggest updates that make others worth revisiting.