awesome-indie-android-apps 
Productivity & Tools
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Termux (App) (Website) | Linux terminal emulator for Android | 1M+ Downloads (2018) | Fredrik Fornwall | |||
| InstaBridge (App) (Website) | Free WiFi Passwords and Hotspots across world | 10M+ Downloads (2018) | Sep 1, 2012 | Niklas Agevik Erik Tigerholm Alfred Beckman | $5M | |
| GlassWire (App) (Website) | Network Data Usage Monitoring & Security App | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | Aug 21, 2014 | Jon Hundley (HN profile) | r/showHN | |
| Remove Objects-Touch Eraser (App) | Remove unwanted content from your photos | 500K+ Downloads (2018) | ||||
| MoveIt (App) | Transfer media to SD Card & viceversa | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | ||||
| Noisli (App) (Website) | The background noise and color generator for working and relaxing | 50K+ Downloads (2018) | Stefano Merlo | r/showHN | ||
| Wake Me Up! (App) | It stops ringing only when you have walked a certain number of steps | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | Bazzinga Labs | |||
| Tldroid - Simplified man pages (App) | Android client for tldr man pages | 10K+ Downloads (2018) | Ha Duy Trung (Blog) | |||
| Custom Voice Commands (App) | Customized voice commands to talk to Alexa | 100K+ Downloads | Donald McSwain | |||
| neutriNote (App) | Note pad with support for Math (LaTeX) or Rich markdown & Drawings | 10K+ Downloads (2018) |
Personalization
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peek Launcher(App) | ML based quick launcher | 50K+ Downloads (2018) | Dec 8, 2016 | Pol Kuijken | [Medium] | |
| Medical ID (App) | In-Emergencey medical profiles on lock screen | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | Laurent Pellegrino (Blog) | r/showHN | ||
| THING Launcher (App) Website | Automation and Deep learning based launcher | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | William Dahlheim | |||
| HPSTR Wallpapers (App) | HD live wallpapers collection from best photo communities | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | Balazs Zsedely | ProductHunt Medium | ||
| DmonD Icon Pack (App) | Clean and beautiful take on your daily android Icons | 50K+ Downloads (2018) | ||||
| Call Log Analytics (App) | Simple, clutter-free, and easy-to-use call log stats | 100K+ Downloads | r/showHN | |||
| Ap15 Launcher (App) | Home screen with App open count based word cloud | 500K+ Downloads | r/showHN |
Weather
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FlowX (App) | Visual long range weather forecast | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | 2016 | Duane Malcolm Sally Malcolm |
Photography
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polarr Photo Editor (App) (Website) | Advanced auto-enhance tools & sophisticated filters to edit photos | 1M+ Downloads (2018) | Aug 13, 2014 | Borui Wang Enhao Gong | $2M | r/showHN Medium |
| Sunlocator lite (App) | Predicts the sun and moon position and path at a specific location | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | Sep 2016 | r/showHN reddit | ||
| Camarada (App) (Website) | 3D Camera, VR Camera by linking near by smartphones to form camera-arrays | 10K+ Downloads | Clement Ren | KickStarter r/showHN |
Social Networks
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joey for Reddit (App) | 3rd party text to speech client for Reddit | 10K downloads (2018) | r/tech | |||
| Freelapp App | Find Freelance Jobs on Real Time Maps | 10K+ Downloads (2018) | April 28, 2017 | Patrick Steiger | ||
| Hot Apps Nearby(App) | Discover popular apps and games in your nearby location | 10K+ Downloads (2018) | Patrick Steiger |
Communication
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beelinguapp (App) | Learn Languages with Audio Books | 500K+ Downloads (2018) | David Montiel | [KS] | ||
| Guggy GIF Keyboard (App) | Keyboard to instantly share funny GIFs in all your favorite messengers | 50K+ Downloads (2018) | r/showHN |
Music & Audio
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music DNA (App) | Traditional Music Player with amazing visualizations | 50K+ Downloads(2018) | MDG,SDS | |||
| Voice Recorder (App) | HQ Voice Recorder with video, slides , notes support | 500K+ Downloads(2018) | 2013 | Soham Mondal | YourStory | |
| 909 (App) | Drum Sequencer(modern interface) for sequence composition | 100K+ Downloads(2018) |
Travel
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TrainMan (App) (Website) | Indian railways train ticket confirmation status & prediction | 1 M+ Downloads (2018) | May 30, 2014 | Md Amir Vineet Chirania Karan Kumar | [BW] [HF] [Q] [ND] [YS] [NM][TK] | |
| Shortcuts for Waze 2.0 (App) | Navigate to where you want to go, without opening Waze | 10K+ Downloads | Rotem Yakir Shahar Yakir | $520K |
Gaming
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7x7 app (App) | Color Strategy game | 1M+ Downloads (2018) | January 2013 | |||
| Run,dude,run (App) | Simple game testing logic & thinking speed | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | Andrey Demskiy | |||
| Avion Flight Simulator(App) | Aircraft cockpit view based simulation player | 5M+ Downloads | Satish Chandra | |||
| Enemy Waters (App) | Warship & Submarine Simulation player | 1M+ Downloads | Satish Chandra | |||
| BuildMyVocab (App) (Website) | Psych inspired GRE preparation game | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | r/showHN | |||
| Dragon Slayer (App) | Action 3D first person game | 10K+ Downloads (2018) | Bharat Parikh | |||
| Curated (App) | Collection of Best Android games | 10K+ Downloads (2018) |
News & Magazines
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Materialistic - Hacker News (App) | Open-source Hacker News client with optimized speed & network usage | 50K+ Downloads (2018) | Ha Duy Trung (Blog) |
Video Players & Editors
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey Torrent Video Player (App) | Plays video torrents instantly on phone | 100K+ Downloads (2018) |
LifeStyle
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furlenco (App) | India’s first furniture and appliance rental/subscription app | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | Ajith Mohan Karimpana | [r/showHN] [inc42] | ||
| Day by Day • Habit Tracker (App) | Beautiful, material-design polished "Don't Break Habit" app for building habits | 10K+ Downloads | Leonardo Cavaletti (Projects) |
Finance
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valuta+ (Currency Converter) (App) | Super simple & free currency converter | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | Daniel Nohr |
Education
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Write Japanese: Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana (App) | Teaches you Kana characters you don't know, reviews your drawing of characters you do know | 50K+ Downloads (2018) | David Meeuwis | |||
| 10,000 sentences (App) | Learn new words in your target languages sentence by sentence | 10K+ Downloads (2018) | Tomo Krajina (Github | r/showHN |
Board
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chessify - Scan, Analyze, Play (App) | Scan, digitize & analyze chess diagrams using cloud chess engines | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | Gor Vardanyan Hambardzum Petrosyan | €50K |
Health & Fitness
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart Rate Monitor (App) | Heart rate recongnition by using the camera of your phone | 1M+ Downloads (2018) | r/showHN | |||
| JBlueCut - Screen filter (App) | Blue light screen filter - eye protection App | 100K+ Downloads | Jintin Apps | r/showHN |
Business
| Application | Description | Downloads / Visits | Founded | Founders | Funding | Early Traction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invoice with ProBooks (App) | Realtime Invoicing | 100K+ Downloads (2018) | r/showHN |