5 of the best new Android apps you need to try this April

Keeping up with the latest and greatest apps and games is a difficult task, but I’m here to help. Each month, I list the best new Android apps and games I’ve discovered in recent weeks, and this month’s edition includes some useful tools for travelers and for handling PDFs.

Let’s jump right in. Here are the best new Android apps and games you should try in April 2026.

Adaptive Theme

Dark mode or light mode? Let your phone decide!

• Price: Free
• Developer: xLexip

Adaptive Theme is probably one of my favorite app discoveries of the past few months. It uses your phone’s ambient light sensor to automatically trigger dark mode when conditions fall below a darkness threshold you set.

The app itself is incredibly simple in execution, but it does its job remarkably well. When the light starts streaming into my home office in the afternoons, my phone automatically switches over to light mode. Once the sun sets, dark mode automatically kicks in. All I need to do is pick the perfect crossover point.

Notably, this app is useful if you’re constantly transitioning between buildings, work in incredibly dark places, or want a more granular way to switch between dark and light modes.

The app is free, but it requires Shizuku to unleash its potential.

PaperKnife+

The best PDF utility app of the year.

• Price: Free
• Developer: potatameister

There are some truly terrible PDF apps on the Play Store, and I’ve spent years trying to find a comprehensive PDF toolkit for Android. Finally, I’ve stumbled across a good one.

PaperKnife+ is the most appropriate name for this app, which lets me do all sorts of things to PDFs. Digital signing, merging, splitting, saving individual pages as images, rotation, reordering, compressing, unlocking, and converting to text are just some of the tools in the box.

My only gripe is that the UX feels visually compressed. This might be due to my DPI, but no other app suffers from this issue on my phone.

Nevertheless, that’s a small problem with what is the most impressive PDF Android app I’ve stumbled upon in ages.

The Wreck

An engrossing visual story about loss, grief, and recovery.

• Price: Free on Epic Games until April 2 / $7.99
• Developer: The Pixel Hunt

Trigger warning: This game deals with a vehicular accident.

As visual stories go, I’ve never really played one that tackled dark themes of loss, toxic relationships, and family ties, but The Wreck will make you face just that. You play as Junon, a woman grappling with the events of a rather terrible day in her life. If I say any more, it’ll rather give the story away.

Playing The Wreck, I was rather reminded of Life Is Strange, albeit a far more mature look at one’s inner turmoil and tumult.

The game’s gleeful art style adds a contrast to its rather dark themes, and it can be completed in a matter of hours. While it’s free on Epic Games, it’s well worth snagging for your collection.

Morecast

A great forecasting tool for roadtrips and travelers.

• Price: Free / In-app purchases from $0.99
• Developer: UBIMET

The current apps I’ve used lack one important feature: tracking the weather on a journey and noting changes in conditions as I depart and arrive in a new town or region. This is super important for planning when to leave on a road trip, and how long to spend in each destination. Thankfully, I’ve found this feature lurking within Morecast.

Although this feature is brilliant, the rest of the app leaves a lot to be desired. There’s a ton of wasted space, there’s no option to pick a data provider, and I can’t adjust the date for the navigation feature I mentioned above.

I want to give Morecast some credit, though, because it’s doing something unique that no other weather app features. If you need to view a weather forecast along a driving route, give Morecast a try.

The Division Resurgence

Pre-registration is now live!

• Price: Free-to-play
• Developer: Ubisoft Entertainment

The Division was hilariously fun back in the early PS4 days, but I bet few players in 2016 could imagine that a decade later, a mobile version would launch on Android.

Resurgence isn’t based on the first two proper The Division titles, but Ubisoft notes it takes place in the same universe, and more specifically, we’re back in New York City.

It’ll feature multiple game modes, including PvP, PvE, and the usual selection of upgrades.

The game made its pre-register debut on March 31, but keep an eye out for a proper release in due course.

That’s it for the April 2026 roundup of the best new Android apps and games! Have you stumbled across any new apps or titles that you think deserve inclusion? Let me know down in the comments below.