7 Useful Google Apps You Probably Didn’t Know About

When you think of Google apps, you think of apps like Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, and Google Assistant. That makes sense, of course, since they are installed by default on most Android phones. If you visit Google’s Play Store page, you will come across many more apps. There are some gems to be found that not everyone knows about. So it’s time to put these hidden gems in the spotlight!

1. Google Photos Photo Scan

In 2016, Google launched the Photo Scan app. That is an app with which you can easily digitize photos in high quality. For this app, you use the camera of your smartphone to digitize an old, analog photo. In addition, Google uses machine learning, among other things, to remove the shine that is often problematic when taking a ‘picture of a picture’. In addition, the background is automatically cropped and color correction is applied, so that the photo is saved in high quality. Do you perhaps have an old album lying around somewhere with a series of yellowed photos from the past, of which no digital copy exists? With Fotoscan you can immortalize those images, if desired in the cloud.

2. Files by Google

Files by Google is a handy file manager and cleaner app that is indispensable on any phone. With this app, you can not only clean unnecessary files and unnecessary apps, but also share files without internet connection, keep sensitive files in secure folder. Are you running out of storage space on your phone? With Files by Google you can quickly find the culprits. In addition, you can make your phone faster with this app. In short, a gem.

• Free up space with suggestions for cleaning
• Find files faster with search and easy browsing
• Share files offline with others, quickly and without data
• Back up files to the cloud to save space on your device

3. Google Opinion Rewards

There are apps in the Google Play Store that allow you to earn money very easily. One of the best known is Google Opinion Rewards. Through this app you will receive regular notifications asking if you want to fill out surveys from market researchers. In exchange for your participation, you will receive a reward in the form of Google Play credits that you can exchange for apps and games in the Play Store. The complete explanation about this app can be found here. Also check out these apps to save money.

4. Crowd source

Crowdsource asks short, easy questions that are relevant to your language or community. Your answers will improve the quality of Google services that millions of people use, such as Google Translate, Google Maps, Google Assistant, and Google Search. This way you can help improve the translation quality in those apps, but you can also analyze audio and interpret text. In addition, you help Google Photos to better recognize objects. There is also much more to discover in this app. And if you contribute (a lot) to Crowdsource, you earn badges and benefits, based on the number and quality of your contributions.

5. Grasshopper: Learn to Code

Grasshopper: Learn to Code for Free allows beginners to get started with programming or learn to code. Compare it to learning a new language with Duolingo, only the language is now called JavaScript and the app used Grasshopper. After logging in via your Google account in the app, you will be shown the basics of programming. Then you have to give the correct answers to questions in quizzes. After that, more and more lessons follow, as well as exercises to convert the theory into code.

6. Socratic by Google

Socratic by Google is a smart homework app that helps kids with their homework. Socratic is in English, but for the universal language called mathematics, this app offers a solution. You use your phone’s camera to scan math problems in your math book through the app. Handwritten sums can also be scanned. After scanning the calculation, Socratic only gives you the correct answer, but also a step-by-step explanation of how the calculation was performed. In this way you not only find out the answer, but you also learn how the calculation works.

7. Google Tasks

Google Tasks is an app in which you can keep track of your tasks and also has integration with Gmail and Google Calendar so that you can keep track of your todo list in multiple places. Under an entered task you can add data and subtasks that can be checked separately from each other. Of course, a date can be attached to the main task. Tasks can be added to a list.

• Create to-do lists with your most important tasks
• View, edit and manage tasks on the go from any device
• Also manage tasks you’ve created in Gmail or Calendar on the web from your mobile device

Google Tasks can be found on your laptop or PC in the side menu of Gmail. Tasks can also be found in the side menu of Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides or Google Drawings. You can also create, assign, edit, complete, and delete group tasks in Gmail in a chat room.