AppGarden Lite (for Android)

AppGarden Lite (free) is an ambitious little app that packs dozens of useful, or creative, or just plain silly utilities for your Android device, from a currency convertor to a slang dictionary. Rather than having to download dozens of single-purpose apps, AppGarden consolidates them all in one 850k file.

Not Your Garden Variety of Utilities
Choose from 45 (and counting) utilities to tag and file in a "Favorites" folder for easy access. To me, the most useful utilities are:? a QR code scanner, a stopwatch, a tip calculator, a currency calculator, Urban Dictionary lookup, and a calorie calculator. I'm sure you'll have a different list. ?

There were some creative ones as well that I didn't Favorite but are spiffy to have: a Pastebin URL creator, password generator, three-source dictionary lookup, rhyming dictionary, and a water intake calculator.

I wish I could use some of these utilities offline, however. I realize most of the reference apps require connecting to a host server, but surely not something like a generic calculator?

Garden Needs Beautification
There's no doubt you'll find something useful in AppGarden. However, the interface could be slicker and more user-friendly. When you open the app you see two columns, one listing all the apps and another listing only your Favorite apps. Favorite apps are listed by date added; I think it would make more sense to arrange them by alphabetical order.

The app could also do without some of the more superficial utilities, like a question-and-answer app (based on Yahoo! Questions) or Phrases, which never worked on my Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.1.

And lastly, let's spruce up the look for newer phones too! The app supports very old Android devices running Android 1.6 and up, and it shows in its text-only design. Certain applications would look great with images and videos; the "Events via GPS" app listed upcoming events in my area as a text-only file.

Bottom line, AppGarden Lite contains dozens of productivity and utility apps?half essential, half cool to have?and runs smoothly on older phones. But on newer devices, the user interface looks dated

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