Does your favourite app eat your data, slow your smartphone or drain your battery? Then why don’t you try some lite Android apps for tasks like social networking, managing emails, browsing, etc…
Most of the popular Android apps like Facebook, Messenger, Gmail, Chrome, etc eat a lot of our data along with the battery, but we can solve this problem to some extent.
Yes, as I already told using lightweight versions of apps on your Android smartphone can save your data and battery. Also, these apps are perfect for smartphones with low RAM.
In short, the lite version of Android apps best suits those whose :
- the device is being laggy and freezing all the time
- phone always running out of space and can’t take photos or install new apps
- device battery drains quicker than ever
- internet connection speed is slow or has a limited mobile data pack.
However, along with Android 8.1, Oreo Google released a new lightweight version of the Android operating system — Android Go, especially for devices with 512MB to 1GB of RAM. To provide a fluid smartphone experience to every user Google also added a set of “Go version” of Google apps — a lite version of Google apps — including Google Go, Google Assistant Go, YouTube Go, Google Maps Go, Gmail Go, Gboard, Chrome, and the new Files Go. And interestingly some of these Go edition lite apps also work with other older versions of Android too. Enough gibber gabber, here are some of the best lightweight Android apps that are going to help you :
Best Lightweight Android Apps :
| Sl.No | App Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facebook Lite | Official lite version app of Facebook which installs fast, loads fast and uses less data and controls battery drain. |
| 2 | Facebook Messenger Lite | A fast and data-efficient messaging app to reach the people in your life. |
| 3 | Instagram Lite | A fast and smaller version of Instagram. Built to perform well on slower networks, use less mobile data and take up less storage space on your phone |
| 4 | imo Lite | Enjoy lag-free communication with everyone as the app is designed for 2G networks, slow and unstable network connections. |
| 5 | Aloha Browser Lite | The lite version of Aloha is a superfast, free, full-featured web browser that provides maximum privacy with built-in VPN and security without annoying ads. |
| 6 | Opera Mini | Super-fast, secure and full-featured web browser in light package size and saving data up to 90%. Comes with Ad-Block, private search, smart download tool, video player, and so much more! |
| 7 | Turbo VPN Lite | A totally free lightweight VPN that saves space on your mobile device. |
| 8 | tTorrent Lite | Fastet torrent (P2P) downloading client for Android smartphones. |
| 9 | Camera360 Lite | A fully-featured and completely free beauty camera app for Android that comes in the smallest Package(4MB). |
| 10 | ap15 Launcher | One of the best lightweight unique launchers available for Android. It focused on minimalism and efficiency with enough room for customization. |
| 11 | Parallel Space Lite | Now you can use multiple WhatsApp, Facebook even games in your device without worrying about RAM usage. |
| 12 | TikTok Lite | Designed for users who have less than 2GB of RAM, limited data, or who connect to 2G or 3G networks. |
| 13 | LinkedIn Lite | Lite android version of LinkedIn which is built to work efficiently even on slow internet connections takes minimal phone space, making sure your phone memory is saved. |
| 14 | Microsoft Outlook Lite | Combines all of your favourite email, calendar, and contacts features into a small app designed to work on low-resource phones. |
| 15 | VideoShowLite | The compact edition of Videoshow video editor, reduced size and optimized for all devices. |
| 16 | SHAREit Lite | Send and receive files with this fast app that comes in a small size to conserve data. |
| 17 | Spotify Lite | The lite Android version of Spotify is small, so you’ll save space on your phone, and be able to use it in slow network conditions. |
| 18 | WPS Office Lite | A lightweight all-in-one document reader for Andrid devices. |
| 19 | Lite Music Player | Essential music player app for budget Android devices to play songs in your local storage. |
| 20 | Pinterest Lite | Unlike the original version, Pinterest Lite for Android saves space on your phone without compromising essential features. |
| 21 | Google Go | Assists you in a lighter and faster way to search, with optimized search results that can save up to 40% of your data. |
| 22 | Google Maps Go | The lightweight Progressive Web App variation of the original Google Maps app. |
We will soon add more lite Android apps to this list. If you have an Android smartphone with less than 1GB of RAM then you should install these apps to maintain the performance of your device. As you know by using these lightweight Android apps, you may miss some superfluous features of the full-featured version, but that’s a price you’ll have to pay to make your budget smartphone work fluid and save mobile data.
If you know similar ultra-fast low memory, battery-saving apps comment below. And don’t forget to share the information with your friends.
awesome article
Great tips, but mostly wothless for us who care about privacy and security in addition to keep bloat at a minimum.
No mention of the awesome apps in the F-droid Free and Open Source repository??!!
f-droid.org
It even has an app called Yalp Store Which makes me independent of Play Store from Google! Better than Play!
Try Metal for BOTH Twitter and FB in a light app.
Try Ting Travel Tracker to keep GPS-tracks over a maps which never leave you phone (unless U decide).
Try Red Moon to save yor night sleep and vision!
Try Router66 or Blokada to reduce unnecessary traffic by ads and trackers!
And many more…
Some suggestion. Google Maps Go require Chrome, but Chrome is not friendly with low storage and memory. It’s just bit heavier than native Google Maps. It should removed from list.
Thank you for your suggestion, we will look into it
Bro great list! I recently discovered an app named Droid Insight 360. It’s extremely light weight at 4 mb and has five apps built in one. Check it out, the devs have really done a great job on this app.
Great list! It’s amazing how much data and battery we can save with these lite apps. I particularly loved discovering the alternatives to my regular apps that didn’t compromise on functionality. Thanks for keeping us updated!