Looking for some widget recommendations outside of the usual Google-made suspects? Here are a few of my personal favorites.

Free Android apps that do everything the paid ones do.

Quick Cursor brings a virtual mouse pointer to your Android phone. You control it from a designated area of your screen, such ...

Zimperium found RedWing, a rented Android kit that steals banking logins, lifts one-time codes, and forwards calls to defeat ...

When a remote that ships with a TV is just horribly designed, you can always turn to your phone to make your entertainment ...

Robinhood* was the first investing app to charge no commission for buying and selling stocks, prompting many other brokerages ...

Tom has been covering technology since 2019, having worked as part of the phones team at TechRadar and then as an editor at What to Watch. Since 2025 he’s been a freelance contributor for many more ...