Top 10 Essential Apps for Android Phones

1. Facebook

Facebook stands as one of the leading social networks globally, connecting people worldwide. Similar to the internet, Facebook creates a flat world where users can post, share statuses, personal information, and interact with others without geographical barriers.

• Chat and interact with friends anytime, anywhere with an internet-connected device.
• Update, share photos, videos, information, and stories.
• Search for friends via email, phone number, username, or mutual connections.
• Serves as an online marketplace: Create a Fanpage for sales, conduct personal sales.
• Diverse games for user entertainment and experience.
• Smart photo tagging and facial recognition capabilities.
• Allows creating surveys/polls directly on the personal wall.

Download link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana&gl=US

2. Zalo

Zalo is an OTT (Over The Top - a solution that delivers content to users over the Internet without any provider or agency interference) service developed and published by VNG Corporation (Vietnam Technology Company). As it is an application from Vietnam, both the interface and functions are very user-friendly and easy to use.

Key Features:

• Access from both computer and mobile: Easily update and exchange information anytime, anywhere on both mobile and computer platforms.
• Send Video messages: Send video messages to friends with a duration of 15 seconds when texting.
• Find Nearby: This is a very useful feature of Zalo that allows users to 'Find Nearby' to search and connect more easily with people around the current location without knowing their phone number.
• Share location: Share your location with friends when chatting to easily 'find each other'.
• Voice messaging: If you're busy and don't have time to type, the voice messaging feature will be very handy. This feature allows users to send voice messages up to 5 minutes per message quickly and conveniently.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zing.zalo&gl=US

Instagram is known as a free photo editing tool and the most engaging platform for users today. Previously, after taking a photo, you had to go to the editing app, make adjustments, and then go to social media to upload the image. With Instagram, you can edit images directly on this tool and share them on other social networks such as Facebook or even Instagram itself.

Key Features:

• Instagram has many advantages that other photo-taking tools do not have. You can edit effects in images such as brightness, darkness, and more. Instagram also combines blurry photo editing effects, allowing you to choose freely. In addition, the attractive videos created from Instagram, especially those with the Boomerang effect, are widely used and loved by young people.
• Being a social network specializing in images and videos, you can rest assured that there is no spam information like on Facebook or other social networks today.
• Every detail and moment in life is recorded and admired on this social network. You can also set private photo viewing modes so that only you can see these images. This helps keep your private life from being too exposed.
• Instagram is also a perfect community-building channel. Many celebrities use Instagram to promote their personal brands, including famous singers. Their simple and everyday photos are sent to fans, helping them imagine the daily life of their idols.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android&gl=US

MoMo e-wallet is a financial application that allows super-fast, easy, and absolutely secure money transfers! MoMo Wallet helps you pay for all your needs, anytime, anywhere, and completely free of charge, such as topping up mobile phones for all networks, paying utility bills - electricity - water - internet - consumer loans, movie tickets, air tickets, and hundreds of other services. MoMo is proud to be the number 1 e-wallet in Vietnam with more than 23 million users. With MoMo Wallet, you can completely trust in mobile payments and money transfers anytime, anywhere.

Key Features:

• Transfer money to MoMo Wallet completely free of charge, just need the recipient's phone number; free withdrawal to the linked bank. Conveniently and quickly transfer money to 45 domestic banks, completely secure; receive money instantly, 24/7 (including weekends and holidays).
• Top-up/Buy 3G/4G data vouchers of Viettel, MobiFone, Vinaphone with various data packages to choose from - Refund up to 10% for each data package.
• Payment with QR code with just a few touches at convenience stores, supermarkets (Circle K, Ministop, FamilyMart, Co.opmart, LOTTE Mart…), food chains (The Coffee House, Phuc Long, Gogi House, Kichi Kichi…).
• Easily book movie tickets for all cinema chains CGV Cinemas, Lotte Cinema, Galaxy Cinema, BHD Star Cineplex, Cinestar, Mega GS, DCine with great ticket prices.
• Payment for various bills such as Electricity, Water, Internet, Cable TV, Public services, Hospital fees, Insurance, Condominium fees, Consumer loans, Installment loans (Home Credit, Fe Credit, HD Saison, Doctor Dong…).

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mservice.momotransfer&gl=US

Money Lover is your financial companion designed to simplify personal finance management, aiming at saving and spending wisely. It addresses comprehensively the challenges you encounter. The app enables users to record all income and expenses, then consolidates them to help understand spending habits. From dining, studying, shopping, traveling, to savings for the future.

Key Features:

• Transaction Records: Summarize all Income and Expenditure over time.
• Reports: View comprehensive and detailed reports of each Income and Expenditure.
• Planning: Budgets, events, periodic transactions, bills
• Bank Linking: Automatically update payment transactions via bank cards or other bank-related transactions.
• Convenient Bill Scanning: Simply capture the bill, and the app will automatically update and categorize the transaction into your wallet.
• Other features include: Interest calculation, tips, personal income tax, bank and ATM search, export data to CSV file, and more.

Download Link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bookmark.money&gl=US

Messenger is a messaging application developed by Facebook, created and connected to the Facebook social network for easy messaging, video calls, and even sending videos or voice recordings. Today, Messenger is one of the most widely used applications, especially among the youth worldwide, thanks to its unique features that have received enthusiastic responses.

Key Features:

• Messenger allows you to exchange messages with friends and family with the easiest gestures.
• Having a group video call has become easier since the app's inception; you can invite the whole group to video call through the app.
• Additionally, Messenger allows you to share your current location and destinations.
• You can change text colors, change the name of the person or group, and even the chat icon.
• Most notably, Messenger enables you to transfer money without any fees.

Download Link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca&gl=US

Spotify is a music streaming application with thousands of songs and podcasts, offering top-notch audio quality and exciting features such as personalized song playlists, following friends and favorite artists, ... It is considered the most popular music streaming app in the world, surpassing even Apple Music.

Key Features:

• With millions of songs and content on Spotify, you can easily choose music or podcasts that suit your preferences, whether you're driving, exercising, partying, or relaxing.
• Basic functions like music playback are entirely free, but you can also choose to upgrade to Spotify Premium.
• Receive recommendations based on your preferences.
• Build a collection of music and podcasts.
• Spotify works on various devices, including computers, phones, tablets, speakers, TVs, and cars. You can easily switch from one device to another with Spotify Connect.

Download Link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music&gl=US

Google Calendar is a time management application by Google that allows you to track daily activities such as appointments, events, friends' birthdays, and many other useful features. This is a free application, accessible from your computer, phone, tablet, and you will need a Google account to use Google Calendar.

Key Features:

• All tasks by hour, day, week are clearly and visually displayed on the Google Calendar interface. Users can quickly grasp the amount of work to be done at a glance.
• Google Calendar allows users to create and edit events. You can set reminders, notes, event locations, and other users can be invited to collaborate on editing that event.
• You can turn on or off the ability to display special events, including your and your friends' birthdays extracted from email addresses, annual holidays and international holidays, or specific calendars for each country that you can choose to display.
• In addition to scheduling daily activities, Google Calendar also syncs with Gmail. Information and events from Gmail will be automatically added to Google Calendar.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.calendar&gl=US

If you're passionate about using video editing software on your computer, you'll likely enjoy the CapCut app for editing videos on your phone. It's a free app that allows both simple and professional video editing, providing essential tools and features for social media sharing. CapCut includes convenient tools such as creating filters, adjusting light, image, sound, speed, cutting, and merging—all with a few clicks, making it easy to produce a desired high-quality product.

Key Features:

• Easy-to-use tools for both new and experienced users, facilitating the sharing of unique moments on TikTok.
• Easily adjust the speed of the video, allowing for faster or slower speeds at various levels from 0.1x to fast 2x, 5x, and 10x.
• The software supports creating high-quality videos, a variety of filters, beauty effects, blemish removal, and many customization options to create more impressive projects.
• Offers a rich music list with many exclusive songs on CapCut.
• Insert various types of stickers or fonts based on the hottest trends to express multiple emotions in creative videos.
• Video can be enhanced with various effects to make clips more magical than ever.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lemon.lvoverseas&gl=US

YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It is a social network where users can share videos online, upload their own, and watch videos from others on mobile devices and computers. These videos cover diverse topics such as movies, music, information sharing, knowledge, and more, regularly curated by YouTube offices located in various countries. YouTube has expanded its presence to most countries, supporting over 50 different languages, including Vietnamese.

Key Features:

• With millions of users and a plethora of uploaded videos, YouTube can be considered a massive repository of diverse content, including films, music, science, reality shows, sports, comedy, and more. You can choose videos according to your preferences. These videos are professionally invested in terms of both form and content to provide endless entertainment.
• YouTube also contains valuable information and knowledge from various fields such as physics, mathematics, natural sciences, quantum physics, geography, history, astronomy, and more. It's not just for relaxation; you can explore and absorb fascinating and in-depth knowledge. Moreover, this information is regularly updated every day.
• Users frequently upload various videos, and YouTube responds with revenue based on video views and the number of channel subscribers. This has quickly become a trending profession in recent years known as a YouTuber - a content creator on YouTube. While this path is not easy, requiring passion and courage, it allows you to earn money by uploading video clips on YouTube.