10 Apps To Help You Get The Most From Your Mobile Data

6. UC Browser

A slightly different type of app here in that UC offers an alternative to the regular big wigs of the browser world by presenting a service that saves data as your surf. Up to 60 percent of your data, to be precise. UC achieves this by compressing web pages and booting adverts to the side – so that figure sort of makes sense.

7. Onavo Extend

Another of this particular app category’s big hitters, Onavo has built up a stellar reputation on app stores for their formidable data-saving service. Their Extend app works away in the background to find ways to best save and utilise your data while concurrently doing a load of other clever things too. For instance, it only loads images when you scroll down to them, it balances image quality and data savings based on your settings, AND it automatically turns itself off when you connect to Wi-Fi. Wow. All the things.

8. VPN in Touch

A virtual private network (VPN), which extends a private network across a public network, is something that you’re probably already a keen member of. So why not download an app that’ll work to aid that connection, protect your devices’ security, AND save you heaps of your data? VPN in Touch does all those things and more, and it’s free.

9. Google Chrome

One you might have already heard of, downloading Chrome onto your smartphone or tablet could actually help the longevity of your data package significantly. A setting within the famous browser – handily named “Data Saver” – helps you surf the internet for less, reducing your usage by up to 50 percent if you’re on Android (sorry again, iOS). Compression is the name of the game, and Chrome are champions of it, it seems.

10. Data Usage

Forget your snazzy corporate names – oBytes are cutting straight to the chase with the moniker of their product. Costing a mere 79p on the App Store, their platform helps you “take back control” of your data usage because “it’s time to stop paying overages.” Damn straight it is! And the reviews are in: “almost faultless!” “Still the best!” “Good!” And there you have it, folks: universal acclaim.

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