10 Apps To Speed Up Your Smartphone

Sam Moore,

At the mercy of an ailing device? Here’s our guide to the apps that’ll speed up your smartphone

  1. Dropbox

Again, an app that you’ll likely already be a little more than familiar with – but, again, an app that could help speed up your phone by taking on excess storage that might otherwise be slowing your device down. With peace of mind knowing that your files are being safely backed up in their cloud, you can access the things you need when you want them, rather than have millions of photos, videos and documents clogging up valuable storage space.

  1. Memory & Disk Scanner Pro

Let’s boost your ailing smartphone’s performance, and let’s do it by downloading Memory & Disk Scanner Pro. Offering real-time information on the likes of CPU usage and memory details, it also offers something quite exciting in the form of a “Lightning Disk Cleaner”. Oooh, lightning. This is “new technology [that] helps you clean junk/temp files on disk, which is faster than other apps same feature.” So there you go. Lightning.

  1. Photo Compress

Too many photos on your device? It’s probably not helping the tortoise-like nature of your smartphone’s performance, if we’re being brutally honest. If you don’t want to shed some of the weight from your media collection, then what you could do is download a specialist app that’ll decrease the size of your photos and videos. And Photo Compress will do exactly that for you: crop and minimize photos using their intelligent interface, saving chunks of your phone’s memory in the process. Lovely stuff.

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  1. iRefresh Pro

If you’re wondering what the root cause of the downfall of your beloved smartphone is, then an app like iRefresh Pro should be one of your first ports of call. Offering sophisticated and up-to-the-second data on your device’s system information – we’re talking memory usage and CPU usage here – you can also minimize it to widget form so you’re always in the know of how well your phone is performing.

  1. DU Battery Saver & Fast Charge

A dying smartphone is often caused by a failing battery, so to take evasive steps from sending it to the great device in the sky, you need to first take the necessary steps to preserve its battery life.

An app like DU Battery Saver & Fast Charge will help you on the way to achieving that very goal: available on Android, simply running it in the background can apparently help you get up to 50 percent more battery life on your device. Its features include a battery saver function (allowing you to stop power-consumptive background apps with one tap),  phone cooler (which “systematically monitors, manages, and disables CPU-intensive apps in order to reduce phone temperature to a safe level and protect your hardware), and a “Healthy Charging Manager”, which helps you find out which method of charging is best for your device. It’s also received over 400 million downloads on the Play Store, so that’s not to be sniffed at.

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