The new Vivo X100 Pro was finally launched in India yesterday, 2 months after being unveiled overseas. Known for its incredible set of cameras, Vivo’s flagship smartphone features three 50MP sensors for the wide, ultrawide, and periscope telephoto lenses. Under the hood, it gets the MediaTek 9300 SoC with Vivo’s in-house V3 chip. This chip plays a big role in nighttime photography. The smartphone is currently priced at Rs 89,999, while its non-Pro variant fetches Rs 63,999. If you’ve already pre-booked the Vivo X100 Pro, here are the top 10 apps that you should download first when you get your hands on it.
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Adobe Lightroom
Download from Google Play Store
Vivo X100 Pro is an excellent camera-centric smartphone, which is why you need a photo-editing app that is always up for the task. Adobe Lightroom is one such app. It strikes the perfect balance between accessibility and range of functionality, making it an excellent app to edit your media. The newly introduced AI-powered enhancements on the app let you make quick edits like applying the bokeh effect, retouching the colours, finding the appropriate filters, and more. Apart from photo editing, Adobe Lightroom also lets you capture images and videos with its pro-grade camera.
ReLens Camera
Download from Google Play Store
If you want more control over the pictures you take on your Vivo X100, you should download a pro camera app. ReLens Camera is one of the best ones around. You can easily get DSLR-like shots on your smartphone using this app. It can also reproduce the results of classic SLR lenses like the 50mm 1.4 fixed focal length lens, M35mm f/1.4 “King of Bokeh”, and the Burn 35 known for its swirly Bokeh. ReLens Camera uses AI to calculate the depth of field and applies the appropriate Bokeh effect. In manual mode, you can control the exposure, shutter speed, ISO, and White Balance. On top of that, there are dozens of tools and filters on this app that make it the complete package.
Link to Windows
Download from Google Play Store
Link to Windows is one of our favourite apps on the Android platform. As the name suggests, it lets you connect your phone to your Windows PC and carry out tasks like answering calls, responding to texts, checking apps, and more without needing to pick up your phone. Since it is created by Microsoft, it does this better than any other interface or third-party tool for the two platforms. The seamlessness in user experience is why this app takes the cake for us. Transferring images, videos, and files between your phone and PC becomes easy with this app installed on your phone. You can simply drag and drop the files without needing to connect your phone to your PC using a USB cable.
Imprint: Learn Visually
Download from Google Play Store
Named by Google as the ‘Best App of the Year (2023)’, Imprint is a must-download app for anyone looking to expand their knowledge in a manner that isn’t exhausting. Imprint makes learning fun with its bite-sized lessons that are presented in a fun, colourful module. The app breaks down complex concepts into more accessible fragments, making them easier to learn. Once you’re finished with a chapter, you can take a quiz to see what you’ve retained. On Imprint, you will find courses based on Philosophy, History, Psychology, and more.
ChatGPT
Download from Google Play Store
What can we say about ChatGPT that hasn’t been said a million times before? The AI chatbot took the world by storm last year, paving the way for AI integration into tools and hardware. ChatGPT’s Android app took some time to arrive on the scene, but now that it’s here, you can have a lot of fun with it. The possibilities are endless. The chatbot can write a piece of code, a sonnet, or both at the same time! Simply feed your prompt to the app and it will come up with an appropriate response. Excited to learn something new? Ask ChatGPT to recommend the best books on the subject along with their concise summaries. You will have your answer within seconds.
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Pocket: Save. Read. Grow.
Download from Google Play Store
Pocket is one of our favourite Android apps which unsurprisingly ends up on a lot of lists like this. You can use the app to save articles, blogs, web pages, videos, tweets, and more to read later. If you’re at work and don’t have the time to read the interesting article that you just came across, simply save it on Pocket with just a couple of taps and get back to it later in the day. The app’s clean interface gets rid of all the clutter in the article and provides an easy reading experience. The text-to-speech feature lets you listen to saved articles while you’re commuting to work.
Pocket Casts
Download from Google Play Store
Pocket Casts is one of the best and most popular podcast players for Android. Its Material design makes the interface aesthetically pleasing and very accessible to the user. You can customise the app with different themes as well. Android Auto, Chromecast, Alexa, Sonos, and Wear OS support make the app extremely versatile. You can use it whether you’re in your bedroom or on the go. Features like silence trim, variable speed, volume boost, chapters, and sleep timer are helpful additions that serve to increase your podcast intake.
Nova Launcher
Download from Google Play Store
If you want to give your new Vivo X100 Pro a personalised appearance that sets it apart from other Android devices, then Nova Launcher is one of the best apps you can download on it. This app completely reimagines your phone’s home screen, letting you customise the app grid, create colour-coded icons, apply page effects, place icons and widgets in between grid cells, and more. The more time you spend on the app, the more personality you can lend to your device. The best part of using Nova Launcher is that it doesn’t slow your phone down.
DuckDuckGo
Download from Google Play Store
If you care about your privacy on the Internet, you need to install DuckDuckGo on your smartphone. This private web browser blocks most of the tracking cookies that follow you around once you click on a website. The trackers that collect your private data are also blocked by the browser, bringing much-needed protection to your web experience. It also forces websites to use an encrypted connection (HTTPS), leaving no room for snoopers and third-party entities to look into your web activity. Its ‘App Tracking Protection’ feature protects your privacy while browsing other apps by providing a VPN connection.
1Password
Download from Google Play Store
Keep forgetting your passwords? Check out the 1Password password manager app. With just one tap save all your passwords in a secure place and deploy them whenever necessary. Apart from remembering all your passwords, 1Password also helps you create new ones and makes sure they are available across all your devices. If you want to share your Netflix or WiFi password with family and friends, you can easily do so within the app itself. The app also stores important documents like your driver’s license, banking info, and more.
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Conclusion
These are the top 10 apps you should download first on your new Vivo X100 Pro. While all of the apps on this list are free to use, some may require a paid subscription to unlock certain premium features. Think there’s an app that deserves to be on this list? Let us know in the comments!
