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Blogging is all about expressing yourself and sharing your knowledge on the internet, to a specific set of audience. Android is one of the fastest-growing OS and thanks for its wide range of applications, which made the lives of people pretty easier.
With the huge advancement in mobile application development, bloggers are provided with a variety of options to blog on-the-go, as well as track their analytics.
So, in this article, we are going to discuss a few best Android applications that are pretty helpful for the bloggers in managing their blogging tasks as well as to boost their productivity.
Best Android Application for Bloggers and Analytics
1. WordPress
WordPress is one of the best blogging platform available for bloggers on the internet. This app is compatible with all the self-hosted blogs on WordPress as well as the WordPress.com platform. With the help of the WordPress Android application, you can also create, edit the posts, and also publish the posts on your blog. Not only this, but you can also track the analytics report of your blog and moderate the comments as well, with the help of this application.
2. Tumblr
Most of the bloggers prefer to have their own Tumblr blogs, and it is also considered as a microblog. The reason for it being a microblog is that you can share your quotes, videos, and photos which can be easily managed on this platform. Moreover, you can also schedule the posts on the Tumblr platform, and you can view and reply to the messages sent by the readers as well.
The best part about Tumblr application is that you can manage your multiple Tumblr blogs under the same Android application.
3. Writer
Blogging on a smartphone is not so easy, especially when you have a lot of distractions on the screen itself. Moreover, apps and incoming notifications can spoil the flow of your writing the blog content. These are considered to be one of the major productivity killers. Writer is one of the best Android applications that help you to craft your content in a distraction-free environment within your smartphone so that you can focus highly on creating high-quality content, with peace of mind.
4. Blogger
This is another best platform used by bloggers. Blogger is a product of Google. Hence one can find this application on the Google Play Store. If you are a blogger who owns a microblog on this platform, then you must definitely try this Android application. Though the functionality of this application is very less compared to the WordPress platform, still you can manage a lot of blogging tasks on this application.
This platform is well known for handling huge traffic without facing any downtime issues. Moreover, if you are a person who is starting out his first blog, then you must definitely try this application. Blogger platform is very newbie-friendly.
5. Google drive
Google Drive helps the bloggers to store their contents, images, videos and other blogging related stuff. This is one of the cloud storage platform, which is provided free of cost by Google. Apart from storing these files on the cloud platform, Google syncs all the data across devices where your Gmail account is being used actively.
Once the synchronization is done, bloggers can access their contents, images, videos, and other blogging relate files from anywhere in the world. For example, you have half-done you content on the laptop, you can finish the rest by accessing your Google drive through your mobile phone application.
6. Dictionary.com
If you are not sure about the meaning of the word you are writing your article on, then dictionary.com is one of the best Android application every blogger should have. You can easily find the synonyms and the meaning of the words with a simple search on this application.
This application is for the bloggers who cannot speak English in a fluent manner, and also the ad-free version of this mobile application costs only $2.99 (quite low-price compared to other premium subscription apps).
7. Swift keyboard
Most of the times, when working through phone, bloggers face typo issues. For the bloggers, who are tired of having typos in their content, Swift keyboard is one of the best Android application for bloggers in the market. This application is very powerful in auto-correcting your typos, and also helps in word predictions based on the past typing activities. The word predictions can personalize on this application.
This keyboard application comes in handy when writing your blog post, drafting your mails, as well as texting your clients on social media like WhatsApp, and Facebook.
8. Photo editor
One can snap beautiful photos on-the-go with the help of smartphones. Bloggers can edit the photos with this beautiful photo editor and can publish these photos on the website. These photos need a touch up from time to time. You can crop, resize, add a good colour tone, as well as effects, to make it more appealing to your readers.
9. Disqus
Bloggers can integrate the Disqus commenting system on their blogs. This helps in keeping the commenters engaged with the blog content. Higher the engagement for the blog content, better the rankings in search engine.
10. Flipboard
This is another best Android application for bloggers which helps to find beautiful feeds to read. Browsing through this application will give a lot of content ideas for the bloggers and also helps in curating the next content.
11. Beyond podcast manager
Bloggers who are busy in their daily schedule can listen to audio content. One can download, listen, and also subscribe to the content available on this platform. This is a perfect Android application for bloggers who are having very less time to read the content available on the web.
12. Pocket
Pocket is a beautiful application which helps the bloggers to bookmark all the sites they love to read, under one roof. One can save the links in this application and read it later. This application does not consume much space on the phone and also easy to navigate.
13. Evernote
This application is very important for bloggers to capture their ideas in an online notebook. Evernote is one of the best note-taking apps which helps the bloggers to design a very good daily to-do list. Also, bloggers can record and keep the audio clips in Evernote and use this for reference in future.
The camera can capture and scan the documents, handwriting, and sketches as well. This comes in handy if the bloggers want to publish any unique images on their website. Also, bloggers can clip and highlight the articles around the web for their blog post research.
The best part about this application is that the bloggers can synchronize the data across different platforms like PC, laptop, tablets, etc. just by signing into the application.
14. Google analytics
Google Analytics is one of the most important applications that need to be in the phones of bloggers. Google Analytics helps bloggers to track user behaviour on their website.
Bloggers can understand if there are any downtime issues or bounce rate issues on their website, with the help of this Google Analytics Android application, while travelling.
This application helps the bloggers to check the key metrics with proper reports. Also, the bloggers can save reports to the dashboard and refer it later when required. These reports can be customized with any combination of segments, dimensions, and metrics which the bloggers care a lot about.
15. Pinterest application
Pinterest is also one of the best application for the bloggers, which helps them to get new ideas for the next blog post they wish to publish. This application has a lot of contents pinned on the website, which are categorized under different sections.
Moreover, Pinterest shows trending topics on a daily basis. These topics can give new blog post ideas for the bloggers, which helps them to drive traffic through Pinterest after publishing the blog post.
16. Grammarly
As bloggers publish lots of contents on the website, Grammarly is one of the highly recommended Android apps for bloggers. It helps in correcting the grammar as well as the vocabulary of the content. It ensures that bloggers do not make any common mistakes. It scans the entire content based on its 400+ grammar rules. Also, the plagiarism check available in the Grammarly application ensures that the content produced by the bloggers is highly authentic and plagiarism free.
Grammarly is available in both free and paid version. So, if you are a blogger who produces more content in a month, then the paid version is one of the best choices.
17. Twitter
This is a social app which every blogger must have on his Android phone. Twitter has the potential to make the blog posts go viral within a few minutes of tweeting the blog content on this platform. So, this is one of the must-have applications, if any blogger wants to drive instant traffic to their website. In short, this application can be used for tweeting the recent posts on the blog, which helps to drive in more traffic to the website.
18. Pingdom
Pingdom helps to monitor the downtime and Uptime of the website. By constantly checking this app, one can know if the website is facing any downtime issues or not. In case, if the blog faces any downtime issues or response time issues, this application shows the root cause of the problem. Hence, the fix becomes easier.
19. Buffer app
Buffer App helps to share the blog contents on different social media platforms like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc. with one tap. Trying to promote the blog content on social media platforms individually, becomes more irritating. Buffer app solves this problem.
This is a very lightweight Android application and very easy to use, even for the first time users. On a free account of the buffer, a blogger can manage only one profile from each account.
20. Quora
Quora is one of the best places to find solutions for questions related to any niche. Especially, bloggers can make the most out of Quora Android application.
By finding the most frequently asked questions in their niche, bloggers can provide solutions to the users with the help of their content, and share it on the Quora platform.
This brings in traffic to the website, without many efforts. This will also help to grow the online network for the blog.
21. MailChimp
Email marketing is one of the best ways to boost traffic and pour in sales through the website. However, this is not taken seriously by most of the bloggers. Mailchimp is one of the best Android applications for email marketing through Android mobile devices.
Moreover, Mailchimp is free for the blog owners who have less than 2000 subscribers. Therefore, bloggers who are starting out their first blog can try this email marketing app to bring in more sales and traffic to their website.
22. JuiceSSH
JuiceSSH is one of the unspoken apps for bloggers. Most of the premium blog owners host their websites on SSH servers. SSH servers perform way better than the traditional Cpanel and other GUIs.
Having Juice SSH application installed on the Android phones, helps the bloggers to manage their website by directly connecting to the server. Also, Juice SSH helps to fix the issues in website server, in case of any downtime problems faced by the website.
23. Feedly
Feedly is one of the best RSS feed apps for Android. This helps the bloggers to know the recent posts in their niche, which helps them to craft a better blog post on the trending topic.
Since visiting every website manually takes a lot of time, Feedly helps the bloggers to get content updates of multiple websites under the same application.
These are some of the best applications for Android, which every blogger must definitely have. This not only makes the blogging tasks easier but also boosts productivity while blogging.
Do let us know if we have forgotten to mention any Android application that can help in blogging a better way, in the comment section below.
