10 Apps You Shouldn't Download from Google PlayStore


BANGALORE: There are millions of Smartphone apps in the market that are useful in their own way. But there are some apps which are pretty bizarre to have it in our app drawer. It is not the developers’ fault; in fact these apps are built for a reason to help others. However, these apps become so lame at times it jut hog up your precious storage in your phone. Therefore, this is a list of apps you shouldn’t have it in your Smartphone, reports Ampercent.

Pointless Button

Price: Free

If you like pressing virtual button on your phone then this app is just for you. That is everything about this app, Pointless Button: the user has to just press the virtual button on the screen. This sounds pointless but there are people competing to stay on the top of most number of button press chart.

Fake Call

Price: Free

Being busy with phone calls every time is not everyone’s cup of tea. With Fake Call app you can be busy getting phone calls every now and then like a successful businessman. The app allows the user to set a recorded voice, which will play when the fake call buzzes.

Sheep Sheep

Price: Free

They say counting sheep will make you fall asleep easily, but in reality it doesn’t work. The developer of ‘Sheep Sheep’ app still believes in counting sheep to fall asleep. The app is just an animation of a sheep jumping over a wooden fence and a counter on the top. Sometimes it is pretty boring to watch the sheep jump and counting them one after the other would make a person doze off easily or throw the phone away.

Fake Battery

Price: Free

Fake Battery comes handy when someone annoying wants to borrow your phone for no good reason and it is hard to deny them handing your phone. The app projects as the battery is about to die and you have the chance of keeping the phone for yourself. However, we don’t come across such friends every day, and it happens only once in a while, so it is no big deal lending your phone to your friend.

Ghost Radar

Price: Free

Fancy being ghost buster? Ghost Radar will help you detect ghosts around you and translates the ghost language in to English – this is what the app description tells it its user. If you read further, it reads, “we offer no guarantees of accuracy or any warranties, therefore, since results from this application cannot be verified scientifically the app should be used for entertainment purposes.” Up on that the comment from other users will lure anyone to download this app.

Anti Mosquito

Price: Free

The phenomenon of repelling mosquitoes using ultrasonic waves seems an effective method to stay away from disease spreading blood suckers. If you Google this amusing theory, there are no evidence supporting this method of repelling mosquitoes. However, the scientists have made a breakthrough using ultrasonic waves to attract mosquitoes instead shooing them off.

Pocket Fan

Price: Free

This Pocket Fan app comes with a disclaimer – “Android does not currently support blowing air through the device's screen. Any cooling effect you experience while using this app is purely coincidental.” Also in the description the developers indicate it is a pretty useless app yet they want us to download and watch the fan blades rotate by the touch of the screen.

Electric Shaver

Price: Free

Electric Shaver app is more of buzzer, as it only makes the buzzing sound of a shaver and nothing else. The app was created to play prank people when a prankster uses this app and hold the phone next to somebody else’s place the buzzing noise turns on and leaves any impression that the prankster shaved off the beard or moustache.

Hold On!

Price: Free

Hold On! is an app similar to ‘Pointless Button’, instead of tapping the virtual button, user has to rest his finger on the screen for longest time. Each second is considered as a point therefore, longer you rest your finger on the screen, and you will accumulate large number of points. Much like the ‘Pointless Button’ app, Hold On also has a leader board where people have successfully rested their finger on the screen for hours.

The most useless app ever

Price: Free

The app itself named as “The most useless app ever”, this app offers widget as well. When the user clicks open this app, the app opens like other apps and provides just a button to close the app. ‘The most useless app ever’ is the most useless app ever in the Google PlayStore.

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