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hello again ladies and gentlemen I'm Joe handy the Android authority app guy the Google Play Store is great fantastic even but there are points where you may want to just try something else for a little while so in this video we'll show you the best Google Play alternatives for Android number eight on our list is a fun little app called apps fire this app is reminiscent of tap to where the interface is driven by a number of horizontal lists unlike the Play Store and most Play Store alternatives apps fire tries to fit as much as possible into a single screen there's nothing really outrageously wonderful about apps fire but it does do a lot of smaller stuff it told me what apps can be moved to my SD card it recommended apps based on the Snapdragon processor in the Nexus 4 the overall experience is a tad lackluster but the small stuff makes it worth putting on this list next up is an app called f-droid this Play Store replacement app will feel familiar and wonderful to pretty much any fan of Linux instead of having a store and instead shows you the available apps based on what repositories you have it comes with the standard f-droid repository but you can add additional ones if you want and it's minimal it's quick and it works most of the stuff on there is free and you can even see what licenses each app has everything is open source which is a huge plus and while the selection isn't very huge there are often open source alternatives to most popular apps if jar is next on our list and this one is probably the best when it comes to downloading and trying apps you normally wouldn't download or try the interface is ridiculously simple and it doesn't even give you things like categories but people still somehow liked it ok here's how it works you download the absent get jar and you're given gold coins these gold coins can then be used in in-app purchases and the other various apps this is kind of cool because it encourages people to try apps they otherwise might not have tried and users can use the gold coins instead of money to get extra stuff in the apps they do like it's a pretty nifty system if you're looking to try new things number five on our list is one you may not be expecting yes the Opera browser one of the many features added to the new browser is an app store so if you're in the market for a Play Store alternative and a browser well here's a potential two birds one stone scenario for more on the browser side of things we actually reviewed opera browser just head to our YouTube page to find it as with most of these the links actually defer you right back to the Google Play Store it isn't the most feature fill to the bunch and the interface could use some work however you can access it immediately within the browser at any time without opening up a second application that is until you actually download an app number four on our list is the well-known app brain you may know this app pretty well already because a lot of blogs will post app brain links when doing a particles instead of the usual Play Store links it's a solid app and a solid Google Play Store alternative even if it looks a little plain perhaps the best part of this app is that the apps come from the Google Play Store this is simply a different skin that you can use to surf them there at brain stream the recently used apps and the manage and sync settings give you a unique view of your apps and your recommendations all in all not a bad app to try first in our top three is yet another surprising app Go Launcher e^x this is a launcher but baked within the launcher is the ghost door since it has a billion users and no one ever complains about the ghost or we assume that it's probably not that bad if you need a launcher and a Play Store replacement here's another two birds one stone scenario the store is pretty simple and it works you can browse games and apps by trending or category this is also great if you already use go launcher as you can find themes for Go launch your go logger etc much easier than you probably code in the Play Store number two on the list is a newer Play Store alternative called fetch we don't know if it's because of the genuinely fun to use interface or the constant references to puppies but we really enjoyed fetch it is as solid as they come in a very confident alternative to the Play Store so here's the main function of fetch it allows you to narrow down your search by using an absurd number of parameters you can narrow it down by ranking price category and pretty much anything else you can think of you can even narrow down games by 2d or 3d graphics then you save searches so fetch learns what you like and fetches it for you see dog references dog references everywhere well here we are the creme de la creme the best of the best and it's the Amazon Appstore we would be disappointed if this weren't the best alternative because you know Kindle Fire owners kind of have to use it that said it looks nice and has a lot of fun features of course everyone should already know about the free apps every day every day you can get a paid app free of charge and sometimes it's actually pretty good another unique feature is the test run mode where you can run an app within the emulator inside the App Store before you buy it that's actually really cool if you take a look at our leaderboard you can see how all these apps stack up against one another as usual ladies and gentlemen it is your ratings and reviews that drive these lists and not us if you want to check out one of these apps the links are in the video description if there's a good one that we missed let us know in the comments this was a very interesting list mostly because a couple of these weren't even in the Google Play Store Amazon App Store and f-droid have to be downloaded from the web and we had to put them here based on their popularity rather than a ranking system it's not everyday people think of trying out an alternative to the Play Store but if you do these are apps that will help you out once again I'm Joe Hendy the Android authority app guy feel free to subscribe to our YouTube channel you like this video check out some of our other ones don't forget to check out the written companion to this video and the social media links in the video description thanks for watching and have a wonderful day