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social apps are a dime a dozen on any mobile OS but we're here to sift through them and find the best for you I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and these are the top five social apps for Android a large portion of mobile usage is social sure a lot of gaming and multimedia consumption goes on but let's not forget that these are primarily communication devices with entertainment capabilities on the side so what are the social applications you should know about of course the official applications are always a great place to start Google+ Facebook Twitter Instagram vine etc but it would be pointless to make a list of standard first party applications you probably already know about so we did some digging through Google Play to find the best third party social apps for Android these are our top 5 picks since I first tried Android I've been on a never-ending search to find the perfect Twitter client for me it's the most engaging in fun social network out there the fun is in the limitation being forced to keep it brief to date I've been through dozens of Twitter clients for Android and the only one I found myself coming back to is Plume mainly because it's the most stable and reliable Twitter client I've come across on Android a few contenders have arrived over the last year or so like Falcon Pro carbon Twitter etc even twit and one ladders tweet castor have a decent fanbase but in my experience Bloom has the best combination of additional features aesthetics and reliability it's also great for managing multiple accounts it's not the greatest Twitter client I've ever used and had Falcon Pro not ran into issues with API token limits it would have likely made the list in the place of plume but that's not the case and plume takes the cake it's available for free but to remove the ads you will have to cough up $4.99 speaking of Twitter clients and not being able to leave plume I may have to recant that statement in the near future I've recently been using an up-and-comer in the Android space talent for Twitter it's sleek beautiful and impact with useful features like an in-app browser emoji sport and talent pool the closest thing you're going to get to push notifications on Android from a third-party client it's an always-on listener service which will notify you of the types of notifications you want to receive in real time Talon has a robust theme engine with some built-in UI customizations to boot it also has many more features to tweak in the settings the only reason this clay has a completely replaced plume yet is reliability it's still very new and not all the issues have been resolved quite yet but it's well on its way to becoming my favorite Twitter client for Android it's currently only 199 of course a list of social apps wouldn't be complete without a reddit client on Android I've tried a few and mostly have been back and forth between bacon reader and reddit sync Pro note that both of these have ad supported versions which are free and both premium and free options are $1.99 ultimately I chose Redick Saint for the UI it's simply gorgeous it's also laid out better making it easier to navigate and use it's a fairly basic app but it has several settings to tweak including various UI customizations and other settings for sync if your redditor reddit sync pro is easily one of if not the best reddit clients on Android I've made videos about buffer a few times now what it does is rather simple but if you want an easy way to manage multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts as well as Google+ pages with post scheduling buffer is one of the best options out there essentially you create a buffer account and log in to all the servers as you want to connect from there you can create various posting schedules for each account and begin buffering posts from Chrome feedly Plume or wherever you find things to share send them to buffer select which accounts you want to share to and it takes care of the rest I use buffer each and every day to manage my own accounts as well as some Facebook and Google+ pages I manage on top of sharing you get analytics from within buffer if you share a lot of links or manage more than one account buffer is a must-have not to mention the app is completely free as well as the service but if you need more features you can upgrade to a pro account finally Flipboard it's an incredibly popular application for many reasons it's not only a news reader it's a social reader login to your social accounts in Flipboard will integrate all the RSS feeds you follow with your Facebook newsfeed Twitter timeline and Google+ posts and those are only a few of the accounts you can add to your Flipboard essentially it lays out all your need-to-know information into a beautiful magazine format you can also curate content into your own magazine for others to follow Flipboard is also free of charge folks that's going to do it if we've missed any of your favorite social apps for Android be sure to drop them in a 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