10 best sideloaded apps for Android you can't find in Google Play - Android Authority

The Google Play Store is, no doubt, the best place to get apps.

However, that isn’t to say that Google Play has every app or game available for download.

There are other surprisingly decent sideloaded apps that aren’t allowed in Google Play for one reason or another.

Since you are venturing outside of Google Play, we recommend checking out our how to install third party apps without the Google Play Store guide linked here.

We’d also like to give an honorable mention to the Amazon App Store since you do have to sideload it and it also has a bunch of apps and games.

The biggest and most useful function for APKMirror is trying out new or beta versions of apps you can regularly get on Google Play before they actually get there or finding an old version of an app or game that worked better than its new version.

Cerberus used to be one of the best Find My Phone apps on the Play Store.

It’s another app store similar to Google Play.

However, this one only has FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) apps.

You won’t find a ton of popular apps here, but you can find a lot of simple tools that would replace less trustworthy ones on the Google Play Store.

Price: Free to play.

Fortnite’s on-again-off-again relationship with the Google Play Store is very public and very messy.

It’s one of the most popular games in the world and you can’t get it in the Play Store at this time.

One day, when Epic Games releases its own game store, we’ll likely replace Fortnite with it.

There is the Google Play Store version (link) which is only just okay.

The Google Camera ports include the outstanding post processing of Pixel devices along with Night Sight, Astro Mode, and other features you don’t find the Play Store version.

Humble Bundle is a game sales service and one of the few really good ones outside of the Google Play Store.

The service usually bundles a bunch of games together that you can buy for far below their Google Play Store value.

It’s a little more tedious than any manga reader you can find on Google Play, but it has so much more content.

Magisk Manager is one of the most powerful sideloaded apps

Price: Free / Varies