Improve Your WhatsApp Experience With These 10 Top Android Apps - MakeUseOf

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WhatsApp needs no introduction, as it is the reason many people bought smartphones in the first place. With almost two billion users, WhatsApp has tons of solid features that allow you to connect with others.

The company rolls out new features pretty frequently. However, some third-party apps can help improve your WhatsApp experience by providing a bunch of handy customizations and tools.

These apps also offer features that WhatsApp doesn't currently support, like downloading contact statuses, or message scheduling. So, here is a list of the best Android apps that you can use to supercharge WhatsApp.

Note: The apps mentioned below have positive ratings and reviews on Google Play. However, they may not be officially supported so it is best to stay up-to-date with WhatsApp's Terms of Service to avoid the risk of getting your account banned while using third-party apps.

1. ZEDGE

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ZEDGE is a pretty popular phone personalization app that has many features to customize WhatsApp. It has a huge wallpaper library that you can use to download wallpapers for your chat. WhatsApp does provide built-in wallpapers, but they are limited.

ZEDGE also has a library of ringtones and notification sounds, which you can download and apply to your WhatsApp notifications and calls. The app is free to download, and most of its content is available for free. There is some paid content as well that you can buy from within the app.

Download: ZEDGE (Free, in-app purchases available)

2. Chat Track

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Chat Track is a paid app for tracking your WhatsApp contacts. With Chat Track, you can keep a check on your children's activities—the app will notify you every time your child is online on WhatsApp.

A great feature of this app is anonymous tracking. The app allows you to track multiple contacts and generate daily reports of their activity. You can filter these reports by day and hour.

Chat Track offers various subscriptions for its services but you can give its free trial a go first to see if it is suitable for you.

Download: Chat Track (Subscription required, free trial available)

3. WAPunch

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WAPunch is a feature-packed supplementary app for WhatsApp. It allows you to automatically save photos and videos from your contacts' WhatsApp statuses. With the app's photo-editing features, you can edit any image with font, text, photo collages, and frames.

Another feature this app provides is direct chat heads. With chat heads, you can keep communication uninterrupted while using other apps. You don't have to stay inside WhatsApp for messaging. WAPunch also allows you to chat with people without saving their phone numbers.

And with so much data sent and received, WhatsApp can become cluttered. WAPunch lets you clear the junk to improve WhatsApp's performance.

Download: WAPunch (Free, in-app purchases available)

4. Sticker maker

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Stickers are a fun way to interact on instant messaging apps. WhatsApp has a built-in library of stickers, but there is only a handful of stickers available.

Sticker maker allows easy creation of custom stickers. You can create them from your photos or memes from your phone's gallery.

You can create unlimited sticker packs for free. With the smart cut feature, you can easily select any object from an image. Sticker maker also has a great community feature where you can download stickers made by other people.

Download: Sticker maker (Free, in-app purchases available)

5. WhatsAuto

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WhatsAuto lets you automatically reply to WhatsApp messages when you are away. If you are in a meeting or driving, simply turn on WhatsAuto to respond with pre-written messages.

You can select specific contacts to respond to while you are away. You can also create smart replies for frequent messages, such as "nice talking to you," "thank you for help," and more.

WhatsAuto also has a scheduling feature to define an auto-pilot time in which it would turn on automatically. It also offers a driving mode to detect when you're driving and takes care of all your incoming messages by letting people know you're driving.

The app has a premium version as well that offers more features for a better experience.

Download: WhatsAuto (Free, in-app purchases available)

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WhatsTool is rich in features that are specially designed for WhatsApp customization. It has more than 20 tools that provide a complete kit to enhance the WhatsApp experience. You can save contact statuses, message phone numbers without saving, and send bulk messages.

The app also provides a video splitter feature to trim videos for WhatsApp statuses and chats. You can make custom stickers and generate chat reports from the app.

WhatsTool also has a WhatsApp auto-forward feature for forwarding messages without effort. Moreover, you can also recover deleted messages from WhatsApp chats.

WhatsTool provides all essential features for free. However, it has two paid versions that take your experience to the next level and offer even more features such as unlimited groups, a WhatsApp anti-ban, and so on.

Download: WhatsTool (Free, in-app purchases available)

7. Hi Translate

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Hi Translate, as the name suggests, is a language translation app. It has powerful features that you can use in your WhatsApp chats. You can translate any text from your WhatsApp messages into more than 50 languages.

The app doesn't require a mobile network as it supports offline translation. You can also translate your voice messages with it.

Another handy feature you can use is image translation, which allows you to translate any text from images. It is a free-to-use app with some ads here and there.

Download: Hi Translate (Free)

8. Click to chat

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Click to chat is a mini-app focused on a single feature. It allows you to message any WhatsApp number without saving it to your phone contacts.

The app has no ads or trackers. It just pops up a menu on the screen when you launch the app.

You can select any country code from the options available and it also picks the recent numbers and messages from the log. With its autofill number feature, it opens that chat automatically. You can also create a link for a specific number and save or share it.

Download: Click to chat (Free)

9. WhatsCrop

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WhatsCrop is an app that offers image editing features for WhatsApp. It allows you to crop your WhatsApp profile photos without losing a substantial part of them. The app automatically adjusts the picture size to the maximum possible without cutting it too much.

You can also apply more than 30 filters to your images. It has many professional photo-editing features such as Color Adjustments, Tint, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast, Exposure, Color Balances, and Outline.

WhatsCrop provides all its features free of cost, or you can upgrade to the premium version to remove ads.

Download: WhatsCrop (Free, in-app purchases available)

10. Sticker.ly

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Sticker.ly is similar to the Sticker maker app. You can find millions of WhatsApp animated stickers from its library and it also allows you to create customized stickers.

With its auto-cut feature, you can easily use any part of an image to create a custom sticker. It also provides a WhatsApp video status feature for WhatsApp, and you can download and share your WhatsApp contacts' video statuses using this app.

Sticker.ly has a search menu to find the latest trending sticker searches from other users. All Sticker.ly features are free to use.

Download: Sticker.ly (Free)

Rejuvenate WhatsApp With These Handy Apps

The apps mentioned above fill the gaps left open by WhatsApp as of this writing. The popularity of the features these apps offer might force WhatsApp developers to integrate them into future versions.

Until then, you can improve your WhatsApp experience with the apps on this list. Enjoy!

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Ali has been a tech enthusiast since 2005. He is a power user of Android, Linux, and Windows. He has an Advanced Diploma in Business Management from London, UK, and is an English Literature graduate from Punjab University, Pakistan.