Some of these free Kindle apps keep you organized, others keep you prepared, and some keep you entertained with your favorite music and movies. So pick up your Kindle Fire and go through this list to make sure you have these essential apps downloaded. Alarm Clock not only gives you the time and lets you set multiple alarms, but it also shows the local weather and plays white noise as you go to sleep. This free Kindle Fire app is easy to use, works in portrait and landscape mode, has a dimming feature, and functions even if it isn’t running or if your Kindle Fire is in sleep mode. It lets you create your own music stations based on the music you already know you like. From there, it finds similar music for you and plays it continuously at absolutely no charge. Pandora also provides comedy stations. While there are advertisements at times (if you’re not subscribed to a paid plan), the app still provides a great way to find new music. Some of the features include a minute-by-minute forecast for the next two hours, severe weather alerts, interactive radar maps, a 15-day forecast, and info like precipitation amounts, cloud cover, sunrise/sunset times, wind speeds, and more. This Kindle Fire app will find your local cable or satellite provider to make sure the guide you see is specific to the actual schedules in your time zone. You can also set your favorite channels and easily switch between every channel, HD-only channels, and your favorites to create a personalized interface. One popular feature of TV Guide is the section that tells you what’s new tonight. This means you don’t have to sift through the entire guide to find new episodes that air today. Flashlight HD LED has a super simple design and works instantaneously when you first open the app or widget. You can even choose any color you want for the light. Different sections of notes can be built to organize them into Notebooks, and you can even fill out tags for notes so they’re easier to search for later. With Evernote, you can search through file attachments such as PDFs and images added to Evernote through the Kindle Fire and can search for text within those as well as your notes. The best thing about Calculator Plus is that it provides a history of your calculations so you can clearly see what you did in the past without having to write the results down. Also, the app uses the full screen of the Kindle Fire so you have more room for using the buttons and seeing your calculations. It’s easy to quickly move through the films to find something based on its cover image, but each film has more information as well, like a rating, the genre, and description. If you create a free account with Crackle, you can make a watchlist of movies and shows you want to see at a later time, and Crackle also gives you a list of recommendations based on your viewing history. BeFunky claims to be the most feature-filled photo-editing app in the world. There are dozens of photo effects as well as overlays, fonts, frames, and stickers that you can use, but you can also do basic things like crop, sharpen, and rotate your pictures. This is an on-demand virus scanner that’s popular with computers users but also useful and effective for mobile devices. It scans Trojans, spyware, malicious code from text messages, and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs). On top of the malware scanning capabilities, there are automatic updates and a privacy manager that checks your other Kindle Fire apps for ones that may be using your personal information, such as your GPS location, text messages, calendar, and contacts. Malwarebytes Security also automatically detects possible security vulnerabilities on your Kindle Fire and can give you recommendations on how to patch the holes to regain security.
