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Android games are mostly touch-only, so your controller sits there. Gamepad Pro turns its buttons, both sticks and L2/R2 into taps on screen — a separate layout for every game. Drag each control where it should press, save, launch from the app. No root, no PC, no ADB. Made for shooters, MOBA, racing and open-world games where you move and aim at once. Free: 2 layouts per game, 3 games, with ads. One-time Pro removes the ads and unlocks the rest. 500,000+ installs, 24 languages.

Photo apps make you choose: upload your library, or lock photos into a folder you can never search again. Safelight does neither. Photos go into an AES-256 vault unlocked by PIN or fingerprint, and you find them by describing them — "passport", "the whiteboard" — because the model runs on the phone. The app requests no INTERNET permission at all. Sharing strips GPS and EXIF without re-encoding: a receipt for an accountant, a listing photo for a buyer. Free, no ads, no account, no sync.

Turning an Android phone into a real Bluetooth gamepad has long been a firmware lottery. JoyLink makes the phone itself the controller: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android TV and even another phone see a standard Bluetooth gamepad, with nothing to install. No dongle, no receiver app, no root. Xbox-style layout, touchpad, mouse and keyboard, TV remote, tilt-to-steer wheel, custom layouts, turbo and macros. Free with no ads; Pro is a one-time purchase, and you can try every Pro feature once first.