5 Best Facebook Apps for Android: The Official App Alternative

Best Facebook App for Android : The Official App Alternative

Facebook is one of the most popular social media apps in the world. While the Android is also one of the most popular operating system. Using facebook app for android will get an easy way to access your Facebook account. That is the reason, now we are going to talk about the best facebook app for android. There is an official app from Facebook that has a good feature, you can do everything in the official app.

However, there is a reason to disliked the official app of Facebook such as the user interface structure. Another reason is, the official app of Facebook make your phone slower because it uses a lot of your RAM, data, and the memory space of your phone. Then, you may need a light apps to get another way accessing your facebook account, in order to increase your smartphones performances.

Here are the alternative best Facebook apps for your Android smartphone.

1. Fast

Just like the name suggests, the Fast app is mainly purposed at users on lower-spec smartphone devices. We have already knew that the current version of the official Facebook app use much more memory and that is not good for your battery life. The Fast app just takes 2MB of space on your device. This is a quick and responsive facebook app to use and also comes packed with many great features inside. You can use this app as a newsreader to organize your own lists of pages and friends, then, you can chat with your Facebook friends without need the Facebook Messenger. The last, you can also view the videos from YouTube directly from this app. It is better and very recommend for you who want to get a light facebook app. Another word, if your smartphone specification is in a range of good specs, this is may still useful to increase your smartphone performance.

2. Tinfoil

The Tinfoil is a great app for your account security. If you are a user of a social media service, you need to be aware of keeping up your privacy. Tinfoil made for a purpose to reject some of the serious privacy issues on the social media, include Facebook. Tinfoil works by making a sandbox for Facebook’s mobile site on your android device that will protected your privacy, and would-be rejected the ability to track the browsing history on your smartphone.

3. Mini connected

The purpose of Mini app is similar to the Fast app, that is to get the better performance on low-spec android devices. The special feature from Mini, you can download any video from your Facebook account trough your android device while Fast app just allowed you to download a video content on your own profile. The Mini app will allow you to send messages to your Facebook friends within the app, and there are any others features. But, the main features of Mini is still same with the Fast app.

4. Klyph

The Klyph has designed for you to get a layout that similar with Google Plus. But, the developer says they will update the layout in near future. The Klyph app is one of the most stylish and adaptable third-party facebook apps, because, it has lots of setting features that allow you to tweak the app layout (until the app get the best appearance as you want).

5. Friendcaster

Friendcaster app has a feature to get multiple Facebook accounts inside, and you can open it in simultaneously. There are some themes of Friendcaster that you can customize by changed its theme (currently available six themes inside). Friendcaster will show the newsfeed of all your accounts that opened and allowed you to like, comment, and share a post, video or a photo. Of course, you can also post a status. By using this app, you will be able to download videos from Facebook. However, there are some bugs in Friendcaster that not supporting the direct actions to receive of reject the friend requests feature. It is a good app, too. But if you want to get faster, the better options will be on the Fast or the Mini app.

Well, that is all about the best facebook app for your android. I think, it should be better to open your facebook account trough the browser on your android device. That will more efficient for you, you save the RAM and memory usage of your smartphone. That means, the battery life of your smartphone will also increase. The final decision depends on you, if you are a facebook user that want to know all of your facebook friend activity, then you need to install the facebook app. If there something wrong, or you want to ask, we are more than happy to help you.

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