What is Lag?
1. High Ping Lag
If your internet ping is too high, the usual causes are that you are too far away from the server or have a bad connection. Because of this, you will experience lag in online video games.
2. Frame Rate Drops
People often call frame rate drops lag and, in some way, they’re right. Your experience will be lagging and there are many reasons why the frame rates would drop.
The most common reason is that there are lots of background apps using system resources and none left for the active app to use. Another reason could be hardware related. If you are going to run the latest and most resource consuming mobile game on 5-year-old hardware, it will not be a pleasant ride.
3. Unresponsiveiveness
All of us have experienced unresponsiveness when using an app at least once. The app gets stuck or takes inputs really slow. There are several factors affecting the responsiveness of an app. The most common one is that the memory is being used by other apps. Another reason is that the app itself is not optimized, and this happens in apps that are in beta or alpha stages.
Thankfully, the best anti-lag apps for Android will do the work for you and try to eliminate all of the above issues without putting any stress on your hardware. Of course, they are not going to magically make your smartphone run as if it were new, they will just use some software measures to ensure that your experience runs optimally.
Best Apps to Fix Lag on your Android Device
1. Booster – Boost Game Speed
Dr. Booster is a great looking app that frees up memory in RAM in order to make your smartphone more responsive and run faster. One of the best things about this app is that it keeps the memory cleared when you’re playing a game, meaning that the game will take priority over everything else, making it run faster.
Features:
Direct Boost
Antivirus Scan
Flexible Organization
There is also a direct boost feature that allows you to launch your favorite games and apps from withing Dr. Booster. There are over 70,000 apps supported, so there’s a high chance your favorite ones are also on the list.
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2. Speed BOOSTER – Memory Cleaner & CPU Task Manager
If you want to press a button in an app and start boosted mode, then Speed Booster is made just for you. It is a neat little package that claims to boost your Android CPU speed and free app memory. Even if we believe the last part, we didn’t see any change in our CPU “speed” at all. However, the app is capable of killing unnecessary background tasks.
3. Speed Booster by Cheetah Mobile, Ram, Battery & Game Speed Booster
Cheetah Mobile is a company that has been around for a while and has some compelling pieces of software for Android. The first thing you will notice is its very well detailed interface. There is a lot of information about your smartphone on this app and we really love this.
one tap - Speed Booster - Ram, Battery & Game Speed Booster
easy to use - Speed Booster - Ram, Battery & Game Speed Booster
cleaning junk - Speed Booster - Ram, Battery & Game Speed Booster
The speed booster is able to fix device lagging issues, cool down the temperature of your device and clean junk files. This ensures that your smartphone runs at its optimal speed and even any lag spikes during the gameplay as well as app usage.
4. PINGER – Anti Lag For All Mobile Game Online
This is a tool made for gamers who like to play games online. It basically routes your data through optimized channels to reduce ping during games. This works really well if the server is far away from you. For example, if you are in Asia and want to play on a European server, this app will come in handy.
Features:
Made specifically for gamers
one tap boost
small memory footprint
This app won’t completely eliminate lag, but it will minimize the lag jitters you face during gameplay. All you need to do is run the app and start it by pressing the button. After that, you can minimize it and let it run in the background. The app may or may not benefit you depending on your region, server, the game you’re playing, location and lots of other factors, so you shouldn’t totally depend on it.
5. Game Booster – Play Games Faster & Smoother – Free with In-app Purchases
This Game Booster claims to be able to make your apps run 3 times faster. However, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. The app makes your games run faster than usual – so it does its job, but it isn’t actually 3 times faster after all.
Features:
Memory optimization
FPS Monitor
Advanced features for rooted phones
This app basically optimizes the process running on your processor, clear memory from the RAM and lets the active game or app use almost all system resources. Additionally, if your device is rooted, the app will work even better and some extra features will be available. However, rooting is not completely necessary.
6. Anspeeder – lag remover and game booster – Free
This is one of the simplest and most effective apps in the anti-lag category. It cleans your RAM and helps improve the performance of your device, by accelerating it. This is an app that can be used on almost any Android device since it works with Android 4.1 or up.
Features:
Kills unnecessary tasks
Clears RAM
Improves overall performance
This is a very simple app that doesn’t require much effort to use. Even though the interface design could be improved, it does its job with only the press of a button.
7. Clean Master – Antivirus, Applock & Cleaner
This is another app from Cheetah Mobile. It’s one of the best optimization tools with features of space cleaning and also antivirus for android devices. It can also free up space and RAM to improve the performance of your phone.
Features:
Junk Cleaner
Antivirus
Battery Saver
The Clean Master uses the installed apps and apps installation folder contents for the recognition of junk files for its junk cleaner features, the status of the running apps for boosting the performance of your device and the power saving ability for the battery saving.
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