ether you plan to wield a Samsung Galaxy S8 (or S8+) in the coming days or you’re sticking with your current device, one thing is sure: you’ll probably want something new interesting to enjoy on the thing. And that’s where our Five to Try column comes in hy.

Earth leads our list of this week’s top new updated Android app release, as the old favorite gets a reboot complete with 3D imagery guided tours. Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series is up next, as the episodic adventure game series starts anew, while Microsoft To-Do can help you get organized, CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars is a fun vehicle battler, Music Mate makes it easy to find official music videos in a snap. 

Earth

Earth has been on Android for ages now, but even if you’ve browsed its global recreations before, there’s reason to embark on a fresh tour today. unched this week, the new app—the first significant version debut since 2014—brings in a few big new features, including the ability to view 3D terrain all over. It’s impressive to see not only big cities lmarks from a 3D, fully rotatable view, but also homes, neighborhoods, nature. 

That’s great for exploring on your own, but Earth can also hold your h if you’re looking for a journey. The new Voyager feature brings 50+ different tours around the globe, all curated blending interactive maps with things like video content stunning photos. Some of it was produced in collaboration with forces like NASA BBC Earth, there’s even a Sesame Street-themed tour about girls around the world. 

Separately, the “I’m Feeling cky” search will point you towards a rom destination all over the world, with Knowledge Cards ready to show you around a bit. This v9 release is rolling out to the ay Store now, or you can snag the signed A from A Mirror if you can’t wait to embark. 

Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series

’re just a few weeks away from the theatrical release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Marvel’s offbeat space sequel about this questionable bunch of heroes looks just as delightful as the original. But it’s not the only way you’ll find a new Guardians saga that’s not solely in comic form: you can also start playing through Telltale’s episodic adventure game series.

The first episode (of five), Tangled Up in Blue ($5), is out this week, it gives you a couple hours of narrative to soak up as you pick dialogue options, make big choices that can shift the course of the quest, explore environments, even battle a notable Marvel villain. It clearly aspires to capture the film’s essence, but comes a bit short without the official voices likenesses. Still, this could shape up to be an interesting tale as future episodes release in the coming months, Guardians is off to a solid start here. You’ll need a pretty new phone, however: it ran a little rough on the Galaxy S6 ge+ I’m using.

Microsoft To-Do

If you’re a tried–true nderlist user, we have some bad news: it’s going away. Microsoft bought the company a couple years back, is replacing the original app with the new Microsoft To-Do. But here’s the good news: while To-Do isn’t quite ready to match nderlist on features just yet, Microsoft says that it won’t retire the original app until To-Do is fully capable.

Still, you might want to start making the transition now. Microsoft To-Do looks acts a fair bit like nderlist, with a clean interface the ability to sync across Android, iOS, ndows, web, plus it has intelligent task suggestions that learn from your habits. Outlook integration is included for now, with further Office 365 syncing ahead, plus Microsoft plans to add list sharing Android tablet support before this preview version is properly finalized.

CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars

Zeptob designed one of mobile gaming’s all-time greats with Cut the Rope, but the studio’s latest game swaps the puzzle-solving for feline-assisted vehicular destruction. In CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars, you’ll build the war machine of your dreams from various parts, starting with a frame augmenting it with rocket launchers, spinning saw blades, other cartoonish weapons tools.

From there, the battle is on: your vehicle enters the arena tries to be the last one still whole in a head-to-head showdown. You won’t actually control the car; it’ll simply drive ahead fire weapons as fast as they’ll go, which means your job is really in the design. That’s a fun hook, the cat-centric theme here is amusing, although it remains to be seen whether the freemium format—complete with timers for unlocking parts—wears down the fun quickly. 

Music Mate

Ever listened to a song on your phone wished you could watch it instead? ll, that’s the kind of conundrum that Music Mate is uniquely designed to solve. DT’s app hangs around in the background when you’re using apps like Spotify, ra, or ay Music, once a new song starts playing, it goes to work finding the official music video on YouTube.

Music Mate offers up its result within a second or two, you can have it appear as a notification or a bubble along the side of the screen. Tap that, the windowed suggestion will appear, letting you tap for an immediate preview or flip over to the YouTube app for the full-fledged clip. You can also save a video for later if you don’t want to end your audio-only session. Music Mate’s findings were pretty spot-on in my testing for songs with actual music videos, so this could be a hy way for on-the-go listeners to save a step or two.