Social networks have become essential today. Whether it's showing off our holidays or simply advertising our business or company, apps like Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, without forgetting of course TikTok, are fixed on our smartphone.
And the truth is that Facebook is one of the most used social networks and all this despite the good old tool of Mark Zuckerberg is not the paradigm of privacy. However, there are many users who use Facebook on a daily basis. Unfortunately, its app is not the best and consumes a lot of resources, making the performance of our smartphone heavier.
Fortunately, the official Facebook application is not the only way to consult this social network on a smartphone. In addition to being able to access from the web browser itself, we have many alternatives in the google app store. Here we leave you some of the best.
The best alternative Facebook apps
These alternatives that we leave you are much better than the official Facebook app
- Facebook Lite
- Faster for Facebook Lite
- Flour
- Fenice
- SlimSocial for Facebook
- Swift per Facebook Lite
Facebook Lite
Facebook Lite is a great option for less powerful smartphones
While the main official Facebook app is really poor in terms of performance, the official "alternative" isn't bad at all. This is Facebook Lite, an application that was clearly designed to be used on phones with limited resources and with unstable or low-speed network connections.
Despite this, this tool works much better than its older sister and both for those who use social media sporadically and for all those who do not have a powerful smartphone, it will be your best option.
Faster for Facebook Lite
Faster for Facebook Lite is a free and very light alternative to the official Facebook client. This tool not only allows us to use Facebook in a completely normal way, but also to be able to talk to our contacts.
According to its developers, Faster for Facebook Lite occupa solo 30 MB on our smartphone and consumes much less data than the official app.
Maki: Facebook and Messenger in one application
Maki allows you to have Facebook and Messenger in one application
One of the things we like least about Facebook is that it requires two completely different applications to get the most out of it. On the one hand Facebook itself for the social network and on the other Facebook Messenger to talk to our contacts.
Maki not only solves this problem, as it allows both, but its operation is much better, more private and with more features than the official app and all this completely free.
Fenice
Phoenix is another one of those alternatives to Facebook that not only allows us to save battery, memory and data on our smartphone, but it also works much better than the official app.
Other than that, Phoenix is also 2 in 1, since you won't need to install Messenger separately. Best of all, Phoenix's interface is pretty much the same as the official app and has many extras that the latter doesn't have. Try it, it's really worth it.
SlimSocial
Why use SlimSocial and not the official Facebook client? Its developers are clear:
- It is light: weighs less than 0,1 Mb;
- Has a simple and modern design: there is only what you need
- It is an application “Open Source”: the code for this application is on GitHub, you can verify the authenticity of the application and contribute to its development.
- È free and without advertising;
- Is not invasive
- Respect your privacy: this application does not require special permissions. Facebook will not have access to any data on your phone without your consent
Swift per Facebook Lite
Swift for Facebook Lite is a free, customizable, fully functional and lightweight alternative to Facebook Lite and Messenger that allows us to chat, call, video conference with your Facebook friends, send emoticons, videos, images, gifts, browse news, comments ... also to fully protect our privacy.
The app is free but if we do not want advertising we will have to make a single purchase of less than 1 euro. Quite a cheap price for an application that offers so much.
