Android Apps for Diwali – SMS, Greetings, Pooja, Live Wallpapers, etc.

It’s that time of the year, the time of the festival of lights, the festival of Diwali, the days we all gather around with our loved ones and friends, shop for new clothes and other things, eat all the sweets we can possibly get our hands on, and totally enjoy ourselves.

However, it is also one of those days we burn a lot of crackers and pollute the air and cause noise pollution as well, which is something not many of you are doing this time. And to take your mind away from not firing up some crackers, a lot of developers make apps each Diwali for Android, apps that let you burst virtual crackers, send greetings, or even let you perform a virtual Aarti for Goddess Lakshmi, as well as many different live wallpapers.

We’ve made a list of the top Diwali apps that we found on the Play Store, including apps, games, as well as live wallpapers, which should keep your Diwali spirit going when you are using your Android device. Continue reading to find out about some of the top Diwali apps for Android available on the Play Store.

Cracker Touch

Cracker Touch is both an app and a live wallpaper, and includes many different Diwali-related wallpapers/backgrounds, which when touched show off a virtual cracked going off on the screen. You can choose from a variety of different cracker sounds to accompany a cracker when you touch the screen, and customize a lot of other settings as well.

Be green, don’t cause noise pollution and pollute the air by setting off real crackers, that is what the mantra should be for everyone, and maybe Cracker Touch will fulfill your craving for seeing and listening to crackers going off.

Download Cracker Touch

Diwali Greetings

Diwali Greetings, as the name suggests, is an app that allows you to send Diwali greeting cards to your relatives, friends, and loved ones. You can either choose from a collection of high quality cards, or make your own by adding a custom background, text, and even your signature using handwriting recognition, then share it with others through email, Facebook, or other social networks.

Download Diwali Greetings

Diwali Boom

Diwali Boom is a game that involves making crackers go off by touching the right cracker on time, with limited shots for each cracker. If the right cracker is touched, all the crackers form up to become a larger cracker and go off in all its blazing glory. There are multiple levels in the game, with each level having more and more crackers on the screen (and a progress screen taken straight from the Angry Birds games). Quite a fun little game while it lasts, so be sure to give it a try.

Download Diwali Boom

3D Diwali Live Wallpaper

This is another live wallpaper, featuring various scenes and images to choose from, including scenes of a diya (clay lamp) with falling starts, an animated Rangoli, Hindu New Year, and even a countdown counting the remaining days to Diwali. There is a paid version costing Rs. 50 as well, which allows you to customize different scenes as you see fit. A great live wallpaper for sure, with enough variety to make sure you don’t get bored.

Download 3D Diwali Live Wallpaper Free | Paid (Rs. 50/$0.99) 

Diwali Deeya/Diya

Diwali Deeya/Diya is a nice little app the puts a diya on the screen, which you can touch to light up or put out. There are also various diya styles and background images to choose from, as well as six traditional Diwali songs that can be played in the background. Oh, and you can also learn about the history of Diwali from right withing the app. A paid version costing Rs. 50 also exists, which removes the ads present in the free version.

Download Diwali Deeya/Diya Free | Paid (Rs. 50/$0.99)

Crackers

Crackers is quite a simple game that puts different types of crackers on the screen, including Flower-pot, Garland cracker, ground chakra, and a few more, which you can burst by simply clicking on them on the screen. There are multiple levels to play through, with more levels apparently coming in a future update. Nothing much to it, just a way of “bursting eco-friendly crackers” on your Android device.

Download Crackers

Diwali Lights

Diwali Lights is a live wallpaper that displays an Aarti on the screen, along with a background image, both of which can manually selected from a set of different choices. The Aartis are rendered in pretty nice quality, making it an excellent live wallpaper for the Diwali season.

Download Diwali Lights

Shree Maha Lakshmi Aarti

Goddess of wealth and prosperity Maha Lakshmi is no doubt at the center of all things Diwali, and is worshiped all over India during the festival of lights. Shree Maha Lakshmi Aarti is an app that lets you perform the Aarti on your phone, with multiple pictures of Lakshmi available, accompanied by the song Om Jai Lakshmi Mata. Both the song as well as the pictures can be downloaded, or set as ringtone or wallpaper, though only in the paid version which is still under development.

Download Shree Maha Lakshmi Aarti

3D Candle Light Live Wallpaper

3D Candle Light live wallpaper is exactly what the name suggests: a live wallpaper which display a number of animated lit candles on the screen, nothing more, nothing less. The quality is a little on the lower side, but that may be the case only on 720p displays.

Download 3D Candle Light Live Wallpaper

Magic Sparkle : Shubh Diwali

Last but not the least, we have another live wallpaper for this joyous occasion – Magic Sparkle : Shubh Diwali, which includes a number of high definition backgrounds of different diya scenes, and with animated shiny and shimmering stars on the screen, the color of which you can customize according to your own tastes.

Download Magic Sparkle : Shubh Diwali

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So there you have it. Those are some of the noteworthy Diwali apps and live wallpapers (mostly the latter) that we found on the Google Play Store. Of course, there are many more out there, so be sure to check out the Play Store, and do let us know if you find some worthy of being placed in this list.

Oh, and Happy Diwali!