10 Most Useful Business Apps

The 21^st century, more commonly known as the ‘Tech Era’ is taken away by the Apps Storm. The boom in Apps has changed the nature of work which has enhanced in reshaping the technology at an accelerating speed. The below listed are some of the business apps  which lightens your work load and makes work enjoyable.

# 1 Wunderlist 2

Wunderlist 2, known as one of the best to-do list managers enables to manage and share the lists efficiently. Whether sharing a shopping list or planning a trip, it helps you gets your things done easily within no time. It hosts a lot of features including Reminders, Recurring and Subtasks along with improved Notes, Notifications and Sharing and many more. It has gone native with all the major platforms like Android, Mac, iPhone, Web and Windows.

# 2 Clear

It is a paid app exclusively for iOS which is a minimalist, gesture based interface that manages your to-do list. It aims to keep things simple and quick. This particular app works purely based on gestures i.e.; pull down to create a new task, swipe to mark as complete and pinch to navigate. It helps you store your lists on iCloud, create and add tasks in Clear from other apps and share particular posts on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

# 3 Podio

An app which offers a collaborative and customizable work platform which helps in building your own apps based on the work and the processes followed. It lets you manage your work effectively and stay coordinated with the team such as tracking projects, handling sales, share status messages and work on real time among social activity streams, task management and stay connected with smart inbox and contacts especially through notifications and private messaging and much more. For instance, it helps you manage a team of people assigned with different tasks and lets them share and run their tasks effectively.

# 4 CloudOn

Make your work a lot easier and interesting with CloudOn as it lets you add Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader and many more apps to your iPad through the use of cloud computing. It also lets you use your cloud storage accounts to handle files. With CloudOn, it is easier to access to a workplace with Microsoft Applications such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files on your iPad. There are limitations of using mobile apps on mobile devices compared to an advanced office PC. Inspite of the limitations, CloudOn hosts the Office programmes on their servers and streams them to the mobile devices. Besides it has tied up with storage accounts such as Google Drive, Dropbox and SkyDrive accounts for storage.

# 5 Ovo Timer

Ovo Timer, completely free app which is simple to use, visually appealing and works as a fast, free and good-looking countdown timer especially for Android. To set the countdown timer, drag the finger on the screen of the device. It is intuitive, pretty and customizable where the user can change alarm ringtones, use vibration.

# 6 Google Drive

An app exclusively for the business experts to create, share and collaborate. It has multiple features which include uploading content from handheld devices to Google’s Cloud storage, edit images and videos, fax and sign documents, manage projects, create flow charts and many more. It enables uploading and accessing of files like documents, images, videos, Google Docs, PDF’s and so on. It is freely available for iOS and Android systems and can be installed and accessed from any devices.

# 7 Paper by FiftyThree

This app lets you capture drawings, illustrations or notes on iPhone or iPad and instantly share them across the web. Paper acts like a personal journal, an easy-to-use interface. You can touch the screen of your device and draw or scribble with the tools provided by the app. On an iPad, the drawings can be appealing with high-resolution images; which can subsequently be shared with social media sites or via mail. Paper by Fifty Three is a free app from iTunes which can be installed easily and there are paid upgrades to add new features which make it lot more user-friendly and interesting.

# 8 CheckMark

A brilliant to-do app which works based on the location. It makes life a lot simpler by setting time-based or location-based reminders. The interface is kept simple to make it more user-friendly. The user can set up a new reminder with just 3 taps, but they are a bit time consuming to set up. Initially create a location in the app and then choose the location on the map and set a reminder for the specific location. When the user reaches that particular location, he will receive a notification. It is a downloadable version for iOS only.

# 9 Seatguru

An app released from the creators of TripAdvisor; is a useful tool for the travelers. The app is considered to be the best source for choosing seat availability and airfares. The users can also avail to real-time flight status along with the free Seatguru app which also provides seating advice, in-flight amenity information and airline recommendations. Interestingly, it also works with flights in India too. The app is freely available for iOS and Android.

# 10 30/30

This attractive app is simple to use and manages time effectively. It was named as “One of the best apps of 2012” by 148 apps. It functions as per the tasks assigned by the user. First and foremost, the user has to set up a list of tasks and assign time for each of them. The app will notify the time for each task as per the time allotted. The user can even change the time when the countdown is still running. Apart from that, it has certain other features like multiple lists, data-mirroring in real time with iCloud and other smart time functions.