Best Productivity Apps

When you are dealing with multiple deadlines, you can’t simply rely on your memory to ensure that things are under control. It would be difficult for you to manage your team’s schedule without any technological assistance.

Thankfully, the good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. There are many productivity apps to help you with your everyday work-related scheduling and tracking.

Even though a quick search on Google brings you all kinds of tools and apps that exactly matches your business requirement, it is tedious to pick out the best android apps that enhances your productivity.

Here are the top 10 best Android apps for productivity that we would recommend most, based on our research and testing done on dozens of productivity apps.

(1) Todoist

Todoist allows you to manage your tasks throughout the day. It’s a minimalist service with a great design across all the applications. Though, Todoist is a free android app with in-app purchases, it creates lists, email in tasks, color codes, manages task with friends and assigns and delegates tasks to team members.

Other apps you can try for managing your tasks are Trello, Wunderlist and Any.do

(2) Evernote

Evernote is one of the best notes taking apps that will help make the schedule for you and notify you about the same. The most important and best features of this app are: (i) you can keep your regular journal here in a diary-like notepad. (ii) Attach files of different formats like pdf, docs, etc. with your notes. (iii) you can organize your paper documents just by scanning them using your phone camera. (iv) create memos, checklist, to-do list, grocery list, etc. very quickly. (v) add photos, audio, and video files with your notes if you think they are essential. and (vi) enjoy smooth handwriting and drawing experience with this app.

(3) Google Calendar

Google calendar is not just a regular calendar app, but it is loaded with tons of other essential functions. That’s why people consider it as a great time and effort saver, especially for busy people. With Google Calendar, you’re able to schedule individual or team events. You can create several calendars or invite others based on their schedule. Google calendar has access to all the Google apps you are registered with and make events accordingly from the schedule from your Gmail like booking a flight, reserving a restaurant seat, etc

(4) AppBlock

The main task of this app is to temporarily block some apps from your device so that you don’t spend most of your time with them. I know it’s hard to visualize such a situation, but it is the most effective solution that you can try. This App helps you to stay focused, active and be productive and stayaway from websites and apps that you have become addicted to.

Similar apps you can try to temporarily block some of the distracting websites are Freedom and Pocket

(5) Slack

Slack is an internet-based messaging platform designed for teams and it’s the ideal communication tool for remote workers. Instant messaging is organized into channels, similar to instant messaging chatrooms, which team members can join and leave, as needed, so nobody receives messages or notifications irrelevant to them. Team members can also chat outside of main topics in separate threads which prevents these messages from interfering with the most project-centric conversations.

(6) Hootsuite

Logging in several social media accounts can be exhausting. Instead, sync all your social media platforms in one place. Schedule posts, track accounts and view your social analytics with Hootsuite. With Hootsuite, you can sync 35+ social media accounts, you can assign and approve workflows with team management thereby following important topics with no hassle.

(7) Grammarly

Using the wrongly-spelled word or having serious typos in an important message or document can cause embarrassment and put real strain in client communications. Grammarly goes a long way to prevent those kinds of mishaps, both for single words and words in context. It’s an online tool for checking spelling, grammar, overused words, and other matters related to writing, and it now has a mobile app supported by both android and iOS. Grammarly can be installed as a keyboard app and spellings are checked as you write. When you’re ready for more contextual advice, you can run Grammarly on an entire document or message to have it look for mistakes.

(8) RescueTime

RescueTime is a best app for passively tracking time and service. It passively watches what you do on your computer and Android device and records how you spend your time. The idea is to track your time, not necessarily for billing purposes, but to ensure that you get an accurate snapshot of your daily, weekly, and monthly productivity.

When you install and set up RescueTime, you indicate what kinds of apps and websites are productive, unproductive, or those that fall in between.  It then tracks how you spend your time and creates graphs and reports that classify how much time was productive or otherwise.

(9) Toggl

Toggl is simple and one of the best time-tracking apps with powerful reporting capabilities that keeps track of how much time you’re spending on tasks. If you need to track time spent in meetings, at a client visit, or while doing anything when you’re away from your desk, Toggl is the best mobile app for the job.

(10) Pushbullet

Pushbullet is one of the best apps for quickly sharing information across devices in a simple manner and also easily. It lets you to send any information or files you need from one device to another. In its design and setup, it looks similar to a multiplatform messaging app. You can even use Pushbullet among friends as a messaging app.

Similar apps you can use to share the information is Google Drive and Dropbox

Searching for productivity apps can be time consuming, chaotic and could leave you confused. Hence, the intent of this blog is to provide information at your fingertips on the best productivity apps, researched by our team, that are likely to improve your productivity. Feel free to explore other productivity apps as well and drop us a note in the comment section if you do come across an app that fascinates you!

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Jayalakshmi

Jayalakshmi

Jayalakshmi is a former business associate at HelloLeads. Dedicated to empowering start-ups and small businesses, she writes on tools and technologies to enhance productivity and promote scalability.

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good information