In this day and age mobile apps play a vital role in day to day affairs, particularly for entrepreneurs. Different tasks like online shopping, finding/publishing jobs, entertainments apps, business statistic apps, reading, news and banking are made much easier with these apps. You can manage tasks in a time-effective way no matter where you are. It also reduces cost and makes processes smoother.

With technology revolution, the addiction of mobile and smart devices is on the rise. Millions of apps are launched every day. And as of the 3rd quarter of 2019, there are 2.47 million apps available on Google Play Store to download for users, making Google Play the app store with biggest number of available apps to download. Apple’s App Store was the second-largest app store with 1.8 million available apps for iOS users.

It has redefined business management for entrepreneurs and business owners. They have a lot of responsibilities and tasks to manage in their daily routines. Hence, time management is of utmost importance. With user-friendly business apps, several processes can be streamlined within a few clicks which help boost productivity by leaps and bounds.

List of Productivity Apps for Entrepreneurs

Below are some amazing shortlisted best productivity apps for entrepreneurs that can use to improve their productivity:

Dropbox

Dropbox is used to store and share your files with advance security features. It is considered one of the best apps for business work. As of 2018, Dropbox reported having 12.7 million paying users.

You can easily share files with your colleagues, friends and employees. Only people you’ve given permission to can access these files.

One of its best benefits is that it can store all your data, information and files online; and if your data gets deleted accidently from your computer, you can easily get it back from Dropbox. So, it’s your secure backup that you can access anytime and anywhere online.

Uber

Instead of waiting and chasing for a taxi and local vehicle, you can easily get a car of your choice within a few minutes by using Uber app. It’s less expensive than local transport and most importantly you can request a ride of your desired location in a few clicks. While requesting a ride you can track the location of the vehicle on real time, contact the rider through message and call directly or anonymously.

In 2018, there were 95 million people that used the Uber app on a monthly basis.

This app saves a lot of time; you only need to request the ride, sit in it and can do all your business works on the way.

Skype

Skype is one of the best apps for communication purpose. According to TechCrunch this mobile communications app has some 300 million monthly users. It is the best and easiest way to communicate with your employees, colleagues, friends and customers. All you need is an email, Skype id or number of the person you want to contact.

You can make video call to a single person and group simultaneously. You can also share your screen with others. Besides video calls, you can also make audio calls or chat with anyone individually or in groups.

This app is available in both mobile and desktop versions. You simply need to install and create an account to use it. Once you create this account, you will get a skype id that you can share with anyone to contact you on skype.

Social Media Apps

Social Media plays an important role in the promotion and marketing of any business. According to Our World in Data, the percentage of US adults who use social media increased from 5% in 2005 to 79% in 2019.

73% of marketers believe that their efforts through social media marketing have been “somewhat effective” or “very effective” for their business (Buffer, 2019).

It’s clear that social media has a huge audience. You need to explore all platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest etc) to promote yourself or your business in order to gain more exposure in the digital world.

Google Calendar

Google calendar helps entrepreneurs and business owners to set reminders about upcoming work, event or meetings. You can set a custom reminder on your desired date or time as to when you want to be notified.

This app is very useful. All you have to do is create an event in Google calendar. It will notify you of all events on time. You won’t have to worry about missing meetings, forgetting birthdays or other important occasions.

LastPass

LastPass is one of the best and most reliable freemium apps, used to store encrypted passwords online. You only need to remember to LastPass password and save other apps’ usernames and passwords to it. When required, it will auto-fill the information stored by you to login to various websites and apps. The passwords saved on LastPass are highly secure. If someone tries to hack, LastPass immediately notifies their users to change the password. The app is also available in mobiles.

Mint

It is used to manage your money and financial tracking in your laptop/mobile. Its installation is free of cost. It notifies you of your bill due date and reminds you about your payments days in advance. It helps manage your budget; whether you have saved money or wasted it and also if your income is stable or not. It stores each one of your bills and at the end of the week tells how much you have spent. Basically, it helps you to manage your finances in a smart way.

Asana

Managing projects across teams is not easy. In fact it can sometimes get quite complex. That’s where task management firm Asana comes into use. It makes tracking work simpler, reducing the need for email and superfluous meetings or – as Asana calls it – all that “work about work.” It also helps increase the productivity of your business by providing useful information. At the end of every month, it shares your profit and loss situation by presenting data and files about task tracking. This helps the workers identify their goals better, work more productively and generate more profit.

In short if you want to improve your productivity then you need to automate your recurring tasks. This practice can save your time and you can do other productive task in this time. Above mentioned apps are the proved best apps that you should use to improve your work capacity in better way.
Don’t forget to share your experience with these apps. Also, if you have another brilliant app in your mind that you are already using in your daily routine to improve your productivity you can share it in below comments.