There’s an Android app for just about everything you can imagine (and the sheer number of Android apps is growing with new apps being added every day). As Smartphones continue to gain popularity and developers continue to flood the market with their latest and greatest Android app, it will become even more time-consuming and difficult to determine which apps can help increase your productivity (and which ones are a waste of time).
That’s why we asked the questions and found the best Android apps for boosting business productivity (and yes, all the Android apps in the list below are free).
Top 10 Android Apps for Business Productivity
Android App #1: AppBrain
AppBrain is one of the most productive ways to search for new apps to install. The web base site is very easy to navigate and makes the install process a breeze. From the web interface, installing new apps is as easy as marking them as install and then “syncing” from your phone. AppBrain also allows you to connect with friends and other users and subscribe to their public lists. Then from your phone you can install apps your friends have in just a matter of a few taps.
Android App #2: Thinking Space
Thinking Space is for those of you that find your creativity and productivity increased by the use of Mind Maps.
Android App #3: Gesture Search
Gesture Search is hands down the one Android app I cannot imagine living without. If you have a lot of contacts in your phone, then you will find “writing” on your screen a much easier way to locate the contact of your choice. Settings can also be modified to include apps, music, etc. in the results.
Android App #4: Awesome Drop
Awesome Drop makes it a breeze for you to “drop” a file from your computer and have it magically appear in just a few moments on your phone.
Android App #5: Labelert Beta
Labelert Beta will save you time jumping up every time you hear your new mail notification as it allows you to set up labels on incoming mail and to assign those labels a specific ringtone. Note: you must be a Gmail user and have Labels and Filters set up in order for this app to work.
Android App #6: Trip Master
Trip Master is a must have if you often travel for business and need a solution for managing your mileage.
Android App #7: DropBox
DropBox can be incredibly useful if you are on the road frequently and have files in your DropBox that you want to access from your phone.
Android App #8: Bump
Bump makes sharing your personal contact information a snap with other SmartPhone users that have it installed. Not only can you share your contact information but you can also share apps and photos.
Android App #9: Square
Square allows any SmartPhone user to accept credit card payments (both swiped and entered). I haven’t received my swiper yet so I unable to actually attest to its ease of use. However, I may very well drop the Merchant Service provider I have now and only use Square once I do a full comparison of fees.
Android App #10: Lookout Mobile Security
Lookout Mobile Security is a must have if you are often downloading new apps. It will scan for viruses, perform backups and monitor your privacy.
Thank you to @tvorse for his contributions to this list of Android apps, particularly for AppBrain. From there I am able to stalk his public list of installed apps which is how I discovered Awesome Drop.
If you find yourself frustrated with the length of time it takes to bring up web pages on your DroidX with the installed browser, then be sure to download Dolphin Browser. The speed of loading is significantly faster (again, a hat tip to @tvorse for this suggestion).
Narrowing my list to only 10 was quite a feat. Feel free to peruse all of the apps I have installed on my DroidX by visiting my public profile on AppBrain.
If you want more software junky tips and tricks, stop by my blog where I share time saving tips, fun software finds and more!
4 Comments
Don’t forget to do some winter cleaning.. I purged several unused apps this weekend. Still kept the apps above of course.
Also if you’re feeling left out of the instagrm iphone app try Picplz for Android.
Tim – what is the Picplz app? I also need to do a more thorough cleaning…I did a quick glance through about two weeks ago and need to “re-visit” some of the apps I downloaded thinking I was going to use them but haven’t used them enough to justify keeping them around.
Hey guys you can also download the Future
Scheduler app(paid), it’s pretty cool.
I would like to recommend “Must Do Today”. It’s a useful app for Productivity and Time Management.