20 Best Productivity Apps in 2024 (iOS, Android, & More)

Check These 20 App Recommendations to Organize Your Day-To-Day Routine!

Your world is full of a thousand distractions that keep you from accomplishing your goals, use any of these useful applications to save time, be more organized, and stay focused.

1. CamScanner (Android - iOS)

Seriously, what normal human being uses an actual copy machine nowadays? The only thing you should need to scan documents is right in your pocket. Despite most phones having built-in scanning features nowadays, the CamScanner outperforms them all.

CamScanner has made my life a thousand times easier this past year, and I guarantee it’ll do the same for you.

Price: Free basic plan, $4.99/month for premium features.

2. Google Drive (Android - iOS)

There’s a big chance you already have this app on your phone, and it’s pretty much mandatory for organizing all of your documents, files, and images in one place.

If you’re a Google Docs, Sheets, or Gmail user like me, Google Drive will likely be at the center of your file-sharing universe.

Price: Free up to 15gb storage, $6/month up to 30GB, and more pricy business plans.

3. Evernote (Android - iOS)

Evernote is awesome if you like to jot down notes and thoughts on paper before typing them into your phone.

Take a photo of your written notes and have them imported into text format with Evernote!

Price: Free basic plan, $10.83/month premium plan.

4. Dashlane (Android - iOS)

Unless you’re dumb like me and use the same password for everything, then keeping track of passwords for all your different accounts will require some help.

Dashlane is one of the best password manager apps in 2020 because it generates strong passwords and analyzes/protects all of your account passwords.

Price: Free for 25 passwords, $4.99/month for unlimited passwords and devices.

5. Pocket (Android - iOS)

Pocket is what your internet browser’s bookmarks should be. It contains all of the articles you love and want to return to — all in one organized place.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve saved an article in my bookmarks, only to never read it again. Keep all of your favorite articles in one place, and stop wasting time searching for them twice.

Price: Free plan, premium plan ($4.99/month or $44.99/year).

6. Buffer (Android - iOS)

Buffer is a great solution for social media influencers, bloggers, any tech professional really... to manage, schedule, and post social media updates from one single app.

If your business or livelihood depends on social media to thrive, then Buffer is seriously indispensable.

Price: Free for 3 accounts, $15 monthly for 8 social accounts.

7. Folder Colorizer (Windows - Mac)

Folder Colorizer 2 is a neat Windows app that allows you to organize your workflow by easily labeling your most important folders with specific colors. There is also a special Mac version.

All you do is right click the folder you want to remember and choose any unique color you want!

It might seem a small thing, but having your files and folders organized well will help you stay crazy productive.

Price: Free trial (two folders to color), $3.33 monthly for a 1-year license with full access to other Softorino apps.

8. Adobe Acrobat Reader (Android - iOS)

Adobe Acrobat Reader for Android  and iOS is simply the best app for working with PDF files on-the-go.

Highlight, sign, and annotate PDFs all from your iPhone or Android device. And the best thing is… it’s free!

Price: Free, or $12.99/month for premium features.

9. Focus (iOS - Mac - Apple Watch)

If you’re like me and prefer to work in short bursts instead of grinding out 3-hour long sessions, then Focus is the app for you!

Focus uses the Pomodoro Technique to help manage your time and work within 25 minutes at a time.

This technique is proven to help users be as productive as possible with the time allotted, and Focus makes it easy to track your progress toward your goals.

Price: Free trial with one time purchase starting from $24.

10. Hemingway Editor (Windows - Mac)

Hemingway is one of the most useful tools for professionals who write often. Whether it be sales emails, blogs, or even books… Hemingway helps you write more clearly and effectively.

Hemingway analyzes your writing and highlights long sentences that can be trimmed to ensure you aren’t meandering too much.

The desktop application offers offline access for those writers who write from places with crappy WiFi.

Price: Free version with paid starting from $8.33.

11. HabitBull (Android - iOS)

HabitBull is a fantastic app that helps you build strong habits by setting reminders and tracking progress toward long—or short-term goals.

For those with more complex schedules, HabitBull allows you to create habits and goals to be accomplished three times a week, every other day, or once every other week.

Price: Free for all

12. Todoist (Android - iOS)

Todoist is an app that helps you organize all of your tasks so you know exactly what to prioritize and tackle next.

With one simple app, you can map out your goals, highlight the most important ones, and measure your progress.

Like many other productivity apps, you can integrate your favorite programs, such as Dropbox, Google Calendar, and Zapier.

Price: Plans range from free, $3 a month, to $5 a month

13. Microsoft Suit (Android - iOS)

The Microsoft suite has been desktops' go-to productivity app package for the last 20 years.

Now that smartphones are overtaking laptops in usage, nothing has really changed. Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are still essential for all working professionals.

Luckily, Microsoft has made these three Office apps incredibly easy and intuitive to use, even on iPhones and Android devices.

Support for file-sharing services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive allows for easy collaboration.

Price: Free for basic viewing and editing, Office365 subscription for full features.

14. Monefy (Android - iOS - Windows)

Monefy is the app for keeping track of your money expenditures.

Managing your own money or a family budget can sometimes be tough. But with Monefy, you can control all the expenses by dividing them into categories or creating customized ones.

You’ll see how much you spent on food, transport, sports and so on.

Moreover, you can choose the currency and synchronize the data with your Dropbox account.

Price: free.

15. 1Password (Mac - Google Chrome)

If you are too forgetful to remember all your Twitter/Facebook/Instagram and many other passwords, 1Password is definitely for you. (Unless you forgot all of them at once)

You can add all the accounts and manage your passwords in one place. This is time-savvy, as you won’t need to memorize (and recall) those lengthy word-figure combinations.

The app can also generate a bunch of passwords for you. This is useful when you’re out of fantasy, and all your passwords are something like Jack1985.

Price: free 30-day trial; then it’ll be $2.99 per month for one person and $4.99 for a family subscription (up to 5 people).

16. Things (macOS - iPhone + Apple Watch - Android)

Get your things done with… Things! This is an organizer for all the stuff you have to, want to, or plan to do.

Things provide you with various categories like “Upcoming,” “Someday,” “Anytime,” etc. This way, you can schedule your plans or simply remember that you have to drink water at 3 p.m. each day or start doing yoga.

You can also create checklists, assign them headings, and quickly find your to-dos using a search bar.

Price: $49.99 for Mac, $9.99 for iPhone & iWatch, and $19.99 for iPad; a free trial is provided for Mac.

17. PDF Expert (Mac - iOS)

This is one of the best apps for transferring, modifying, and arranging PDFs. The PDF size—whether a small document or a 300-page book—doesn’t affect the app's speed.

PDF Expert supports Apple Pencil so that you can put signatures and make any remarks throughout the text. You can also highlight the text, cross it or use a bunch of other tools for making annotations.

Moreover, you can easily insert links or images and edit them. Everything is quite comprehensive, and all the tools are intuitive.

Price: $79.99 yearly, or $139.99 one-time purchase.

18. Pomodoro (Mac)

Pomodoro is a time tracker for effective performance. The app is called after a time-management method invented by an Italian guy.

The main purpose is to divide your working time into 25-minute intervals and make short breaks between them. The app is available for Mac and as a website with a timer.

The app will help you not lose attention and concentrate on work for 25 minutes. This is a good option for those who get distracted even by a pencil.

Price: $2.99.

19. Mentimeter (iOS - Web)

Mentimeter is a Swedish software for more productive meetings and presentations.

The app helps keep track of the presentation or a meeting online; put your mark (or an emoji) for them, and leave some feedback. What’s more, you can create presentations on your own just inside the app. They have a lot of nice templates and provide you with useful tips on how to make it informative and effective.

Create multiple-choice tests and polls and receive questions from the audience online—that’s not the whole list of things you can do with Mentimeter. It’s cool that you may not be physically present but communicate with all the participants during the meeting.

Price: includes a free version; a basic pack ($11.99) and a Pro version ($24.99).

20. Agora Pulse (iOS - Android)

Agora Pulse is the ultimate SMM tool, helping you manage all your posts across all the social media you need.

Connect your Agora profile to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., and post, duplicate, or schedule all the stuff you need. Here, you can also answer Facebook messages, make a report for each social network, and set a date and time for your posts.

So, if you always get confused about what and where to post, you can now arrange and even create them in one place.

Price: free.

Conclusion

You’ve been looking for ways to improve your workflow and become as efficient as possible while maintaining that high quality you’re known for.

So do yourself a favor and start utilizing the endless technology the App Store and Google Play has to offer by checking out any of these great productivity apps.