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Stephan Reynolds ✪
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Top Free Productivity Apps for 2021

The best productivity apps help you get more done from the comfort of your mobile device. Get your digital life organized working from home! Still looking for ways to supercharge your productivity? Well, the easiest and the most effective way to boost productivity is to have the right set of free productivity apps and tools in your arsenal. But with literally thousands of options out there, making the right pick often seems like a next-to-impossible situation.

In this particular article, we’ll cover 10 of the best free productivity apps that every freelancer, startup, small business, and enterprise should consider getting their hands on in the coming year.

  1. TeamViewer QuickSupport
    Get support for your iPhone and iPad from any computer. You can even mirror your screen to any other iPad or iPhone! TeamViewer provides easy, fast, and secure remote access and is already used on more than 1.8 billion devices worldwide.

  2. CamScanner — PDF Scanner App
    CamScanner is a free scanner app that helps users scan, edit, store, and sync contents across smartphones, iPads, tablets and computers. Extract texts with OCR and convert PDF to Word, Excel, etc.

  3. Todoist: To-Do List & Tasks
    Ranked as "the best to-do list right now" by The Verge, Todoist is used by 25 million people to organize, plan and collaborate on projects, both big and small.

  4. LastPass Password Manager
    LastPass is a password manager that securely stores your passwords and personal information in a secure vault. As you visit apps and sites, LastPass autofills your login credentials. All you have to do is remember your LastPass master password, and LastPass will autofill logins for you. Stop getting locked out of your online accounts or struggling with frustrating password resets. Let LastPass remember your passwords for you, and keep you safe online.

  5. Smart Lens — AI Translate
    Smart Lens is the #1 Translation and Object Recognition app available in the store. Translate text in images instantly by just pointing your camera. Most advanced AI is integrated into the Smart Lens App. Snap a photo and let Smart Lens identify and translate the objects in the picture. Discover any celebrity, animal, and plant details with Smart Lens.

  6. HabitBox: Challenges & Habits
    HabitBox is a personal helper which is perfect for setting goals, tracking your progress, and motivating yourself to new heights! HabitBox can help you with planning your schedule to create healthy new habits. You can analyze your daily, weekly and monthly progress in one place!

  7. Speechify — Audio Text Reader
    You can listen faster than you can read! Speechify is an intelligent text-to-speech audio-reader that turns your reading material into interactive audiobooks so that you can save time, retain more information, and stay focused. Like your own personal reading assistant, Speechify can read books, documents, and articles while you cook, work out, commute, or any other activity you can think of.

  8. FormsApp : Manage Your Forms
    FormsApp allows you to: Create new forms or edit existing Google Form. Share Google form edit links with collaborators or form link for potential respondents to use. Get elaborate and beautiful illustrative charts for Google forms’ respo onses. Export response data as CSV file. Receive real time new response notifications.

  9. DocuSign — Upload & Sign Docs
    DocuSign eSignature is the world’s #1 way to send and sign agreements from practically anywhere, at any time. Your signature is your word, so no wonder millions of people around the world trust our eSignature solution. From any device and anywhere, streamline how business gets done with the free DocuSign mobile app.

  10. Drawing Desk: Draw & Paint Art
    Fully powered by our creative engine Cortex, Drawing Desk offers a batch of powerful artistic tools and brushes for a realistic drawing experience. Express your creativity and bring your striking ideas to life with beautiful sketches, drawings, paintings and doodles. Loved by both kids and adults alike, Drawing Desk is a family app that enables creativity in everyone!

Source: https://iosappsupport.medium.com/top-free-productivity-apps-for-2021-63ae6f125d27

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Rank SEO Tools

To make things easier, there are hundreds of productivity apps out there to help with everything from tracking tasks to storing files.

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Jay Hoffmann

Notion seems to be climbing the list these days as well.

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Henrik Steffens

Lastpass hast huge security issues. Please consider to remove this one from sour list and switch to Dashlane or similar instead.

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Steve Flynn

Perhaps if you're going to cut and paste descriptions of software from other pages, you might want to clean it up first. Also, you're recommending Lastpass these days?

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I know this is a low effort cut and paste job from another site, but at least take the effort to correct the text even if it's not yours.