The Role of Productivity Apps in Business Growth: Some Credible Examples

Why Should Entrepreneurs Use Productivity Apps? Let’s Explain with Examples

As mobile apps are increasingly being looked upon for adding value to our lives in every possible way, workplaces, entrepreneurs and employees are no different when it comes to boosting productivity by utilizing mobile apps. Yes, we call this category of apps as productivity apps and they range from simple time management apps to document management apps to collaboration and teamwork apps to communication and chat apps.

To explain how productivity apps really help growing the businesses and efficiency at the workplace we must explain first how such apps really can add value to the work processes. Only after that we can come with a few examples of successful productivity apps.

Keeping Track of Due Dates and Deadlines

Keeping track of due dates and deadlines us one of the regular challenges that most businesses face. To deal with this a productivity apps with a built-in event calendar, alerts and sticky notes can help you. There are several such apps that can come to your aid for tracking due dates, the status of the projects and deadlines.

Remain in Continuous Communication

Keeping in continuous communication with the fellow team members and subordinates in the workplace or in the field or beyond the work hour is a crucial need of many growth-focused organizations across the niches. A great chat and real-time communication app that allows you to stay in touch with the employees and team members either through video chat or app call or simple text message can make a great effect in boosting productivity.

Project Control and Task Creation 

In any organization, where brainstorming concepts for app development projects is a part of regular ebb and flow of workplace life, a simple app allowing you to create a project with detailed task creation and delegation tools can be greatly effective. A productivity app allowing to create projects with a layered layout of various tasks throughout the life cycle of the project can be tremendously useful for development companies.

Time Management

Time management apps with all useful tools to help to delegate and scheduling tools can be tremendously useful for completing projects in time. Typically such app realistically measures the tasks and accordingly categorizes them and make appropriate schedules to ensure timely completion. With the help of such apps, managers can reduce the wastage of time and boost productivity to a great extent.

File Management 

Finally, most organizations need a robust file management app to ensure smooth sharing, accessibility and keep-up of the documents. A productivity app can also work as a reliable repository of all the business documents for a specific project. As organizations are increasingly getting paperless and digitally equipped, file management is something that no organizations can do without for ensuring efficiency and productivity.

Mobile apps are definitely here to boost the business growth. So, let us now showcase a few of the most successful productivity apps across the industry niches.

1. Basecamp

Over the years, Basecamp emerged as one of the all-time successful productivity app used by thousands of businesses across all niches and sizes. It is the app literally for every kind of productivity-boosting solution that you can think of. It is equally a great communication tool, a project manager for detailed task scheduling and an app to work collaboratively with the team spread across several locations. From a to-do list to message board to a file manager to a chat app to a task scheduler, you can get everything through Basecamp.

2. OneNote

OneNote app built by Microsoft offers a comprehensive solution for all entrepreneurial tasks and management responsibilities. This app allows you to put together information on a lot of projects in one place while maintaining each one of them with their respective attributes and sense of priorities. If you want a powerful notebook app to access information on various company projects through a simple and intuitive interface this is the app to go for. Lest you do not forget using OneNote requires a Microsoft 365 subscription, though the app itself comes as free.

3. ProtonVPN

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) plays a mission-critical role for many businesses dealing with a lot of crucial customer information and organizations that always need to safeguard their business data from possible intrusions and data breaches. These VPN services come with everything that an entrepreneur needs to ensure safe communication with strong privacy and security measures.

4. Slack

Slack has become the gold standard of productivity apps just because of the powerful package it provides for the entrepreneurs and startups. It is a great app to help your employees and team members constantly in communication. It is also one of the handful of productivity apps that allows such a wide range of customizations and integrations of third-party contents. Slack allows you to get a quick and comprehensive overview of your entire business. You can also track all the information about your contents getting shared and gaining traction with the audience on various social platforms.

Slack will also allow you to continuously monitor the up and downtime of your app and business website. The app also comes with a robust support and maintenance service and you can allow your users to access the customer support without logging in. One of the most interesting aspects of Slack is that it continuously keep tracking of your business and helps to keep all your business data in one place. The app will always help you to keep a watch on the business from bird’s-eye view position.

5. Toggl

Toggl is a great time management app that recently became tremendously popular. You just can start a project and start the timer. The interface of the app is very simple and intuitive to ensure neatly effortless user experience. You just can access everything right there and get your hand on a short summary for every day besides having a complete overview of the entire week.

Another great thing about this leading time management app is that it can easily be integrated with a whole array of productivity apps like Asana and Basecamp. This allows you to bring in new users, projects and tasks without taking much efforts to add them manually. In addition to all these, Toggl also offers detailed reports about the team’s productivity.

Conclusion

You can be a little surprised in looking at such a short list of productivity apps and you can even feel a little upset seeing that many of your favourite and popular productivity apps couldn’t still make up the list. But our effort is still justified because we only tried to showcase a handful of productivity apps besides explaining how they benefit businesses.

Author Bio:

Atman Rathod is the Co-founder at CMARIX Technolabs Pvt. Ltd., a leading web and mobile app Development Company with 13+ years of experience. He loves to write about technology, startups, entrepreneurship and business. His creative abilities, academic track record and leadership skills made him one of the key industry influencers as well.