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Essential Apps For Entrepreneurs

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents 2

Introduction 4

Productivity Apps 5

Evernote 5

MindNode 6

Dropbox 8

Hill88 Pro for Asana 8

1Password 9

Microsoft Word 10

Budget and Finance Apps 11

Mint 11

StockTouch 11

Yahoo Finance 12

Social Media Apps 14

HootSuite 14

Pinterest 15

Facebook Messenger 15

Facebook Groups & Facebook Pages Manager 16

Other Essential Apps 18

Uber 18

Lyft 18

Mailbox 19

Conclusion 20

Resources 21

Introduction

Every entrepreneur needs to fill their phone or tablet with apps that can help them save time, save money, get more done… but there are so many apps out there, it can be difficult to figure out which ones are helpful, which ones are useless, and which ones are absolutely essential.

With business apps sometimes costing $5, $15, $50, and even more, it’s especially important to be sure you’re choosing the right ones, because wasting money (especially in the startup phase) is every entrepreneurs worst nightmare.

In this report, we’re going to take a look at some of the most essential apps for entrepreneurs. We’ll look at some of their most important functions, as well as their pros and cons, so you can be sure you’re choosing the right app for your purposes.

Also, keep in mind that we will be featuring mostly apps that are available on iOS (iPhone and iPad), because these are the devices that are most popular among today’s entrepreneurs. However, many of the featured apps will also be on Android and other systems.

So let’s get started.

Productivity Apps

Productivity as an app category doesn’t just mean apps that will help you be more productive (such as time management and scheduling apps). It can also include apps like writing programs, art programs, cloud storage, and much more.

Evernote

Evernote is an extremely popular app that is available on pretty much every major platform you can imagine. This program will allow you to do a tremendous number of things that will help organize your business life, as well as your personal life.

Some of the things you can accomplish with Evernote include:

Taking notes, including research and ideas

Compiling articles, photos, links and more

Cataloging your content so you can easily search and find it later

Create notebooks to organize information by project

Draft agendas and to-do lists

Plan travel

Annotate PDFs

Create contacts from pictures of business cards

And lots more

The Evernote app was listed by the New York Times as a “Top 10 Must-Have App”. It has won awards from TechCrunch, Mashable, a Webby award, and more.

You can use a free subscription, or pay for a premium subscription for advanced features for $4.99 per month or $44.99 per year.

If you’re looking for a well-rounded app to help you organize and plan, Evernote should be exactly what you’re looking for.

MindNode

MindNode is the top mind mapping app. At $9.99, it isn’t cheap. But if you use mind mapping often, you will love its clean interface, ease of use, and in-depth features.

If you’ve never used mind maps before, you could try out one of the myriad free mind mapping apps that are available first to get an idea of how they work.

Basically, mind mapping allows you to organize and plan visually. It uses charts to help you accomplish organization and planning, spreading information out where it is easy to see at a glance instead of keeping it in a longer format like a PDF.

MindNode was featured as an Apple “App Store Best”.

Dropbox

Dropbox is the most popular app for cloud storage, and with its recent storage upgrades at no additional monthly cost (for example, the 100 GB plan was increased to a whopping 1 TB of storage) it’s no wonder they have taken over their market.

The Dropbox app will allow you to access your photos, documents, videos and other files from your iPad, making it a useful tool for accessing and sharing files on the go.

Even if you don’t want to pay for storage, you get 2 GB of space for free, which is plenty if you only need to store a small number of files on the service.

Hill88 Pro for Asana

Hill88 Pro is an app that works with Asana to bring the popular task management system to your device.

Asana is a free platform that will allow you to organize projects and tasks like never before. It’s free for personal use, and you can add teams to your account for a reasonable fee.

Asana has its own app, but Hill88 has better overall reviews and a much more solid interface, allowing you to take advantage of more of Asana’s powerful features.

1Password

If you have trouble remembering your passwords, you can use 1Password on your computer and your mobile devices to keep all of them organized in one easy-to-use system that will allow you to safely “forget” your passwords, knowing that whenever you need to log in somewhere, 1Password will remember for you!

Microsoft Word

If you have an Office 365 membership, you can take advantage of the Microsoft Word app to create and edit documents on the go. The most recent version will even integrate with Dropbox, so if you have documents stored on the service, you’ll be able to edit them from any location.

Budget and Finance Apps