10 Productivity Apps For Starting a New Business

Starting a new business or project can bring lots of exciting new things.

One thing that many struggle with when getting things up and running is organising their day and planning in all of their tasks. In the busyness of the day, you get distracted by projects and activities progressing forward.

We’ve put together a few productivity app recommendations that are perfect for getting things done as you get started.

Scanbot

Lots of paperwork!? Start scanning it into and emailing it away, or even storing it into services like Evernote, Dropbox and more. Scanbot is a neat way to keep on top of your physical documents.

Download here (free).

Calendars 5

What’s up next? Calendars 5 by Readdle helps to bring all of your calendars together on iOS by providing nice options to view your calendars. Smart, effective and easy to get on with, keeping you on schedule.

Download here (£6.99)

Strides

Set yourself big targets? Good! Hit them by using a goal tracker like Strides. This goal tracker will provide you with a metric-tracker to bring together what you need to be doing to hit your goals and targets.

Download here (free)

MeisterTask

Organising the things to do in your day can get pretty messy! If you’ve resulted to a paper to-do list, that might just hold you back. Try using MeisterTask to organise your tasks in an orderly fashion.

Download here (free)

LastPass

With the stress of starting a new business, comes the stress of new passwords for you and the team to remember. This time-saving solution will provide a way to organise your passwords in one location.

Download here (free with limits)

OneNote

Clipping notes and creating notebooks is a great way to keep organised. OneNote provides a smart way to save any notes, meeting agendas, plans, projects and much more as you get off the ground.

Download here (free)

FocusList

If focus is your struggle. Then try FocusList, this iOS app provides a nice combination between the powerful Pomodoro technique and task management. An easy to use solution to set a focus for the day.

Download here ($4.99 on iOS)

Zenkit

A powerful project management app allowing you to create to-do lists, project plans and activity sheets. Zenkit is a systematic approach to your daily activities and tasks.

Download here (free with limits)

Twist

Want to avoid the noise of Slack? But want to chat in real-time with individuals in your office. Try using Twist, a powerful real-time communication tool that helps to keep in mind your team members’ time.

Download here (free with limits)

Hours

Want to avoid time wasting in the team? Hours Time Tracking provides a way to track time spent across your day on projects, clients, and more. Hours is perfect for finding the wasted time in your day.

Download here (free on iOS)

Let us know in the comments how you get on! We’re excited to share this list with you to see how it helps you with your ventures.

Looking for more effective tools for your team. Try Newton.

Newton is one of the leading email apps on iOS, Mac, Android & Windows, providing powerful features like Read Receipts, Undo Send and even Tidy Inbox to reduce clutter, you’ll be at Inbox Zero in no time.

Follow us on Medium for more articles.