The month is getting done and many people are cross-checking their yearly goals, adjusting and making the necessary changes. In the digital age of smartphones and the internet, distractions are too many. From our WhatsApp notifications to Youtube addiction, the urge to be more efficient and productive becomes the need of the day.
Here are some new productivity apps, hacks, and tips we have included to help you reduce your screen time and better enjoy your time on the web.
Most of these apps are multi-platform so they support your iPhone, iPads, PCs, and Mac plus your Android Phones.
HomeBudget
HomeBudget app manages your budget and allows you to sync with your family so everyone can see where the money is going. With HomeBudget, you will never have to wonder where your money disappears to every month. This app lets you easily track every penny and keep sync with family members to monitor the entire household spending, not just yours. Useful features include Total Money Tracking, Budgeting, and Reports among others and available for download on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Windows, and Android devices.
Grammarly
Grammarly is a blogging tool that proofread your work in real-time, checks for spelling and grammatical errors in your writings. The free version tracks almost all the mistakes you have made in your writings and point it out to you in seconds which is a really helpful tool when writing work emails or just random post on social media. This tool works perfectly works with all the top browsers as extensions and integrates well with other writing applications like Word doc without being intrusive. For those looking to have a similar experience on phones, they have a Grammarly keyboard ready to be installed on all devices but on the sacrifice of your traditional phone keyboards.
Microsoft’s Your Phone app
Microsoft is generating a lot of excitement with Windows 10 and the revamped Microsoft store. The new Microsoft your phone app lets you send and reply texts among other services on your Windows 10 computer instead of grabbing the phone every time you hear a notification. The app requires Your phone companion app from Google Play store on your Android phone. Supported Android version is android 7.0 or later versions of Androids.
Woven
Woven is a calendar event scheduling app for iOS, Mac, Windows and the web that lets you sync your work times with your friends if they have the same app. Woven is an AI-enhanced app that scans your emails inbox for meeting requests and help schedule an event for you within your free time.
Boomerang for Gmail
Boomerang is an email add-on for Gmail, Outlook and as well as an app on your phone and web browsers that pauses your inbox and lets you receive emails at a scheduled time when you’re free to act on them. Boomerang uses an AI-enabled assistant to help you write actionable emails with help of Boomerang respondable progress bar.
Spike
Spike is an email app but in a messaging layout and you get your emails in chat bubbles. They have emojis and read receipts. It’s available in all platforms Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and web.
Remove.bg
Remove.bg is a free service to remove the background of any photo automatically. You don’t need the photoshop skills to manually select the background/foreground layers to separate them, you just select your image and instantly download the result of the image with the background removed in .png format. It is really helpful for someone with no design related background but looking to manipulate his selfies without trying too hard.
Action Dash
ActionDash is a digital well being app that allows you to keep track of your screen time on Android phones to give you a proper insight of how long you daily spend on your phone and what apps you are addicted to. It is a very handy tool with powerful customization and deeper experiences. Google’s well being Android features start in the recent versions of Android 8.0 Oreo and this can be a useful alternative to many of us carrying phones with lower android versions.
