Top 10 Must-Have Android Productivity Apps

Evernote is an application designed for collecting and storing information. This information is stored in the form of notes. Simply put, Evernote is note-taking software that caters to various specific needs of users. In Evernote, notes can be text, lists, images, handwriting, and more. Using Evernote helps users store all types of information they gather for their specific purposes.

Key Features:

• Remember everything and manage every project with notes, tasks, and schedules all in one place.
• Create and assign tasks right within notes, with due dates, flags, and reminders to avoid missing anything.
• Scan important documents to have them ready whenever you need them on any device. Save information instead of cluttering with piles of papers.
• Clip web pages (ad-free) and annotate them with arrows, highlighters, and text to add useful insights.
• Add text, images, audio, scans, PDFs, and documents to make notes more useful.
• Use the calendar to stay on top of tasks. Provide context to meeting content and notes to ensure no important tasks are overlooked amid the hustle and bustle of work.

Download Link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evernote&gl=US

Notion is a note-taking app that helps users easily plan, take notes, schedule,... All data is stored in one space for easy retrieval when needed. Similar to storing on a computer or laptop, Notion allows you to store files in multiple layers. In a large folder, you can create many smaller folders, and within those folders, you can also create more folders.

Key Features:

• The first advantage of Notion is that it's completely free for personal users. With outstanding features combined with being free, using Notion is entirely reasonable.
• The interface of Notion is quite simple with a black and white color scheme, but the overall look of the app is beautiful and comfortable for users.
• Regardless of whether you use the app on Android, iOS, or Windows, as long as you have the same account, all data will be synchronized immediately after you finish taking notes.
• With Notion, you can easily create a note space in your own style with icons, colors, data arrangement,...
• The structure of Notion makes it easy for users to quickly find their notes. In addition, the Quick Search function is also a useful tool to help you search for your information.

Download Link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=notion.id&gl=US

Forest is a mobile app that helps you effectively 'unplug' from your phone. Whenever you need to focus on a task or want to avoid using your phone for a period of time, you simply plant a tree, set a timer for it to grow, and... stay away from your phone. Forest is an app that helps you train your concentration.

Key Features:

• The time you set for the tree to grow ranges from 10 minutes to 120 minutes. The longer the time, the more beautiful trees you grow. If you use your phone during this time, the tree will die. The trees you grow will be preserved forever. When you look back at what you've grown, you'll see a real forest. That's the time you've spent away from your phone.
• Every time you plant a tree, you'll receive a corresponding reward depending on the time it takes for the tree to grow. This money is used to unlock other trees and sound effects in the store.
• Deep Focus Mode is one of Forest's unique features. When you enable Deep Focus Mode, if you use your phone in any way, the tree you're growing will die immediately, even for urgent tasks like making/receiving calls. Therefore, this mode is only necessary when you want deep concentration.
• If your friends also use Forest, you can use the Plant Together Mode to 'plant trees' together. With this mode, if one of your friends' trees dies, it will cause other trees of your friends to die as well.

Download Link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cc.forestapp&gl=us

Google Meet is a video communication service developed by Google. It is the replacement for Google Hangouts alongside Google Chat since October 2019. This software allows users to connect online through the web platform integrated within Google's G-suite. Google Meet is a completely free app aimed at supporting large-scale online classes/meetings with up to 100 participants.

Key Features:

• Allows up to 100 participants in each call with G-Suite Basic users; up to 150 participants with G-Suite Business; up to 250 participants with G-Suite Enterprise.
• Can be accessed and used on both web platform and mobile apps.
• Meeting content is secured with passwords for G-Suite Enterprise users.
• Integration with Google Calendar for scheduling online meetings with just 1 click.
• Screen sharing for presenting documents, spreadsheets, presentations.
• Encrypted calls for all users.
• Detailed captions through voice recognition.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.tachyon&gl=CH

TickTick is your powerful assistant for remembering and managing tasks from your computer, phone, and smartwatch. TickTick is a simple and effective task management and to-do list app. It helps you schedule, manage your time, focus, remind you of deadlines, and organize your life at home, at work, and everywhere else. TickTick is one of the best to-do list apps voted by Google and many technology websites (The Verge, MakeUseOf,…).

Key Features:

• Comes with relatively useful utilities, suitable for various user groups. It includes features like the Pomodoro timer, which helps users work more efficiently and productively in real tasks.
• Clearly marks completed tasks, making it easy for users to distinguish them from remaining tasks.
• Can create notes with images, video clips, or voice.
• Can easily initiate tasks on the app anytime, anywhere, as long as there is an internet connection.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ticktick.task&gl=US

Zoom is an application that allows you to create online meetings for professionals or students to work and study from home. The requirements are very simple, just own a laptop, phone, or tablet with wifi connection and able to download the app to your device, then you can create or join meetings anytime.

Key Features:

• Screen sharing: If you worry that your presentation is not illustrated, this feature has solved that concern. You can share your screen to present what you want to share, such as browser, slides, etc., so that everyone can easily follow and understand what you're saying.
• Turn on and off the mic: Connect to the device's camera and audio system to help participants turn on the mic when speaking and turn off the mic when not speaking to reduce background noise for the meeting room. Besides, users can turn on the camera so that participants can see each other.
• Has live chat frame: Zoom supports a direct chat window in the meeting room so that participants can speak up and exchange messages directly.
• Supports virtual raising hands: Another useful feature in Zoom allows participants to speak by raising their hands. In the app, there will be a hand-raising icon, when listeners want to interrupt or make a point, they can raise the hand icon to signal the speaker.
• Record meetings: If you want the information from the meeting to be recorded for review after it ends, you can choose to record to save the entire content of that meeting.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.zoom.videomeetings&gl=US

Trello is currently the most widely used project and task management software. With various pin types such as tasks, notes, projects, and shared files, it facilitates better teamwork. The app supports efficient task management for teamwork, enabling team members to quickly see what tasks are assigned, who is doing what, and how far along they are. You can use it completely for free until you need advanced features.

Key Features:

• Trello provides a digital board to create, organize, and prioritize actions. Administrators or managers can define workflows, assign tasks to individuals or teams, set deadlines, and track progress. Trello cards allow users to collaborate with each other. Users can add comments, add members, and attach documents to tasks assigned to them.
• The Trello workspace interface resembles paper notes on the screen, making it very easy to use.
• Just by looking at the interface, managers can immediately grasp the project's progress in the most visual way.
• Synchronize with all your devices.
• Trello offers a professional package that includes customizable administration settings and privacy rights tailored to the needs of large businesses. Trello task management software integrates with several online applications including JIRA Cloud, Bitbucket Cloud, Google Drive, GitHub, and Slack.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trello

Google Docs is one of Google's online word processing tools. This tool allows users to compose, edit text, and present text easily on the Internet. It is considered as Google's excellent online word processing tool with many intelligent features to enable people to work together on the same draft endlessly.

Key Features:

• Collaborate in real-time thanks to easy sharing, and use features like comments, suggested content, and action items to continuously improve. Or, you can use @mentions to bring relevant people, files, and events into your online document, enhancing collaboration.
• Supporting features like Smart Compose help you write faster and make fewer mistakes, allowing you to focus on ideas. Additionally, spelling and grammar suggestions, voice typing, and quick document translation help you save time.
• Docs integrates closely with other Google apps you love, saving you time. You can respond to comments right from Gmail, embed charts from Google Sheets, and easily share via Google Meet. You can also search for relevant content and images on the web and Google Drive right from Docs.
• Edit Microsoft Word files easily online without conversion. You can also organize into layers with Docs' collaboration and advanced support features like action items and Smart Compose. Furthermore, you can import PDF files and turn them into editable files instantly.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.docs

Google Sheets - Google Spreadsheet can be seen as an 'Excel Online' version with outstanding utilities, with sharing features for multiple people to work together more conveniently. Similar to Excel, Google Sheets has all the features and functions to serve the job. Google Spreadsheet provides the benefit of cloud storage, meaning users' spreadsheet documents are automatically saved and accessible even if their hard drive or SSD fails.

Key Features:

• Whether you're planning an event or sharing the latest revenue figures, Sheets always helps teams work together seamlessly. Easily add collaborators to the project, view content during editing, receive notifications about editing activities when you're away, and chat with colleagues on the same document. All content is automatically saved as you edit. Additionally, with offline access mode, you can create, view, and edit files anywhere, anytime.
• Sheets support everyone in the organization to find valuable detailed information from data. The accelerated formula input feature saves time and reduces errors by displaying related formulas as you type.
• Seamlessly compatible with Microsoft files (including many shortcuts you commonly use) reduces hassle when working across multiple platforms.
• With Sheets, your content is continuously protected by one of the world's most advanced security infrastructures. Manage permissions through individual, team, or domain-level access. Set expiration dates for your content. Turn off download, copy, or print options for specific collaborators. Use data loss prevention measures to keep sensitive data safe.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.sheets

Google Calendar is a time management application by Google that allows you to track daily activities such as appointments, events, friends' birthdays, and more. It offers many other useful features. This is a free application accessible from computers, phones, tablets, and you will need a Google account to use Google Calendar.

Key Features:

• All tasks by hour, day, week are clearly and visually displayed on the Google Calendar interface. Users can grasp the workload just by observing at a glance.
• Google Calendar allows users to create and edit events. You can set reminders, notes, event locations, and other users can be invited to edit that event.
• You can enable or disable the display of special calendars, including your own and your friends' birthdays extracted from email addresses, annual holidays, and international holidays, or specific calendars by country that you can choose to display.
• In addition to scheduling daily activities, Google Calendar also syncs with Gmail. Information and events from Gmail will be automatically added to Google Calendar.

Link download: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.calendar&gl=US