When it comes to social media and gaming, there’s no shortage of app recommendations to fit the bill. But, what about when we just need to get things done? When it comes to organizing and streamlining our smartphone’s abilities, we often get a little lost.
It doesn’t help that app stores are filled with overwhelming selections of tools that promise to be utterly life-changing. Furthermore, the app store isn’t often popular for its category dedicated to Utility apps — the section where you can find tools dedicated to enhancing productivity or providing specific functions (like calculating, note-taking, or web-browsing).
However, these are the apps that actually carry the potential to enhance your smartphone’s abilities. Especially if your smartphone doubles as a support system for personal and business matters, you’ll want these game-changing apps to skyrocket its professional potential.
Faxage App
It may seem like faxing is an outdated form of communication, but it’s still critical to many professions and purposes — particularly where privacy is concerned. Enter online faxing. Gone are the days of needing an actual fax machine. The Faxage mobile fax app lets you send faxes in PDF, PNG, or JPG formats all from your smartphone.
For individuals in the healthcare or wellness fields, particularly where patient confidentiality is concerned, Faxage is a must-have tool due to its HIPAA-compliant services.
Some other key features of the app include:
- Sending photos from your phone as scanned faxes
- Receiving faxes on your smartphone
- E-sign faxes
- Fax files from various cloud drives (iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox)
- Easily search received faxes
- Forward & share faxes via third-party apps like Slack, Trello, WhatsApp, etc.
Available on the App Store and Google Play.
RememBear
These days, we’re inundated with accounts — most of which we’ve forgotten we even signed up for. With each of those accounts come complex passwords that, by requirement, are an intricate mix of symbols, letters (uppercase and lowercase!), numbers, and other hieroglyphics.
Fortunately, the RememBear password manager app is an ultra-secure (and ultra-cute) tool to store all of your strong passwords across all of your devices. With end-to-end encryption and independent security auditing, there’s no chance you’ll be getting hacked with this handy app.
Some other key features of the app include:
- Stores credit card information for online shopping
- Store sensitive information in the form of encrypted notes
- Generates strong, unique passwords for your accounts
- Syncs across all devices for easy access
- User-friendly interface with clean and intuitive design
- Access your master vault of passwords with Touch ID, Face ID, or a master password
Available on the App Store and Google Play.
Aloha Browser
All hail the browser that has it all. More and more, people are leaning toward lesser-known browsers like DuckDuckGo for their security features. However, the Aloha Browser seems to have a mix of all those favorable features of other browsers combined.
Featuring built-in VPN services, the Aloha Browser is praised for its privacy capabilities. It also comes with a built-in ad blocker so users can browse without being inundated with ads. Users won’t have their activity monitored, yet still are able to enjoy a full-featured, full-service, and aesthetically pleasing web browser.
Other notable features include:
- File Manager feature for private photos & videos
- Background playing capabilities so you can listen to YouTube or other browser audio with the screen off
- Lock private tabs with Touch ID or passcode
- In-app QR code reader
- Custom VPN country selection (paid version only)
- VPN capabilities for other apps (paid version only)
Available on the App Store and Google Play.
Cardhop
If you’re someone who spends a lot of time interacting on your smartphone, whether it be making phone calls or sending text messages, then Cardhop is the contact management app for you.
Almost like a built-in CRM for your smartphone, Cardhop allows you to more easily interact with contact cards (currently a multi-step process) by simply typing in your commands. Simply begin typing in your command, whether it’s Call, Email, FaceTime, Directions, Copy (or many more!), and then start typing in the contact’s name. From there, Cardhop will auto-populate the details and pull up a one-touch execution of the command.
Other key features include:
- Create contact groups with the touch of a button
- Add personal notes to contact cards
- Enable birthday reminders for contacts
- Flexible actions (i.e. typing “email” first, followed by the contact’s name and a topic will auto-create an email to that contact with the topic auto-populated as the subject line)
Available on the App Store only.
Prizmo Go
Anyone in the administrative field is familiar with the pain-staking task of transcribing printed materials into typed ones. With Prizmo Go, this act is a thing of the past. The app’s function is simple, but the possibilities are endless. Just snap a photo of a piece of text and have it immediately converted into digital text on your phone.
From there, you can interact with the text in a variety of ways: copy/paste it, send it to other apps, select specific snippets, and browse printed URLs, one-touch call printed phone numbers, and one-touch email printed email addresses.
Other notable features include:
- QR code recognition
- Handwritten text recognition for English (paid version only)
- Automatic mapping of physically typed addresses (paid version only)
- Text translation for 59 languages (paid version only)
Available on the App Store only.
