Evernote
The beauty of Evernote is that there are the mobile apps and the desktop app, which sync effortlessly. You can take notes, save emails or articles to it or capture screenshots with its connected Skitch app. You can organize your notes and images into folders, share the notes and folders with others and do it all on the go.
And when you sit back down at your desk (if you ever do!), it will all be there at the ready. It’s great for keeping notes on clients, projects or even to organize notes for blog posts.
Dropbox / Box
Dropbox and Box are lifesavers, plain and simple. How much of a pain in the rear is it when you have to email a document back and forth, back and forth, and then figure out which is the most up-to-date version, or who edited a document and when?
With Dropbox or Box, you can make changes, share the document with anyone who needs it (hello, signing contracts!) and access anything in there via mobile without having to have emailed it to yourself or sign into Google Docs or figure out where you did file that document.
Genius Scan
Speaking of contracts, it can be frustrating to find somewhere to print, sign, scan and email a contract when you’re on the go. Maybe you found somewhere with a printer that you can use on your phone. But scanning it back in and making sure it gets to your Dropbox or Box account, or just emailing it back to the right person can become more difficult than it needs.
Genius Scan allows you to scan in any document using your iPhone camera. The scan quality is as high as most scanners on the market, and you can upload multiple pages to one document. You can tag the documents to categorize them – so you can find all scanned vendor contracts easily, for example – and and send them directly to Dropbox, Box or via email.
SignEasy
If signing a contract manually is even too much of a hassle when you’re on the go, SignEasy allows you to e-sign documents in most formats – PDF, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, text, images (such as jpg or png) and others.
You can even use it in person, if the contract is on an iPad or other tablet, and hand a stylus to the person who needs to sign it. You can create a signature to be saved within the app, that you add to the document when needed, or you can sign with a stylus or your finger on the go. Huge time-saver.
Cardmunch
Whoever said business cards were dead obviously doesn’t go to many networking events or business meetings. We are given business cards all the time – they’re a nice tangible memento of a meeting.
Cardmunch, which LinkedIn bought a while back, allows you to scan the card in and connect with the person on LinkedIn straight through the app. You can add notes and other information so you remember when you met the person and why, and any personal details you learned in your conversation.
LastPass
Every time there’s a major password breach on a website, we hear the same refrain: Don’t use the same password everywhere. Create a difficult password to crack. Use numbers, symbols, letters – upper- and lower-case, of course – and never use the same one twice.
Easier said than done. Unless you have LastPass. The app allows you to remember one password and one password only – the one to LastPass. It saves all your passwords and will generate secure passwords for you, based on the criteria you give it (length, types of characters, etc). The one caveat is that you’d better remember your password to LastPass, because they don’t even have it on file somewhere – which is so that even a data breach there means that your information can’t be accessed.
Lookout
Of course, there is the issue of data security, and you can reasonably be concerned about the security of mobile networks and public wifi. Lookout determines the security of the network you’re on, so you can check it out before you sign into LastPass. Which you’ll then use to sign into everything else.
Tripit
Today’s entrepreneur travels more than ever before. Despite all the tools you can use to have meetings virtually, there are conferences, speaking engagements, investor meetings and plenty of other places you need to be in meat space.
Trying to organize all the emails for plane, hotel and rental car can be incredibly frustrating, however. So Tripit allows you to aggregate all information for each trip in one place. You can then share the travel details with others, and even see when other contacts are going to be in the same city, setting up potential for other IRL meetings.
Dragon Dictation
Keeping notes on your phone is great and all, but if you’re not the best small-screen typist in the world, it can be incredibly time-consuming and frustrating. Sometimes, you might even forget the fleeting thought before you have the chance to get it all down.
Dragon Dictation allows you to quickly dictate your thoughts and transcribes them. You can use it to send text or email messages, too.
Keep in mind that voice recognition is still in relatively early days. While it’s getting better all the time, you might still want to make sure any vital text or email messages are typed and proofed before sending. But take the notes using apps like Dragon Dictation to make sure you don’t forget what crosses your mind.
MobileDay
No one can seem to agree on the best conference calling solution. Virtually everyone you have calls with may have a different provider and trying to make sure you have all the login details on your calendar invite can be a challenge. Especially if you’re mobile, signing in can be a chore.
MobileDay has integrations with GoToMeeting, Google+ Hangouts, WebEx, Apple FaceTime, Skype audio and other platforms, and will auto-detect the conference call details from the calendar invite once you sync it. With one touch, MobileDay will call in for you, including all the pauses, pound signs and any other keys you have to press to actually get into the call.
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Thanks, for this information which you shared with us.Dropbox is a very helpful tool for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs can share any type of data in any format.butI am unaware of most of these apps.Now, I will try all of these apps.
I found some different app for iPhone.Entrepreneurs can also try these apps – Invoice2Go, Producteev and Pocket Analytics.
Thanks (:
It is really important to have a mobile app not only for a small business but also for a big business as well. Using these apps you are able to take your business to next level.
The list of iPhone apps is really incredible. I am familiar with the some of these iPhone apps, but many apps of this list are new to me, didn’t know about them. There are plenty of iPhone apps available in app store which fulfilling the needs of users as well as businesses.
Nice and powerful apps for you :p
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I have used all of these apps except Tripit and MobileDay on my iPhone 5S. Now i will install these apps also. Thanks for the sharing.
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Nice share , You all apps are most important iPhone user.
Quite a list you have here, thank you!
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As other users mentioned it, DropBox is also a must for this list. I would also like to add my own favorite app, Flipboard. Although it\’s not necessarily an app design for entrepreneurs, I always said that if you want to be good at something, you need to be informed. If you use this app well, it may bring you useful information.
Great app list, these iphone apps are not only useful for entrepreneurs but extensive tech users like us.
Hello admin,
Dropbox Hello admin,
Dropbox & Evernote are the bet applications for me. Although other papplications are also great but I have not used all these application so I cannot guide them. So i voted for Dropbox & Evernote.
Thanks Regards
Shivani Sharma
Among this apps, I love Dropbox the most. Very useful and helpful. I keep travelling and this helps me keep my files intack and in one place. easy to update. Simply brilliant!
I use dropbox. And it’s really useful.You don’t have to worry about your documents anymore especially if there’s internet, you can have access to it anywhere. Thanks for sharing about the other apps tho. 🙂
Hello there,
I used lastpass since last 3 months great must have applicetion for me, That save my all password , and i use every corner in earth,
Thanks
Thanks for the share. I have really liked your writeup. Hope you will organize some giveaways on your blog as well.
Genius Scan apps is perfect for me because it is became easy for me to scan and send the documents. you can upload numbers of pages using it category system etc.
Google Adsense app for iPhone is also must have app.
Hello Tom,
Thanks for sharing.
I haven’t used all apps mentioned above but only some of them. I will also try remaining apps. All are important apps.
Once again Thanks.
nice article i definitely used lastpass and mobileday for my iphone nice iphoe apps list it will very helpful thanks for sharing with us
I personally like 1Password, but I hear that LastPass is good too. Dragon is probably not worth using because voice dictation is already built into the OS.
I am always sending large files back and forth and have found dropbox very efficient, yet simple to use. Will have to try some of these other ones you mention in this article and see how useful they are. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Tom, I was using atleast 5 of the above mentioned apps, but I didn’t know about Genius Scan and I am sure I will be using that one, so thank you.
Hi mate !
To be honest , Excluding Drop Box, i haven’t heard any of the application that you’ve mentioned. I would be reading more details on them . Thanks for sharing these apps with us .
-Pramod
Already used some of the apps as you mentioned above and yeah will try remaining apps for sure 🙂
Hi Tom, these apps are the present as well as the future of our technology fed world. However, I am not an entreprenuers and yet I find these apps too helpful. They make work so damn convenient, thanks for sharing.
Great content bro. Thankyou for sharing this awesome content with us. As I am also an Iphone user and will surely use these apps on my iphone. Lastly keep sharing these types of good content with us 🙂
Hi Tom !
Thank you for listing great iPhone Apps. All Apps are more important to helps for entrepreneurs. DropBox is really awesome for entrepreneurs, which supports for daily business activities .
This is a good list of productivity apps for mobile phones that are definitely useful. I am familiar with dropbox and evernote but have not heard of the others. Will have to check them out though because I know each one offers different benefits and features.
I love the idea of Last Pass! I am always, constantly, without a doubt, forgetting all of my special passwords with number and characters.
thanks man really useful apps for my Iphone