Five Free Productivity Apps for Your Android Smartphone

Posted: August 28, 2013

Being mobile and being productive no longer have to be mutually exclusive. There are a plethora of apps available for mobile devices that allow you to work more effectively from the road. Here are just a few for Android devices. Oh, and did we mention that they're free?

Jack Wallen highlights five of the very best free productivity apps for your Android smartphone.

Free is good, but when free is also productive, it's even better. Now that so many business users are clamoring to take their show on the road, it only makes sense to load those Android smartphones with free productivity tools that can help get the job done -- both well and efficiently. That's where these five apps come in. With this collection of applications at the ready, you should be able to get your work done on-the-go without dropping a single penny on software. Does this sound too good to be true? Let's take a look and find out.

1. Kingsoft Office

Kingsoft Office is, for me, the gold standard by which mobile office suites should be judged. This mobile productivity suite features: Support for 23 different file types, mail app integration, cloud storage support, gesture support, read-mode support, and much more. All of these features are housed in a very efficient interface that doesn't get in the way of usage. It's not a perfect, drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office or LibreOffice, but KingSoft Office will empower your mobile office with a full-blown office suite for working with text documents, spreadsheets, memos, and presentations.

2. Mint.com

Mint.com is an outstanding way to manage your personal finances. No, you won't be integrating with QuickBooks, but you can track your spending, budget, categorize transactions, track checking/savings/credit card accounts, get email alerts for up-coming bills/fees/low balances, and much more. Mint also allows you to monitor your accounts from your desktop at Mint.com. For users who are concerned about security, the Mint.com mobile application is a read-only app, so nothing can be written to your online bank account information. On top of that, all of your information is transferred with bank-level security (which is monitored by both TRUSTe and VeriSign).

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