THE BASICS
Essential Work-From-Home Apps
Working from home these days? Refresh your app toolkit—and discover a new title or two—with this collection for all your WFH needs.
Manage your meetings
No matter how organized you are, invites for virtual meetings can easily get lost in the flurry—which is why Meeter is such a gem. The app scans your calendars for upcoming video calls and puts links for them all in one place, regardless of platform.
Easily add to-dos and appointments
Todoist is a lightning-fast task manager that makes entering complex to-dos easy. To add an item, simply describe it: “Call contractor on the first Thursday in August.”
The calendar app Fantastical takes a similar approach to adding events. Just type “Team chat every third Wednesday starting in February.” Don’t miss the handy meeting scheduler, which surveys attendees to find a time that suits everyone—and lets them confirm by tapping a link.
Customize Home Screen widgets
Dive into Widgetsmith to create personalized Home Screen widgets for your calendars and reminders—with your own spiffy design and photos, if you please.
Corral your contacts
Cardhop makes adding new contacts surprisingly easy by automatically putting the details in the right fields as you type them. Enter “John Doe ABC Plumbing 800-555-123” and Cardhop can figure out that “John” is the first name and “Doe” the last name, ABC Plumbing is the company, and so on.
Stay focused
Endel’s smart algorithm creates endless musical soundscapes designed to help you focus—and evolves that audio throughout the work day. To do so, it takes into account factors like the time, level of light outside, and, with the help of Apple Watch, resting heart rate.
Want to make your home office sound more like an actual office? myNoise plays customizable ambient sounds like the din of a lively coffee shop, the hush of a quiet forest, or the buzz of the workplace, just like you remember.
Need help avoiding distraction? Stay off your iPhone for a set amount of time to grow virtual trees in the Forest app. Keep at it long enough to earn virtual coins you can put toward the global tree-planting organization Trees for the Future.
Get a grip on grammar
This keyboard extension/writing assistant/well-intentioned nag lets you check your grammar with the tap of a button as you type. Use the app’s text editor for real-time grammar corrections.
Crush the PDF
Adobe Fill & Sign helps you blaze through the not-exactly-thrilling process of filling out a PDF form.
Collaborate in real time
Work with colleagues on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with these office suites and team tools.