5 Free Business Apps of 2012



1. Paper By FiftyThree
Cost: Free
Device: Ipad

An application  which acts like a personal journal. Paper provides you basic drawing tools which can be used to draw , sketch and note down your ideas in an  easy interface.Once your ideas are done you can share  it on various social platforms, email them or even post them directly on your blogs.You can purchase additional tools in this app.

2. Ovo Timer
Cost: Free
Device: Android

You have to move your finger on  the screen of your device for a countdown timer setup. You can customize the options in pretty fast time - alarm sounds can be changed, vibrations can be used , screen can be kept on  and so on. You can even set up timer by speaking provided by your Android device.

                                    3.  Google Drive
Cost: Free
Device: IOS, Android

You can upload your content  from your handheld device on Google's cloud storage. The Google Drive also provides other useful features such as save files on your device  to view them offline, create new documents, spreadsheets  as well as edit  existing.

4.  CloudOn
Cost: Free
Device: IOS, Android

Office apps such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint  are made accessible by CloudOn. You can also edit these Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. What CloudOn does is it hosts the Office programme on its servers and streams them to your mobile device  Other things that are  provided by CloudOn are  Dropbox, Box,Google Drive, Sky drive  accounts  for file storage.

5. Podio
Cost: Free
Device: IOS

With this app you can make a customized  collaborative work platform. Use this app to a make your app based on the processes and work you follow. Then use this app  to manage a group of people assigned different tasks. Each person can share documents and check tasks in the list no matter where he sits in the group