The best productivity apps for iOS for the 2014 version Layfhakera

This year, we became acquainted with a variety of applications that somehow increased your productivity. Traditionally, we had to choose the best and tell you about them. Summary dozen performs its tasks perfectly and be sure to find its place on the home screen of your smartphone or tablet.

If we consider all the main events related to the iOS, the July presentation WWDC will stand apart. It has introduced a new regime HandoffWhich changed the concept of interoperability of devices completely different class.

Apple products are always designed perfectly compatible. But now there is a reason to really wonder. iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite will open a brand new incredible possibilities for you.

Now you can make calls with the iPad, write SMS with your MacBook, or just continue to be a letter on the computer from the point where you left off on your iPhone. Handoff is already working in Mail, Safari, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, as well as maps, messages, reminders, calendar and contacts. And developers can embed Handoff in their own applications.

Handoff

Time still less information and daily routines more and more. application IFTTTThat automates the most mundane activities, came back in the last year as a separate service and iOS apps, but still has not lost its relevance. With it, you can forget about a lot of routine things. After all the pictures you laykaete, are able to automatically load in Dropbox, and changes in the weather come to you in an SMS. Variants of such a number of scenarios, and inspiration can be drawn from its own IFTTT tops, and on page Layfhakera.

If This Than ThatNamely so it stands the service abbreviation, makes it clear that proposes to merge only two steps. And what if your chain of command more? new application Workflow not only provides the ability to combine an unlimited number of instructions, but also offers to export the resulting script as a normal application.

A whole year has passed since the release of Microsoft Office until such time as the best mobile office suite It becomes free. Buy a subscription to Office 365 users did not want to, the app is not sold and is gradually losing market share, as a competitor to Apple at all for a year was free. This forced the company to make its mobile solution and free. Such news could not please all of the iPhone and iPad owners.

But this pleasant innovations do not end there. More companies and entered into a partnership with a major cloud service Dropbox, allowing export and import files has become as simple as possible.

Hive - this is the first unlimited cloud storage in the world. That's what the developers say that service. In fact, it appears that the ship can be no more than 50 GB for a week, at the same time to download or unloaded up to 30 files and Web application refuses to accept the folder as a unit of the file system. Nevertheless Hive reflects the main trend of recent years, which relates to cloud storage. Such decisions will no longer belong to the category of curiosities and expensive new products, which have been a couple of years ago. Today, they are more and more likely to expand the size of their free plan, and the price of additional data packets continue to fall.

Hive can be used as a full-fledged mediahranilische, which only contributes to the early exit of mobile applications for Android and iOS, virtually unlimited amounts of data to download, the presence of built-in audio and video players, as well as high speed downloads on server.

Hive

2014 proved once again that the task managers, developers could not think of anything better Any.do. Simple and at the same time easy to use, beautiful and minimalistic, it significantly updated, so I get the opportunity to work together. Now you can create dedicated work hubs, to invite employees to set and perform common tasks, attach the necessary files.

A mode Moment It will help to develop for themselves a good habit of daily analysis of the challenges ahead. Set a goal and perform specific tasks - with functionality Any.do 2.0 make it simple.

Security was one of the main trends of the outgoing 2014. A lot of break-ins and large drains only confirmed the need to carefully apply to the protection of personal data. In the meantime, 1Password - Best Password Manager for iOS - had become free and get the support of all the coolest iOS 8 features.

Master-password required to log into the app, iOS is not stored in the key store. Protection against brute-force attacks and SHA512 algorithms guaranteed PBKDF2, and each base element of your data is encrypted with 256-bit key (AES). By the way, theoretically now the selection of the password to your account will take from several months to a year.

As for functionality, integrated with 1Password Safari, added input support using Touch ID, the control option of the keyboard, there were tags in the application.

If you need a full-fledged multi-zametochnik, you will surely choose Evernote. If we need a simple, fast and convenient tool for storing short notes - MadNotes meet your requirements the best. Ukrainian student project Arseniy Feschenko successfully combined in a minimal design with most necessary functionality.

Using the application is implemented already familiar swipe a la the Clear, notes are in two clicks, it has a widget for the notification curtain and nice chips like Smart Text EditingThat make use of zametochnika more convenient.

This year, Google has pleased not only to Android users. Within a few months, almost all of its apps for iOS managed to get an update. Nevertheless, the most successful changes were made official app Google.

Among the innovations - support large screens new iPhone, a convenient map display in the search results, the G button, which runs the search, no matter where you are, easy search in the history of recent searches and numerous small improvements.

Update accurately be called a cosmetic, though it certainly Material Design-to-face. Google 5.0 is, in nine cases out of ten spare you the need to use a separate application Maps for constructing routes, find your address, landmarks or venues. Developers managed very successfully and harmoniously integrate it into the application.

OK Google good job!

The problem of lack of free time and proper time management is always current. free app Timeful - it is not only a beautiful way to set a reminder, but also your advisor in matters of time management.

The app learns with you and help you find time for what you really love and would like to do but do not always have time. First of all, Timeful import your calendar data, and then on the basis of information about the scheduled tasks will be to advise the best time for your favorite activities and habits. The more you use it, plan your free time for myself and correct application tips, the faster Timeful will be improved along with you.

You want to create HYIP around their application? Take a bold idea, "That will change your idea of" and will "A real rethinking"Tell people about it, do you close the application, put the user in the queue, and make entry only for an invite.

Last year this was done by the guys from Dropbox, then I took the baton in this Internet giant Google. As a result, we received Inbox - a good e-mail client with an interesting idea. novelty concept similar to that of its main competitor - Mailbox.

Inbox main feature is the special intelligent algorithms that organize all the emails from your mailbox, specifying automatically, where you are messages with confirmation of purchases, where the registration letter for the next flight, and where Promotions.

Though Inbox and failed to make a revolution, developers can not only make the content of your mailbox more interactive, but also change the way organizations address. If the number of incoming emails per day can be counted on the fingers and close your email client idea of ​​combining with the task manager - download Inbox right now.

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