Smartphones are becoming an irreplaceable and entirely essential gadget for business startups. In particular, the iPhone, with its plethora of apps targeted at young businesses, is gaining popularity with startup businesses world-wide. Here are the 15 best iPhone apps that all startup business entrepreneurs should have.
15 Best iPhone Apps For Startups Owners / Entrepreneurs
Whether you want to record a lecture, meeting minutes or someone singing, iTalk Recorder is the best iPhone app for the job. You can choose from three different levels of recording speeds, viz., 11.025, 22.05, or 44.10 kHz. It’s easy to organize and manage your recordings, email them or share them via iTunes.
Using Dragon Dictation, composing an email or text message is easy. Just speak your thoughts and this app will convert your voice to text; easy emailing, and easy social media updates. Why bother straining your fingers to respond to a 100 tweets a day when you’ve got Dragon Dictation? Especially when you have an app that supports a whole bunch of languages?
ScanBizCards (Paid )
ScanBizCards is a business card reader application that allows you to quickly scan any language business cards on your iPhone. This means you don’t have to carry people’s business cards with you all the time. What’s more, this app stores a backup of your scanned cards to the Cloud; you can retrieve your backup via any browser.
eWiFi searches for wireless network access every few seconds, and lists them according to link strength. It also maintains a list of known links along with a list of links to ignore, if you’ve found them unsafe. It also prevents your phone from being bombarded by annoying network requests.
Instapaper (Paid)
Instapaper allows you to clip and save web pages to read later when offline. The pages are optimized for your phone’s screen for easy reading. This is the app you need when you locate a great article that you want to get back to. Instapaper lists the articles your friends post on your social media accounts, along with the most-saved stories from the Instapaper community for your reading pleasure.
OmniFocus for iPhone (Paid)
Use this cool app to manage your tasks, and organize them based on project name, location name, date or person of contact. Task management becomes easy, whether it’s an event, a shopping list, or meeting agenda items. The interface is simple and intuitive, which helps you navigate your tasks without fuss.
This app connects to the QuickBooks online accounting software. Now from your iPhone, you can check who owes you money and how much you owe to others. You can check your credit card and checking account balances and so on. You can run profit and loss reports and even run your balance sheet.
Bring all your files from different places and drop them into your Dropbox. Once they’re in your DropBox, you can access them from any computer, smartphone or tablet. You can also access them from the Dropbox website.
Once you have HootSuite on your iPhone, you can join in on any social media conversations from anywhere. This app does not restrict you to just one social media platform – you can join in on Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare conversations. You can schedule updates, monitor keywords and track click statistics.
Fuze is a video-conferencing tool for PCs. Fuze Join allows you to join and enjoy high definition Fuze video conference sessions through your iPhone. You can share content with other participations, host your own Fuze sessions on the go and much more.
This app enables you to search for people, businesses, look up maps and directions and do reverse phone number look-ups. There’s also a handy GPS feature to locate places. With this one app, you can quickly contact more than 180 million people, and save listings for them.
QuickOffice (Paid)
If you want to quickly access and use your MS Office documents while on the go, use this app. You can view them, edit them, save them and retrieve the latest versions from your PC when you’re back home.
The next time you’re out with a client, don’t worry about misplacing your receipt. Just take a snapshot of it and Shoeboxed will keep track of it for you. Your receipts will be organized, and listed in the right order for easy retrieval.
iTimeSheet (Paid)
This is a useful little time organizer that’ll help you make sense of where your time is going. You can record your daily tasks, along with the hours you’ve spent on them. You can also time your tasks using the inbuilt stopwatch.
Use this app to speak your ideas into your iPhone and record them on the go. This app will transcribe your voice notes into text so you can refer to them later. The app is free for use, but you need to create an account on Jott to use this app.