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Okay, maybe 1200% was a little bit of a stretch but you’ll agree with me that gone are those days where the use of a phone is only limited to making and receiving calls. These days, a mobile device is much more powerful than you ever imagined.

Mobile devices and smartphones are like super personal computers, and with the right set of apps, they can serve as the best productivity tools to increase your maximum productivity exponentially.

Here are the 7 Best Android Apps to boost your productivity arranged in no particular order.

1. Forest: Stay focused

Forest to us is one of the best android apps to boost your productivity. It is a unique productivity app that helps you overcome phone addiction and stay focused. This app will help you stay off your phone for some time and focus on getting your work done. It is in the form of a little game that allows you to plant a seed in the forest.

This seed progressively grows into a big tree as time goes by. However, the tree begins to wither and eventually die each time you leave the app and start using your phone. The game is designed to help you beat procrastination and increase your productivity, thereby making you hit your goals faster.

2. Focus To-Do: Pomodoro Timer & To-Do List

Focus To-Do is a productivity app that combines Task Management with Pomodoro Timer to help you stay motivated and focused on achieving all your tasks and goals (both short term and long term). It’s the best app you need for managing and keeping track of your calendar events, Reminders, Tasks, Lists, Checklists, Grocery lists.

Thus, helping you cultivate the discipline of focusing on your study & work and ultimately keeping track of your working hours. The app is super easy to use; all you need to do is to pick a task you want to accomplish, set the timer, stay focused, and keep working until you finish the task.

3. Criminal Case

While Criminal case isn’t technically an app, it is one of the best hidden object games available on the Android platform today and is something you can jump on in your free time. Hidden object games like Criminal case have concealed clues to solving mysteries in the game, you just have to find them. This sharpens your mind over time and helps your brain focus on finding and doing what it needs to.

As you unlock clues in the game, your mind stays ahead and helps you solve similar complex real-life problems as well plus you can totally use it to pass time while you chill.

4. Reminder with Alarm

Reminder with Alarm is a timely reminder app that helps you not to miss out on important schedules and things. Sometimes you might get so engrossed with the daily activities that you miss out on some important schedules and deadlines. But with an intuitive reminder app as this, you will never have to miss out on work schedules, deadlines, birthdays, anniversaries, taking medications, errands, making scheduled calls, etc.

Having this app in your smartphones helps you stay organized. You can use it as a handy tool to remind you of all your daily routines. It has a synchronization option that gives you reminder notification across all your devices.

5. Appointfix: Appointment scheduling app

With Appointfix, you get to fix appointment schedules professionally and effortlessly. It is a must-have appointment scheduling app for all business owners. If you’re more accustomed to the old-fashioned book appointment scheduling system, then it’s time to upgrade with this handy app.

As a business owner, you can leverage Appointfix to keep track of your business schedules and create unlimited appointments easily, even if you’re busy. It is an excellent app that helps you to remember your client’s requests and peculiarities.

6. Routinery: Ritual/Routine

A wise man once said, “your life is a summation of what you do every day”. You cannot talk about maximum productivity without daily routine/rituals. Routinery is a productivity app that helps you become more disciplined in maintaining daily routines and rituals. If you faithfully keep to your schedules and engage in your daily routines, nothing will stop you from hitting your goals. This app was designed based on behavioral psychology.

It’s easy to use and highly effective. All you need to do is to make your routine list every morning with a reminder, and the app will help you keep to it.

7. Bills Reminder

As the name implies, Bills Reminder is a handy bill organizer app that keeps you reminded of all bills you need to pay as at when due. It’s a highly useful reminder tool and easy to use. Enter the details of the bill payment (the amount and due date), and this app will remind you by default at least 5 days before the due date of the payment.

You will always receive reminder notifications every morning until you make the payment. With this handy app in place, you’ll never have to forget important bills you’re to pay and subscriptions you’re to renew again. More so, it helps you stay organized and prepared for such payments.

Note: Most of these apps are also available on the iOS app store or have close substitutes.

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