Beneath the cutting edge appearance of today’s tablets and smartphones, lie powerful processing capabilities. Capabilities which can be put to use towards increasing the functionality of your phone!

You can transform your iPhone into almost anything, giving it functions and features way beyond its stock capability. To each stock application installed, you can be guaranteed a customized alternative, which, if matched to your habits, can greatly enrich your mobile computing experience. Here is a look at five of the top productivity Apps for iPhone.

Top 5 FREE Productivity Apps for iPhone

1. Evernote Scannable

Smart Scanning
Image Editing
Batch Scanning
Contact List for Sorting Business Cards & Documents
Integration with Evernote & Evernote ScanSnap

Evernote Scannable is an app that makes scanning and sorting your business cards and documents a snap! Simply open the app and you will immediately be presented to take a photo. Tap to snap a pic of your business card or document and then follow the prompts to label and classify it according to your specifications.

This handy app is full of nifty features. Users of Evernote’s ScanSnap Desktop scanner can even use Scannable to remotely control their device. File sharing to other users is supported, as is multiple file types. Evernote Scannable is a tiny app full of time-saving functionality!

2. CudaSign

Digital Signatures
3 Pen Styles
Multiple Platform Integration
Free Trial

For anyone that has to sign a lot of documents, or works in an industry where formality is needed, CudaSign is an essential tool. This great app allows you to capture your signature, signed in using your finger, in your choice of one of three pen styles.

CudaSign also supports the importing of documents from your email and cloud storage. CudaSign also provides document signing capabilities to Office 365 and a range of other platforms.

A free trial is available, and membership starts at $1 per month. This is a tiny cost for anyone who handles a high volume of signed documents, CudaSign saves a lot of time!

3. Cloze

Social Network Aggregation
Contacting Rating 1 – 100 Based on Multiple Factors
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Email Support
Wrap-up of Social Shares & Other Activity

Cloze is a social media aggregator. It collects information from your friends, colleagues and people that you follow on social networks, and organizes them according to their prominence in your community and / or social circles.

You get to customize who is who and where they place. One Twitter and One Facebook account can be connected, however an unlimited amount of email addresses can be added. LinkedIn is also supported. Cloze is a great, free way to prioritize your news feed, especially for those in busy social networks.

4. Hightail

2GB File Limit (Premium Membership)
50MB File Limit (Free Account)
Unlimited File Types
Phone & SD Card Support
Digital Signatures

High levels of frustration are often synonymous with large file uploads. I’m pretty sure that anyone who spends a frequent amount of time working online or anyone sharing files, photos and especially videos, has suffered from failed uploads when sending files with large sizes.

Hightail comes to the rescue for iPhone owners, giving you a simple way to reliably upload huge files, receiving in turn a shortened link to be shared with others. Hightail even provides you a confirmation after someone downloads you file! Supporting almost all iOS versions, this great tool is a must have for mammoth-attachments. Don’t take the risk and send a large file without it!

5. PaperPort Notes

Dropbox & Box.net File Syncing
Note Sets & Note Set Searching
Tap & Speak Voice Dictation
Wide Selection of Paper Styles & Fonts

PaperPort Notes is a great fee note taking application that also features speech-to-text notation. Notes can be shared via Dropbox and Box.net, with uploads and downloading functioning quickly. Notes can be captured from any app on your iPhone and a wide range of mark-up tools are provided.

The speech dictation works particularly well and the interface and interaction required for dictation is logical and simple to use. PaperPort is a minimalistic app that provides basic note-taking functionality at no cost whatsoever. PaperPort is the best free app available for taking notes on the go!

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