11 Time Management and Productivity Apps for Android

Our daily lives are filled with tasks–both personal and professional–that can be made easier with the right tools. If you own an Android device, there is a wealth of apps designed to simplify the art of living.

In today’s workplace information is thrown at us from every angle, making it difficult to keep pace with demands and maintain high quality work. To help you get the most out of your busy day, we’ve put together this list of productivity and time management apps for Android. These tools can help you save time, lower costs and increase your overall productivity.

Kingsoft Office is a rich text and document editor that allows you to work in a familiar word processing environment. It supports 23 types of files, including DOC, DOCX, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX and Adobe PDF. With support for cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box.net and others that use the WebDAV protocol, Kingsoft Office allows you to edit your documents even when you are on the go. Integration with email and a Read Mode that makes each document more visually pleasing make this a must-have tool.

Price: Free

While many of these apps are about providing access to data, thoughts and ideas, Springpad is about collaboration. As humans, we tend to want to share what we love with those whom we love. Springpad lets you save those things you love, organize them into “notebooks” and share them with others. It differs from social sites such as Facebook by allowing others to work with and contribute to your notebooks.

Springpad lets you save articles, photos, scan barcodes, record voice memos and even places. Once they are saved, Springpad allows you share them with those you wish to collaborate with—and, of course, those collaborators are also Springpad users with their own collaborations.

Price: Free

Like several of the apps we have already discussed, Any.DO is a task manager, but unlike the others, Any.DO is like a task manager on steroids. Designed to be used daily, it features seamless cloud synchronization, speech recognition, alerts, snooze, tasks, Google Task Sync, the capability to add notes, subtasks and recurring tasks. It also lets you know if you’ve missed a call, has auto-complete functionality, in-app actions and gesture support.

It’s simplistic, but full-featured and has a lot of bells and whistles that live transparently under the hood.

Price: Free