Productivity apps, reviewed
Task managers and note apps end up holding your plans, your work documents, and sometimes your company's data. We review them for reliability and cross-device sync, and we read the fine print on where notes are stored and who can access them.
Dropbox: Cloud & Photo Storage
Still the most trustworthy sync engine in the business, attached to the stingiest free plan.
Evernote - Note Organizer
The original everything-notebook, now under new ownership with a far less generous free plan.
Google Drive
The storage everyone already has, and the fine print on sharing, scanning, and that 15 GB ceiling.
Google Keep - Notes and Lists
Genuinely free, instantly fast note capture — deliberately simple, and stored in your Google account.
Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI
A build-anything workspace whose Android app has always been its weakest room.
Slack
The channel-based workplace messenger: powerful, expensive at scale, and never private from your employer.
Todoist: to-do list & planner
A veteran task manager that gets natural-language capture right, if you can live within the free tier's fences.
Trello: Manage Team Projects
Kanban boards anyone can read at a glance — with free-tier walls that growing teams eventually hit.