How to Be More Organized: 12 Apps That Can Help

Are you looking for ways to be more organized? Struggling to strike the perfect balance between the time you spend working, doing chores, and spending time with your family? As always, there’s an app for that.

In fact, it’s a whole bunch of apps. We’ve put together a list of the top productivity apps that can help you be more organized at home, at work, at school, and just become an all-around organization expert.

How to Be More Organized at Home

While you might already have your routine at work, things are always more difficult to organize and keep in order when at home. If you’re looking to simplify your chores and free up some time while doing it, here are a few apps that can help.

FamilyWall (for Android, iOS)

Price: Free, premium subscription available.

FamilyWall is a perfect app for anyone looking to learn how to manage their household better, especially if you have more than two family members living together.

FamilyWall is an all-in-one app that will help you improve your household organization, as well as communication between family members. It comes with a shared calendar, customizable lists for shopping or chores, a meal planner, and a chat that you can use to reach your family members at any time.

Kitche (for Android, iOS)

Price: Free.

Kitche is an app that specifically helps with kitchen organization. How many people always know the contents of their own fridge? Kitche allows you to always be aware of what groceries you’ve got in your cupboards.

The next time you go shopping, use the app to scan the receipts and save that information in the app. Kitche will then suggest a meal plan based on what you just bought. There’s also an option to set automatic reminders for when the groceries are close to their use-by dates.

Smart Receipts (for Android, iOS)

Price: Free, premium subscription available.

Managing your own expenses can be difficult, not to mention managing expenses of an entire household. Smart Receipts can help you deal with your finances in a more efficient way. 

Use Smart Receipts to scan your receipts and stay on top of your spending. The app will automatically generate an expense report to help you track your data, as well as export it in various formats, in case you need it for tax purposes.

Dropbox (for Android, iOS, Web)

Price: Free, premium subscription available.

Dropbox is a great app that can help keep you organized. It’s a great app to store and share files of any size. At home, you can use it to share to-do lists with your family members, or to exchange pictures from family events. 

Dropbox can also help you save space on your smartphone and allow you to store more pictures of your family and friends. Just set your smartphone photo library to back up to Dropbox instead of restricting yourself to your phone’s limited cloud space. 

NoteCircle (for Android, iOS)

Price: Free.

NoteCircle is a great app for anyone who wants to create a daily routine and stick to it. It’s also a perfect pick for minimalists: The app has a very simplistic interface that won’t distract you from your productivity goals.

Compile lists and create your own daily and weekly routine. The app will remind you of your tasks when they’re due and help you get everything done in time.

How to Be More Organized at Work

Do you feel like you could be getting much more done at work? There are plenty of apps that can help you be more efficient and complete your tasks faster, whether it’s transcribing your audio files to text, sharing documents with your colleagues for collaboration, or just organizing your files and tasks into different categories.

Google Drive (for Android, iOS, Web)

Price: Free.

Google Drive is a great multi-purpose app that you can use to store your documents, share them with your colleagues, and invite them to view and edit your documents. All you need to use Google Drive is a Google account.

Google Drive allows you to access your important documentation from any device, whether it’s your smartphone, tablet, or a work computer. Another advantage of Google Drive is that it’s easy to use, and you can become an advanced user and access its hidden features in no time. 

Habitica (for Android, iOS, Web)

Price: Free, premium subscription available.

Habitica is an awesome to-do app for anyone lacking motivation at work. This app will be especially effective for you if you’re known to often play online games to kill time. Now you can get your work done while also playing. Habitica uses game design and principles to motivate you to complete your tasks. 

When you sign up for the app, you get a character that will level up as you check things off your to-do lists. You can join solo or invite friends to join you. Then you can fight bosses and level up together.

Otter (for Android, iOS, Web)

Price: Free, premium subscription available.

Do you ever catch yourself thinking aloud at work? Otter is an AI-powered voice-recording app that can help you turn your thoughts into documents. Otter is a great transcribing tool as well that you can use to easily search through your saved recordings if you need to find specific information. 

Lastpass (for Android, iOS, Web)

Price: Free, premium subscription available.

If you’re managing multiple accounts at work, a password manager is an essential tool for organizing your working process. Lastpass is a free password manager that will make sure you never find yourself locked out of your account again. 

All you need is to install the app and create a master password for the vault. Then add as many logins to your vault as you like. Lastpass will do the rest for you.

How to Be More Organized at School

Do you ever wish they taught you how to be more organized at school as a separate subject? Well, now you can take care of that by equipping yourself with a set of productivity apps that will help you with various study-related tasks.

Miro (for Android, iOS, Web)

Price: Free, premium subscription available.

Miro can be of great help if you’re looking for a digital assistant for your study group. The app is basically a collaborative whiteboard where you can each add your entries in the form of text, documents, images, or sticky notes. Miro can be especially useful if you ever need to complete a group project remotely.

Evernote (for Android, iOS, Web)

Price: Free, premium subscription available.

Evernote is excellent software for taking notes of your lectures and storing them for later access. It allows you to sync your saved notes to any device and search through them later if you need to find a specific bit.

Aside from note taking, you can use Evernote as a task manager or a collaboration app. 

Libib (for Android, iOS, Web)

Price: Free, premium subscription available.

Libib is an app that will help you organize your book collection. The free plan allows you to add up to 5000 books, which should be enough at least for a start. You can also catalogue your movies, video games, and music albums using Libib.

You can create multiple libraries, add labels to them, leave notes, and share them with your friends online.

Become an Organizing Expert

Finding new ways to be more organized and waste less time is an ongoing struggle for many. Luckily, there are plenty of apps out there that can help you improve your productivity and become the best version of yourself.

Do you use any apps that help you organize your life better? What app would you recommend to other users? Share your experience with keeping your life organized in the comments section below.