Handy Apps for Agencies
Apart from the obvious apps everyone knows and uses like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc, I thought I’d have a look and see what else is out there for agency to use. Hopefully to help not hinder in all that day-to-day stuff. So here’s few iPhone Apps I’ve found that might come in handy, with just a brief description to go with it. These are all on the iTunes App Store if you’d like to find out more.
Adobe Apps
PDFs are every ones favourite form of sending files – a must have. Although, do be aware for Adobe products you will need an Adobe Cloud subscription. Just PDF Reader is included as a feature in a lot of apps now. Adobe also has iPhone apps for Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Colour CC, Connect Mobile, Connect Viewer and more.
Documents Free
It’s Free! It’s a mobile office suite – files can be opened using Microsoft Word and Excel, Open Office, Numbers, and all major office suites.
Scanner Pro by Readdle
Scanner Pro transforms your iPhone and iPad into portable scanners. It allows you to scan receipts, whiteboards, paper notes, or any multipage document and save as a PDF file you can email or print.
File Pro Ultimate File Manager & PDF Reader
This one costs a few dollars, but includes a lot of stuff, from managing files/ folders, emails, dropbox, PDF reader, PDF scanner, audio recorder, import photos/video and editing TXT files. – nice to have it all in one app.
Dragon Dictation
Another freebie. This one is an easy-to-use voice recognition app that lets you dictate your message, translate it to text (apparently five times faster than you could type it), then send it via sms or email, or copy and paste.
CamCard
CamCard reads business cards and save instantly to your phone contacts. It syncs all your cards across smartphones, tablets, computers and the web app. No more need for keeping all the paper business cards. Eliminate your business card clutter.
There are also a lot of apps around for managing day-to-day business. They let you record receipts (some you can photograph within the app), track travel, manage expenses blah blah blah. All that stuff the accounts department hassle you about at the end of the month. Here’s just a few…
Shoeboxed Australia
Media Pro
Xero
Invoice2go
XpenseTracker
MyPantone
And finally - this one is one of my favourites, it cost $12.99. Everyone in the advertising industry knows and understands Pantone colours. The app has all the libraries we’re used to using – including metallic and pastels. It lets you capture and extract colours from a photo; save colour palettes you’ve created or will automatically generate harmonious colour combos.
That’s it for my app search for now, but in my searching I did notice a little bit of a phenomenon.
There appears to be an increase in Ad Agencies creating their own apps. These feature galleries of their work (both print and video), plus services and contact details, pretty much everything you’d find on a website condensed into an app. Agencies such as Anx Agency, DDB Warsaw (#Doodad), Gravity Global World. What will be next!!
Deirdre Walker – Finished Artist