Being a small business owner comes with freedoms and challenges. While you’re the one in control, it’s not easy trying to juggle employees, customers, and vendors alongside your personal life. It helps if you’re able to manage your time efficiently – and luckily, there are apps for that. Try out these apps to get more done, faster.
Paper
This app lets you draw out sketches and designs on your iPad, then save them to specific collections. You can also take photos and design over them. It comes with a range of brushes and pen styles – all of which are easy to use. It can be a great tool for designing new jewelry styles, signage, and anything else you can imagine.
Price: Free (iPad)
Humin
Humin helps you keep track of all the details about how and where you met someone. It then lets you search among your contacts using these details, e.g. “lives in Manhattan,” “met at XYZ conference,” “friends with Mike” “works at MGS,” etc. This can be a great way to keep track of your business contacts and learn more about the circles they run with.
Price: Free (iOS)
Wunderlist
This lets you create to-do lists with built-in reminders. Best of all, Wunderlist is compatible on a wide range of devices so you can sync your lists among all of the devices you own (including PC, MAC, Android, iOS, etc.) or share them with any employees or partners. A pro version is also available that removes limitations on list and file sizes.
Price: Free (multiple devices)
Toggl
Toggl shows you exactly how much time you spend on tasks during the day. This is great for entrepreneurs because all of your billable time is accounted for. You can organize your time by project, tags, or client, and set billable rates. If you forget to switch Toggle on, you can go back and edit time later. Not only can this app keep track of your productivity, but it can help you analyze how to more effectively manage your time.
Price: Free (multiple devices)
Precious Metal Prices
Did you know that we have our own app? It’s designed to help pawnbrokers, jewelers, and other business owners monitor precious metal prices (gold, silver, platinum, palladium). Using our app, you can get real-time prices (set per troy ounce and displayed in USD), set price alerts, convert weight measurements, and more.
Price: Free (multiple devices)
