5 Best Work From Home Apps

An overview of the 5 best work-from-home apps that will help you improve your work-from-home routine.

0:00 Intro
0:13 Clockify
2:28 Zoom
3:46 Basecamp
5:03 Todoist
5:57 Skitch
7:04 Other Work-From-Home Apps

--CLOCKIFY--
for tracking work time

Clockify is a time tracking app that lets your team track their work hours, by:
- tracking time while working, with a start/stop timer
- adding time manually, after you’re done working
- adding time in a timesheet view

You can even view what your teammates are currently working on, by glancing at the “Dashboard” section of the app.

Once the team is done working, simply generate reports to identify who worked when, on what, and for how long.

The team can set their hourly rates, track billable time, and have their earnings calculated automatically. But, you can also track non-billable time, to build a complete report of how exactly they’ve spent your work hours.

When working from home, the employers will want proof that the employees performed their work as expected. And, the employees will want to demonstrate the amount of effort they’ve invested in their work assignments while telecommuting. With Clockify, you can simply and easily do just that.

You can also add up to 50 custom fields to your time entries. The types of custom fields you can add include texts, numbers, links, “yes/no” switches, and input fields with single or multiple options. The exact custom fields you’ll want to add will vary, based on the type of business you’re working in and your expected workflow. Some of the ideas include expenses, overtime, invoice status, project IDs, links to tickets, receipts, and work equipment, to name a few.

--ZOOM--
for online chats, consultations, and meetings

Zoom is an online video and audio conferencing app that lets you hold online meetings, trainings, and webinars, either 1-on-1, or in groups.

Sometimes, participating in a text discussion just isn’t enough to replace face-to-face daily meetings. So, you’ll want to turn to a specialized online video and audio meeting software like Zoom.

With this app, you’ll be able to make quick calls to consult with colleagues and build team groups for online meetings. You’ll also be able to set presence status, and send audio, text, and image files to support your opinions as you speak, directly within the app.

You’ll be able to conduct interactive video webinars for up to 100 active participants, and up to 50,000 view-only attendees. In line with that, Zoom is not only a great tool for remote teams, but also a great resource for teachers conducting online classes to larger groups.

--BASECAMP--
for team and client collaboration

Basecamp is a project management tool meant to help you manage your teams, projects, and tasks, and collaborate directly with clients while doing so.

Basecamp allows you to include your clients directly in the project and consult with them while working.

You’ll be able to share to-dos with clients, message them, and forward client emails directly to Basecamp — while also keeping everything you want exclusive for the team, private from the clients.

In addition to that, you’ll also be able to create to-do lists, track deadlines in calendar schedules, store documents, participate in real-time group chats, and ask your team check-in questions on a regular basis — all replies will roll up in one easily-searchable thread.

--TODOIST--
for tracking your to-dos

Todoist is a task management application that lets you define all your tasks in a simple list, add due dates for each task, track your progress with them, and checkmark them when complete.

With Todoist, you can add tasks by typing a description for each. But, you can also convert the emails you receive from your colleagues or boss to tasks and comments. The browser extension even lets you convert the interesting articles and websites you find while browsing the web to tasks.

You can define automatic, recurring deadlines for each type of task that will automatically activate based on the time it took you to finish earlier tasks of the same type.

--SKITCH--
for brainstorming sessions

Skitch is an annotation app that helps you bring your ideas to life through shapes, sketches, and markups. It also helps you add comments to projects, and hold visual discussions with your team.

When working in an office, you can usually bring your entire team in one place and explain your ideas on a whiteboard. But, when you’re all working from home, getting your ideas across in the way you want can be a bigger challenge — which is exactly why you should try Skitch.

You can share your project plans and designs with the team and everyone can then annotate all changes. Skitch even allows you to take the screenshots you want to annotate yourself, without leaving the app.