Your business keeps you busy. You’re juggling three projects simultaneously for your employer. You’re on the road more often than you are at home, and your day planner is covered in ink. You need smartphone apps that can make life easier for you, not complicate it. Fortunately, there is a host of smartphone applications out there designed specifically to simplify life for the busiest of business professionals. Listed here are five of the top ones to explore.

Top 5 Business Apps

1. WhosHere: WhosHere allows you to quickly find freelance contractors in your area to help you complete projects. For example, if you want to find a freelance illustrator in Philadelphia to close out your latest ad campaign, you are able to send out a search through your smartphone. You can then send free text messages or calls to the professionals who answer your search.
2. Locale: It is embarrassing when your phone goes off in the middle of a movie, but what about in the middle of a board meeting? This never needs to happen again if you use Locale. It lets you select specific phone settings determined by location. So when you walk into your office or the library your phone automatically goes to vibrate.
3. WaveSecure: One of the risks of traveling frequently is the chance of loosing your phone. This app will let you lock your phone and backup the information stored on it remotely, as well as monitor its location through the SIM card. Talk about peace of mind.
4. Bump: If you are in sales you have to collect contact information quickly. With Bump all you need to do is tap two phones together to exchange information, no more post-tradeshow data entry.
5. Scan2PDF Mobile: The Scan2PDF Mobile app lets you scan receipts, proposals, business reports, and other documents with your smartphone camera and transform them into color PDFs. Then you’re able to e-mail these scanned documents directly to your computer’s desktop.