Liane Cassavoy is a veteran technology and business journalist. She contributes regularly to PCWorld and has written about business issues and products for Entrepreneur Magazine and other publications. She is the author of two business start-up guides published by Entrepreneur Press.
Projects and people differ, and so should project management apps. These three offer time, data, and collaboration tools with advantages over bigger-name competition.
From your phone or your browser, you can make files accessible to multiple devices, colleagues or family members. Check out these apps for their special talents in sharing or security--but watch out for those subscription fees.
If you must look at a spreadsheet on a smartphone (prepare to squint!), these four free apps could work. Note that paid upgrades offer useful perks, and a fifth app we tried is well worth its small price.
Invoicing, time-tracking, even legal help are all available on mobile apps geared to the self-employed or extremely small businesses. Some of them are even free.
