apple productivity applications there are a few and we're going to overview every apple
productivity application but we're also going to add a little bit of a twist giving you an
alternative that's on the market right now that compares very similar to these applications
now if you're new here welcome my name is francesco and the host of keep productive
we dive into productivity software and tools and we've just launched a brand new course called
the bento methodology in which you can find below and our ios and android apps there too
pages is apple's first application it's part of a sort of suite that's installed on devices
it's very much a documents application allowing you to create beautifully crafted documents that
you can share around but it is very similar to an application called craft or should i say it
the other way around craft is available on mac ios and web and is a beautifully designed application
for creating personal documents and is a great alternative to pages google docs also another
numbers is the next one and it's normally packaged together with pages as part of the suite and it's
very much like google spreadsheets or google sheets is called sorry and it's a spreadsheets
alternative to the likes of microsoft excel it is very nicely designed an alternative that if you're
looking for a sort of third party experience rose it's an application for spreadsheeting
we've just done a review on it so i'll make sure to include it in the link in description
so keynote again another one apple's had for a long time and one they actually used as part of
their wwdc presentations for many years great alternatives include pitch a really beautifully
designed a presentations platform that allows you to create really easy fun presentations without
too much of the hard work you also have canva canva is really beautifully designed
but it's more for graphics but you can use it for presentations more recently notes notes has been
around for a while apple notes is really building on its progress each year developing new ways to
enhance experience especially more recently with live text and improvements to the document scanner
good alternatives are evernote and i would say google keep is a good one too they're
very similar they do ever say evernote does a little bit more whilst google keep is probably
the closest comparison apple reminders has also been one of the pillars on ios for some time now
it's also available on mac but it is a fantastic way to take some simple notes and they've added
some more smart abilities in recent years but alternatives to this could be sorted three
todoist or things three all great applications and very similar in structure with some more
complex abilities in premium pricing next up is apple mail we all know this
and it is uh really reliable as an experience and you can install pretty much all of your
different uh email accounts in one location but the application spark is a similar alternatives
and built by a company called readl which developed fantastic productivity applications
we did a recent feature about their new calendars application for mac which which you can check out
below now shortcuts this was actually purchased a while back i think back in 2016 but it used to
be called workflow and it's basically a way for individuals to set up little shortcuts between
one experience to another very much like an application called zapier um zapier is basically
uh the original automations application helps you building to be connections between one app
to another and for example say you wanted to email when a star something in your email and set up a
zap or a shortcut that basically allows you to get a todoist task automatically created when it start
that's something you can do so it does help you to go a little bit further with your productivity
next up is icloud icloud drive is a good alternative likes of google drive and dropbox
for storing your files and information and it's very much apple-centric focusing on security and
privacy now finally freeform is a new application that apple are set to release in the coming
months which allows you a digital whiteboarding experience very similar to apps like mirror and
muse and they are very beautifully designed and so is a new apple freeform we've done a video on
this new application and a little bit more about things that you need to know before it's released
about what market it is targeting so folks hopefully you enjoyed this video a little
bit of a basic one if you're already someone who knows all of the apple products but if you aren't
it definitely gave you a bit of a catch up anyway folks i wanted to say a big thank you if you're
new here please do subscribe to keep productive we've got plenty of videos and productivity
software that you can check out and feel free to share what alternative app you use if you don't
use some of these basic apple applications thank you very much folks and i'll see you very soon
you