Looking for the best work from home apps. Here are the 10 best communication apps for work & business – including best Android messaging apps and video calling apps and video conference apps for Android and System {PC}.
1. WhatsApp
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp
WhatsApp Messenger is a FREE messaging app available for Android and other smartphones. WhatsApp uses your phone’s Internet connection (4G/3G/2G/EDGE or Wi*Fi, as available) to let you message and call friends and family. Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, calls, photos, videos, documents, and Voice Messages.
Features:
- NO FEES: WhatsApp uses your phone’s Internet connection (4G/3G/2G/EDGE or WiFi, as available) to let you message and call friends and family, so you don’t have to pay for every message or call. There are no subscription fees to use WhatsApp.
- MULTIMEDIA: Send and receive photos, videos, documents, and Voice Messages.
- FREE CALLS: Call your friends and family for free with WhatsApp Calling, even if they’re in another country.* WhatsApp calls use your phone’s Internet connection rather than your cellular plan’s voice minutes. (Note: Data charges may apply. Contact your provider for details. Also, you can’t access 911 and other emergency service numbers through WhatsApp).
- GROUP CHAT: Enjoy group chats with your contacts so you can easily stay in touch with your friends or family.
- WHATSAPP WEB: You can also send and receive WhatsApp messages right from your computer’s browser.
- NO INTERNATIONAL CHARGES: There’s no extra charge to send WhatsApp messages internationally. Chat with your friends around the world and avoid international SMS charges.
2. Telegram
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger
Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. Over 200 million active users in four years. For those interested in maximum privacy, Telegram offers Secret Chats. Secret Chat messages can be programmed to selfdestruct automatically from both participating devices. This way you can send all types of disappearing content — messages, photos, videos, and even files. Secret Chats use endto*end encryption to ensure that a message can only be read by its intended recipient.
Features:
- FAST: Telegram is the fastest messaging app on the market, connecting people via a unique, distributed network of data centers around the globe.
- SYNCED: You can access your messages from all your devices at once. Start typing on your phone and finish the message from your tablet or laptop. Never lose your data again.
- UNLIMITED: You can send media and files, without any limits on their type and size. Your entire chat history will require no disk space on your device, and will be securely stored in the Telegram cloud for as long as you need it.
- SECURE: We made it our mission to provide the best security combined with ease of use. Everything on Telegram, including chats, groups, media, etc. is encrypted using a combination of 256bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange.
- POWERFUL: You can create group chats for up to 200,000 members, share large videos, documents of any type (.DOC, .MP3, .ZIP, etc.), and even set up bots for specific tasks. It’s the perfect tool for hosting online communities and coordinating teamwork.
- RELIABLE: Built to deliver your messages in the minimum bytes possible, Telegram is the most reliable messaging system ever made. It works even on the weakest mobile connections.
- 100% FREE & NO ADS: Telegram is free and will always be free. We are not going to sell ads or introduce subscription fees.
3. Skype
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skype.raider
Use Skype to send SMS messages to mobiles worldwide and with SMS Connect you can now also read and reply to your phone’s SMS messages right from your computer. SMS connect will be released gradually.
Features:
- Video calls – Don’t just hear the cheers, see them! Get together with 1 or 24 of your friends and family on a HD video call. Watch everyone’s smiles and cries when you tell them “We’re engaged!!!”
- Chat – Reach people instantly. Send messages to your friends, grab someone’s attention with @ mentions, or create a group chat to plan a family reunion.
- SMS Connect * Read and reply to your phone’s SMS messages in Skype on your PC or Mac.
- Share – Send photos and videos with your family and friends. Save shared photos and videos to your camera roll. Share your screen to make travel plans with friends or present designs to your team.
- Voice calls – Camera shy? Make voice calls to anyone in the world on Skype. You can also call mobile and landlines at low rates.
- Express yourself – Liven up conversations with emoticons, click on the “+” in chat to send a Giphy or images from the web, and annotate images with words, lines and more.
4. Google Drive
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.docs
Google Drive is a safe place for all your files and puts them within reach from any smartphone, tablet, or computer. Files in Drive – like your videos, photos, and documents – are backed up safely so you can’t lose them. Once there, you can easily invite others to view, edit, or leave comments on any of your files or folders.
With Drive, you can:
- Safely store your files and access them from anywhere.
- Search for files by name and content.
- Easily share files and folders with others.
- Quickly view your content.
- Set access levels for who can view, comment, or edit.
- Quickly access recent files.
- See file details and activity.
- Enable viewing of files offline.
- Use your device camera to scan in paper documents.
- Access pictures and videos from Google Photos.
5. Slack
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Slack
Slack brings team communication and collaboration into one place so you can get more work done, whether you belong to a large enterprise or a small business. Check off your to*do list and move your projects forward by bringing the right people, conversations, tools, and information you need together. Slack is available on any device, so you can find and access your team and your work, whether you’re at your desk or on the go.
Features:
- Communicate with your team and organize your conversations by topics, projects, or anything else that matters to your work
- Message or call any person or group within your team
- Share and edit documents and collaborate with the right people all in Slack
- Integrate into your workflow, the tools and services you already use including Google Drive, Salesforce, Dropbox, Asana, Twitter, Zendesk, and more
- Easily search a central knowledge base that automatically indexes and archives your team’s past conversations and files
- Customize your notifications so you stay focused on what matters
6. Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint & More
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officehubrow
The Office app combines the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps you know and rely on, with new capabilities that harness the unique strengths of a phone to create a simpler, yet more powerful Office experience on the go.
Whether using it for personal or professional reasons, the Office app is designed to be your go-to app for getting work done on a mobile device.
Features:
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint combined in one app:
- The most widely used tools for working with documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, all from a single app.
- Create, edit, and work together on Office documents with others in real-time.
- Use templates to easily get started with your resume, budget, presentations, and other documents.
- Easily store, access, and search for Word, Excel, PowerPoint files stored in your personal cloud storage, on your device, or across your organization (if using a work account).
Uniquely mobile ways that make document creation easier:
- Snap a picture of a document and turn it into an editable Word file with the press of a button.
- Transform a picture of a table into an Excel spreadsheet so you can work with the data.
- Let PowerPoint help you design a presentation by simply selecting the pictures you want to use from your phone.
- Create automatically enhanced digital images of whiteboards and documents with Office Lens features integrated into the app.
Quickly perform common mobile tasks with in-built Actions:
- Instantly create PDFs from photos or Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents.
- Easily transfer files between your phone and computer or share instantly with nearby mobile devices.
- Sign PDFs using your finger.
- Quickly jot down ideas and notes with Sticky Notes.
- Scan QR codes to open links.
7. Microsoft Teams
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.teams
Microsoft Teams is your hub for teamwork in Office 365. All your team conversations, files, meetings, and apps live together in a single shared workspace, and you can take it with you on your favorite mobile device. Whether you’re sprinting towards a deadline or sharing your next big idea, Teams can help you achieve more.
Features:
- Easily manage your team’s projects with file editing and sharing on the go
- Connect facetoface with HD audio and video, and join meetings from almost anywhere
- Chat privately or in groups, and communicate with the entire team in dedicated channels
- Mention individual team members, or the whole team at once, to get your colleagues’ attention
- Focus on what matters most by saving important conversations and customizing your notifications
- Search your chats and team conversations to quickly find what you need
- Get the enterprise*level security and compliance you expect from Office 365
This app requires a paid Office 365 commercial subscription, or a free or trial subscription of Microsoft Teams. If you’re not sure about your company’s subscription or the services you have access to, visit Office.com/Teams to learn more or contact your IT department.
8. Zoom Cloud Meeting
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.zoom.videomeetings
Award winning Zoom brings video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging into one easytouse application. Using this app stay connected wherever you go – start or join a 100person meeting with crystalclear, facetoface video, high quality screen sharing, and instant messaging – for free!
It’s super easy: install the free Zoom app, click on “Host a Meeting” and invite up to 100 people to join! Users can join any meeting and host unlimited 1:1 meetings for free. Free group meetings are limited to 40 minutes.
Features:
- Best Android video meeting quality
- Best Android screen sharing quality
- Screen share directly from your Android device
- Screen share photos, web and Google Drive, Dropbox or Box files
- Send group text, images and audio from mobile and desktop
- Contact availability status
- Easily invite phone, email or company contacts
- Join as interactive participant or view*only webinar attendee
- Works over WiFi, 4G/LTE and 3G networks
- Safe driving mode while on the road
- Connect with anyone on Android, other mobile devices, Windows, Mac, iOS, ZoomPresence, H.323/SIP room systems, and telephones
9. Evernote
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evernote
Use Evernote to create notebooks, organizers, planners and organize them any way you want and share with anyone. Easily sync the notes and notebooks across your devices so your information is always with you. Users can input typed notes or scan handwritten notes, add to-do’s, photos, images, web pages, or audio… and it’s all instantly searchable.
Features:
- Write, collect and capture ideas as searchable notes, notebooks, memos, checklists and to-do lists. It’s the only planner and organizer you need
- Keep journals, documenting the news and writing the events and milestones of your daily life
- Take notes and create notepads in a variety of formats, including: text, sketches, photos, audio, video, PDFs, web clippings and more
- Use camera capture to easily scan and comment on pieces of paper, including printed documents, business cards, handwriting and sketches
- Attach Microsoft Office docs, PDFs and photos
- Create separate notepads to organize your memos, receipts, bills and invoices
- Use Evernote as a digital notepad, planner and easy-to-format word processor for all your thoughts and memos as they come
- Sync all your notes and notebooks automatically across any computer, phone or tablet
- Start your writing and task working on one device and continue on another without ever missing a beat
10. Facebook Messenger
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.orca
All-in-one communication app, complete with unlimited text, voice, video calling and group video chat features. Easily sync your messages and contacts to your Android phone and connect with anyone, anywhere.
Features:
- FREE VIDEO CALLS TO STAY CONNECTED * Keep your friends and family close with unlimited live video chatting * like facetime, but works across devices (Android, iOS, etc.). Host group video calls with up to 8 people, with high*quality audio, high definition video, and interactive video features like face filters.
- UNLIMITED FREE TEXT & PHONE CALLS * Skip exchanging phone numbers and simply send a message to your Facebook friends, even if they’re across the world. Enjoy high*quality voice and text messaging on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
- RECORD AND SEND VOICE AND VIDEO MESSAGES * When text just won’t cut it, just hit record and send. Say, sing, show, or shout it out loud.
- TURN OFF THE LIGHTS IN DARK MODE * Give your eyes some rest with a sleek new look that darkens the colors of the chat interface.
- EXPRESS YOURSELF WITH STICKERS, GIFS, AND EMOJIS * Use custom stickers to show your creative side. You can even add effects and filters to video calls.
- SEND FILES, PHOTOS, AND VIDEOS * There’s no limit to the number of files you want to share with your friends.
- CHAT WITH BUSINESSES * Easily connect with your favorite businesses to make reservations, get customer support, find deals and more.
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