The best app for daily life use depends on your needs, but here are some highly rated and widely useful apps across different categories:
Productivity & Organization:
Google Keep or Notion – Google Keep is a note-taking service included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. The service also includes: Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Forms and Google Sites. Google Keep is available as a web application as well as mobile app for Android and iOS. The app offers a variety of tools for taking notes, including texts, lists, images, and audio.
Google Calendar – Google Calendar allows users to create and edit events. Reminders can be enabled for events, with options available for type and time. Event locations can also be added, and other users can be invited to events. Users can enable or disable the visibility of special calendars, including Birthdays, where the app retrieves dates of births from Google contacts and displays birthday cards on a yearly basis.
Todoist – A powerful task manager. Todoist is top-notch to-do list software that lets you geek out on organizing, tracking, and analyzing all the tasks in your life. It offers extremely intuitive apps for practically every platform, lets you collaborate with others, doesn't require an internet connection, and even supports advanced features like natural language input. The free version is reasonably capable, too, though most people are better off paying for the feature-packed Pro tier.
Health & Wellness:
MyFitnessPal – MyFitnessPal is a smartphone application which uses gamification elements for exercise and diet management. The app provides multiple features for diet management. These features include the ability to enter data about food consumed, either manually or by scanning bar codes[1] and Meal Scan, a computer vision technology developed by Passio Inc., that allows users to log meals by pointing their cameras at ingredients and recipes.
Headspace or Calm – If you’re new to meditation, the 10-day Basics course is a great starting place. It’s designed to teach the essentials of meditation in just minutes a day. As you build your practice, you can move to other meditations. When you log in as a Headspace user, you’ll see a few suggested meditations on the home screen based on the time of day. You can also save meditations to your favorites list.
Google Fit – Google Fit provides a single set of API for apps and device manufacturers to store and access activity data from fitness apps and sensors on Android and other devices (like wearables, heart rate monitors or connected scales).
Finance:
Mint or YNAB (You Need A Budget) – Mint is a popular personal finance management app that helps users track their spending, create a budget, and set financial goals. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to use Mint to manage your finances:
Google Pay or Paytm (in India) – Digital payments in India continue to grow, so does the competition between apps offering these services. With the introduction of UPI and the push for digital payments amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems every fintech company wants to join the bandwagon offering these services. Among the most popular apps in India include Phone Pe, Paytm, and Google Pay.
Communication:
WhatsApp or Telegram – While both platforms excel in connecting users worldwide, their subtle differences can significantly impact user experiences. For example, Telegram prioritizes security and versatility, boasting features like secret chats and self-destructing messages.
Google Meet or Zoom – Zoom helps consolidate communications, connect people, and collaborate better together in the boardroom, classroom, operating room, and everywhere in between.
Navigation & Travel:
Google Maps – Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets , real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air and public transportation.
Uber or Ola – Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operates in approximately 70 countries and 15,000 cities worldwide.
Shopping And Deals:
Amazon And Flipchart – For general shopping. Amazon is the world's largest online retailer and one of the largest providers of cloud services. As of 2025, it is considered a giant in both e-commerce and cloud computing.
Rakuten – For cashback and coupons.
Investment:
Angle one – Angel One Limited, formerly known as Angel Broking Limited, is an Indian stockbroker firm established in 1996. The company is a member of the Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange of India, National Commodity And Derivatives Exchange Limited and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited.
Zerodha – The company is a member of the Bombay Stock Exchange, National Stock Exchange of India, National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Limited.