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Profession directory / 32 apps

Software for Administration & Office

Browse general-purpose and specialist apps relevant to administration & office workflows. Create documents, manage email and calendars, analyze spreadsheets, prepare reports, and coordinate everyday office work.

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Office & ProductivityFreemium

Adobe Scan

A mobile document-scanner that captures paper, improves the image, recognizes text, and saves scans as searchable PDF files.

Office & ProductivityFreemium

Calendly

A scheduling service for sharing availability, booking interviews or meetings, and automating reminders and routing.

Project Planning & CollaborationFreemium

ClickUp

A work platform for tasks, documents, goals, calendars, whiteboards, and team project coordination.

File ManagementFreemium

Google Drive

A cloud-storage service with desktop and mobile apps for syncing files, sharing folders, and working with Google Workspace content.

Office & ProductivityOpen Source

LibreOffice

An open-source office suite for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.

Office & ProductivityFreemium

Microsoft Excel

A spreadsheet application for calculations, schedules, budgets, inventories, records, dashboards, and data analysis.

Office & ProductivityFreemium

Microsoft Word

A document editor for reports, letters, policies, resumes, lesson materials, forms, and collaborative writing.

Office & ProductivityFreemium

Notion

A connected workspace for notes, documents, projects, and team knowledge.

Data & AnalyticsFree

Tableau Public

A free visual-analytics platform for exploring public data, building interactive visualizations, and publishing them to the Tableau Public community.

Project Planning & CollaborationFreemium

Trello

A visual board system for breaking projects into tasks, assigning work, tracking deadlines, and sharing progress.

Publishing & Page LayoutTrial

Adobe InDesign

A professional page-layout application for books, magazines, reports, brochures, interactive documents, typography, preflight, and print or digital publishing.

Project Planning & CollaborationFreemium

Airtable

A collaborative database platform for organizing projects, records, workflows, forms, and operational information.

Office & ProductivityOpen Source

Apache OpenOffice

An open-source productivity suite with word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, formulas, and database tools.

Project Planning & CollaborationFreemium

Asana

A work-management platform for organizing projects, responsibilities, milestones, timelines, and team communication.

Design & GraphicsFreemium

Canva

A visual design platform for presentations, social graphics, documents, and more.

Project Planning & CollaborationOpen Source

diagrams.net

An open-source diagramming tool for flowcharts, system maps, processes, school projects, and technical documentation.

File ManagementFreemium

Dropbox

A cross-platform cloud-storage service for synchronizing files, sharing folders, and keeping selected content available offline.

Classroom & Teaching PlatformsFree

Microsoft Whiteboard

A collaborative digital canvas for brainstorming, teaching, coaching, meetings, planning, and visual problem-solving.

Project Planning & CollaborationFreemium

monday.com

A visual work-management platform for projects, workflows, assignments, timelines, and team reporting.

Publishing & Page LayoutTrial

QuarkXPress

A professional design and page-layout application for print publications, digital layouts, typography, long documents, and multi-channel publishing.

Publishing & Page LayoutOpen Source

Scribus

An open-source desktop-publishing application for page layout, typography, color-managed documents, PDF production, forms, and print-ready output.

CommunicationFreemium

Slack

A team communication platform organized around channels, direct messages, and integrations.

Project Planning & CollaborationFreemium

Todoist

A cross-platform task manager for projects, priorities, recurring work, planning, and shared lists.