25 Best Organization Apps to Keep You on Track This Year

Create boards and to-do lists for different areas in your life, and manage them all in one place with Trello. You can share your boards with relevant people like coworkers, spouses, or roommates.

Cost: Free, in-app purchases

There are lots of apps out there that let you create to-do lists. Todoist is a classic that is easy to use. You can make a list of tasks, set deadlines, assign goals to other people in group projects, color-code priorities, and track progress.

Cost: Free, with the option to upgrade to Premium

The Awesome Note 2 app is also for list-making and scheduling. It has a clean and simple design and templates that can help organize different categories, create multiple lists, and bring them together in one calendar.

Cost: $3

Any.do creates lists and reminders. You can sync between all your devices and share with people as needed. It's a good app for grocery and shopping lists, as well as tracking your calendar.

Cost: Free, in-app purchases

Evernote is a popular note-taking and organization app. You can even scan, store, and search your own handwriting if you prefer not to take notes on your smartphone.

Cost: Free, in-app purchases

Wunderlist is a classic app for to-do lists, setting reminders, and sorting work, home, and family life. You can share lists and assign various tasks and errands with other family members, too.

Cost: Free or $5 for Pro

Asana is a strong organization app for businesses. Groups can keep track of one another's projects, schedules, and due dates.

Cost: It's free to download, but you'll likely need to upgrade to $10 monthly for Premium or $20 monthly for business features.

The Hours Time Tracking app can be very helpful for freelancers, self-employed creative types, or anyone who needs to track or log their work hours. The app also sends reminders in case you forget to use it, and it allows you to monitor how you're organizing and managing your time.

Cost: Free; $8 for Pro

Struggling with how much time you spend on your phone or managing work-life balance? RescueTime tracks how many minutes and hours you spend on each app on your phone so you can be better at organizing your time daily and weekly.

Cost: Free

Expensify is great for freelancers, small businesses, or even large companies where employees need to submit expense reports. It's a good way to scan receipts and keep individual spending organized, especially if you need to submit or approve reports for reimbursement.

Cost: The app is free for five smart scans monthly; pricing plans start at $5.

The Dropbox app makes sharing and receiving large files with colleagues and family easy. It allows you to move your files with you on the go, on your smartphone, or on your tablet.

Cost: Free

The Genius Scan — PDF Scanner allows you to scan any documents and turn them into JPEGs and/or multipage PDFs. Save receipts, recipes, book pages, menus, and more.

Cost: The app is free, though some of the services will require a $3 subscription.

Same things goes for Google Sheets — it's a great app to keep you organized. If you're working on documents on your laptop, you can view and edit them remotely on your phone.

Cost: Free

Another useful organization app in the Google suite is the Calendar. It automatically finds events in your email and adds them to your calendar, and you can input your own items too. It also connects to Google Search for things like flight information and restaurant reservations.

Cost: Free

If you manage multiple social media accounts, Hootsuite can help keep you organized. You can schedule posts in advance and monitor your content.

Cost: The limited plan that manages three social media accounts is free, and then other plans start at $29 for more features.

With all the content available online these days, it's easy to lose track and miss out on things you want to read or watch. Pocket allows you to save and organize articles, photos, and videos you come across anywhere, all in one place, to read and view them later.

Cost: Free, or upgrade to Premium for $5.

One of the hardest things to keep organized is our inboxes. With Unroll.me, you can finally unsubscribe from all those emails for ads, coupons, and newsletters that you've been meaning to get rid of, or lump them all together into one daily summary.

Cost: Free

If you travel frequently, the TripIt app can help keep you organized. You can forward your e-tickets to the app, and you'll have all your itineraries in one place.

Cost: It's free, but upgrading to Pro is $50 per year.

Another major challenge is keeping all our photos organized. It's so easy to take pictures on our smartphones these days and so time-consuming to edit. Flic makes it easy to delete pictures from camera rolls with one swipe, saving memory space and time.

Cost: Free

One thing many of us try to do every year is to read more. Staying organized on Goodreads with to-read lists and reading goals can help keep you on track.

Cost: Free

This is a very specific app for organizing your schedule for watering plants. With our busy lives, it's easy to forget our green friends sometimes. You can set reminders for different types of plants with HappyPlant and even upload images to track their progress.

Cost: Free, in-app purchases

Paprika is like the Pocket app but especially for recipes. It allows you to keep all your recipes in one place, whether they're from images you take or from the web. You can also use it to make shopping lists and meal plans.

Cost: $5

Another option to help organize your cooking and meal planning is the Recipe Organizer by OrganizEat. You can upload your own recipes, save links from the web, make grocery lists, and organize recipes by categories and folders.

Cost: It's free to download, but various features need a subscription. Prices vary by location.

Habit expert Gretchen Rubin believes the key to staying organized in all areas of your life is knowing what kind of personality tendency you have. Are you an upholder, obliger, questioner, or rebel? Find out the answer on her app, Better, along with solutions to habit-related problems.

Cost: Free, in-app purchases