Top Remote Work Apps in 2024

The last couple of years taught us a lot about working from home and what remote team management techniques ensure flawless collaboration among distributed teams. According to an Upwork survey, 25% of professional workers already worked remotely by the end of 2023.

Let’s check what remote work apps are still on top!

Productivity and time tracking

TimeCamp

For: Flawless remote work time tracking, client budgeting, and invoicing

 

Working remotely often means problems with keeping up to date with employee attendance. A solid time tracking app solves that problem, no matter how many time zones your employees are working in.

TimeCamp, time and attendance software and one of the best remote working tools, has a wide range of features dedicated to streamlining daily work hours logging and helping you manage remote teams effortlessly:

• Automatic time tracking – enjoy a seamless timesheet filling when using a desktop app that works in the background and assigns time entries to the appropriate tasks automatically.
• Online timesheets – start a timer or add a new entry manually using a Day or Calendar timesheet; you can also fill your timesheets for an entire week at once using a Week view.
• Attendance tracking – signing time cards when working remotely is a pain, but with TimeCamp, you can turn working hours into attendance reports for better remote team absence management and accurate payroll.
• Flexible billing rates – to bill remote workers accurately, no matter the time zones they work in.
• Reporting – to keep an eye on virtual teams’ performance and as a support for effortless time planning in project management.
• Productivity tracking – to let remote employees keep an eye on their own performance, 
• Trigger email marketing – to automate communication with clients or team members based on time tracking data.
• 30+ native integrations – to track time directly from project management, sales, marketing, accounting tools your remote team uses.
• Unlimited users in all plans – if you manage a remote team that just needs basic hours logging feature, choose our free plan that allows you to add as many users as you wish.

Pricing: Free plan; paid plans start at $2.99 per user per month; a free trial is available -> check full pricing here!

Available for: web, desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux), mobile (iOS/Android), browser extension (Chrome/Microsoft Edge), time clock kiosk.

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Forest

For: Focus improvement gamification

There’s one thing that remote work newbies and old-timers have in common, and no surprises here—it’s trouble focusing. It doesn’t need an extra explanation—the home environment is full of distractions, and avoiding them requires a good amount of self-discipline. Especially when you usually use the same room to work, eat, and relax.

If the ordinary solutions for focus improvement aren’t working anymore, try gamifying the experience and choose Forest. Both remote and hybrid teams will definitely have fun using this app, but I’m sure it’ll bring remote workers an extra benefit.

Forest allows you to plant a virtual tree every time you want to stay productive, e.g., when you start a new task. And here the fun starts—your perfect focus waters the tree. Once you get distracted and abandon your work, leaving the app halfway, the tree will die. You don’t want it to wither too early, do you? You’d better maintain the highest focus level and enjoy the beautiful online forest growing because you’re doing a good job.

What’s more, Forest team members partner with a real tree-planting organization! Each time Forest app users spend their virtual coins, a company donates and creates planting orders. Stay productive and perfectly focused to help protect the planet!

Pricing: $3.99 (iOS); Free/$1.99 (Android) + in-app purchases

Available for: iOS, Android.

Freedom

For: Blocking distractions

Remote workers know exactly that literally everything can distract them—no matter if it’s a social media notification or pets asking to play with them. That’s why if possible, it’s good to limit at least a part of the distractions—and here, the Freedom app can help.

It’s an app and website blocker dedicated to all the most popular platforms and devices. It blocks the activities you usually waste time on (websites you browse or apps you use, and games you play). But if it’s not enough, Freedom also allows you to turn off the internet connection. What’s more, you can use the Locked mode feature to prevent ending a Freedom session when your assignments require being extra productive.

Create lists of apps and websites that should be blocked during particular sessions (or use website exceptions to leave only these websites you really need to use at work and block the rest). You can add as many devices as you want to one Freedom session; the tool syncs perfectly across many devices.

Pricing: Free trial is available; paid plans of Freedom Premium start at $8.99 per month (or $3.99 per month when billed annually).

Available for: Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, and Chrome devices.

RoundPie App

For: Pomodoro focus improvement and hours logging

 

Pomodoro time tracking has been a hot topic recently, especially among remote workers. It’s a technique for working in intervals that consist of typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Sure, tracking them with a watch is absolutely achievable, but why not automate it with a productivity tool?

Check RoundPie (previously PomoDone—a pomodoro timer that connects with your favorite task management application. You don’t have to create any tasks to use it; just import the project structure from other tools you use and start using the tool. The list of available apps depends on the plan you choose.

If the default interval doesn’t match your workflow, you can easily change it to the desired length. RoundPie also offers weekly and monthly mailing reports and tag customization for better task categorization.

Pricing: A free one-week trial and a free plan with limited features are available. Pricing starts at $4.32.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, browser extension (Chrome and Microsoft Edge).

Way Of Life

For: Improving self-discipline and faster goals achievement

Remote employees will surely benefit from using a good habit tracker. Way of Life supports remote work efficiency by helping you build good habits and get rid of bad ones. It’s a significant help for maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Way of Life uses a color-coded system to organize your daily routine and sends you notifications to keep you on track with your habits. It also offers notes to let you leave a word or two about what triggered the bad habits or helped you support the good ones. Charts give you insight into positive and negative trends in your performance.

Pricing: Free plan for up to three habits available; premium plans start at $4.99 per user per month.

Available for: iOS, Android.

World Time Buddy

For: time zones management

Distributed teams often work from various places around the world and in different time zones. To find out if your remote team members are available at work or rather sleep peacefully, use World Time Buddy, a time converter and world clock.

It’s a simple calculator that allows you to check the time across various locations—just input the city names and see clearly what time it is there; move the cursor to compare the time difference at a glance.

World Time Buddy also helps you track market hours, better plan business journeys, and schedule international meetings and phone calls. World Time Buddy also offers a simple feature for scheduling remote meetings, especially in asynchronous communication.

Signing up isn’t required, but if you do, you’ll be able to save your locations to keep them handy.

Pricing: Free.

Available for: web, website widget, and mobile app for iOS and Android.

Team collaboration tools

Teamwork

For: letting the entire team stay on the same page

 

Teamwork is an all-in-one project management and team communication tool that streamlines remote team collaboration. It keeps you up to date with the team and its heavy workload and helps make wiser decisions about resourcing. Thanks to that, the remote team members’ workflow is smooth, and the risk of missing deadlines is reduced to a minimum.

Using Teamwork, you can visualize your projects with the boards, no matter if you use Kanban, Scrum, or other methods, and always be up to date on the project scope and progress. Monitoring the workflow in real-time helps avoid bottlenecks and prevents any potential problems.

Teamwork offers an efficient workload-monitoring feature, by which you can get an instant overview of the capacity of each remote employee, indicated by a capacity bar. It helps you adjust the plans effortlessly in case someone has too much on their plate and offload some of their work onto other team members, to keep the workflow flawless and effortlessly manage projects.

Pricing: Free plan available for teams up to 5 users; paid plans start at €8.99 per user per month (€5.99 when billed annually).

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Chrome, and Gmail extension

🍀 Check TimeCamp and Teamwork integration! 

Slack

For: streamlined remote team communication

 

Slack needs no extra introduction as a work-from-home app. It’s one of the most widely known instant messaging tools among all the remote work software. No matter how big teams are and from where their members work, Slack ensures flawless team communication.

Using Slack, you can create fully searchable channels for group conversations on various subjects, depending on your workflow. Moreover, if there’s an issue but you don’t want to clutter the channel, you can invite team members concerned to the group conversations. Of course, Slack also offers 1-1 conversations for maximum privacy.

Recently Slack also enabled voice and video calls called Huddles. The tool now allows you to hold team meetings without using a third-party tool. Huddles are customizable with different backgrounds and effects and emoji reactions. Any documents and links shared when using Huddle are automatically saved and available for participants to browse them later.

Remote workforce will also benefit from clips, short audio or video clip that come in handy when you want to explain something quickly but don’t want to waste energy writing a long message. Slack also offers numerous integrations for streamlined workflow (check TimeCamp for Slack).

Pricing: Free plan available (with limited features, storage, and search history), paid plans start at $8.75 per active user per month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

🍀 Check TimeCamp and Slack integration! 

Chanty

For: real-time collaboration and video calls

Chanty is another of the best remote work tools. It’s a team collaboration app that offers an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. You can easily take advantage of this team chat app—conversations are neatly organized in public, group, or private, one to one chats.

Digital teams will be definitely satisfied with unlimited searchable message history, and audio and video chat features, which are perfect for keeping all the team members up to date using one, remote setting.

The built-in task manager that uses the Kanban methodology allows you to turn any message into tasks, all of them neatly organized. Get a quick answer from a colleague or entire team using mentions, pin the messages essential for flawless team workflow, and connect Chanty with other remote tools to save time on switching between multiple apps.

Pricing: Free plan available (up to 10 members), paid plan costs $3 per user per month (billed annually); check how it works and register for a free trial.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, Debian, Fedora, iOS, Android.

Discord

For: creating a virtual office for virtual teams

Discord was mainly designed for gamers to communicate while gaming. But the pandemic made it also a perfect alternative to the most often used professional collaboration tools. But it doesn’t mean that it can’t be used in business.

Discord operates on servers—virtual workspaces used mostly by online communities so far, but now suitable perfectly for business purposes as well. You can make a dedicated server for your team and enjoy cool team collaboration that uses personal emojis.

Discord enables chat, voice, and video calls communication. You can freely use the tool as internal communication software and co-working space, and play with it to get the most out of your work. The space divides into topic-based channels where you can collaborate, share links and documents, or just chat with your coworkers about nothing.

Pricing: Discord is a free app, but to enhance its capacity (e.g., to send larger files, or add more personal emojis) buy a Nitro subscription; Nitro Basic costs $2.99 a month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, Debian, Fedora, iOS, Android.

Mattermost

For: remote collaboration for technical teams

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hosted workflow automation app dedicated to software development teams. It unites your dev team collaboration thanks to 1:1 and group conversations. With Mattermost, you can easily chat with your remote team as well as share and view files. You can fully customize it according to your workflow and team members’ needs.

Integrate Mattermost with your favorite business apps to streamline other team communication-related processes. Since it’s an open-source software, you can easily run it on your own server and take care of the highest level of data security and privacy. It also offers a wide range of integrations or you can build your own one using its API.

Pricing: Free plan is available (for unlimited users; only self-hosted); paid plans start at $10 per user per month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android.

Notion

For: all-in-one software for remote teams organization

 

Notion brings together all the features that are essential to streamline daily remote positions’ communication.

Use Notion to create wikis—a centralized location for all the knowledge essential to streamline your workflow. Having this information in a nutshell and handy will definitely help onboard new remote employees faster and avoid endless questions about the smallest details. Send them also an onboarding checklist to ensure them a successful start.

Notion also gives remote teams a clear overview of all their projects, so they can plan their workload and manage tasks without unnecessary pressure and, thus, avoid missing deadlines or assigning team members with incorrect skills to specific projects.

Among Notion features, you’ll also find documents and notes creator that allows you to insert blocks of content like code snippets, math equations, images, videos, mentions, toggles, reminders, and many more. Use the Web Clipper feature to save websites to Notion, available as an extension for Chrome, Safari and Firefox.

Pricing: Free plan for personal usage is available (but you can invite up to 10 guests to your collaborative board); paid plans start at $10 per user per month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

🍀 Check TimeCamp and Notion integration! 

Video conferencing team communication

Zoom

For: all-in-one smart team collaboration platform

Many people learned about Zoom during the pandemic outburst—companies of different sizes and industries, as well as universities and governmental institutions, needed comprehensive remote work apps for video conferencing.

Today, Zoom markets itself as a collaborative, AI-powered communication platform that serves many purposes, from being a virtual workspace for remote teams in virtual offices to organizing events like webinars and online conferences. You can get it now as Zoom One, an all-in-one tool, or as separate products for calling, events and webinars, workspaces, or editable whiteboards.

Zoom One consists of numerous features that let distributed teams communicate and collaborate effectively, like virtual meetings, screen recording, instant messaging, a cloud phone system (that successfully replaces a traditional desk phone), email and calendar clients, or even a digital whiteboard to brainstorm and plan collaboratively or to take notes during meetings.

Pricing: Varies depending if you choose personal, business, or industry pricing. In a business trier, your remote team can get Zoom for free, but features are quite limited, like meetings up to 40 minutes long or 100 attendees per meeting. Paid plans start at $15.99 per month/user. You can also purchase a separate product, like a Phone, Events&Webinars, Rooms, or Contact Center.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Outlook plugin.

Teams

For: virtual workspace for hybrid or remote teams

Microsoft Teams offers a wide range of apps that support meetings at every stage. Use it as a standard video conferencing tool or replace traditional phone calls with it—Teams Phone service support VoIP calls whether you use the landline, mobile phone, or the Teams app. You can even enhance your remote work setup with a reliable working from home phone system.

No matter where your employees work, they can easily participate in fully interactive team meetings using Teams Rooms. Rooms ensure effortless collaboration for remote and hybrid teams thanks to wireless content sharing, powerful whiteboarding, full scalability, and reduced security risks.

Pricing: Depends on the type of usage (business or home); business plans start at $4 per user per month in an annual subscription with automatic renewal. A free plan is available.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android.

Google Meet

For: shareable audio and video conferences

Distributed teams that already use other apps for collaboration and just need a simple tool to hold video conferences should be satisfied with Meet. You can use it separately or as a part of the Google Workspace suite. The second choice is more convenient because once you schedule a meeting, it immediately appears in your Calendar, and all the participants are automatically notified.

The basic version of Meet allows you to create safe, interactive meetings for up to 100 participants. Users can raise a hand to attract attention or send an emoji to express themselves without saying a single word. The tool provides whiteboarding with Jamboard.

Additional Meet features include live streaming, polls, breakout rooms, meeting recording, multiple co-hosts, background noise cancellation, or even attendance tracking. The number of participants also increases to max 250, and so does the maximum length of the meeting (24h). However, the number of extra features varies depending on the chosen paid plan.

Pricing: Free option available; the lowest Google Workspace paid plan costs $6 per user per month.

Available for web, Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, iOS, Android.

Project management

TimeCamp Planner

For: project coordination combined with flawless communication

TimeCamp Planner is team collaboration and team communication tool. You can create as many spaces as you need within one workspace and manage each project separately to avoid unnecessary clutter.

Planner ensures your team flawless Kanban-based task management with to-do lists, handy project overviews, timelines, and calendar views. With an integrated chat platform, you can easily communicate with all members or talk to your colleagues in a private or group conversation.

Moreover, you can turn every message into a task, so you won’t miss any brilliant ideas anymore. You can also send a handy chat link to customers or contractors and invite them to collaborate on a project with your remote team.

Integrate TimeCamp Planner with Gmail and turn every email into task cards in a few clicks. To implement video calls, integrate TimeCamp Planner with Hangouts. To keep an eye on deadlines better, synchronize it with your favorite calendar and get access to your projects from wherever you are with a handy mobile application. What’s more, the tool allows you to import your boards from Trello, so you can switch to a new app easily.

Pricing: Free forever plan and free trial available; paid is at $2.99 per user per month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, Ubuntu, iOS, Android.

Asana

For: managing complex work easily

 

Asana is a complete task and project management suite that allows you to keep all your work and data about your remote team in one place. Using it, you can be sure you have everything you need to maintain a steady workflow and always deliver work on time.

Although it may not be as easy to use in the beginning, just a short onboarding is enough to learn how to make use of the tool for effective remote management.

You can also treat Asana as an advanced to-do list app with many features. You can organize your work in this free task software the way you need and like. Your remote employees can easily plan and organize their work and then follow and report updates.

In Asana you can visualize the project to make sure things are going the right way and to eliminate risks and negative outcomes.

Pricing: Free forever plan and free trial available; paid plans start at €13.49 user/month.

Available for web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

🍀 Check TimeCamp and Asana integration! 

Trello

For: kanban-based project management

Trello is a world-famous app for organizing tasks in the Kanban methodology. Remote teams, no matter of size, appreciate its transparency and fast setup.

Trello is a visual board for managing and planning tasks. Even though its design may seem basic, it’s packed with many useful features. You can create various boards for different projects or teams within a big team, with as many tasks and to-do lists as you need, adjust cards’ settings according to your workflow, repeat them for recurring tasks, leave comments on tasks, attach files, and use many other fancy options.

Trello also offers a wide list of power-ups that enhance work. Give a try TimeCamp and Trello power-up that provides in-app time tracking to make task management extremely convenient.

Pricing: Free plan and free trial available; paid plans start at $6 per user per month (billed monthly; billed annually – $5).

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

Monday.com

For: visual remote workflow management

monday.com is another workflow and project management tool, but it stands out with its unique, colorful interface. It lets you organize tasks and track work in one place in an eye-pleasing visual form.

Monday offers many different kinds of workflow views, like the most popular Kanban, Timeline, or Calendar, but also Gant charts, forms, maps, and their own main view. You can also track recurring tasks.

With an overview of tasks, you can easily check the team’s workload—who’s working on what and which employees have free slots (which is extremely convenient if they’re working remotely).

Moreover, Monday offers various project management templates for different types of projects and industries (e.g., agencies, freelancers, manufacturing, operations, construction, design, sales, and many more).

Pricing: Free plan and free trial are available; paid plans start at €9 per user per month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

🍀 Check TimeCamp and monday.com integration! 

Wrike

For: premium virtual meetings experience

Wrike is another work-from-home app that is a cloud-based project management tool. It’s dedicated mostly to teams of 20+, which is suitable for both large enterprises and small businesses.

Key features of Wrike are typical for project management and collaboration software: Gantt charts, calendars, workload view for resource management, custom dashboards, and real-time updates. That helps with managing multiple tasks and makes the work of the project managers easier. Wrike allows for structuring all processes by managing work in folders, projects, and tasks.

Wrike integrates with a wide range of tools, including SalesForce, Dropbox, Slack, and Adobe Creative Cloud, and offers an open API. Wrike is suitable for anything marketing-related, creative, and large to midsize IT teams. 

Pricing: Free plan and free trial available; paid plans start at $9.80 per user/month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

🍀 Check TimeCamp and Wrike integration! 

Basecamp

For: bringing all the work of your remote team into one place

 

Basecamp is another of the best project management tools. It offers a wide range of features that can help your team get things done on time. It is an intuitive and user-friendly tool that doesn’t require extra effort to set up.

In addition, tasks are presented in handy to-do lists with attachable due ranges and dates; each employee is assigned to tasks they’re responsible for. All that has been done to avoid chaos and confusion. The next worth-trying feature of this app is the way you can prioritize and reorder tasks and adjust the system to one’s needs.

Basecamp is also perfect for enabling coworkers to share and capture ideas, proposals, or align reference conversations, which in turn helps you to make sure each team member knows what others are doing, not to double their work.

Pricing: No free option but a free trial is available; paid plans start at $15 user/month + free guests (with limited features).

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

Clickup

For: project management that adjusts to the needs of your team

 

ClickUp is an all-in-one project management tool that brings all remote jobs in your business together and lets them plan and manage work one place.

With a robust hierarchy and 15+ view options, your team can collaborate easily and manage large, complex projects. Create custom Dashboards to get a clear overview and valuable insight into tasks, work sprints, projects, people, team goals, and more.

Reduce the number of tedious tasks with automation and collaborate with your team seamlessly using in-task commenting and collaborative editing using Docs. With ClickUp’s customizable templates, teams can make sure they stay on the same page, get a head start on projects, and follow a repeatable process every time.

Clickup offers a variety of native integrations with apps like Slack, Gmail, and Calendly, making it easy to bring all your work tools into one place. Check it out and make sure that even if your team members work from around the world, they always stay aligned.

Pricing: Free forever plan and free trial available; paid plans start at $7 per user/month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

🍀 Check TimeCamp and Clickup integration! 

ProofHub

For: managing projects and team collaboration

ProofHub is a powerful project management and team collaboration tool that helps remote teams work seamlessly and improves employee productivity. The app’s intuitive interface and comprehensive features make it easy for teams to stay organized, on track, and connected, regardless of their location.

ProofHub’s diverse range of project management features empower project managers to plan, execute, and monitor projects with ease. The app offers a broad suite of tools, from task management and time tracking to Gantt charts and Kanban boards.

Additionally, the availability of customizable workflows and project templates further streamlines project initiation and ensures consistency across projects.

ProofHub also supports transparent and efficient communication within remote teams. Its built-in chat functionality, along with @mentions and notifications, enables real-time communication, so team members stay connected and informed. Moreover, the app’s proofing and reviewing features enable seamless collaboration on documents, designs, and other project deliverables, eliminating the need for back-and-forth emails and enabling swift feedback loops.

Pricing: 14 days free trial; two paid plans are available at $45 and $89 per month with no per-user fee. 

Available for: Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS.

Meeting management

Fellow

For: an ultimate meeting hub

 

Sometimes a calendar isn’t enough to manage remote meetings effectively. But with Fellow, an ultimate meeting hub, everything is clear and in one place—from creating collaborative agendas to delegating responsibilities once the meeting ends.

A wide range of pre-built meeting templates saves you time in planning. But if there’s a workflow agenda that has been working for your team so far, you can create a custom template and save it for later.

An interactive agenda builder in Fellow helps prevent meetings from going off-track due to a lack of direction. This is especially important for remote teams that sometimes struggle with proper communication.

With Fellow, you’ll never forget what was discussed in past meetings. It stores all the previous agendas, so you can easily check them and not waste time on something that has already been established. Moreover, taking notes in real-time within the app puts you at ease, and you’ll never miss any brilliant ideas anymore.

Pricing: Free forever plan and free trial available; paid plans start at $11 per user per month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

Calendly

For: quick appointment scheduling

 

 

Digital teams that are tired of scheduling appointments via endless email chains should definitely check Calendly. The automatic appointment scheduling tools, such as Calendly, work well as great support for those who spend the majority of their working hours on meetings.

As a calendar app, it not only helps schedule upcoming appointments but also shows the employees’ workload.

With a wide range of appointment scheduling options, like availability sharing or preferred times settings, you can easily schedule the meetings without worrying if they would collide with other responsibilities. Also, the tool keeps you up to date with time zones, so you will never invite someone to join a meeting in time when they should sleep soundly.

Pricing: Free option (one calendar) and free trial available; paid plans start at $10 per user/month.

Available for: web, iOS, Android, an extension for Chrome and Firefox.

File sharing

Google Drive

For: easy and secure content sharing

Google Drive is one of the most significant parts of Google Workspace, a comprehensive toolkit of remote work tools for a unified workflow. Since Drive is a cloud service, it allows your remote team to access the files wherever they are, no matter what device they use.

Continuous access to the most important data makes remote work more collaborative and engaging. Drive integrates smoothly with other Google Workspace services, so remote workers can easily edit their documents in Google Docs, Keep, Slides, or Spreadsheets. Moreover, Google guarantees your sensitive information is perfectly secure, so you don’t have to be afraid of any threats.

Pricing: Personal service is free; a Business Standard license costs $12 per user/month, but it requires a one-year commitment.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, Chromebook, iOS, Android.

Box

For: secure and collaborative cloud management

 

If you’re not a fan of Google solutions, check Box. Formerly known as a file sharing service, now it’s a comprehensive content hub for smarter and more secure collaboration. The tool provides an open environment to work together on shared initiatives.

Besides file sharing, Box also offers features like collaborative whiteboarding, content collaboration, workflow automation processes, or e-signatures.

Pricing: Free option is available, but for three users only; plans for teams start at 18€ per user/month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

NordLocker

For: encrypted data storage

If the workflow of your team requires file sharing with an extra security level, consider purchasing NordLocker. The tool ensures full data encryption, but you can still access your files wherever you and your team members are.

You can encrypt any file and organize it in any way you like. Nordlocker’s zero-knowledge architecture differentiates it from other cloud-sharing service providers—the tool doesn’t know anything about your files and encryption codes.

Pricing: Free option with local encryption and up to 3GB encrypted cloud storage is available; paid plans start at €12.99 per user per month billed monthly (€8.99 when billed annually).

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

Marketing and email marketing tools

Figma

For: collaborative designing

 

Figma is a collaborative design tool that stores all your designs and supports your remote design team at every stage of the project. With a set of unique features, like a modern pen tool, arch designs, and a rich font library, you can fully express yourself through your design without switching to half-measures.

Figma is fully responsive—you can stretch your layouts even in auto mode. Moreover, your designs translate themselves into code, which significantly affects the developer’s work.

Price: Free plan (up to 3 figmas) available; paid plans start at $15 per editor per month.

Available for: web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android.

Bynder

For: easy digital asset management

 

Bynder is a centralized digital asset management ecosystem for your remote marketing team. It helps to organize all your brand assets neatly and access them whenever and wherever you want. The tool provides teams with various user permission levels, so managers can show their employees only the content that is relevant to them to avoid data leaks.

An extra perk of Bynder is Dynamic Asset Transformation, a feature that fully automates the asset optimization process. You can download your content in any format and crop or edit files during the downloading process.

Pricing: No free plan is available; contact their sales to discuss the pricing.

Available for: web, iOS, Android.

WordPress

For: web content management

 

WordPress needs no extra introduction—the majority of websites, regardless of niche, are built using that free platform for content management. Whether your remote marketing team wants to run a website, a media gallery, or an online shop, WordPress offers a variety of tools to store content in one easily accessible and safe place.

WordPress is an open-source, community-based solution, so even if you have minimal knowledge about content management and website building, you can always count on their materials (like customizable templates) and more experienced users who are ready to help. You only need a domain and a hosting server to create and publish websites. You could even make use of reseller web hosting to sell competitive WordPress hosting packages to third parties, as well as using this as the cornerstone of your own site. You can also use a WordPress managed hosting such as WPX Hosting that comes with fast hosting servers and a 30 seconds away live chat customer support. If you’re looking to enhance performance or create unique front-end experiences, WordPress can adopt a headless architecture. In this setup, WordPress manages content, while the front end is built separately using technologies like React or Vue.js, communicating through REST API or GraphQL. This approach benefits remote teams that require high scalability, performance, or custom designs beyond standard WordPress themes.

Pricing: WordPress is free, but domain and hosting costs vary depending on the service provider.

Available for: web.

Dev tools

JIRA

For: issue and project tracking

 

Many devs work remotely these days, and thanks to online issue tracking tools like JIRA, their work is as flawless as if they worked in the office. The tool provides agile teams with interactive roadmap tracking for projects of any size.

See your project as a timeline with a clear overview of task dependencies, work items, and releases.

If you work on complex, multiple projects at once, try Scrum View to create sprints and break projects into manageable chunks of work. Generate rich-data reports to stay up to date with team performance and react on time if needed.

Pricing: A free plan with limited features and teams for up to 10 users is available; paid plans start at $7.16 per user/month.

Available for: web, iOS, Android.

🍀 Check TimeCamp and JIRA integration! 

Azure DevOps

For: secure and collaborative content cloud

Azure DevOps is a SaaS platform that creates good DevOps practices and supports agile dev teams with a variety of tools, all with the highest security standards.

Use boards for effective planning, item tracking, workflow visualization, and reporting. With Pipelines, your remote dev team will effortlessly build, test, and deploy with CI/CD that works with any language, platform, and cloud. Azure also offers unlimited, cloud-hosted git repos for advanced file management.

Pricing: Azure DevOps pricing is quite complicated for newbies, but they promise you only pay for the apps you use. 

🍀 Check TimeCamp and Azure DevOps integration! 

The remote work apps market is growing stronger, now fuelled by AI solutions. But they’re not just fancy apps for working from home. They create an experience of sharing an office for officeless teams. Besides, they favor automation. And automation is key these times, so it would be a waste of resources not to use them to ease the pain of managing a distributed team. 

Do you want to recommend us work from anywhere app you haven’t found in this list? Leave it in the comments section! 

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Ola Rybacka Product Marketer and Content Specialist at TimeCamp. Remote worker advocate; has been working from home for 10+ years so far. Knows TimeCamp far and wide and does her best to translate the technical jargon into more plain English so that the users can understand the product better. Besides writing blog articles and shorter content types, she’s open to creating product-related videos like tutorials and feature explainers. Privately, passionate about any form of Japanese culture and learns 日本語 to consume mangas and animes in their native language.

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