Handling the day-to-day finance of a small business can be an onerous task, especially for sole traders and start-ups without a dedicated accountant.
If you’re worried about your business leaking cash, get Expense Manager on the case. It can track incoming and outgoing money by the week, month and year, via a clean, simple interface.
You can schedule payments, take pictures of receipts, create budgets and work out exchange rates. It covers the basics well and packs a decent productivity punch.
Price: Free
If you need to send out invoices while on the move, you should give Invoice2go a try. The free version allows you to complete three invoices at a time, with the limit removed with the paid version.
The app provides 20 different invoice templates to choose from, with total, currency exchange and taxes calculated for you.
You can add a PayPal button for prompt payment and preview the invoices as PDFs before sending them via email. A tablet version is in the pipeline.
Price: $14.29
Inspiration strikes entrepreneurs in the most unusual of places. If you’re taking a stroll around your local area and spot a sign or picture that sparks a business idea, you could be on to a winner.
But these visual cues mean nothing without context. Google Goggles allows you to search the real world by taking a picture of it and then utilising the app.
Once you’ve taken a picture, Goggles uses its image recognition technology to recognise objects and return search results for them.
As well as recognising pictures, logos and so on, the app can translate foreign language text, scan barcodes and QR codes and even solve Sudoku puzzles.
Price: Free
If you are grappling with a language barrier when dealing with your suppliers in China or a client in Europe, technology can give you a hand.
Talk to Me allows users to talk into the microphone with an instant translation to English made by the app.
A total of 15 languages are recognised by the app, with translations sent by SMS or email. It doesn’t negate the need for you to learn a few handy phrases before meetings, but it should help you out if you’re stuck on a particular point.
Price: Free
Android apps are rather useless if you don’t have your phone or tablet due to theft or simply the fact you’ve lost it.
AntiDroidTheft uses your device’s in-built tracking ability to locate it via the web. The app will email you if someone has changed the phone’s number, allowing you to call the unscrupulous thief to give them a piece of your mind.
It even has a “spy camera” feature that shows you pictures taken by the phone. Hopefully, the thief will be daft enough to take a picture of their home address.
Price: Free
