Best Hidden Gem iPad Productivity Apps for 2024
Unknown Productivity Apps
22 Jan 2025
Christopher Lawley covers plenty of hardware and software on his YouTube channel. Let's explore what productivity apps and tools he uses. This is his productivity toolkit.
Christopher Lawley runs an Apple-centric YouTube channel that showcases hardware and software for iOS and iPad.
One of his very lucky jobs is exploring software that is lesser known or unknown to many to help collect the best productivity apps for work and life, which aren't the big players like Trello or Asana.
This piece explores all of the most unknown productivity apps, according to Christopher Lawley, as we dive into many independently developed productivity apps on iOS and iPad.
Tasks
- Managing your tasks is a must, and Christopher uses Tasks himself. Yes, you heard that right—a task app called Tasks, but there are lots packed into Tasks. Mustafa Yusuf developed this app and focuses on managing your tasks, projects, and workload.
- For tasks, Christopher went with something a bit more independent compared to Todoist and Microsoft To-Do, which are more basic tools for task management. He loves how Tasks allows you to manage your tasks and projects in a Kanban style and includes smart task lists for compiling the correct workload.
- You can collaborate with others inside of Tasks, which makes it even more expansive. Tasks is excellent at adapting to your project versus forcing you into a system, Chris believes. We had Christopher pegged as an Apple Reminders user; we were confident.
Focused Work
- Next up is a timer application that many will love, thanks to the nature of Pomodoro as a system. This application helps to set timers automatically and set focused work sessions, giving you the best outcome for your Pomodoro timed sessions.
