Top 5 must have apps(FREE) for Windows Users for increasing productivity in 2020!

2020 has been a mess for everyone, a lot has suffered due to COVID-19 but why should you? You had a very large span of time to think about your life and future. To come out of your daily lifestyle and do something different like pursuing your hobbies, start a blog, start a YouTube channel or podcasting or Freelancing, etc.


But the quest for starting something new leads you to find new solutions for the new arising problems. And these problems are the hurdles, which tend to decrease productivity amongst the newbies. They lack resources that allow them to extract information from the internet at a faster pace and excel. But don't worry there's always something for every problem. Some solutions are paid and some are free of cost. And this post specifically targets some free solutions for some of the major problems that once arise in a Computer user's/programmers life. 

This post is for all Windows users, Whatever Windows version it may be. These apps mentioned below will be working for any Window and would be very much helpful for everyone reading the post in increasing their productivity. 


Top Best Free Apps for Increasing Productivity


1. ShareX

Have you ever used the Windows Snipping tool for taking screenshots? What a cheap quality they have! Isn't it? On many occasions, it is necessary to have high-quality screenshots with a simple UI to operate. And this app is specially focused on that task. 


ShareX is a free Open-source screen capturing tool that allows you to record or capture your screen whether it is the whole screen or a specific area of the screen with just a press of a key. The variety of screen capturing techniques available along with a simple UI design is what makes it so useful. Also, the quality of the screenshots is up to mark. And far better as compared to the in-built Windows 10 snipping tool quality.

Download here: ShareX

2. Ditto

Have you ever thought of saving the things you copy from your system, whether it may be text, images, codes, or links at someplace for using them later? Or simply you can say to have a record of what all you copied and then paste anything from that record anywhere just with a click. This task is handled by a clipboard manager. Despite Windows 10 offers us an inbuilt clipboard manager, but that is not that much useful for a blogger or content creator. So here our next app is for managing clipboard, Ditto.


Amongst all the free clipboard manager tools, Ditto is the most lightweight, powerful, and featured clipboard manager enabling us to sync our clipboards from different systems. It has full Unicode support and encryption support. It can be easy to manage all the items you copied and it even shows you thumbnails also.

Download here: Ditto

3. Executor

It is a tiresome task to switch between windows when you are doing your work. Navigating through directories and then accessing files. But now there's a solution for that. The executor is a multipurpose launcher loaded with great features to improve the comfort design of the app and for providing a comfortable and productive user experience. 


Executor is a very simple-looking free launcher app, with tons of features in it. Its fast keyword response and auto-completion features make navigating programs and directories even simpler. It is also highly customizable, you can choose between many themes provided in the app.

Download here: Executor

4. Ice-cream Pdf Editor

So far a lot of pdf editors have been seen, but most of them only worked as pdf viewers and no many editing options were available to users. The ones with such options were paid. But here is a free solution to this problem, Ice-cream pdf editor. It is a powerful free-of-cost pdf editor, which allows you to edit different objects in a pdf file.


Ice-cream pdf editor contains 4 modes - edit, annotate, manage and fill in forms. The easy-to-use interface is its greatest asset. Adding notes, merging pages, and even encrypting files becomes easy with ice-cream pdf editor. There is also a premium version of the app, but most of the required productive features are also available in the free version. 

Download here: Ice-cream pdf Editor

5. Brave

Everyone has used Chrome, Firefox, and Windows Explorer. These all are excellent browsers with great capabilities. But the one you have used Brave will find difficulties with them. Brave is a very fast and secure web browser and most importantly it is a sibling of Google Chrome. 


Brave browser is an amazingly fast and protected browser amongst the community. It is available for all platforms. It has the power of eliminating ads and ad trackers, malware and browser fingerprinting. It is a highly recommended browser. It even allows us to access our data from chrome or other browsers in the system. Also, access to the chrome web store is its major asset. It loads pages 8x faster than Chrome.

Download here: Brave

Ritish

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