Tested: Top productivity apps for mobile devices

Smartphones and tablets aren't just fun-to-use devices, they make great work companions too. Along with playing games, watching movies, reading books or simply browsing the mobile apps market, you can boost productivity at work too. The current two-horse mobile race, Google Play and Apple App stores are loaded with work-related apps. Tablets are being increasingly used in office environments, sometimes maybe even replacing notebooks. But of course, keeping in mind some limitations on tablets, it’s important that users choose the right productivity suite for the task. Office suites for mobile make great productivity apps, letting you create, view, edit and collaborate Word, Spreadsheets and Presentations on-the-go. We’ve picked the four most popular office suites, namely, Documents To Go, Google Drive (Google Docs), iWork and QuickOffice, and pitted them against each other. Take a look at how they fared.Documents To Go - Android, iOSIt’s been a decade that Documents To Go by Dataviz has been serving as the Office compatibility and productivity solution. It has survived the long run and even today is a nifty option as an Office suite for mobile platforms like Android, iOS, Symbian and BlackBerry. It has all the basic features of an Office suite that allow you to view, create and edit Word, Excel and Presentation files on-the-go. This decade-old suite has also adapted quickly to changing times with applications for leading mobile platforms with essential features like syncing, sharing and cloud support. It supports Office and Adobe formats such as doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx and pdf. In Word, it offers extremely rich and wide formatting options like bold, italics, underline, font color, alignment, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, bookmarks, and more. On the flip side, you cannot add or edit images in Word. It handles spreadsheets well with all the basic features like data entry and some algebraic calculations, but doesn’t allow you to merge cells. The spreadsheets also don’t support adding or editing images. It lets you view, edit and even create presentations on your mobile device, but here again, your presentation will be all text as you can't add  images. The app only lets you view PDF files. On the cloud front, it offers syncing your work on Google Docs, Box.net, Dropbox, iDisk & SugarSync. Of course, you’ll need the respective apps installed on the device for the features to work. The user interface is maintained across Word, Spreadsheets and Presentations, and is quite neat with bottom and top rows showing functions dedicated to the feature you are using. Android users will have to download the main Documents To Go app and then buy the full version key for Rs. 794.55,  while for iOS it ranges from approximately Rs. 500 to Rs. 850.

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