Besides Microsoft, Google is one of the well-known office apps creators in the world. Their Google Apps for Work are extremely popular among people, that is the proof. These apps can be synchronized and have a number of additional features in them.

1. Gmail

Gmail is said to be the best email platform at the moment. It is so popular these days that you feel as if everyone used Gmail, instead of Yahoo or others. There are so many advantages when you use it. Firstly, it does not take long for you to sign up and sign in, compared to the other email. And this is pretty convenient and favorable for busy people.

Secondly, you can custom your email setting and organize them into categories. Therefore, you will work easier without being interrupted by spam emails. Thirdly, since your email is synchronized with your Drive, you are able to send heavy files with just simple clicks. Additionally, the inbox mode gives users a new interesting interface and experience. Overall, Gmail is one of the best apps and email services ever.

2. Sheets

Sheets is the elevated version of Microsoft Excel. It allows you to create spreadsheets right on your browser. Since these sheets can always be checked and edited in real time, it’s a good tool for teamwork. You can have the result directly without asking your co-workers to send them through email. By doing this, your information access speed will become much faster.

3. Hangout

For those who are strangers to this app, Hangout is a video call app from Google. Like other video call apps, you can text, call your friends any minute (as long as you still have the internet.).  If the one who you want to contact cannot pick up, you are still able to leave them a voice or text message. The group talk function works quite well too. Therefore, a lot of companies use it to have conferences and meeting.

3. Calendar

Google Calendar is the combination between a journal and a calendar. You will never miss a task again since you will be alarmed on time. It’s also really convenient to plan your vacation. Just look at the calendar, you will see clearly all the task and national holiday. Normally, the holiday system is according to American system if you leave the setting in English. But you can adjust that without changing the whole language setting.

4. Google Contact

Google contact is actually not listed as a Google Apps for Work by Google. But since it’s related so much to business, it cannot be absent on this list. If you save your contacts on Google Contact, they will last forever (unless you delete your Google account). All the important contacts of your customers will never be lost if your phone is stolen or attacked by virus.

5. Form

Form is an application that helps you create questionnaires and polls on your browser. For that reason, it is used very regularly to do surveys and researches. Furthermore, there is no limit when you want to customize your forms.  Through feedback from users, the app give very amazing results. It has good appearance which can be changed with many themes from Google. The structure is clear and the results are never lost, thanks to Google great data saving ability.

6. Docs

The way Docs works is basically like Microsoft Word. However, there are certain differences. Unlike Word, people can make real-time updates, commenting and chatting on different computers at the same time. This makes things easier when you work as a group. Moreover, the unlimited revision history can help new people keep up with the changes. One of the best thing about this app is you can export your work into your desired file type, from odt, .rtf, .txt or .html format. You do not have to convert to get the right file type you need. There are more neat features that you can try yourself!

7. Sites

It was hard to open a website by yourself without knowing about coding. You may need to ask or hire web developers to do it for you. However, that is in the past because of Google Sites’ existence. You don’t have to write a single line of code but are still able to create a simple website for your team or future customers. Everything will be placed as the way you want it to be. It’s really suitable for bloggers, small or start-up businesses which don’t have big amount of money in their hands.

8. Slides

If you want to experience something new from PowerPoint, you can take Slides as an option. It’s said to have captivating slide design and it takes no effort to work with either. Because of the signature multi-access and real-time editing, your team will be the most cooperative team ever. Besides that, you control who are given permission to edit, view or just add comments. And all your data will be saved as long you want to.

9.  Drive

Drive is a cloud storage service that allows you to not only store, but also synchronize and share your files/folders. With Drive, you can store all kinds of file in a free total storage that can reach to 30GB. If that is not enough, you can expand it to 100GB by paying $10 per user per month. After its release in 2012 until now, Google keeps on improving and trying to make it the best cloud storage of all.

Google apps for Work: Big changes for both work and life

It is not a lie to say you can work everywhere with Google Apps for Work, because all the Google apps are synchronized and saved almost instantly. Not to mention, they have some additional features that are really helpful. If you are worrying about the security, you should not be. A big empire like Google do not want to lose the trust of their users so they have had to take care of this problem already. Give this app a try and you will see how many big changes both of your work and life will have.