
There are different approaches to bundling. Mailchimp and ActiveCampaign are still best known for their email marketing tools, yet they include a wide range of features from forms to customer relationship management to automation workflows that might require a half-dozen apps to replace. Slack wants to be the inbox for all your communication in one app. The Year's Fastest Growing Apps, Most Popular New Apps, and Business Software All Stars The most popular new business apps are DIY. Here’s what we learned in 2018: 2018 in Business Software This year, two of our fastest growing apps are part of bundles-and our app "All Stars" are dominated by classic suites like G Suite and Facebook’s Business tools, alongside newer apps like ActiveCampaign and HubSpot that continually add new features to broaden their focus from one task to an entire range of marketing tasks. Each year, we check which apps are most popular and which are growing fastest in new business workflows. Zapier’s 1,300+ app integrations give us a unique view into the most productive businesses’ workflows. We’ve observed the same on a micro level. Even newer apps got in on the game with Twilio’s SendGrid acquisition to add email to their messaging services bundle, and Slack consolidated their team chat lead by purchasing Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride chat apps. Adobe added Marketo and Magento to their wide-ranging suite of apps, Microsoft acquired GitHub, and Google built the new Hangouts Team Chat to expand G Suite. For years, web apps prompted a great unbundling of software, with a focus on apps that did one thing well. What do you think of these apps? Which apps would you like us to look at in the future? Let us know in the comments.Bundles are back. We're always looking to check out unique and powerful apps from the Microsoft Store. See in Microsoft Store (opens in new tab) Over to you. You can get the Essentials pack for a one-time price of $9.99 or get everything for $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year. The free version of Concepts has some basic features but if you want more features and brushes you'll need to purchase bolt-ons. It isn't at feature parity with the iPad version, but it is an impressive sketching app that adds a lot of functionality to Windows 10 2-1s and tablets.Ĭoncepts is available for free on Windows 10 and also has versions on iOS (opens in new tab) and Android (opens in new tab). It's easy to see why it's gathering so many positive reviews on the Microsoft Store. In my time with the app it performed smoothly. On the Windows side of things, it supports pen tilt and pressure support as well as the Surface Dial. Like other versions of concepts, the Windows 10 version has a number of gestures that make it simple to copy items, undo steps, and perform other tasks. It features a number of digital pens, brushes, and effects that make it easy to create on a digital canvas. Concepts is a popular sketching and design app on iOS that's made its way to Windows 10.
