Microsoft brings together an amazingly huge library of major business and productivity apps for both iOS and Android platforms. We have already taken a look at the Microsoft apps for Android. In this roundup, let’s take a look at the best iPhone apps from Microsoft which can help users stay productive on an iOS platform with Microsoft services.
iPhone apps from Microsoft
Apart from like Microsoft Planner, Sprinkles Camera, Seeing AI, Thinga.Me, Send, etc, there are several others available in the Apple Store.
1. Outlook
Outlook for iOS is one of the best iPhone apps available from Microsoft. This app helps millions of users connect and link all their email accounts, calendars, and files in one convenient spot. This app works very easily with IMAP, Yahoo, Google, Office 365, iCloud, and Exchange email accounts.
2. OneDrive
OneDrive gives the users free online storage for all their personal files. The users can later access and their files from any iOS device, computer (PC or Mac), and any other devices they use.
3. Microsoft Excel
The iPhone Excel app allows users to create new worksheets from templates, perform basic editing and formatting tasks with existing sheets, and share them. Users can pinch, pan, and zoom around even on big spreadsheets quickly.
4. Microsoft Word
Word for iPhone has a comprehensive toolbox of input and formatting tools, it also has the ability to add comments and share the work as an attachment or a link.
5. Microsoft PowerPoint
Create, edit, and deliver a full presentation using only an iPhone with this PowerPoint app. It also allows projecting an entire presentation from the phone by simply connecting or beaming it to a larger monitor.
6. Sunrise
This is a free calendar application which has an attractive interface. It is designed to connect with Google Calendar, iCloud, Exchange, Facebook, Evernote, TripIt, Todoist, Foursquare, and Trello.
7. Cortana
Cortana very recently made its venture into iOS, this is a wonderful personal productivity assistant that helps the users get things done by letting their PC and iPhone work together. Cortana makes sure to make the users schedule, interests, people, reminders available wherever needed.
8. Microsoft Remote Desktop
Microsoft Remote Desktop app, allows the user to connect to a remote PC and access their work resources from almost anywhere.
9. MSN Sports
Get real-time game updates, easy-to-follow schedules and rankings, and the latest news across your favorite leagues and teams.
10. MSN News
Read the day’s top stories and breaking news from the industry’s best sources. Easily stay updated on any topic of your interest. From global events to your local news, this app has it all.
11. Microsoft Translator
This is a free, personal translation app for 60+ languages. Easily translate text, voice, conversations, camera photos and screenshots and even more. It also offers offline translation for free use by simply downloading languages, making it best option for travel.
12. Yammer
Yammer is an enterprise social networking app that helps to link with the right people in your organization, share and search for information across the team and organize around project and ideas to improve productivity.
13. Xbox One SmartGlass
This app allows users to connect and control their Xbox One and stay connected with the games and gamers of their choice.
14. Skype for Business
Formerly known as Lync 2013 for iOS, Skype lets you join forces with anyone, anywhere, on any device, with the security and control of Microsoft.
15. Microsoft Health
The Health app from Microsoft basically allows the user to stay healthy by analyzing data from the Band with full-color, easily understandable charts, and graphs.
16. OneNote
This is one place for all your notes. One of the most useful iPhone apps from Microsoft. This application collects users’ notes, screen clippings, drawings, and audio commentaries. These notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network.
17. Power BI
This app gives the user live and active mobile access to vital business data. Users can easily view and interact with their dashboards and reports for all their business data.
18. Office Delve for Office 365
This app helps the user find and discover documents through people they work with. This app makes it easier to discover the documents your coworkers are working on.
19. Wunderlist
This is a simple to-do list and task manager app that helps in getting stuff done.
20. Office Lens
Yet one of the iPhone apps that turns your phone into a pocket scanner. Office Lens from Microsoft can capture notes and info from whiteboards, menus, signs, handwritten memos, or anything with a lot of text. It also allows to upload document and whiteboard images to Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive, and save them as PDFs or share them through emails.
21. Sway
Sway can be used to create and share polished, interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more.
22. Office 365 Admin
This app is perfect for the administrators of Office 365. Administrators can easily connect to the Office 365 admin center, manage users, reset passwords, assign product licenses, manage notifications, contact Microsoft support and read system messages.
23. Microsoft Azure Authenticator
This is one of the iPhone apps that allows the users to quickly and securely verify their identity online, for all their accounts. This app turns the mobile device into a trusted device and provides a single sign-on to all company applications.
24. OME Viewer
This is another viewer app which allows the users to view and reply to encrypted messages from Office 365 in the iPhone.
25. SwiftKey
SwiftKey is an innovative keyboard application that replaces the device’s built-in keyboard and adapts to the user’s typing style. This app works across a wide variety of applications.
26. PowerApps
PowerApps is designed to allow users to make their own applications link data from different apps into workflows to automate redundant daily tasks.
27. Microsoft Groove
Discover new songs, albums, and artists from your iPhone, play ad-free music from huge music catalogs, add songs, albums, and playlists to your collection and access them from your phone, Xbox, PC, tablet, and the web.
28. Microsoft Spend
Microsoft Spend is an expense tracking app for iOS. It offers features like the ability to take photos of receipts. So, you can quickly snap a picture of receipts and attach it to a purchase. If you’re making purchases in cash, ‘Spend’ makes it easy to create a record of that expense and attach a receipt. It’s like having a virtual accountant in your pocket.
Apple iPhone does come with much pre-filled rubbish; it’s time to get rid of them and free some space for some of the above iPhone Apps from Microsoft. Apart from these, there are many more available at Apple.com.
