1. Astrid Task/To Do List

For Android
Not available for iPhone yet.

Astrid Task/To Do List is a wonderfully designed, deceptively powerful to do list app. A to do list app, you might ask? What’s so special about that? Well, Astrid allows you to easily change priority levels and deadlines, set notifications, add notes and tags for each item on your list. What’s more, you can sync Astrid with your Google Calendar, making it easy to update your to do list on your phone and computer at once. Need to email a flyer on Thursday? Enter it in Astrid, schedule a reminder, and then forget about it. Easy.

For iPhone users, Remember the Milk is another handy to do list app that’s available for iPhone.

2. Evernote

For Android
For iPhone

Do you feel like you’re constantly thinking of things or coming up with promising ideas, only to forget them later? I know I do. Evernote solves that problem by providing an easy way to save notes, web pages, pictures, sounds, and more, and then organize and search for them later. If you’re at a property you’ll be creating a flyer for, you can take notes about the property and save them in Evernote, then pull them up when you’re on your computer and ready to create the flyer.

3. Adobe Photoshop Express

For Android
For iPhone

This is a rather basic image editing app that’s useful if you want to crop, rotate, or add some artistic flourishes to the photos you take on your phone. If you’re at a house you’re going to create a flyer for, you can take photos and edit right from there. The photos are saved in your free Photoshop.com account (though you could also upload them to Picasa, Dropbox [see below], or another image hosting application), so you can access them from there and upload them to your flyer when you’re back at your computer.

4. Dropbox

Dropbox for Android
Dropbox for iPhone

Dropbox is similar in some ways to Evernote, but its focus is on storing files in the cloud. It makes it easy to access documents, photos, videos, and other files across all your devices. No more emailing attachments to yourself — just save the files in Dropbox and then pull them up on your computer or tablet.

5. Google Voice

Google Voice for Android
Google Voice for iPhone

Google Voice has been around for a couple years now and has been adopted by many as their go-to phone number. Why? One, it lets you choose a phone number using any area code (that is, any available number), so if you’re still using the same cell phone number you had in high school, even though you’ve moved across the country (like I am), you can get a local number through Google Voice. The best part (I think) is that Google Voice transcribes your voicemails, so you can read them just as you would emails.

Note: I know that there have been some issues reported with the Google Voice app on certain providers, so check to see if the app will work with your provider before you install it.

6/7. Yelp and AroundMe

Yelp for Android
Yelp for iPhone
AroundMe for Android
AroundMe for iPhone

These are two different apps that I’m putting together because they can serve a similar function for vFlyer users, particularly those in real estate. Yelp is the popular business reviews site and AroundMe shows you what’s, um, around you, wherever you and your phone are. They’re both useful in becoming a “neighborhood expert,” an idea that is becoming increasingly important in real estate sales and a good way for agents to add value to their services.

It’s great when you can identify some nearby restaurants, cafes, and other retail establishments in your house for sale or apartment for rent flyer, and both Yelp and AroundMe make that very easy to do.

8/9. Trulia and HotPads

Trulia for Android
Trulia for iPhone
HotPads for Android
HotPads for iPhone

These are again two different apps that vFlyer users in real estate and rentals may well find useful. For one thing, Trulia and HotPads are syndication partners of vFlyer, so these apps allow you to easily check your vFlyer listings on each site to verify that they’re looking good. But these apps also allow you to see what’s for sale or for rent around you; for a buyer’s agent, this is valuable. I like Trulia’s open house feature, which shows you which properties nearby have upcoming open houses. And HotPads has a great map-based interface that’s perfectly suited for a mobile app.

10. Pandora

Pandora for Android
Pandora for iPhone

Pandora doesn’t really fit this list as it won’t help you become a vFlyer superuser, but it’s an awesome app that deserves a place on any apps list. If you’re not familiar with Pandora, it’s a free music streaming program that allows you to create your own customized radio stations based on artists or genres you like. So if nothing else, you can rock out to your favorite jams while creating flyers.

These are of course just a sampling of the thousands of apps out there. If you’ve discovered an app that’s helped you use vFlyer better, let us know!

Now, if you send a Flyer link to someone and that person opens the link on his or her iPhone, it automatically redirects to the new mobile format. This makes navigating the Flyer from the iPhone a snap. There are easy-to-read tabs for the Flyer overview, features, map, YouTube video, links, and other components of the ad. You can even share the Flyer on Facebook and Twitter in just a couple clicks.

As the number of iPhone users (and Android phone users, for that matter) continues to grow, the new mobile format will become increasingly important for vFlyer users because more and more of their colleagues and prospects will be accessing their Flyer content on these devices.

We hope to add more mobile features to our service in the near future. If you have any feedback on the new mobile format or ideas for other mobile capabilities, let us know by sending them to support@vflyer.com.