Most dads could use a lit­tle har­mony and order in their lives — espe­cially those who can’t find two socks that match, are the last to pick up their kids from day­care, or never remem­ber impor­tant dates — like anniver­saries. Sound familiar?

With Father’s day right around the cor­ner, con­sider gift­ing an app or two to dad to help him stay on track. Pro­duc­tiv­ity apps help him record and pri­or­i­tize all the things he needs to do so he can spend more time doing what’s impor­tant — like spend­ing time with you! The good news is, most of these apps are free.

We’ve com­piled a list of our favorites based on the sim­ple premise of mak­ing life easy — and fun.

Ever­note

Ever­note App

The Ever­note app is for seri­ous note tak­ing. Dads can take notes at work or at home, cre­ate shop­ping lists or “honey-do” lists, search through their favorite images, and share their favorite mem­o­ries. It’s syn­chro­nized across all of dad’s devices — includ­ing Mac, Web, and Win­dows so there’s no excuses for for­getting an impor­tant item again.

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Drop­box

Drop­box App

Drop­box is great app for dads to share their docs, pho­tos, and videos. This free ser­vice also lets dads instantly share these items by cre­at­ing and send­ing a link to friends, fam­ily, or oth­ers — whether they are Drop­box users or not. Dads can sim­ply place a folder on their com­puter, copy any file into that folder — and it becomes avail­able on their other com­put­ers and Android, Black­Berry, and iOS apps. This is a fan­tas­tic way to share fam­ily pho­tos and videos, and any other docs.

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Too­dledo

Too­dledo App

Help dad tur­bocharge his pro­duc­tiv­ity with this handy to-do list app. Too­dledo is a pow­er­ful app that goes any­where with dad — includ­ing his mobile devices, in email, on his cal­en­dar, or in his web browser. With Too­dledo he can set alarms or reminders for tasks that are due, and it can ana­lyze his tasks to make the most of his time. No more excuses for for­get­ting to change the oil or for pick­ing up light bulbs.

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Life­Topix

Life­Topix App

A 10 best pro­duc­tiv­ity blog post from LightAr­row would not be com­plete with­out a men­tion of our own app, Life­Topix. This orga­nizer app takes an organic view of pro­duc­tiv­ity to truly reflect how things get done in life. Life­Topix goes beyond notes and to-do lists. With Life­Topix, dads can plan com­plex events like a daughter’s wed­ding, a fam­ily vaca­tion, or a large land­scap­ing project. Inte­gra­tion with Ever­note, Drop­box, and Too­dledo makes Life­Topix the hub for projects with tasks, notes, and doc­u­ments. Event and project plan­ning includes many ele­ments, such as ser­vice providers, shop­ping lists, book­marks, travel com­pan­ions, itin­er­aries, and more. A pow­er­ful cal­en­dar keeps dads on track and fur­nishes handy reminders.

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Dragon Dic­ta­tion

Dragon Dic­ta­tion App

Face it. Nobody likes typ­ing on a key­board when they can eas­ily dic­tate text or email mes­sages. Dragon Dic­ta­tion is a voice recog­ni­tion app that allows dad to nat­u­rally speak and instantly see his text or email mes­sages. If dad is saavy with social media, it’s really use­ful for quickly cre­at­ing mes­sages for Face­book and Twitter.

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Zite

Zite App

With so many sto­ries cir­cu­lat­ing every day, it takes time to find infor­ma­tion that suits our needs and tastes. Help dad save time search­ing for arti­cles by rec­om­mend­ing Zite to him. He can per­son­al­ize Zite with the top­ics that he finds use­ful, such as Health & Exer­cise, Pol­i­tics, Sports, Tech­nol­ogy, and Wine & Mixol­ogy. It under­stands the things that dad likes, and gets smarter the more he uses uses it. And of course, help­ing dad get in touch with the lat­est news and trends, he’ll be a hit at his next cock­tail party or fam­ily outing.

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Yelp

Yelp App

Most every­one using the Inter­net these days has dis­cov­ered Yelp. If you haven’t, it’s the grass­roots web­site that includes over six mil­lion reviews of busi­nesses across the United States, Canada, Ire­land, and the UK. Review­ers, described as “Yelpers” review every­thing from restau­rants to hard­ware stores. Per­haps dad is vis­it­ing the coast in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia, and wants to fit in 18 holes. Rather than wast­ing time mak­ing phone calls or email­ing friends, Yelp is a great resource to iden­tify the courses nearby, whether they’re open to the pub­lic, and to learn about the chal­lenge and pace of the course.

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OpenTable

OpenTable App

OpenTable is espe­cially use­ful for the spon­ta­neous dad who doesn’t call to make reser­va­tions until Fri­day night or the dad who trav­els on busi­ness. This app quickly searches for restau­rants in his area on his device, reviews them, and then chooses the restau­rant for him. It’s like hav­ing his own concierge. You can’t beat that. As an added bonus, he can earn points to free meals — maybe next time he’ll pick up the check.

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Google Search

Google Search App

Dad’s iPhone or iPad is just not com­plete with­out the Google Search app. He can search the web faster and eas­ier. Two cool fea­tures include voice search which lets him skip the typ­ing, and Google Gog­gles which lets dad snap a photo and find more infor­ma­tion about the item.

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ESPN Score­Cen­ter

ESPN Score­Cen­ter App

For the dad who loves sports, we rec­om­mend the ESPN Score­Cen­ter app as the hub of sports news. This fun and use­ful app allows dad to eas­ily find the in-progress and final scores of the teams that he fol­lows. It also gives dad news about the play­ers, break­ing sports news, and high­lights of the lead­ing sports events of the day. He can also view the cur­rent stand­ings by sport and division.

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We hope you found our list help­ful. So dads, what’s your favorite time sav­ing or pro­duc­tiv­ity app? How do you stay on track? We’d love to hear about your top 10. Let us know.