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Adobe Spark

If you’d like to share your story online but don’t want to be stuck to a specific social network, Adobe’s free app is an interesting and useful alternative. It’s extremely easy to put together visually compelling content and share it anywhere you choose.

Evernote Web

Evernote is a freemium notetaking app that enables you to store almost anything, including documents, images and audio. Although largely aimed at businesses it’s good for creative projects, home improvements or anything else involving a lot of information.

Polarr Photo Editor

Polarr is available on Android, but the Chrome version makes better use of available screen space. It’s a freemium photo editor that works offline, offers a good range of filters and enables you to create complex projects using layers and blending.

Todoist

More than 10 million people rely on this freemium app to help them get things done. It’s a deceptively simple task manager that’s particularly well suited to busy lives or workplaces, with excellent filtering and apps for every conceivable device.

Of

Microsoft’s Chrome-specific Office app enables you to use the online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Sway on your ChromeOS device, and it integrates with the OneDrive cloud app. The apps are free but more powerful features require a subscription.

Gmail Offline

You can guess what this one does. Gmail Offline is a Chrome app that allows mail to be read, responded to, searched and archived without network access, enabling you to get on with things when you don’t have an internet connection or don’t want to go online.