ESSENTIAL APPS

ADOBE SCAN

There are loads of mobile scanners for phones, but Adobe’s doesn’t muck about. It’s free and yet does the business… and best of all, it automatically performs optical character recognition, so you can copy and paste text from the PDFS it generates. £free / adobe.com

IMAZING

Getting into Android file systems is easy, but iphones and ipads are more locked down. imazing (macos/win) lets you dig into Apple device data, perform smarter backups and even extract full apps in case they ever vanish from the App Store. £29.99 / imazing.com

BACKBLAZE

Cloud storage can ease the horror should you lose a PC or Mac through fire or theft, but there’ll always be some local files you’ll later miss. With Backblaze, you can hurl everything at the cloud and then download it on demand. $6/m / backblaze.com