5 Google Apps for iOS, and How To Use Them
Macworld|Macworld May 2016

Not all Google geeks use Android. Bring popular productivity tools to your iPhone or iPad with these native versions of your favorite apps.

Michael Ansaldo
5 Google Apps for iOS, and How To Use Them

Being an Apple aficionado doesn’t mean you have to suppress your Google-geek streak. Google has made many of its popular productivity apps available for iOS, so it’s not hard to design your own Android-esque ecosystem (go.macworld.com/dyo-android) on your iPhone or iPad. Here are the five you should start with.

GMAIL

Gmail (go.macworld.com/gmailapp) has more than 900 million users (go. macworld.com/900mgmail), and chances are you’re one of them. If so, you know that Apple’s mail app doesn’t always play nice with Gmail’s push feature. A few third-party alternatives promise to smooth out the relationship, but the easiest way to avoid it is to use the official Gmail app.

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