It’s been a few years aback Planetizen adapted its top apps for planners list, although the account is a abiding attitude at Planetizen. Posts from 2019 and 2018 still allure constant cartage on the Internet, so the appeal for advice and acumen into the use of apps in the abstraction and convenance of planning is obvious.
Late aftermost year year, agnate to antecedent occasions, Planetizen conducted an online assay appliance SurveyMonkey to accretion acumen into the use of adaptable technology amid planners. The assay reveals that adaptable technology is absolutely anchored in planning practice: We heard from 32 respondents in all, with 100 percent of assay respondents advertisement that they currently own a smartphone or tablet. Of that total, 56.25 percent of respondents use iOS, with 43.75 percent appliance the Android operating system. Of the baby cardinal of respondents, 56.25 percent address owning added than one smartphone or book device. The respondents acutely affiliated their use of smartphones to their able practice: 75 percent appear appliance their phones accurately for planning work.
Survey responses were acclimated to accomplish a account of apps for use in the planning profession, although one assay acknowledging replied that they “can’t anticipate of a distinct app that is advantageous for planning work.” Au contraire: The account beneath should abolish alike the best agnostic luddite of the angle that adaptable apps don’t accommodate invaluable able casework to planners in the acreage and on the go.
Some of the apps listed beneath abetment planners with the capital assignment of acceptable planning—to bigger accept places and locations, to tap into advice about places and communities, and to accommodate an added ample and adumbrative allotment of the attainable assessment in the planning discourse. Added apps are created by planners or in affiliation with planners to bigger bear planning and development casework to the public.
Those are the attainable planning apps, but there is additionally accession array of apps mentioned by planners in this assay and in accomplished surveys acknowledge beneath to assignment demands and added to the demands of the “place gene” that unites the best aggressive and motivated planners. These apps are for exploring and aperture doors, both emblematic and literal.
Finally, some apps abide to serve the authentic tasks appropriate of about every able job. We all accept meetings, emails, and authentic development to appear to every now and again (or constantly). You’ll acquisition the arch agenda tools, in adaptable form, on this list—apps we accept all become alike added accustomed with as so abounding accept confused to alive from home—like Slack, Zoom, Miro, and Notion.
One bright affair that the Planetizen beat agents has noticed in contempo years is adaptable apps arena added arresting attainable roles in planning. The Alteration app, for example, has alien new abstracts administration casework and has implemented partnerships with alteration agencies. You can augment your parking beat from Google Maps, or upload your alteration canyon to Apple Wallet. These kinds of applications of smartphone technology acknowledge an added anchored role for clandestine abstruse platforms in the commitment of attainable services.
This column will alpha by advertisement the new apps bustling up on assay respondents’ and the Planetizen beat team’s alarm aback the aftermost copy of the top apps for planning post, appear in 2019. A “Hall of Fame” of apps recommended in antecedent versions of the top apps column will achieve the article.
3D Scanner App – The 3D Scanner App processes photos and videos in real-time to actualize 3D models, including high-resolution and textures.
Adobe Artistic Cloud Express – The app aforetime accepted as Adobe Spark is now accepted as Adobe Artistic Cloud Express. The app is advised to bear architecture assets to your fingertips, with banal photos and added accoutrement to advice get you started. (Also attainable for Android.)
Apple Wallet – As mentioned above, the D.C. Metro now allows riders to upload their alteration fares to Apple Wallet. The aforementioned account is attainable in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Vancouver, in accession to cities in Asia and Europe.
BART – Bay Area Regional Alteration launched its end-to-end cruise artist in aboriginal 2019, amalgam advice on driving, walking, and biking routes in accession to bike-sharing and ride-sharing services. (Also attainable for Android.)
Bolt – Bolt is a ride-hailing aggregation congenital on an broadcast archetypal of mobility. The company, which is already prioritizing electric cartage in some markets, additionally fabricated account for experimenting with a nudge to a micromobility option, like a scooter ride, instead of a car ride in the app. (Also attainable for Android.)
BUSLNK – BUSLNK provides real-time bus tracker and accession advice for StarTran, the attainable alteration arrangement for Lincoln, Nebraska. (Also attainable for Android.
Caltrans QuickMap – The California Department of Busline (Caltrans) has created its adaptable app for tracking cartage and biking altitude on freeways and highways. The QuickMap app alike lets users blink in on cartage cameras in some locations. (Also attainable for Android.)
Canva – Appearance like 60,000 chargeless templates, a chargeless photo editor, and burning admission to amusing media, Canva is a architecture app fabricated for abecedarian designers. (Also attainable for Android.)
CitySwipe – The website for CitySwipe, created by the burghal of Santa Monica in California for an amend to the city’s Downtown Association Plan aback in 2016, is no best active. An app alleged CitySwipe for European cities is still attainable on the Apple App Store, but that app was created by Optimum Designs. The CitySwipe app admiring media absorption locally, from Santa Monica Next, and internationally, from the Guardian, as a “Tinder for cities,” so here’s acquisitive the aboriginal tech is aloof abeyant while attractive for new locations.
Coord – Curb administration is one of the hottest button capacity of abreast planning, and the Coord app provides the belvedere for cities to apparatus “Smart Zones” that acquiesce reliable and able admission to the hottest commodity on burghal streets—the curb—for clandestine fleets and on-demand drivers. (Coord Disciplinarian for Android. Coord Collector for iOS. Coord Inspector for Android.)
Figma – Figma is a collaborative architecture apparatus attainable at assorted amount points, including free, for those planners that bifold as user acquaintance designers. (Also attainable for Android.)
iMAPS – Wake County GIS and Raleigh GIS developed the Internet Multi-Access Bindle Arrangement (iMAPS) online alternate mapping appliance to accommodate attainable admission to acreage information.
Input – Input is an attainable antecedent app advised to accumulate geo-surveys appliance QGIS. (Also attainable for Android.)
LandGlide – A bindle abstracts and acreage band map app with 150 actor bindle annal in over 3,000 counties. (Also attainable for Android.)
LoopNet Absolute Acreage – The adaptable app for LoopNet’s bartering absolute acreage chase service. (Also attainable for Android.)
Microsoft Teams – A gigantic able accord apparatus that facilitates chats, meetups, files, and tasks—all beneath one app’s roof. (Also attainable for Android.)
MindMeister – The adaptable adaptation of MindMeister makes the brainstorming, inspiration, and accord accoutrement of the Internet portable. (Also attainable for Android.)
Miro – The beheld accord apparatus (i.e., a big, cool automatic agenda whiteboard) Miro is attainable in adaptable form. (Also attainable for Android.)
Notion – Angle is action administration software that promises to accommodate an all-in-one workspace—notes, tasks, projects, wikis, and databases all included. (Also attainable for Android.)
OneMap – OneMap is an authentic civic map of Singapore, attainable in app anatomy with detailed, consistently adapted advice from the Singapore Acreage Authority. (Also attainable for Android.)
onX Hunt – One assay acknowledging recommends the onX Coursing app, advised to accommodate acreage abstracts and acclimate letters to hunters, as a advantageous acreage advice apparatus for planning work. Clever! (Also attainable for Android.)
Otter – Automatic affair addendum for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and more. (Also attainable for Android.)
Outlook – The email archetypal makes an actualization on the Planetizen top apps account for the aboriginal time. Outlook, of course, is a basic of the accepted Microsoft apartment of appointment accoutrement accepted as Appointment 365. The 365 refers to the cardinal of canicule in the year that you’ll accept added email than anyone could possibly apprehend in a lifetime. (Also attainable for Android.)
QuestionPro – QuestionPro is assay software that includes a chargeless adaptation as an another to paid assay services. QuestionPro has additionally created two adaptable apps: the QuestionPro Offline Surveys app (iOS and Android) and the QuestionPro Communities app (iOS and Android).
QuickTapSurvey – QuickTapSurvey promises abstracts abduction anywhere, alike offline, for advance generation, chump engagement, and research. QuickTapSurvey is accepted with ample companies like Disney, McDonald’s, and Nike. The adaptable adaptation of the software (iOS and Android) is acclimated for offline surveys.
SunCalc – An app that shows sun movement and sunlight phases during the day at a accustomed location. See sun positions at sunrise, sunset, and defined times all over the apple (information that ability be advantageous back planning an infill development action with acceptable bounded opposition). (Also attainable for Android.)
SurveySparrow – SurveySparrow differentiates itself from a awash assay bazaar by able automatic responses for chump acknowledgment administration and automatic tickets with resolution tracking. The SurveySparrow adaptable app (iOS and Android) offers offline surveys.
TikTok – TikTok is the amusing media du jour for the youth. If you aren’t up to acceleration on how urbanists accept adapted this belvedere into a able apparatus for advocacy, it’s accomplished time to bolt up. (Also attainable for Android)
VideoAsk – A adaptable app created by assay and assurance software aggregation Typeform to accommodate a belvedere for accession and administration video testimonials. (Also attainable for Android.)
We scoured accomplished top apps posts to acquisition the best of the best adaptable apps (still attainable for iOS and Android). Any artist or association enthusiast can use these apps to analyze the intersections of planning.
AllTrails – The bigger accumulating of abundant aisle maps in app form. AllTrails works with an iPhone or afterwards to advice cross while on the aisle and to log your activities as you go and afterwards you’re done. (Also attainable for Android.)
Bike Citizens – A cycling app that’s aloof as attainable for abyssal in burghal areas as in the countryside, Bike Citizens additionally leverages the observations and advancement of its users to adviser alley conditions. (Also attainable for Android.)
Google Maps – Remember that “Lazy Sunday” music video fabricated for Saturday Night Live by an aboriginal apotheosis of Lonely Island? Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell apparently don’t get abundant acclaim as the aboriginal pop ability advertence of Google’s ascendancy of the adaptable map and aeronautics market. Bifold True. (Also attainable for Android.)
Hush Burghal – A crowdsourcing and aborigine science app alleged Hush Burghal allows users to advice map the quiet, and noisy, places in the world. (Also attainable for Android.)
Mapillary – An app for architecture beheld annal of street-level adumbration and amalgam that annal with area data. Mapillary relies on the ability of its arrangement of contributors to body bigger maps and annal of altitude on the ground. (Also attainable for Android.)
Maps.me – Abundant maps of the world, downloadable and searchable, with navigation, that assignment offline. Abundant for traveling afterwards admission to the Internet on a phone, or in a compression back afterpiece to home. (Also attainable for Android.)
Refuge Restrooms – This app maps safe restrooms for transgender, intersex, and gender adverse individuals, until the day all places are safe for everyone. (Also attainable for Android.)
Strava – The action tracker you’re best acceptable to see back your adamantine amount hiking and cycling accompany allotment their accomplishments online. There’s a acumen why Strava is so accepted amid exercise enthusiasts, and it has aggregate to do with user acquaintance and absolute gps tracking. (Also attainable for Android.)
ArcGIS (Explorer, Collector, Navigator, Survey123, Business Analyst) – These apps are frequently referenced by assay respondents. Planning is, afterwards all, still a able convenance acute abstruse abilities in spatial analysis, beheld presentation, and systems modeling. The best amazing affair about apps like the ArcGIS apartment is how abundant ability to do that affectionate of planning assignment is attainable in such baby devices. (Explorer, Collector, Navigator, Survey123, and Business Analyst are all attainable on Android.)
AutoCAD – Autodesk created a adaptable adaptation of the AutoCAD software capital to cartoon and actualization up armpit designs during the architecture and development approval process. Autodesk’s absolute portfolio of adaptable apps, including A360, BIM 360, Configurator 360, and more, deserve a acknowledgment too.
iGIS – iGIS claims to be the world’s aboriginal and arch iOS GIS, and to bear “true GIS functionality” to acute phones.
Morpholio Trace – The app aforetime accepted as Morpholio is now three abstracted apps, Morpholio Trace, Morpholio Board, and Morpholio Journal. Trace is the app recommended by Planetizen readers. With its accoutrement for cartoon and designing at anniversary actualization of a computer-aided architecture (CAD) process, trace allows users to draw on top of images, PDFs, maps, photos, cartoon sets, 3D models, accomplishments templates, and more—all to scale.
Social Explorer – Demographers rejoice. The Amusing Explorer app offers admission to accepted and actual demography data. Some reviewers accuse that the chargeless adaptation of this app is too bound to be of value.
Eco-Link – Retrieve abstracts from banal and bike cartage counts at all kinds of sites. (Also attainable for Android.)
Fulcrum – Fulcrum is a apparatus for creating the appropriate affectionate of forms for the appropriate abstracts accumulating job. Custom forms acquiesce adaptable users to aggregate abstracts like text, photos, SpatialVideo, SpatialAudio, GPS Location, and more. (Also attainable for Android.)
Zillow – Zillow offers actual admission to the abstracts on the amount of apartment and the amount of land, and it’s a approved accoutrement in the lives of anyone who deals in absolute estate. Zillow offers a apartment of apps for both iOS and Android.
Flickr – Flickr already had the abeyant to become a ascendant amusing media belvedere at the akin of Twitter and TikTok, but instead has become a all-inclusive athenaeum of crowdsourced images. The adeptness aggregation or attainable bureau additionally knows how to advantage Flickr’s Artistic Commons authorization for attainable and media relations. (Also attainable for Android.)
iNaturalist – The iNaturalist app connects the iNaturalist community, a collective action of the California Academy of Sciences and the Civic Geographic Society, in advancing and administration aborigine science. (Also attainable for Android.)
Instagram – Instagram ability accept absent some of its afterglow (and some of its acceptance with the youth), but the best contemporary photo administration app of all time is still abundantly accepted for administration adventures, hidden locations, and amazing views. Few apps accept anytime done so abundant to bear the big, advanced apple to anybody with a buzz and an eye for new places. (Also attainable for Android.)
LinkedIn – The career-minded amusing media belvedere should be a basic of any career-minded planner. Abundant for networking while on the job and while on the job hunt. (Also attainable for Android.)
NextDoor – NextDoor has emerged from its aboriginal canicule as the banderole avaricious “Facebook for neighborhoods” into a broadly adopted belvedere for neighborhood-centric conversations, collaborations, and, yes, controversies. (Also attainable on Android.)
Pinterest – In the 2015 Top Websites post, Planetizen authentic Pinterest’s arising role in the planning association as a belvedere to abbey and begin account and themes. Accustomed Pinterest’s availability as a adaptable app, it can additionally serve as a abundant on-the-go advertence tool, back attractive for afflatus in the acreage or on the road. (Also attainable on Android.)
Reddit – A amusing media and microblogging armpit that is accepted with bodies in the know. The r/urbanplanning subreddit is decidedly attainable for planning account and information. (Also attainable for Android.)
SeeClickFix – By definition, SeeClickFix is an app developer for cities and communities to body out their own SeeClickFix app (available on both iOS and Android). Numerous U.S. cities already accept adopted this belvedere for apps that gives the attainable the ability to address assurance and basement issues.
SurveyMonkey – SurveyMonkey is a advantageous and able apparatus for association assurance and crowdsourcing ideas. The assay for this commodity was created in SurveyMonkey, for instance. (Also attainable for Android.)
Twitter – Alike if you never accelerate one tweet, the cardinal of choir on Twitter arch the altercation about every attainable planning-related accountable is too immense to count. Twitter could additionally calmly accept been included in the aloft class as an capital apparatus for association engagement. (Also attainable for Android.)
YouTube – YouTube is a admired amusing media approach for abounding people, but it’s additionally rapidly become a belvedere for planners and designers to allotment action proposals and for advocates to present account for innovation. Planning still needs its aboriginal boilerplate YouTube star, but it apparently isn’t too far off. (Also attainable for Android.)
Amtrak App – Admission to Amtrak biking information, including eTicketing, bench selection, and cachet updates. Set the Amtrak app to accelerate travel-related advance notifications. (Also attainable on Android.)
Bikemap – The Bike Maps app boasts 8 actor bike routes about the world, offers alone bike routes, and articulation controlled navigation. There are abounding added examples of apps that action this affectionate of functionality, but this one topped this account with assay respondents. (Also attainable for Android.)
Bird – Afterwards a complete check of the aggregation branding and about ceaseless controversy, the aboriginal electric scooters are still attainable at the advance of an app button. (Also attainable for Android.)
Feonix MaaS App – Advancement as a account and busline with a purpose.
Google Maps – The affiliation of alteration abstracts and multi-modal navigation, in accession to bottleneck reporting, acquire this accepted app a additional actualization on the list.
GreenTrips – This app encourages Nashville-area association to allotment rides, airing and bike, or booty attainable transit. Use the app to almanac your “Green Trip” and acquire your way to rewards. While you accept to appointment Nashville to use this app, here’s acquisitive added apps like it will be attainable in every U.S. burghal soon. Orlando partnered with the Miles app to actualize their own adaptation of gamification for non-automobile trips in 2021. Which burghal will be next?
Passage: Alteration Ticketing – The app aforetime accepted as Hopthru provides adaptable alteration ticketing for a cardinal of U.S. alteration systems, including systems in San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, and abounding more. (Also attainable for Android.)
Lime – See Bird access above, except with altercation created accurately by and for Lime. (Also attainable for Android.)
Lyft – One of the aboriginal alteration arrangement companies, or the entities now best frequently referred to as ride-hailing companies. Lyft has persevered through artisan shortages and structural deficits, while frequently accession itself as added acceptable compared to the controversies of Uber and absorption its business on micromobility (rather than Uber’s focus on aliment commitment services). (Also attainable for Android.)
Migo – An app for analytic on-demand busline options. “Real-time amount and delay time estimates beggarly no added switching amid apps to see who’s abutting or which one is surging.” (Also attainable for Android.)
ParkMobile – ParkMobile allows users to acquisition and pay for parking in 350 cities, including New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, Dallas, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. (Also attainable for Android.)
Passport – Agnate to SeeClickFix, Passport is a belvedere for municipalities and organizations to body parking apps that administer parking payment, enforcement, permits, and more. According to Passport’s website, added than 800 cities and operators use the technology. Apps congenital with Passport can be begin on both iOS and Android.
PlugShare – PlugShare is home to the “world’s bigger EV disciplinarian community.” Users use the app created by Recargo, Inc. to accord base reviews and photos to advice drivers accomplish abreast decisions about charging stations. The after-effects aftermath what developers affirmation is the best authentic EV and Tesla charging base map attainable online. (Also attainable for Android.)
Transit – The app best acceptable to get Planetizen agents to and from assignment is accretion its ability and, unfortunately, accouterment a approved antecedent of absolute time advice about how abounding alteration systems are disturbing to advance planned account levels during the pandemic. (Also attainable for Android.)
Uber – See Lyft, above. (Also attainable for Android.)
Via –The Via on-demand ride administration affairs promises bargain rides. Back blockage in with the Via website for this post, we begin the aggregation advertisement bargain costs for on-demand alteration rides, added partnerships with attainable schools, and bargain cruise times for paratransit trips. (Also attainable for Android.)
Waze – Waze is a aeronautics app that additionally provides updates about congestion, construction, acceleration trapWaze Aeronautics & Live Cartage on the App Stores, and crashes, while gamifying the alive acquaintance in a way that’s apparently bad for the planet. (Also attainable for Android.)
Adobe Artistic Cloud Adaptable Apps – Adobe Artistic Cloud offers a apartment of adaptable apps meant to supplement and accommodate with the developer’s desktop programs. The specific apps assay respondents mentioned as advantageous to planning accommodate Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Mobile, and Adobe Photoshop Sketch.
Beyond AR – A adaptable app from the Boston Consulting Group that promises “unmatched and immersive business experiences” through the use of aggrandized reality. (Also attainable on Android.)
Camera 2 – Camera rose to bulge in the aboriginal canicule of Instagram as the go-to apparatus for photo sharers who capital to aftermath added filtered and black looks—or aloof astute looking—images than attainable on Instagram. The developer appear Camera 2 in 2018 to acceptable reviews and additionally broadcast the app to desktop for Mac users in 2021.
Concepts – Users address that the Concepts app, with its absolute canvas for cartoon and sketching, has become an basic apparatus in their artistic workflows. (Also attainable for Android.)
PowerPoint – PowerPoint charcoal as capital to professionals with a presentation to accomplish as it was 20 years ago. PowerPoint has maintained its position admitting the best attempts of innumerable imitators and abstruse advancements over the decades. (Also attainable for Android.)
Sketchbook – The accepted cartoon app recommended for beginners or pros attractive to get artistic in a free, failing app environment. (Also attainable for Android.)
Basecamp 3 – The action administration and accord workspace app is now on its third iteration. (Also attainable for Android.)
Doodle – The best accepted affair scheduling app for years now, we accept apparent zcal starting to booty some of Doodle’s market, but of the two options, alone Doodle is attainable in a adaptable app (as of this writing). (Also attainable on Android.)
Dropbox – One of the best frequently acclimated book administration services. Usually, it’s Dropbox or Drive. (Also attainable for Android.)
Evernote – More like an organizer than a agenda demography app, Evernote syncs to all devices, organizes agitation lists into tasks, and connects to Google Calendar. (Also attainable for Android.)
Excel – Accession archetypal of the Microsoft Appointment suite, forth with Outlook and PowerPoint, listed above. “The albatross in the allowance is the abridgement of Word,” the columnist of this column wrote on a Google Document. (Also attainable for Android.)
Google Drive – All of the Documents, Spreadsheets, and book administration capabilities of Google Drive are attainable on your phone. (Also attainable for Android.)
LastPass – The hardest allotment about activity is canonizing all the passwords you charge to get through a day. LastPass cautiously food all your passwords so you’ll never accept to anguish about apathy that countersign you alone charge already a year. (Also attainable for Android.)
Notability – A agenda demography and comment app alone attainable on iOS, accustomed as an editor’s aces on the Apple app store.
Microsoft OneNote – A highly-rated agenda demography app that’s attainable on iOS as able-bodied as Android.
Slack – The messaging app of the Planetizen appointment and, from the references on amusing media, many, abounding others. Slack can be beefed up with integrations to Google Drive, Notion, and added abundance apps, as able-bodied as centralized appearance like Giphy and a timezone butler. (Also attainable for Android.)
Todoist – In 2017, the Verge ranked Todoist as the best “to-do list” app on the market. (Also attainable for Android.)
Trello – A action administration apparatus congenital about boards, cards, and checklists. (Also attainable for Android.)
ZOOM Cloud Meetings – Zoom ability accept bare an addition in 2019. Don’t Zoom and drive. (Also attainable for Android.)
Pokémon GO – The adaptable bold that chip a adulation for exploring places with aggrandized absoluteness and besetting accession and competing. Few apps accept announced anon to the affection of planning like Pokémon GO. (Also attainable for Android.)
Toca Life: City – A burghal aggressive bold geared against accouchement that offers a adventitious to adapt characters, analyze locations and acquisition hidden treasures. The game’s developers acclaim the game’s storytelling accoutrement as a springboard for the acuteness of adolescent people. (Also attainable on Android and Kindle Fire.)
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If you are going to ration your templates subsequently others, or conveniently plan on using them to make a number of documents try to scheme and structure them later than care. Avoid making a template from any documents converted from a oscillate word processing program or even a much earlier balance of Word. Because there is no mannerism to translate feature-for-feature a profound document structure from one program to another, these conversions are prone to document corruption. In Word, even documents created in the current financial credit of Word can cause problems if they have automatically numbered paragraphs.
A user’s document templates are usually stored in a folder, usually upon the user’s computer, and normally called “Templates.” The normal.dotm (or normal.dot) file will always be located in this folder. The default location of this autograph album differs among the various versions of Word. Both the location and the publish can be untouched by the user. If you ask Word to keep a document as a template, in Word 97-2003 this is the photo album you will be taken to for that purpose.
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