These Gamification Productivity Apps Will Boost Your Success

Gamification of work can help you achieve a lot more than you usually would, as it turns regular tasks into games. The basics of gamification are simple: you apply the game mechanics to your work and then you enjoy the task at hand. This simple trick has been used to increase productivity since the Romans ruled the world, and now gamification productivity apps are taking over. Here are the top apps you can use to boost your daily life, both at home and at work.

To Round

To Round is a simple yet very useful app which helps you manage your work and stay on top of your tasks. As the name implies, this gamification productivity app offers a visual display of your tasks in the form of bubbles. As soon as you write a task, it turns into a color-coded bubble, sized according to the importance of the task. As you complete tasks, the bubbles drop off the screen, making room for more task bubbles. The colors help you organize tasks by tags so you can easily manage them.

Now the productivity part: the bubbles are addictive and will encourage you to tick off tasks, increasing your productivity throughout the day. You can get To Round for Android and for iOS.

Due Props

What about playing games at the office? Due Props lets you play at work, with your co-workers and your boss, all in the name of productivity. The process is simple: you get tokens for every task you’ve successfully finished. For example, you can get “Awesome Blogging” tokens from your co-workers or your boss. The benefit of this entry on the gamification productivity apps list is that you can spend the entire working day playing with your colleagues: the more you play and hunt for tokens, the more tasks you will complete. It’s truly a win-win situation!

Mint

Mint is a gamification productivity app that is directed towards your financial plans and can help you save on the go. The app is full of checklists and progress bars, which help you visualize your progress — this is a powerful motivational factor. Apart from this, Mint also awards you scores and titles, depending on how “financially fit” you are. If this won’t help you save for your next trip around the world, nothing else will.

Task Hammer

This app comes with a real game. You pick your avatar, which can be a rogue, witch, or barbarian, then you set different skills to the avatar and start completing tasks. As you complete your tasks, your avatar grows and gains experience points. Apart from actually being a game, Task Hammer comes with a special feature: it has an alarm clock. This way, you will always be reminded of your tasks. For busy people, this is a true life-saver, as it’s easy to forget about tasks, even if they come in the form of a game.

Quest

If you are a fan of Minecraft, Quest will definitely be your favorite gamification productivity app, since it has an 8-bit design which can trigger the sweet sense of nostalgia for anyone old enough to have played the game growing up. Then, there are the gaming factors. Again, like To Round, this is a simple app that’s easy to use for anyone. Your tasks become quests, which already makes them more appealing. As you clear your quests, accompanied by your avatar, you will have fun and increase your productivity. Compared to the other gamification apps on this list, this one is a relative new entry, which means it comes with some drawbacks: there are no predefined quests, so you will have to make them all on your own, and there are no stats.

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