Mobile app ideas are innovative business plans that can be implemented and operated through a mobile app.
Mobile apps have become an undeniable definition of growth to an extent that even the emerging players develop dedicated apps to entice more customers to their on-demand services.
Not just for big businesses who are already gaining tremendous response from their digital presence, mobile apps could also help SMBs dominate the niche market by an immense margin. This also goes to say that those who are still hesitant at adopting the digital wave are likely to lose a huge group of target audience.
As it gives more visibility and ease to users while navigating different options, a mobile application is far better an option than having a website. However, users are always on quest of applications that are built with unique perspective and thoughtfulness.
Hence, to trigger the flow of practical app ideas, here are 30 most effective mobile app ideas to work on in 2020.
1. Car wash
This app idea could be unique for users living in urban and semi-urban setting where car wash service appointment would be time consuming. The on-demand car wash app lets you order a car wash from anywhere at your convenience.
2. Criminal Alert Service
The crime rate can be brought down with an app for criminal alerts that inform users about most wanted and delinquent criminals in unknown area they explore. The app can house a button pressing which police will get a signal on which location is suspicious.
3. Scan and Shop
The app lets you scan the real-world item which can be searched and eventually d from online sites using its scanned image.
4. Mall Navigation
The app of this kind will have potential to display the map of all the shopping malls in your neighborhood so that you can navigate precise directions inside the mall and check its different sections, restaurant or parking spot, utility, etc.
5. Virtual Interior Design
Such apps allow you to take a snap of your room to be redesigned and visualize the suitability of different elements when placed inside the room virtually, using options like colors, curtains, objects, furniture, etc.
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6. Parking Availability
Building an app that finds you available parking spot in a specific location will be an excellent idea. It will rely on GPS, webcams, location data to discover free parking space in real time.
7. Virtual Exam Preparation
In this app, students can virtually gather and share their knowledge to prepare for the exam and enhance the the learning session with study tools, discussions, guides, and more.
8. Flower and Gift
Make an online flowers and gift delivering app that is smart enough to automatically choose best flowers/gift and place an order to be delivered for upcoming events like birthdays of your kith and kin.
9. Security Device Control
Conceive an app for security control that allows you to control the security devices and equipment installed in your house or office space such as door opening, camera footage, burglar alarms, etc.
10. Phone Silencing
An app to silence your smartphone will automatically detect your current location and render your device in silent mode when you are in an office, meeting or a conference, etc.
11. Omni-Channel App
A supermarket app for omni-channel retailing will allow you to scan the products on your app and automatically make payments through integrated e-payment while shopping in a supermarket.
12. Finance and Bill Management
How about having an app that automatically adds, using AI algorithm, user’s financial details such as bills and transactions and sends due payment alerts to people involved.
13. Voice Translation
It will be handy to have an interesting app that translates the spoken expression in real-time in to the language best understood by the person speaking different language.
14. Fun & Flirt
Users will be attracted to an app that intelligently pulls your friends’ lists from your social media accounts to scan and suggest the best match for chat and flirt based on your activities, likes, interests, etc.
15. Car-Sharing in Real-Time
This unique concept for mobile app will have users enlisting their own cars when they head out to a destination in order for other app users to share the ride if the car is to pass by their location.
16. Food Donation
Imagine an app for restaurants to locate good charities in their vicinity where they can donate extra food items. This initiative can help save the waste of food that can be meal to needy paupers.
17. Bill and Receipt Store
Using this app, users can easily store all their receipts and bills in a single place to avoid managing each of them manually. The added ability to directly get receipts from stores will make it more special.
18. Cheap Delivery
We all need an app that steps out of the ordinary and find us the best delivery solutions in our area based on the type of product and location.
19. Dealer-Free Property Search
In today’s tight economy, having an app that helps find tenants through direct communication without a layer of dealers will be a boon to both landlords and tenants. In this app, tenants and landlords can communicate on property matter directly.
20. Tax Management
This is what we miss, a mobile app for taxpayers that stores data on all your income, expenses, tax transactions and calculates your tax liability automatically.
21. Fully-Fledged Restaurant Service
Despite many apps, we still need a well-customized app where users can check real-time menus and table availability, and can book or even pay bills for a specific restaurant from within the app.
22. Note Management
This will be a sophisticated note-taking platform for learners to take, share and comment on notes, manage existing notes and make new notes for lectures and seminars.
23. Transportation Alerts
This handy app will help users never miss their bus or train by the way of alerting them in real time of schedules, time change, delay of public vehicles using the GPS feature.
24. The Text Reader
Giving you a feel of Hollywood movie gadget, unlike scanner, the text reader app will read and convert the text or numbers written on a paper into digital format on your phone, tablet or PC.
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25. Unusual Dating
Unique to many modern dating apps, an unusual dating app theme would be the one for introverts, helping them in finding the best date match based on special interests including readers, nerds, geeks, comic fanatics, and more.
26. Goal Manager and Sharer
There are many motivational apps, but perhaps what we don’t have is an app dedicated to managing and sharing personal goals. This one allows you to build, track and share your life goals with others so that you can bump into those who share the same goals. This results in mutual support and encouragement for reaching goals.
27. Missed and Found
This app is designed to help users find their small missing things such as keys, wallet, hanky, glasses, pen or others that they might have mislaid and forgotten where they last saw it.
Your phone remembers it through a photo of such item when you placed it somewhere. Next time you forget, the photo becomes the reminder.
28. Book Review
This app functions as a review generator every time you take a picture of a book, helping you make the best choice for buying a book. You get instant reviews published on Amazon, Goodreads, newspaper and other sources.
29. Something For Writers
Writers need tremendous peace and serenity as they work on a piece. It blocks all the redundant distractions coming from the device, keeping only those functions that are needed while creating a write-up.
30. Smart Profile Reader
Augmented Reality is not just for shoppers and gamers. You can build a smart profile reader app using AR technology that enables users to explore in-depth details about a particular person or an object by scanning their face. As you scan them with the app, it will scoop up the details about them from available online sources.
Conclusion
We hope these 30 most creative and original mobile app ideas will be enough for your doze of inspiration needed to carve the next phenomenal mobile app success story for you. From on-demand to AR to social and more, these ideas have potential to cover a range of everyday human needs that are still waiting to be addressed. In 2020, may we see a few of these effective mobile app ideas taking the shape of reality in users’ life.