Being on the go doesn't have to equate to being less productive. Organization is the key to success, and great apps can be the key to organization. With the vast multitude of available apps to choose from, which ones can help workers stay on task? Here are 10 great productivity apps to help mobile execs make the most efficient use of their time.

It is difficult to organize and keep track of accumulated business cards. However, with just a snap of an Android's camera, ABBYY Business Card Reader lets those stacks of cardboard contacts remain in the palm of your hands. Developed by OCR tools maker ABBYY Software House, ABBYY Business Card Reader uses accurate text processing and recognition technologies to effortlessly transfer contact data.

All contact information including names, phone numbers, email addresses and other information is converted and saved as digital text. To save from tedious retyping, users can simply "share" the saved information to any database. During testing, we found that the app works best with good lighting to accurately read the contact information. This app contains more than 20 languages to translate the captured data as well. What's so great about this app is that users can link LinkedIn and Twitter profiles -- perfect for social integration.

When in a rush, there isn't any time to waste. Smartphone users can save time using voice control with Utter! Voice Commands (Beta) for Android, a free app that's currently being developed by independent developer Ben Randall. Although it is still in beta, Utter! is quite an impressive tool.

Using highly optimized voice algorithms, this app uses simplified voice commands to quickly execute tasks, answer questions, search the Internet, even to check spelling or the weather. Utter! even provides the status of the phone's battery and can command the phone to boot into recovery mode. Unlike Apple's Siri for iOS, which uses its own functionality to address commands, Utter! provides a custom and personalized experience by responding to commands using installed applications based on user preferences. One problem we ran into was that the app sometimes requires a specific phrase to fulfill a command.

Whether rain or snow are expected, this "must-have" weather app will know. Weather Flow is a simple yet visually appealing app for Android and Windows Phone 8 that provides you with your current, hourly and five-day weather forecast. Created by independent developer Gergely Orosz, Weather Flow is a customizable app that is worth every penny of its $1.99 price tag.

Besides the up-to-date weather forecast, there are additional weather statistics including precipitation, pressure, wind gust, sunrise and sunset, visibility and UV index. There is also full lock screen support, which allows the app to be set as the home screen. Weather Flow's aesthetically pleasing layouts can be chosen between the sleek "Metro" light or dark layout or the "Rich" layout. For battery-conscious users, the dark theme uses less power. Besides a polished and tailored design, Weather Flow also has a number of options for Live Tiles. Yesterday's weather can easily be compared to today's, and travelers can track weather from multiple locations around the world.

Travelers often have difficulty understanding foreign signs or reading menus. For just $3.99 and the snap of a shutter, Worldictionary for Android or iPhone uses OCR and web-based translators to instantly convert what it reads to the language of choice.

Developed by business productivity software maker Penpower Technology, the tool is as simple to use as taking a picture. Simply point at a word or sentence and wait for the camera to focus in. The app will tap into Google or Bing to translate into one of 21 major languages. Worldictionary automatically saves searches and lets users save words as bookmarks to revisit and build vocabulary.

Despite Worldictionary's efficiency and functionality, there are some drawbacks. This app will only translate one word at a time so a user must point and select word after word in a sentence. It won't translate an entire sentence at once. Also, while the app is open and not in use, the camera will "snap" pictures of a black background and choose random nonsense to translate, which it saves into the history. Also, Worldictionary requires Wi-Fi and a data connection to work. This can be a problem for those abroad; roaming data can be costly and some Wi-Fi hotspots require payment.

There's no predicting Mother Nature. Within minutes, a sunny day can turn into a tumultuous rainy day. As weather guides our actions and impacts our decisions, Nooly Micro Weather might be the most dependable weather app for Android and iOS. Developed by Nooly Technologies, a leader in weather forecasting systems, it is the first app designed for accurate predictions. Instead of generalizing weather conditions, Nooly will predict the exact start and end time for precipitation. With updates every five minutes, users can see what the forecast will be like in intervals of five minutes, 15 minutes or by the hour. The app recognizes a user's exact location and makes predictions within 0.4 square miles of that location or wherever is searched within the U.S. and Canada.

Nooly uses patented technology developed by Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld of Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. John Mecikalski of University of Alabama. Algorithmic data also is retrieved from two NOAA/NASA satellites and more than 260 NOAA radar stations to provide predictions from every cell within a cloud. Nooly identifies each cloud to predict how long and how intense the precipitation will be. Although Nooly isn't particularly pleasing aesthetically, it's still in beta, and is more superb than other generic weather apps we've seen. And it's free.

Wouldn't it be great if there were an easier way to digest news? For avid news readers, sometimes there isn't enough time in the day to consume all the different news beats. Now there is an app for that. To sum it up, Summly simply takes long news stories and summarizes them with the essential facts. Developed by Nick D’Aloisio, the 17-year-old founder of Summly, readers can absorb news from their favorite news sources with concise and coherent summaries. This easy-to-read and simply designed app allows users to choose their favorite news sources, browse cover pages, headlines and preset topics such as science, technology, business and politics.

What we liked most about about Summly is that users can generate their own topics to follow by searching keywords of interest. Using algorithmically generated and natural language processing, Summly will then find the content and summarize it. One thing that takes a bit of getting used to is Summly's screen-swiping user interface, which makes it hard to get back to an article once it's swiped away. Nevertheless, Summly is a must-have app for news junkies.

While this app won't replace math education, it will certainly help to make math problems easier. Instead of punching buttons, simply use MyScript Calculator to draw a mathematical problem on the screen as if it were a piece of paper. The free app for Android and iOS interprets what is written and does the number-crunching. Developed by digital writing solution provider Vision Objects, this app uses quality handwriting recognition technologies to convert handwriting to digital text.

This app uses basic and advanced math operations, including those from trigonometry and other disciplines. A user can even solve missing variables by placing a question mark as the variable or erase mistakes by simply scratching them out. We noticed that when writing out a problem, the user must write from left to right instead of top to bottom. Otherwise, it won't extend the problem and will create random fractions. Nonetheless, MyScript Calculator is an efficient and genius app.

For visual dreamers and creative types, visual composition is sometimes the most effective way to convey an idea. Note Anytime is a note-taking and sketching app to help lay out those ideas, making room for creativity and information. Created by "smart-paper" developer MetaMoJi, Note Anytime costs $9.99 and is available for iOS and Windows 8.

For this app, users can either write with their fingers or type text on various types and sizes of paper, choose pen color and thickness and add photos and graphics. A great feature about this app is that Note Anytime treats Adobe PDF documents like a form and allows users to fill in the blank fields. Also, Notes can be posted on various social media outlets, exported to Dropbox or forwarded via email. Tutorials are included to help new users navigate its somewhat unconventional UI. This is an app that will ultimately benefit and help students and businesspeople stay organized.

Who needs paper when you have 7notes Premium for Android and iOS? This app anticipates what a user will type or hand-write next with its superb handwriting recognition engine. 7notes Premium for Android, developed by "smart paper" innovators MetaMoJi costs $9.99. This app immediately recognizes cursive words and letters written with just a finger.

There are three different ways to input text: handwritten, handwritten conversion into text (which a user can choose to convert now or later) and an on-screen keyboard. Users can choose from various fonts and background colors, and can save particular styles. What's amazing about this app is that 7notes' predictive engine will anticipate what a user wants to write. While writing, an above display will suggest a word or other alternatives and all the user has to do is tap the desired word. The app also taps into social media -- call it social doodling. Users can post notes to Facebook or Twitter and have viewers of the note edit it and share it among friends. 7notes Premium is nothing short of amazing as an efficient yet simple note-taking tool.

For mobile executives, little slips of paper can be as valuable as currency. Receipts are important to keep track of when traveling and, luckily, there is ExpenseMagic for iOS to help out with that. Developed by ExpenseMagic, a startup company, this app stores paper receipts digitally with the snap of an iPhone camera. To utilize this app, users can take a photo of their receipt to be recorded and tracked. This is then sent to bookkeepers at ExpenseMagic to enter the details and it only takes a few hours to process. ExpenseMagic also supplies monthly expense reports to the user.

What's great about this app is that a user can choose to send all their expenses on one single claim form to be automatically emailed to their employer once a month. If a user is overseas on business, ExpenseMagic uses the GPS location to select the appropriate currency and converts the expenses back to their home currency. Although the app itself is free, the price for this paperless solution varies. Users start out with five free receipts, but for $4.99, users will receive a bundle of 20 tokens (one token = one receipt); 30 days unlimited is $13.99, 90 days unlimited is $28.99 and one year unlimited is $74.99. Not only is this app a time-saving tool, it's great for handling important expenses and makes data easily accessible online.