Whether you’re just launching your startup or you’re in charge of a company with dozens of employees, you know first-hand that apps play a major role in making things run smoothly. The biggest companies in the world know this as well and use top notch applications that suit their needs to help them reach new milestones. We’ve compiled a list with 20 of the most popular apps used by big companies.

According to T. S Eliot, good writers borrow, great writers steal. In this day and age, it’s appropriate to say that developers and company owners can get inspired by what the industry’s behemoths are doing and follow their lead. Most of these suggestions have a free version that will handle your business without any glitches. When you’ll feel you need more horsepower, upgrading is the best solution to get advanced features to help you boost your team’s performance. Take a peek at our list of most popular apps employed by big companies.

1. Asana

2. Amazon S3

3. Zendesk

4. Balsamiq

5. OneLogin

6. Bootstrap

7. Google Analytics

8. GitHub

9. HipChat

10. Google Apps

It may seem difficult to believe but many companies use Google Apps, including some of the biggest firms with astounding sales figures. An why wouldn’t they? Google Apps are intuitive, flexible and versatile – to cut a long story short, they’re exactly what you need to help you business prosper. Whether we’re talking about viewing and editing your documents, keeping an updated and shared calendar, dealing with cloud storage or videoconferencing, Google Apps aces all the tests you might want to subject it to.

11. Google Drive

12. Dropbox

13. Mail Chimp

14. Skype

15. nginx

16. Grunt

17. WordPress

18. DNSimple

19. Pixelapse

20. Fastly

Which one of these apps would you like to take for a spin? Let us know in the comments below what you think of the above mentioned examples and feel free to make your own suggestions if you think we’ve left out something awesome.