5 Best Ideas For Web Apps to Try in 2020

Hannah Gerstaecker
excellentwebworld
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4 min readOct 19, 2020

There are so many web app ideas circulating on the internet; everyone is looking only for the best ideas for web apps that will be trending in 2021.

When it comes to choosing a web app idea to implement as a digital startup, it’s not about the number of ideas; rather, it’s about the quality.

Before checking out the 5 best ideas for web apps, you must learn a bit about why web apps are going to be a trend in 2021.

Why Are Businesses Choosing To Build Web Apps Instead Of Mobile Apps?

Mobile apps, as the name suggests, are the applications built for smartphones. They are really amazing in terms of UI as well as app features, but developing mobile apps is a costly affair, and you get an app for only a single type of device, smartphones.

On the other hand, the web apps as the name suggest are browser apps that can work on any kind of device that supports web browsers like smartphones, tablets, desktops, and in some cases even smart wearables.

Screen optimization may seem a bit tricky. Still, once you or your web app development team cracks the code on perfect screen optimization, it becomes a piece of cake to mold the web app for any screen.

With the most modern web application development technology stacks, the barrier between the quality of mobile apps and web apps is almost noticeable.

5 Best Ideas for Web Applications

After researching for around two weeks, we’ve shortlisted the 5 most promising web apps that will be all the rage among users.

So, here are the top 5 web app ideas that are super unique and highly promising to rock in 2021.

1. Video Summarizer App

How many times have you skipped a video on YouTube or Facebook, just because it was 20–25 minutes long, or even longer? If only these videos had a summarized version that will give you all the information in less than 5 minutes.

If there isn’t one, why not make one for everyone. You are not the only one who wishes to have such summarized videos. There is a very potential market of video consumers who would choose your service over YouTube if you can help them save time.

You can earn from people subscribing to your video platform on a monthly or annual price, or you can earn from running ads just like YouTube and Facebook.

2. Smart Cooking App

What’s cooking today? It’s a question that haunts homemakers across the world every time kids ask them. How about creating a smart cooking app that solves this problem. The user feeds in the list of vegetables and other food items they have at home, and the app will showcase a list of food recipes that would need only those items.

The web application solves one of the biggest issues that other food recipe apps have; the users not having a couple of the items required for cooking a certain dish. With such a smart cooking app, the users will be suggested only those recipes that they can cook at the moment with available vegetables and food items.

The app can also suggest some common replacements in recipes that can be made to create dishes that lack 1–2 elements in your kitchen.

3. Real-Time Family Location Tracking App

With rising crime rates across cities, it is not very safe for people to go out at odd times. But no one wants or likes to stay cooped up at home all the time. What if there is a solution for people to roam freely and yet stay safe and connected with their family members?

That is what this location tracking app offers. Family members or friends can share their real-time location so that everyone knows where each person is at any given time. This may seem somewhat invasive, but it’s a perfect app for parents with smaller kids or spouses.

4. Brand Tracker App

Ever thought what the barcodes on branded products show? Maybe you doubt the shoes you purchased online whether they are branded ones or fake?

A brand tracker app will scan the product’s barcode, tag, or logo and give you complete detail about the product as well as its brand. Such an app will be a boon for shopaholics and brand product enthusiasts.

5. Employee Productivity Tracking App

In the times of COVID-19 pandemic, work from home culture has risen drastically. But how will companies make sure that their employees are working properly at home? That is what an employee productivity tracking app does. There are a few such software available in the market, but not all of them are multi-device friendly.

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You can provide a productivity tracker app to the companies who will buy it as a SaaS-based web app solution and install in their employees’ PC systems. This web app will keep track of all the activities that the employees do on their system within working hours and also track if they left the system idle for a prolonged time.

So, these were the best ideas for web apps that you can launch in 2021 and start your own lucrative web app business. These were the best 5 web app ideas that interested me the most. There are several more such ideas for web applications that you can begin as your business startup.

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Hannah Gerstaecker
excellentwebworld

Full-stack developer & Growth Hacker with a goal of helping small businesses and Startups. He loves to write about technology, startups and business.