Outlook Add-ins - small helping programs for the well-known Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...

 application. The main purpose of the add-ins is to add new functional capabilities into Microsoft Outlook and automate some routine operations. Also refers to programs where the main function is to work on Outlook files such as synchronisation or backup utilities.

Various categories of add in exist

Accessibility

• Email Announcer: For visually impaired or as an alternate channel / push notification method. Speaks, using a text to speech engine such as AT&T Natural Voices, through text to speech for title / subject of new Email and notification / reminders from Calendar and Tasks.

Personal Productivity

• ReliefJet Essentials is a productivity suite filling all the gaps left by Outlook developers.

• 1-Click Duplicate Delete for Outlook: Add-in to remove duplicate objects in Outlook / merge duplicate contacts.

• Acrobat
  Adobe Acrobat
  Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format . All members of the family, except Adobe Reader , are commercial software, while the latter is available as freeware and can be downloaded...
  
   PDF Maker is and Acrobat Professional add-on that enables saving items as PDF files

• Duplicate Email Remover finds and cleans duplicate email messages in Outlook folders.

• Duplicate Killer Merger: Remove Outlook duplicates in the Contacts, E-mails, Notes, Tasks, Calendar Folders of Microsoft Outlook

• Getting Things Done A time management system.

• Notes2: Create and stick notes to Outlook e-mails, tasks, contacts, and appointments.

• Planplus for Outlook Personal development and scheduling based upon Stephen Coveys 7 habits programme.

• Qlockwork: Automatic time tracking and reporting

• ReplyButler: Add-in supporting multi-lingual text templates and automatic writing of the salutation phrase for e-mails.

• Signature2Contacts: Capture name and address into Microsoft Outlook address book automatically

• Spam Reader
  Spam Reader
  Spam Reader is an anti-spam add-on for Microsoft Outlook, produced under shareware license. The program uses content filtering based on Bayesian spam filtering algorithm, whitelist and blacklist techniques, additional spam signs like embedded images from internet, attached executed files, and junk...
  
   is an E-mail filtering
  E-mail filtering
  Email filtering is the processing of email to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to anti-spam techniques, and to outgoing emails as well...
  
   add-in for the automatic processing of incoming messages and the removal of spam.

• Taskline is an Automatic Task Scheduler that schedules appointments from tasks based on total work time, due dates and other data.

• Template Phrases for Microsoft Outlook: Insert frequently-typed phrases or text into Outlook e-mail messages with a click.

• Workgroup Calendar: Merge and synchronize Calendar folders within your Microsoft Outlook. View and manage all of your appointments and events in one calendar.

• Inlook Time Management - automatic email prioritization and archiving based upon advanced email analytics

Search

Search Add-ins allow quick or customised searching of Email, Contact, Tasks, Calendar and other folders. Each Add-in has various advantages and disadvantages, including for example, different search techniques and presentation of results.

• Google Desktop
  Google Desktop
  Google Desktop is desktop search software made by Google for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. The program allows text searches of a user's e-mails, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and other "Google Gadgets"....
  
  
• Windows Desktop Search
• X1 Professional Client
• Lookout (obsolete)
• NEO Find and NEO Pro
• Lookeen
  Lookeen
  Lookeen is a search add-on for Microsoft Outlook, produced under shareware license. The program uses Apaches search engine Lucene.-Using:Lookeen is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook. The program is developed according to the Microsoft company recommendation on the add-ons design...
  
  
• Xobni
  Xobni
  Xobni is a San Francisco-based company that makes software applications and services including products for Microsoft Outlook and mobile devices. It was founded in March 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina from Adam's dorm room in Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the Y Combinator summer...
  
  

Security

• Advanced Security for Outlook allows you to determine the violator and specify the permanent action for this program: allow access, block access or run the default Outlook handler. Freeware.

• CA Anti-Spam: email filter

Synchronisation

• CodeTwo Public Folders: Synchronises Outlook data between multiple users without Exchange Server.

• Activesync: Synchronises outlook data with windows-based mobile devices.

• Nokia PC suite: Synchronises outlook data with Nokia's Symbian-based mobile devices.

• ShareO: Sharing Outlook calendar, contacts, journal, mail, tasks and notes folders with other Outlook users without a server. Share documents and files. Scheduling. Sharing Free/Busy information.

• Sync2: Synchronize Microsoft Outlook folders data between multiple PCs using external USB device, shared network folder or FTP. Share and Sync Outlook Calendar and Contacts folders with Google Calendar service.

• Sync2PST: Synchronize Microsoft Outlook PST files. Sync Outlook folders between multiple PCs without a server using an external USB device or shared network folder (LAN) via shared PST file.

• Easy 2 Sync for Outlook: Synchronises outlook data (Task, Calendar, Contacts, E-mail) with .pst files locally or across a network.

• Outlook Connector
  Microsoft Office Outlook Connector
  Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector is a free add-in for Microsoft Outlook that allows users to access Windows Live Hotmail or Office Live Mail accounts through Microsoft Outlook....
  
  : synchronises emails between your Windows ID account to outlook, this also comes with subscription options to synchronise the calendar.

• OLFolderSync: Synchronises Outlook data between users by eMail.

• BlackBerry Desktop Manager: Synchronises outlook data with BlackBerry-based mobile devices.

Telephony

• Estos Procall: Computer Telephony Integration (Calling Line Identification) Pop-ups notification from Contacts for incoming calls via Caller ID
  Caller ID
  Caller ID , also called calling line identification or calling number identification or Calling Line Identification Presentation , is a telephone service, available in analog and digital phone systems and most Voice over Internet Protocol applications, that transmits a caller's number to...
  
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• Skype
  Skype
  Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chat over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system...
  
   Email Toolbar
• Samsung Phone Interface: a outlook add on enabling click to dial with a samsung officeserv phone system
• Asterisk TAPI: a Tapi
  Telephony Application Programming Interface
  The Telephony Application Programming Interface is a Microsoft Windows API, which provides computer telephony integration and enables PCs running Microsoft Windows to use telephone services. Different versions of TAPI are available on different versions of Windows...
  
   interface allowing click to dial from with in outlook using a Asterisk PBX
• Click to Call with Cisco Unified Personal Communicator Outlook Toolbar (Part Of Cisco Unified Personal Communicator): a outlook toolbar enabling click to dial with a cisco phone system

Other

• Outlook add-ins Add-ins for Microsoft Outlook
• OutlookFreeware.com More than 70 free add-ins and utilities for Microsoft Outlook
• 4Team Corporation Solution provider for Microsoft Outlook
• Exclaimer Developer of numerous solutions compatible with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange
• Live Search Maps Adds maps, locations, travel time, route and directions to Appointments.
• Mapilab
  Mapilab
  The MAPILab company is a leading developer of software for message exchange and team collaboration. MAPILab have produced software for Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Excel. The company was founded in 2003. The office of the company is...
  
  Vendor of numerous Microsoft Outlook Add-ins
• Add-in development tools Source for Outlook plugins development and tools
• Sperry Software Outlook Add-In Tools Home to many Outlook tools
• ZoomInfo's Community Edition Running add-on in the background gives you full access to ZoomInfo's database of 50 million business people

External links

• Improve Your Outlook With Visual Studio Tools For Office