Are you a budding entrepreneur looking to start your own business? Are you running a small business and need help better organizing your day-to-day activities? If so, it's essential that you have the right tools to support your endeavors. Fortunately, the mobile apps market has created a wide variety of powerful, cost-effective alternatives to help small businesses get the job done.

Developers have been busy creating apps for businesses, including word processing, presentation, spreadsheet, customer management, scanning, expense tracking and invoicing, to name just a few. In this slideshow, we've featured 18 highly rated iOS apps that may give your SMB the advantage it needs to succeed.

All apps are available via the iTunes store.