Android is a great mobile operating system and offers a sheer endless amount of apps. With college starting soon, many students might ask themselves which apps can support their studies or generally make their live easier.
Aug 15, 2016 - Here are the 12 best apps for your schedule, studying, money, and social life needs: 1/12. Price: $2.99 on iOS, $9.99 on Mac. Available on:.
Any.Do
Any.Do is a great task app that integrates well with other devices and services. As it syncs with Google Tasks and your calendar, it’s the perfect tool to plan your social life, class assignments and other things happening in your life. College life can get quite chaotic and Any.Do helps you to keep an overview of everything you have to do.
Developer: Any.do
Dropbox
Dropbox is a great tool to share documents with your class mates. I personally used this tool to store all my college documents: assignments, research papers or slides form classes. Everything stored online and accessible across all your devices. Dropbox now also integrates with Office 365 and you’re able to work together with your fellow students in your documents – Google Drive style. The basic version comes for free and with our guide you can get up to 40 GB of Dropbox space for free.
Developer: Dropbox, Inc.
EasyBib
Struggling to write essays and get your bibliography and citations in order? EasyBib is here to help you. Just enter your books title or scan the barcode and the app will give you the proper citation which can be shared easily. The app supports over 7000 citation styles including MLA, APA and Chicago.
Developer: Imagine Easy Solutions
Cram
Cram is a great flashcard learning tool that offers a huge amount of existing flashcards to help you study for your classes and exams. The app syncs to cram.com which offers more than 11 million flashcards. It does not matter if you’re studying for a specific exam like the GMAT or want to study Chemistry, or English – Cram has flashcards ready for you. You’re also able to simply create your own cards.
Developer: Cram, LLC.
RealCalc Scientific Calculator
Are you an engineering, mathematics or science student? Forgot your calculator? Have a look at RealCalc Scientific Calculator. While it might not look fancy – it completely replaces a professional and often expensive calculator. It supports unit conversions, includes a physical constants table and scientific, engineering and fixed-point display modes, amongst others. It also logs your previous calculations to get then back quickly.
Developer: Quartic Software
I hope that I was able to give you a good overview of the best free android apps for students. Feel free to share your favourites in the comments below and I’ll add them to this guide.
iPad is not only a good device for playing games, watching movie, surfing on the web. But it's also a good tool for study. Many wonderful iPad education apps can help college students improve their studying productivity. If you have prepared an iPad for your college, following apps are necessary education apps for you to use on your iPad.
Top Five Free Necessary iPad Apps for College Students
1. Dropbox
You can use this free app to transfer files without iTunes. You can add files into the Dropbox folder and you can get access to your files from your Mac, PC, iPad and more.
2. Haiku Deck
You can use this free app to make very simple and quick slide show presentations. Haiku Deck is the simple new way to create stunning presentations for pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement.
3. Evernote
This free app enables you to capture, organize, and find information across multiple platforms. Students can take notes, clip webpages, snap photos using their mobile phones, create to-dos, and record audio. All data is synchronized with the Evernote and made available to clients on Windows, Mac, Web, and mobile devices. What's more, the Evernote can organize all incoming notes, making printed or handwritten text in images.
4. Textbooks by Kno
Kno specializes in textbooks and sells them with cheap price. This app can enable you to rent college textbook easily. It can save money for you than buying print textbook.
Tips: You can create ebook to read on your iPad. The iBooks allows you read ePub and PDF files on iPad. But ePub is a more suitable format for iPad. The ePub Creating Tool for Mac enables you to create wonderful ePub book for you iPad easily and fast. It can make PDF, HTML, Text, MOBI and more into ePub book on Mac.
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