College Apps for Students
Stepping onto a college campus feels like a balancing act to some. Between juggling course loads and maintaining a social life, some feel the college experience can quickly become overwhelming. Fortunately, the smartphone in your pocket can be a powerful personal assistant.
From mastering complex calculus to staying focused during a marathon study session, there is an app designed to solve almost every academic hurdle. To help you streamline your workflow and reclaim your free time, we’ve rounded up the essential apps every student should have in their digital toolkit.
Here are the top apps to help make your college life a little easier.
College Apps For Students
Exam Countdown Lite
Exam Countdown Lite is a beautiful way to count down and be reminded of exams. You can create unlimited exam countdowns on the free version. You can also use color-coding and can count down years, days, hours, minutes, and even seconds. You can also choose from 400 icons to really customize your experience.
Quizlet
Quizlet is another flashcard app that will help you master what you need to know. You can create your own quiz or search for one already made. You can learn, fill in the blank with the write option, quiz yourself, play timed memory games, and share with your friends and classmates. You can also listen to the proper punctuation of your vocabulary words.
MyScript Calculator 2
My Script Calculator is a fun way to work on math. You can write calculations and get results in real-time. You can also reuse previous results by dragging and dropping. This app is a lot more fun than your traditional calculator.
My Study Life-School Planner
My Study Life-School Planner is a great app for keeping everything you need as a college student in one place. This app is a cross-platform planner for students and teachers. It is designed to make studying life easier. You can store your classes, homework, and exams in the Cloud so you can pull everything from the app on any device.
Cited
Cited is a great app to help you reference your papers. Simply enter your reference information and the app will put it into the correct format. You can use MLA, APA, and Chicago style formats, whichever is required at your school.
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Evernote
Evernote is an app that can help you manage everything from big projects to personal moments. You can capture ideas and inspiration in notes, voice, and pictures. You can save things you find on the internet and never lose track of tasks and deadlines. The most popular features are the web clipper, multi-device sync, search handwriting, notebooks and tags, document scanning, and PDF and document search.
Oxford Dictionary of English
Having a good dictionary at your fingertips is a must when you are in college. The Oxford Dictionary of English is a good one to have. It is widely accepted as one of the highest authorities in the study and reference of the English language globally.
Google Docs
Google Docs is one of the websites you can use to write your papers and then save them as Word, a PDF, or other types of documents. They also have an app that is a must-have on your phone. Then you will always have access to your work, wherever you go. If you are working with a team, you can also connect with them, make comments, and edit as needed.
Spotify
Spotify is a great way to listen to music and podcasts. You can easily search for any song or album and can make or share playlists. There are many playlists that others have created for studying. The app has a free version, or you can sign up for Spotify Premium with the student version.
You can read up on the Spotify military discount in this article.
Using these apps for students can make your life as a college student a little easier. You can also search your app store to see what else you might want to add to your phone’s library.
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About the author
Julie Provost is a freelance writer, and blogger. She lives in Tennessee with her National Guard husband and three boys.
