Summer don't last long enough for kids, and it can be a
stressful time to get everything in order so that students have new clothes,
school supplies, dorm stuff, and...back to school apps? According to a 2015
study, 77 percent of students reported that using tablets and smartphones has
helped improve their grades, and 62 percent said that tech helps them feel more
ready for class.
Below is our compilation of apps that will help you get back to
school the right way. And since it's pretty common sense that students don't
have much of a budget to work with, you can download all of these apps for
free.
Evernote is considered as one of the most popular note-taking
apps for quite a while. Its clean, uncomplicated interface makes it perfect for
students wherein they can take notes, make to-do lists, set reminders, attach
files, create agendas and access everything through any device. Evernote
doesn't have a storage limit, but free users are limited to an upload limit of
60 MB per month. You also have to activate push notifications to sync all your
notes when the app isn't running. The camera feature is highly useful, because
it allows you to save any photo, document, Post-it note or business card.
As a student, you save, send, and lose a lot of files -- usually
in the depths of your inbox. The free Dropbox Mobile app lets you store and
share up to 2 GB of documents, photos, and videos in one secure location. It's
easy to add notes to files you want to share, too, which is ideal especially
when your group project seems to be taking forever. Recently, Dropbox partnered
with Microsoft so that users can edit Microsoft Office files straight from
their mobile phones and save them to their Dropbox accounts.
Meet your know-it-all bestfriend, which also happens to help
Apple's Siri. Dubbed as the "Star Trek computer," WolframAlpha holds
more than 10 trillion pieces of data and 50,000 equations. The app, which costs
$2.99, uses these information to compute answers and generate reports on topics
ranging from trigonometry and astronomy, to genealogy and mythology. It
provides you with graphs, step-by-step explanations, and formula details.
EasyBib takes over one of the most time-consuming parts of
writing a research paper -- the bibliography. This app helps you format your
list of references in more than 7,000 citation styles, including the most
common APA and MLA formats. Just type in the name of the book and EasyBib will
give you several options to choose from and then makes a citation for you. The
app has a website that does the job just as well, but with the app you can take
a picture of a book's bar code and then generate a citation for it.
The My Study Life is a free app that replaces any paper planner
by keeping track of your workload across multiple platforms and devices. Manage
your classes with week and day timetables, keep track of your tasks and
upcoming exams in the cloud, and receive notifications to keep you updated with
your exams and class schedules. The calendar is very easy to read, thanks to
its clean interface and the ability to color code your classes.
Now you'll enjoy school more with My Study Life!
Tiny Scanner is an app that is perfect in making sure your handwritten class notes are at least legible enough to send to a classmate. The app uses the camera on your phone or tablet to scan documents and export them into PDFs that you can email or save to your camera roll. You can also crop and color-correct your images before you export them into PDFs.
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