12 apps that every student should have
iStudiez Pro is the ultimate class and homework planner.
Documents is the ultimate app for accessing all of your files and annotating PDFs.
It can be confusing to keep track of where certain files are, especially if you use multiple services like Dropbox and Google Drive.
Documents works with all of them (including Apple's iCloud, Microsoft's OneDrive, and Box) to show you all of your stuff in one place. You can edit Microsoft documents, annotate PDFs, browse photos, and read e-books in one app.
Price: Free
Available on: iOS
Wunderlist will help you stay on top of what you need to get done.
There are plenty of to-do apps out there, but Wunderlist is the best for most people. It has a good mix of features for everyone, including the ability to make multiple lists, collaborate with other Wunderlist users on different projects, and create reminders.
Price: Free
Scanner Pro will help you go paperless.
Part of being a student is having to deal with lots of papers.
Scanner Pro will help you easily scan any paper or receipt with your iPhone's camera and save it as a PDF. From there you can save files to cloud storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive. The app can also find existing documents and receipts you've photographed already and turn them into editable PDFs.
Other free apps will scan documents for you, but Scanner Pro's ability to produce a clean PDF with little effort is unparalleled.
Price: $3.99
Available on: iOS
RefMe will put together your citations and bibliographies for you.
Duolingo will help you learn another language.
Tinycards is a handy flashcard app that helps you memorize things quickly.
The makers of Duolingo have another flashcard app called Tinycards.
Like Duolingo, it learns from you as you progress through a deck and shuffles information around to help you memorize efficiently. It comes with hundreds of pre-made subject decks to study with too.
Price: Free
Available: iOS
iTunes U is a great resource for free lectures and coursework from many of the top schools.
Apple bills iTunes U as a digital homework system for classrooms, but it's a great app to have even if you're teachers don't use it to distribute their lectures and homework.
That's because it gives you free access to courses from some of the best schools in the world, like Statistics 101 from Harvard or Stanford's course on how to code iOS apps.
Price: Free
Available on: iOS
Venmo makes it quick and easy to pay your friends back without cash.
If you're a student and not already using Venmo, chances are you've at least heard about the app.
By logging into your bank account, Venmo allows you to quickly send anyone money without cash. People love adding fun emojis to transactions and watching what other people are paying each other for in the app's social feed.
Price: Free
Wolfram Alpha is like a turbo charged Google search engine.
Google Inbox turns your email inbox into a helpful to-do list.
Find restaurants and other new places to go with Foursquare.
Foursquare is great at suggesting restaurants, bars, cafes, and other places on your tastes. If you're looking for a place to do homework off campus, you can search for "coffee shops with free WiFi."
Its vast collection user-created tips will ensure that you know the best thing to order too.
Price: Free
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