Apps for College Students
1. Studious
Price: Free
Download: Studious
There once was a time when students kept their class and homework schedules in physical notebooks, but those days are long gone. Studious does it all for you, right on your phone. When you put in your class schedule, it automatically silences your device during class time and reminds you of upcoming homework and tests. Save text notes and photos so you don't miss a thing.
2. GrubHub
Price: Free
Download:GrubHub
Everyone's gotta eat, and sometimes you just don't have time to take a trip to the student union cafeteria. GrubHub makes it almost ridiculously easy to order food for delivery right to your door! Using GrubHub's database of more than 25,000 restaurants in more than 300 cities around the country, you can browse menus and read restaurant reviews, recall past orders, and save multiple addresses for quick access, then place your order right from your phone.
3. Alarm Clock Xtreme
Price: Free
Download:Alarm Clock Xtreme
Don't sleep through your most important classes! Snooze button mashers and gradual awakeners, rejoice — there's an alarm clock app for you. Alarm Clock Xtreme works for everyone, no matter what your sleeping and waking habits might be. You can set it to wake you up gently and gradually, set a variable snooze duration, and even set it to require you solve math problems before it will turn off the alarm. The app also features a countdown timer and lets you set reminder alarms for events throughout the day.
4. Dropbox: Though it’s not necessarily meant to be a collaboration site, I have found DropBox extremely useful during group projects. Dropbox is a free file hosting service that provides file storage and synchronization, so you never have to email yourself files or remember to bring your USB again. Files placed in Dropbox are accessible on any computer, laptop or phone so long as you have an account. The value that I have found in this app is that you can add people onto your folders so they have access to them as well.
5. Quizlet Mobile: An interactive flashcard app that makes studying more fun and memorable. The online version has games, matching and multiple-choice assessments based on your study guide to help you prepare. The mobile app is a great portable version so that you can study anywhere.
6. My Car Locator: Find your car! Once parked, it can be easy to lose. PosiMotion lets you park your car, press the Park Me! button, then do whatever you want. When you're ready to return to your ride, press the "Where Did I Park?" button and you'll get turn-by-turn walking directions back.
7. Sparknotes: Marketing itself as he “ultimate portable study guide,” browse SparkNotes easily on your iPhone.
8.iMemento: Study with flashcards on your iPhone and use multiple-choice tests to quiz yourself on the material. iMemento grades and records your test performances so you can track your progress.
iStudiez Pro: This organizational powerhouse allows for easy planning, management, tracking and synchronization of class and activity schedules, deadlines and more. Plan your schedule, organize assignments, set reminders and track your grades. Syncs with iCal to keep all of your activities in one place. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. $2.99.
Science Glossary: Fast access to definitions of several hundred scientific terms, as well as links to the meanings of related technical terms. Connect to online learning modules and bios of significant people in science history. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Free.
11. 100 Words Almost Everyone Mispronounces: Learn about 100 tricky or controversial words that trip up even the most well-read students, selected by the editors of American Heritage Dictionaries. Hear the correct pronunciation anytime, wherever you are – with no Internet connection required. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. $2.99.
Evernote: Millions use this popular app every day to create text, audio or image notes, and access them anytime, anywhere. You can take a photo of a whiteboard, and Evernote will create searchable text. Premium features allow synchronization and sharing of Word, Excel, PDF and PPT files. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Free.
Chegg Inc.:Chegg is the top textbook rental company. Their free app allows you to search for textbooks by title, author, ISBN or by scanning a book's bar code with your iPhone. Compare prices and complete the rental or purchase transaction right from your mobile device. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Free.
14. gFlash+: With gFlash+, you can create flashcards and share them with fellow students, plus study and quiz yourself. Random multiple-choice questions increase the difficulty. Use images, foreign language characters or text-based cards to test your knowledge of dozens of subjects. Compatible with Android. Free.
15. Cole's Calculus Review: No more digging through notes looking for a derivative formula! Cole's Calculus Review lists all the important formulas and evaluation techniques, like limits, derivatives, integrals, and products and quotients of trigonometric functions. Compatible with Android. Free.
16. iFormulas: Formulas for algebra, geometry, and trigonometry at your fingertips
17. Webster’s Dictionary: quick look up and has a voice option for words you do not know how to spell.
18.BenchPrep: BenchPrep is an interactive course library with all the graduate and professional exam study material you can handle. It includes hundreds of practice questions, flashcards, in-app purchases and almost 600 study lessons. Go ahead and pick your poison: LSAT, MCAT, GMAT.
19. EasyBib:EasyBib generates citations in MLA, APA and Chicago style wherever you are — just scan the book's bar code or enter the title. The app also lets you easily email and export the bibliographies to yourself. Using this, you have no excuses for putting off that term paper.
20. Amazon Student:Snap a photo of your book's barcode, and it'll tell you how and where to get it cheaper. Best of all, you can sell back your old used textbooks in exchange for Amazon gift cards. (Free for Android and iPhone)
21. Tapingo:What’s better than good food? Good food your way! Tapingo lets you take control of your day by allowing you to customize your food and get it when you want it. No waiting around, no carrying your wallet. Everything is taken care of all in the app! Free
22. MathAway:the mobile application that will guide you step-by-step while you search for algebra, geometry, or any other math solution. Enter your task into the application, and check if your solution is the same with one offered.
List complied by Dr. Amber McConnell, OU Zarrow Center for Learning Enrichment