Top 10 iPhone Apps to Help You Succeed in School
Students are starting to head back to school and following them is a myriad of new technologies. With over 1.5 million iPhone 4 handsets and 3 million iPads sold to date, it’s a good bet that a large number of those are in the hands of students.
AnyCollege recommends leveraging your iPhone or iPad to make your college life a better one. A recent article on Mashable discussing must have apps as the semester starts. These apps aim to help students from grade school to grad school, so read more about them below!
1. Open Culture
This app is free and gives you access to a large selection of video and audio collections that are intellectual and educational. The app also allows you to listen to lectures from universities around the world.
Radio shows and podcasts are also available for download that will plug you into some of the most cutting edge thinkers in the world. Worth a download if you are looking for an educational way to relax.
2. Mental Case
Tired of writing out flashcards to study for your test? Now you can create them on your iPhone and study whenever, wherever. The big thing this has over traditional flashcards is that you can record audio and insert images into the cards.
The cost is $4.95 and that also grants you access to a feature that allows you to reference 21 million + cards ranging from anatomy to psychology.
3. Rate My Professor
Back in the day there used to be “black list” papers that floated around campus telling you which professors/classes to take, or stay away from. Now there is an app for that.
This app allows you to search by school and then by professor/class. This could come in handy and save you a lot of “why did I take this class” moments. Doing your “homework” on professors could help make or break your semester.
4. myHomework and iStudiez Pro
You guessed it, this app helps you stay organized in the homework department. From calendar view, color coding and reminder, you should take advantage of myHomework to keep your homework on track. Best of all, it’s free!
Need help keeping your schedule/life organized? Then iStudiez Pro is for you. For $2.99, you can enter in all of your classes, lectures, frat parties and football games to make sure you never miss any of them.
5. Free Translator
Let’s face it, a lot of people have a tough time grasping a foreign language, its okay, there is an app for that too. It’s not the most robust translator out there, but it should help you get by if you’re in a pinch. Fee based foreign language apps may offer more functionality, but you can’t go wrong trying out this free option for awhile.
6. Chegg
Just when you think you are broke, you realize that you still haven’t bought your books yet! Yikes! Well Chegg is here to help you out. This free app allows you to RENT your books opposed to buying them.
You can search by author, title, scan the books barcode or by the ISBN numbers. Yes you have to return them eventually, but who really needs to hold on to a micro-biology book for 4 years?
7. Blackboard Mobile Learn for iPhone
For those students that are at a school that utilized the Blackboard platform, this app is for you. It allows you to easily access your schools Blackboard account while you are on the go.
This app is free and has a very user friendly interface, definitely worth the download if you have the need.
8. Quick Graph
Who needs a TI-83, 84 or 89, when you have this app? Okay, okay, so maybe it doesn’t have all the features that the TI’s have, but this will let you do something that those won’t, graph in 3D!
9. Formulus Free – Formulas for Calculus
In college it seems that Math boils down to one constant, formulas. This free app allows you to keep track of the plethora of formulas that you are supposed to memorize. No longer do you have to put an asterisk next to all those formulas in your notebook, just plug them into this app for future reference.
10. Free Books
Free Books should really change their name to $1.99 Books, because that’s what it costs to download, but I digress. This is actually a pretty decent app considering you have access to over 20,000 classic books once you pony up the entry fee.
You will find many of the classics that you may have to read in your English Lit class, so this could be a big money saver for you if you don’t mind reading it off of your screen. If you aren’t crazy about reading it off of your screen, fear not, the app does also allow you the option of downloading it to an e-reader, or you can send it to yourself via email.
In conclusion, these apps could definitely make your student life an easier and more productive one. If you are interested in finding a college to use these apps at, swing by AnyCollege
Source: Mashable
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