10 functional apps every student should have

Click, swipe, pinch. Nowadays, it’s rare to hear the pages of textbooks crunch.

Innovative gadgets pop up daily and the younger generation can’t seem to get enough of technology because it makes life a lot more convenient.

Students have come to rely on apps to function and wade through life, especially in school.

Here are 10 of such apps that keep students on top of their game.

Evernote

Evernote has been one of the most popular note-taking apps for a while now.

With the simple, user-friendly interface, students can take notes, make to-do lists, set reminders, attach files, create agendas and access everything through any device.

Dictionary.com

It’s quite obvious why this app makes the list. Regardless of whether you tilt more towards the sciences or the arts, a vast vocabulary is essential, not only in school when writing essays but also in everyday communication and speech.

Dropbox

You no longer need to fret about losing your essays, reports, and assignments.

With Dropbox, you have a chance to upload different files (documents, photos, videos) in the cloud and get them online whenever you need, even if you forget your phone at home.

Easybib

Writing a research paper is one of the greatest struggles as a student but writing the bibliography is worse. Time consuming and stressful.

Easybib helps you format your list of references in more than 7,000 citation styles , including the most common APA and MLA formats.

My Study Life

Like to stay organised? My Student Life will keep all your school affairs in order.

Manage your classes with weekly and daily timetables, keep track of tasks and exams in the cloud and receive notifications to keep you up to date with exam schedules and classes.

Feedly

It’s pretty difficult to juggle school and still stay up to date with everything going on in the world.

Feedly is one of the best RSS aggregators. It lets you consolidate news you find interesting into one feed.

Microsoft Office Mobile

Start, edit, or finish assignments even when you don’t have your laptop handy.

This app lets you access, edit and share all your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents on Android and iOS devices.

Sleep Time

Do you often feel like a zombie after staying up all night studying?

The importance of sleep to your health cannot be emphasised enough.

Using sleep science research, Sleep Time analyses your sleep stages and wakes you during your lightest sleep phase, giving you a night of peaceful rest.

The app analyses how a stressful day or late-night caffeine affects your sleep cycle, and tracks your sleep quality over time and presents the data to you in graphs, which can then be exported to Excel.

Tiny Scanner

Turn your phone into a scanner and scan documents into high-quality PDFs.

This 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.

It can even make your handwritten notes much more eligible.

Mathway

We never really escape math, do we?

Well, now you have help. This app will guide you step-by-step while you search for algebra, geometry, or any other math solution.