What are the best apps for college students?

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I'm moving out and living in a flat for college in a few months. What are the best apps for students from recipes to shopping to living in general.

Amrith Shanbhag · Accepted Answer

Not exactly an app, but a really supportive and super-friendly community of student makers from around the world backed by developers and entrepreneurs who help us out when needed.
If you're into making products, check it out :)
P.S: I'm the guy behind this community 🙈 ✌️

Pavlo Pedenko · Answer

Disclaimer: I work as a PM in Setapp so my opinion might be biased. 

Setapp is a single subscription for 83 amazing Mac apps with a total value of $2500+ (and it keeps growing).

Student receives an access to Findings (which is an amazing app to conduct research and experiments with utmost precision), Ulysses (one of the best writing apps so far), Studies (helps to keep all your notes for every subject in one place), Xmind (fancy mind mapping tool) and a loooot more.

Free trial is available.

Paraj Mathur · Answer

Invaluable when writing anything from essays to emails to professional resumes

Vamshi Vangapally · Answer

This equips a students to bootstrap their development project from scratch till production with all the tools necessary

Roxana Eftene · Answer

Perfect for college assignments that require a slide presentation. Also free for edu.

Tejas Kinger · Answer

As students, one would most often face difficulties when it comes to splitting bills and getting paid back. Splitwise is possibly the best way to solve that.

Hugo Fauquenoi · Answer

Awesome to get organized day in, day out, and stay on top of the many shared projects with other students

Joshua Dance · Answer

Dating is fun. Tinder gets you more dates.

Nachum Kligman · Answer

In 10 minutes Students can create a social booking page where they can offer services such as Tutoring, Painting Homes, Landscaping or any of hundreds of other services they want to do to make some extra cash. Disclaimer, I am a co-founder :)

Pavel Sakhatskiy · Answer

Since, most of the academic materials are PDFs, a powerful PDF editor is a must have app for any student. And PDF Expert is the best one.

David Adamu · Answer

As a student, you may want to breakdown lectures into simpler, snackable content while you study. Bear helps you do that.

Jeff · Answer

Always helps to have your bank account handy. Venmo helps avoid those awkward moments when you and a new friend have to split the cost of pizza.

Udara Jay · Answer

Students use Alcamy to organize research and quickly grasp new topics of knowledge.

Josh Beitler · Answer

As a student you are always needing to communicate with groups - roommates, classmates, team projects, and more. GroupMe is a great way to handle cross-platform group messages for those purposes.

Lori Kingshott · Answer

A boost for vocabulary, plus stuff you should know in Science and more, with fun Easter Eggs

Dustin Knopoff · Answer

Great discount. Has everything.

Kristin Hugo · Answer

A fun game that's simple to use. Learn about topics like science and art.

Julian Rothkamp · Answer

If you use Git as part of your studies, the Git client Tower (Mac and Windows) is free for students.

Daniel Liang · Answer

Qnect allows students per uni to browse activities hosted by society & club memberships, events, merchandise. On the same app it allows students to pay in person or online & manage their purchases.

(e.g Law Society Ball, Business Camp, Engineering Party, Taekwondo Dinner)

Upon purchase, they can see which of their friends have also bought a ticket to a party, ball camp or networking event hosted by a society.

For societies and committes, it allows them to manage the inventory of, and collect payments for memberships, event tickets, merchandise both online and in-person across multiple devices simultaneously.

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It’s social features allow real-time chatting for societies and attendees going to events – with private and public chatrooms for events to break down social barriers for group members and mutual friends. Through social payments and communication, it allows students to meet other students in their societies through RSVP’ing and buying tickets to events held on the platform.

It’s social features allow real-time chatting for societies and attendees going to events – with private and public chatrooms for events to break down social barriers for group members and mutual friends.

Recent update: https://www.techinasia.com/talk/how-app-dominated-hong-kong-universities-1-month

It was described “If online ticketing and a social network had a baby” by BuzzFeed.

Derek J. Sine · Answer

These guys are on a tear. Probably see some exclusive offers for college students from blue chips in the Pocket Points marketplace real soon...

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Totally recommend the Github Student package too. I find it very helpful.

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Amazon Prime discount in the US is great. I wish this was available in India too.

Jerome Vobmann · Answer

I use OneNote for ages, and it became my bible. I gather every information I read and picked them up when I need it. 
It is a wonderful tool to note down as well (it combine picture and text)

Anna Phon · Answer

Great for help with my English

Mitchell Abdullah · Answer

Books are over priced especially when purchasing textbooks at the school bookstore. Textsurf finds cheaper copies by searching multiple online retailers. The tool even finds international copies which are similar versions but imported so they're not locked into US pricing.

Christopher Leach · Answer

I'm a student and this got me into computer science. Gave me tools I could not afford otherwise.

Olivia Lin · Answer

Students take a photo of a homework question and can get help in all subjects. Useful for college freshmen if they need a refresher on math/science topics that carry over from high school. 

P.S. I work at Socratic and wish I had this when I was in high school, so I may be biased :P

Maxim Ananov · Answer

Something to keep you focused while working on your paper or doing research on a Mac

Javi · Answer

Found something important in that academic journal you're reading? Highlight it

Ben Kudria · Answer

Earn college scholarships by entering your grades and other high-school achievements!

Christopher Hannah · Answer

Although I developed this app, it was for my own use at university. And it served me well when I wanted to quickly get a bit of information, or do some initial research before I went deeper into a topic.

Jane Stone · Answer

I recommend looking into apps that mainly deal with increasing productivity, reducing stress and making things easier for the student. In my opinion, Creativity 365 (a suite of five apps by Kdan Mobile) is a good solution that will improve its user's life in plenty of ways. The apps are quite different and work in unison to help students with both creative projects that deal with animation and video-editing, or using an app called NoteLedge that's great for taking notes at lectures for self-study, journaling and keeping a schedule. The other two apps are meant for document digitization (Pocket Scanner) and web or PDF highlighting/annotation (Markup). I beleive all five apps are quite useful in a college environment - for staying on track with studying and projects, creating and editing animation and video, and keeping your documents organized, highlighted and annotated.

Vikrant Singh · Answer

This app will you to Save, Borrow or Invest money within your trusted network( friends, family, etch.). It is based upon an age-old concept of chit fund.

Ibbe Raja · Answer

Easy to use and has plenty of novice dishes that look pro

Cindy Burton · Answer

The safest & fastest academic pain-relieving service. Reliable essay writing help

Fanny Berrington · Answer

Great tool! Especially when you need to control any kind of news (and be in step with the times). Every time something interesting appears here.

Braxton – seeking design opportunities🎓 · Answer

I find this to be the easiest and most user friendly way to keep track of house expenses and other bills. You can tell who owes you and add payments very easily

St3ve · Answer

Great product!

St3ve · Answer

Great for all sorts of things!

Alex Weber · Answer

Amazing tool that enables you to

- create your study notebooks, where you can input your files, texts like course summary, code, images, links, questions, definitions, LaTex math, etc.
- assign labels to the different elements to make searching for things simpler and easier,
- generate study cards from the notes you have input via filters and labels to help you quiz yourself on what you've learned.

I would definitely advise having a look at it. I wish it came out earlier when I was still at school.

Tristan Isham · Answer

Perfect for many levels of math and always expanding! I've been using it for years!

Tristan Isham · Answer

Perfect for many levels of math and always expanding! I've been using it for years!

Anna Gan · Answer

Great app for organizing info, preparing for classes, making plans etc.

Keyul · Answer

Collection of free tutorials can be useful to any student who wants to learn different programming language or development tool during college.

Jared Hsu ✏️ · Answer

A nifty little app that allows you to learn about random articles on wikipedia, all while having fun and killing time.

Frank Feustel · Answer

If you want to take notes for your lectures try Shelly. If allows you to directly add your notes to your timetable, once connected with your Google or Outlook class schedule. Perfect!

Susan Fellenz · Answer

PDF expert is the best app for note taking for any and all students.

Pavel · Answer

TimeBit helps to focus on current and distract less. It`s a combination of timer & to-do list & routine builder made to keep focus on what`s really matters.

bazingagag · Answer

Mobile security is more and more important nowadays, that’s why I think no matter who you are, what you do. You will need an app to protect your phone!

I am using this app called ‘AppLock’, which is amazing because it can lock all of my apps, images even videos. This app is always on my list when it comes to app recommendation.

The one thing that I like the most about this app is that it can take photos of the person who’s trying to unlock your phone! This feature is really funny because I always got the intruder selfie notification from my kids. They are trying really hard to unlock my phone for video games.

If you are a cautious people, you really do need one of this app.

Marc Perel · Answer

When you're studying it's likely that you have 100s of browser tabs and 10s of apps open. Taking notes is a pain, but tabbing around is even worse. Thought Train helps you solved that burden by keeping your short notes accessible at all times.

Zoe Cheung · Answer

grain texture and light leak effects can make your photos very nice, turning boring photos into distinctive;  you will love it.
molycam is on appstore, if you want android version, search polycam on producthunt or google play.

Olivia Stafford · Answer

I used this suite (Creativity365) when I was in college . Even though I used all five apps quite often, there were a couple that I used basically every day - NoteLedge (for taking notes) and Pocket Scanner for digitizing documents. Both apps worked very well and helped me stay organized and productive. Suggest checking this software out to all college students out there.

John Ababseh · Answer

As a student we are constantly forgetting things, set a reminder in Wunderlist to ensure our responsibilities are taken care of and check box done the reminder once completed.

Vladimír Seman · Answer

Wonderful tool for mind maps.

Lisa Dziuba · Answer

For managing your time :)

Andre Nunes Pedro · Answer

All the tools needed for collaboration in one place.

Susan Fellenz · Answer

Love this class tracking app, keeps you organized and tracks your grades.

Patrick · Answer

Most underrated productivity hack for students in class / in the library. This app motivates you to not use your phone and keeps you focused 👌🏻

Daniel G. · Answer

Enrolled students & education professionals are eligible for a 50% discount on Todoist. You can apply through todoist.com/education

John Oss · Answer

Notion handles almost all aspects of my university life in a single spot.

I can track my finances, create reminders for assignment due dates, write beautiful inline LaTeX equations, and format it all perfectly from my laptop or my phone. Additionally their paid plan is free for students, making it possibly the best life organizer out there today.

Dian Hard · Answer

There are billions of them. I like using apps like Anki and Memrise to remember things. I was told that there are brilliant apps for writing, but I don’t like it. Just not interested in writing. And I don’t think that it is bad. Just not my area. If I need to write something, I would use writing resource. It is what we need them for. Here https://paper-writing-service.reviews/essayswriting-org-review/ you can find an excellent tool that can help you to choose the right service.

Simon Benfeldt Jørgensen · Answer

Makes you sleep in 5 minutes. The Sleep Story app is a collection of ultra-relaxing sleep inducing stories, short stories, fairytales and meditations designed to beat insomnia and help you fall asleep quickly every single night.

Jitesh Dugar · Answer

Learning does not feel like learning. It feels like playing a game while building knowledge. Lessons are interactive and supported with good real-life examples at the end of the lesson.

Mark O'Nolan · Answer

Nice choice!

Jonathan Mathews · Answer

Same.

Rajat Vaghani · Answer

Disclaimer: I made it 🙌🏻

College students must focus on getting their profile ready for the future - placements and jobs. Hashboard is THE perfect tool for them! It helps manage your CV, track your job applications and lots more. 😁

Pinion App · Answer

‘Pinion is a free social media app that allows users to post and respond to any imaginable topic by simply “filling in a blank”.

James Campbell · Answer

It's a great way of saving costs on printing, instead of having to pay for printing out everything you can print for free in exchange for a small advert at the bottom of your page. Which is handy for revision notes.

When you are ready to hand an assignment in it's then easy to switch to the paid option :)

Steve Gibson · Answer

Microsoft have always offered Awesome value for students, and there is simply NO better productivity suite for complex and detailed tasks like university projects, data analysis and presentations. - it's an expectation for graduates to be able to use office in almost all industries.

Bharani · Answer

Useful for saving articles/web pages for later reference. I made this tool so I am a bit partial, but a lot of users tell me that they use it for research and sharing articles with colleagues and team mates.

Joshua Dance · Answer

Venmo became one of the most useful apps in college. People never have cash, Venmo saves the day.

deepfocusio · Answer

Deepfocus.io helps you be more productive while studying with ambient sounds and music. It also has a bunch of utility tools like notepads, timers, sleep calculators, etc.

Dustin Knopoff · Answer

You need this...Track assignments, GPA over a semester, schedule, etc. and etc.

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Easily split bills with friends on the go. Available as a web app too.

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Lets you save your research in special folders, publish your research online, share tens of links, with your own comments with other students.

VideoPin.Me · Answer

We spend so much of our time trying to recall what we learnt in a class. Is there a way to increase your recall and retention of material?
VideoPin.me allows you to make notes at specific points in the video, providing fast access to what is relevant to you. Information is structured in a way that helps you learn and simplify your video content.
We learn by seeing, doing and hearing and via micro-learning, videopin.me helps you become a better student.

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This is probably the easiest and user friendly TODO app I have ever used. Must have one!

Maria Romanza✨ · Answer

Dude! this is the best student package ever! I learnt all my developer skills from scratch with this

Mudit Thareja · Answer

this is amazing!!

Peter Allport · Answer

NoteBear allows students to buy and sell notes or tutoring. It's a really popular way to make some pocket money and collaborate with each other.

Maria Romanza✨ · Answer

simply the best app for my college schedule, manage projects and hw assignments. Theres mac app, win app, android app and iphone app. I love it

Ramon · Answer

Beautiful All-in-one note taking app

Aireka Harvell · Answer

Nodat is the quickest way to find local places around your new town. Helps you know where the best and safest places are.

Bob Girolamo · Answer

All of your research ( and the source) integrated with Google Docs/Sheets & Microsoft Word

MacUpdate Editorial Team · Answer

We included TextExpander in our attempt to collect a number of the best "Back to School" apps together in our Goodbye Summer bundle: https://www.macupdate.com/bundle/goodbye-summer-bundle

MacUpdate Editorial Team · Answer

Although it's designed for freelancers and billing time, we think it offers good insight into computing habits. It's another one we put in our "Back to School" bundle: https://www.macupdate.com/bundle/goodbye-summer-bundle

Terrence Wells · Answer

For auditory learners, Sow Study Aid is a great way to study your Quizlet flashcards with Google Home as your study partner.

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Its great for curating research on any school project, and having it instantly accessible when you need it.

You can also share your research, so anyone else interested in your topics can benefit.  It will promote you as a thought leader, than can help you with your job search later.

Mekis Dániel · Answer

Collect inspirations

Mostafa Ashour · Answer

Founder here! With Boximize, you can organize your data in an unlimited number of ways.

Tristan Isham · Answer

Perfect for many levels of math and always expanding! I've been using it for years!