Top 5 apps for students

Smart content on smart devices

There are lots of apps that lets you access educational content or help with research. 

            

Since most college going students now have a smart device it is only natural that they use apps to make learning easy and effective. There are lots of apps that lets you access educational content or help with research. Here is a pick of five great apps.

My Class Schedule: Timetable
By Sebastian Mayer
Free: Android
Student life revolves around timetables. But now you don't have to pen it down in a notebook as apps like this let you store all information such as schedules, homework, time-table, exam dates, etc. Easy to use, the apps need you to feed in all the relevant information to keep reminding you about upcoming classes and exams. The time table is colour coded and easy to read. It also has the feature to automatically mute the phone during a class.

Dictionary.com
Free: iOS, Android, Windows Phone
When you get stuck at a word, all you need to do now is open this app and search. The app features English Dictionary and Thesaurus with over 2,000,000 definitions, synonyms & antonyms, daily content including Word of the Day, the hot word & slideshows, audio pronunciations, idioms & phrases, voice search and search history.

Wolfram Alpha
(by WOLFRAM ALPHA, LLC)
Android, iOS: ( Rs 164.24)
A must-have application for students; this app uses its vast collection of algorithms and data to compute answers and generate reports. The app covers a number of domains categorised in mathematics, statistics and data analysis, physics, chemistry, materials, engineering, astronomy, earth science, life science, transportation, etc. This is a complete computational knowledge engine that comes really handy with instant answers to the queries.

Dunno
(by SPACESTATION6 INC.)
iOS, Free
The power of the Internet has made it much easy to research away from the college library. Dunno takes research to a different level by looking up and compiling all possible resources available about a topic online. So there aere sections for web pages, blogs, Wikipedia, images, news, even tweets.

Trello
(by FOG CREEK SOFTWARE.)
Free: Android, iOS
This collaborative tool allows students to do group projects with ease. Students can systematically organise projects and delegate work while others can add inputs and comments. It also lets the students interact with their classmates and keep track of what each person is doing.