Posts published on September 11, 2015

Must Have iPhone Apps for College Students

by Melissa Burns

Student’s life is hectic and stressful at the best of times; and any tool that can help to ease the workload or save time is always welcome. Here we’ve collected a list of five iPhone apps that may prove indispensable in your studies.

1.     iThoughts Mind Mapping App

Mind mapping is an extremely useful technique that allows you to quickly and efficiently organize your thoughts, revise what you know about a subject, set goals, plan future projects and so on. iThoughts simply makes the entire thing digital, in quite a convenient and easy-to-grasp form. This tool will be of use both to those who already loves mind mapping and want to digitize their experience with them and to those who discover them for the first time.

2.     Filterra Photo Editor

College is a time to meet new people, visit new places, have an excellent time and, of course, make a lot of new photos – and afterwards, one needs an easy-to-use and powerful tool to edit them to one’s heart content. If you’ve often felt the need in a decent app of this kind but was scared off by their pricetags, you should visit Filterra photo editor website. A lot of different filters, cool-looking effects, FX, convenient interface and a lot of advanced option make it one of the best free apps of this kind in the world. In other words – if you love making photos but hate the way they turn out, you simply have to download photo editor by Filterra and whip them into shape.

3.     Mint

One of the hardest things to do as a student is to manage your own finances – for many people it is the first time they are completely financially independent and, what’s worse, they are surrounded by new experience and have to live in a new environment. Mint is a clean and simple app for keeping track of your personal finances – you add your account details and Mint will automatically add and categorize all transactions you make. You may plan ahead how much you want to spend, set reminders for bills and much more – and, appropriately enough, the entire thing is free.

4.     RefME

If you ever had to write an academic paper, you probably hate bibliographies with all your heart. RefME exists for the sole reason of helping you out in this respect – it is a handy app that automatically creates bibliography lists. In order to add the necessary quotation to your paper you simply have to scan the book’s barcode or type in its ISBN, and a correct reference will be created for it automatically.

5.     iStudiez Pro

This app was created specifically for those who have trouble keeping track of all their lectures and studies. It is a scheduler that prevents you from missing your classes. It doesn’t matter if you have a fixed or flexible timetable, iStudies Pro allows you to arrange everything in such a way that you will never mix anything up.

Do you have any other apps on your mind that make your life as a student easier? If so, feel free to mention them in comments!

Author’s bio:

Melissa Burns graduated from the faculty of Journalism of Iowa State University in 2008. Nowadays she  is an entrepreneur and independent journalist. Her sphere of interests includes startups, information technologies and how these ones may be implemented in the sphere of education. You may contact Melissa: burns.melissaa@gmail.com