APP'S FOR SCHOOL Note Taking Penultimate: Free app. Write out notes on your phone or tablet. Color options, picture inserts, and new features readily available. A perfect app that you can use to sketch out diagrams, record notes, and organize notebooks in a fluid manner. Pages: $9.99 Apple App. Easy to use for typing, formatting, editing, and organizing papers and documents. Different formats, such as landscape, research paper, essays, letters, resumes and newsletters. Simplistic customization and editing ability for easy to use. Although great, this app lacks the ability to grammar check. Quick Office: A free app. Do you have an ipad, iphone, Kindle, Samsung Galaxy or any other device that you would like to use to create PowerPoint's, Excel spreadsheets, or a word document without a computer or laptop? This app will allow you to create, or begin, documents anywhere! This app seamlessly connects to Google Drive and your Google account so you can complete your work at home. Cool Writer: $2.99 app. An easy to use to note taking app, with keyboard customization. Different keyboards include math, Greek alphabet, symbols, and sub scripted numbers. Useful for typing math and science notes. Ability to create and organize folders for each class. CaptureBoard: Free app. Take a picture of the blackboard instead of writing the notes down. Easy to use, and can be organized into notebooks. iannotate PDF: $1.99 - $10.99 app (price fluctuates). Edit documents in a PDF format by using either a stylist or keyboard. Organize documents into folders, access to google to import web pages as PDF's, easy linkage to printers, Dropbox, Google Drive and icloud.
Type on PDF: Free app. Type straight onto PDF files instead of writing things out. Easy for homework because it allows you to write on homework PDFs, especially if you have poor penmanship. Good Notes: $4.99 app. Write your notes with a stylist instead of typing them on the tablets screen. Organizes notes into different notebooks, able to insert pictures, edit PDFs, write in colors, and much more. Zoom options allow for easy writing on the lines of notebooks and PDF's. Capture Notes: $1.99 app. Organize notes into notebooks for specific classes. Options to record lectures, insert pictures, use a stylist or keyboard, set reminders, highlight the important information and much more. Math Solve: Free app. Scientific calculator with advanced graphing functions, geometric units, trigonometry functions, scientific notation, and tutorials on calculator use. Ability to store a value in the margin to make calculations easy. Math Ref: $1.99 app. Over 150 different math formulas ranging from algebra, finance, chemistry, physics, calculus, and many more. Explains math formulas in a comprehensive manor, and allows you to add your own notes. This app is useful on elaborating mathematical formulas. Units: Free app. Easy conversion from inches to miles, fahrenheit to kelvin, millimeters to gallons, ounces to pounds, and much more. Great help in any lab class.
Numbers: Sciences: ispartan: Planets: $9.99 Apple app. Similar to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, but on a mobile device. Create comprehensive graphs and charts, preprogrammed formats such as checklists, GPA calculator, personal finance, and probability, use hundreds of different programmed formulas, and organize documents into folders. icloud sync between devices, export into Dropbox, email, or Google Drive with the click of a button. MB Anatomy: Organs: $19.99 app. An organic chemistry molecule modeling kit. Create organic structures with the tip of your fingers. Capable of drawing any organic molecule, convert it into a ball and stick model, can show electron cloud densities, and torsional angles. Free app. A 3D guide to our solar system. Has charts displaying when consolations and planets are visible in the night sky, current location setup, and 3D guides to both the Earth and Moon orbits. $9.99 app. Virtual body labeled with the names of body parts. Different layers such as the skeleton, muscle groups, and nervous system. Quizzes available to study or practice for exams. $9.99 app. Virtual body labeled with the names of body parts. Different organs include the brain, heart, digestive system, liver, kidneys, etc. Quizzes available to study or practice for upcoming exams. Cell and Cell Structure: $2.99 app. Virtual cell with labeled organelles and their functions. Videos are also available to assist with studying, along with interactive quizzes to track your progress and prepare for exams.
Wolfram Alpha: $2.99 app. A great reference app for everything ranging from American History to Zoology. Similar to a google search option, with easily accessed data and statistics on thousands of topics. EMD PTE: Free app. The periodic table, which is useful for all science classes above 100 level. Provides information on molar mass, physical properties, and the history of the elements. Chemist: Free app. A chemistry app that simulates a chemistry lab fully equipped with chemicals, lab equipment, and the ability to speed up the time for reactions! Deals specifically with inorganic chemistry, and allows the users to see the number of mols, temperature, weight in grams, and volume. Earth Viewer: Free app. Shows earths evolution over time from the Precambrian to the Cenozoic. Videos show how the continents have moved over time, and useful charts and graphs explaining processes such as plate tectonics, the greenhouse effect, and the development of life over Art: the last 4.6 billion years. Art set: $0.99 app. A full interactive art set equipped with numerous color options and tools such as sponges, tissues, etc. Also includes colored pencils, oil paints, crayons, markers, pens, and pastels. idraw: $2.99 app. Hundreds of drawing tools, formatting options, and colors to create anything you like. Different papers, such as graph paper, yellow lined paper, and clear white. Able to import photos, create structural layouts, and clean up any image with an assortment of filters.
Organization: Google Drive: A free app. Creates a 15 GB cloud that can store photos, videos, documents, and lecture slides without taking up space on any of your devices. Information can be accessed wirelessly, and all information can be organized into customizable folders. All you need is a Google account! Calendar: Standard app with any smart device. Plan your day with this app. Add in your classes, test dates, homework time, work, appointments with your advisors, and even tutors. Never forget anything! You can set reminders, color code events, etc. Evernote: Free app. Easy to use to take notes by taking pictures of the board, set reminders for important tasks, make to do lists and check them off when completed, and easy to sync between all of your devices. Dropbox: Free app. Cloud storage between devices. Store power points, review sheets, research and other information to access between devices. Cloud storage is free up to 5GB, saves space on phones, computers, and tablets. Catch: Free app with account registration. Sync documents between different devices, such as phones and computers. Organize documents into folders and categories for easy use, and organization. Tutoring YouTube: Free app. YouTube is not just funny cat videos. YouTube can help with classes ranging from algebra and chemistry, how to correctly add citations to papers, lectures on history, and much more.
Khan Academy: itunes U: Other Free app. Extremely useful in explaining subjects such as algebra, biology, chemistry, economics, geometry, organic chemistry, world history, art history, and computer programming. Watch step by step videos on hundreds of topics to help explain confusing topics in your classes. Free app. Available only for ios devices. Provides numerous free to download lectures, ranging from African American Studies to Zoology. Great for students looking for extra help. Log me in: Photon: Free app. Remotely access your computer and laptop from your tablet. All functions are touch screen, and allows for easy file exchanges between devices. Has the ability to remote access your lap top when you are at school, even when your lap top is home. $4.99 app. Allows tablets to run flash programs through your smart phone or tablet. Perfect for viewing videos, PowerPoint slides, and can run many more programs which were once unavailable on mobile devices. Constitution for ipad: Keynote: Free app. Available only for ios devices. A comprehensive explanation of the US Constitution, with explanations, pictures, and much more. Useful for American History, Core 100, and political science courses. $9.99 Apple app. Develop flawless PowerPoint presentations on your mobile device. Attach videos, music, pictures, and links to websites. Over 30 different template options to suite any presentation need.
Blackboard: Free app. Do your professors use blackboard for your classes? This app lets you connect to your blackboard account so you can easily see all the content from your courses. You can download PowerPoint presentations, join in on discussions, view grades, and more! GRE Vocab: Free app with in app purchases. Are you getting ready to graduate and thinking about taking the GRE? This app has flash cards to help you study for the test. Rate the words on how well you know them to effect how often the word comes up. Made by Brainscape. Brainscape offers many other quiz apps that can help with other subjects such as chemistry, geography, psychology, and history. Flashcards: Free app. Create, use, and share flash cards for your classes. Great, and interactive study tools to help you you prepare for an exam in any class.