10 Best Apps for Students in 2021

 

How many times have your parents, grandparents, and teachers commented about how smartphones can be a terrible distraction. Read More. gravtechnology

And if we're being honest with them, they aren't entirely wrong. But in the modern world, there's (almost) an app for everything, making it easier, cheaper and more fun to be a student in the 21st Century.

Whether you want help with finding the best note-taking apps for students, keeping focus during study sessions, or even finding discounts to help keep you under budget each month, we've got a comprehensive list of apps for your smartphones, tablets and laptops to help you navigate through your student years

 Look below at our list of the ten best student apps for 2022 – and turn your phone into the ultimate study buddy.

1.RefME

Best for Referencing

Hate having to reference your essays and other research work? Join the club.

Referencing can be a tedious process, especially if you lose track of what books and resources you've used along the way. Fortunately, RefME has developed a clever app that makes finding and citing resources much more efficient, saving you time (and endless headaches).

For new students, the app has thousands of open educational resources, which can be a great place to start your academic reading and prompt further research. This saves hours spent scrolling through Google, trying to find relevant papers for your studies.

But its main highlight is the ability to automate citations, reference lists, and bibliographies with ease – again giving you plenty of extra time to spend improving your work. How? Scan the barcodes of all the books and journals you're using, and RefME will automatically generate the citations within seconds

Even better, the app can export references into hundreds of different styles, including the most commonly used:

APA

MLA

Harvard

Chicago

CSR

So you don't need to worry about ensuring your references are unified.

2. Evernote

Best for Note-taking, task management

Looking for an app that helps you create, compile and organize notes while also making sure you time manage all your other tasks? Evernote truly is an all-rounder and one of the best apps for students in 2021.

It's also considered one of the best note-taking apps for students; these can be created from text, drawings, photographs, online web content, and even audio footage. Once you've made them, your notes will be stored in electronic notebooks that can be annotated, tagged with labels, edited, searched, have attachments linked to them, and even exported for you to use on other devices.

With an intuitive task management system, it's easy to assign tasks within your notes and give them due dates, flags and reminders – so none of your academic work falls through the cracks. You can even connect your Google Calendar to the app, so you never miss a class or essential appointment!

Available on all major operating systems, the base app is free to use with monthly usage limits and offers paid plans for those who wish to expand their usage.

3. Office Lens

Best for Note-taking

How many times have you flipped through your notebooks from school or university only to realize you can't read your scruffy handwriting? Gone are the days of having to scribble down messy notes in class with the arrival of Office Lens from Microsoft Windows.

Office Lens has been specifically designed as an app for students, helping to make note-taking a little bit easier. With the ability to take pictures of documents, whiteboards, blackboards, journals, and other printed copies, it converts them into editable, shareable text that you can doodle on and share with others.

Bad lighting? The app also has an auto feature that removes glare and shadows from your images and allows you to read photos taken from a wrong angle.

Available on iOS, Android, and other major operating systems, Open Lens is widely accessible, easy to use, and saves so much time on writing notes.

4. motion

Best for Focus time

For university students, much of their study time will be spent on their laptops. Most often, this time is spent online, browsing academic websites and taking notes. Or, many students accidentally spend browsing our social media networks.

We know that notifications release dopamine – after all, their very design was backed by the intention to distract and draw you into their sites. So it's no wonder that so many of us often struggle to get through a study session without having checked our notification tabs at least once.

Motion is a free web browser extension that will block distracting sites, including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, removing the temptation to click on them when your time should be better spent elsewhere. It's customizable, allowing you to block certain pages on set times and days or even certain types of websites, such as social media networks or shopping sites. Read More. digitalfitnessworld