20 useful smartphones applications for students

Formerly “Wunderlist”, Microsoft to do you create lists of tasks to be accomplished. If you want it, you can also plan and share your lists with your friends. The application can be installed and synchronized on your smartphone, but also on your computer and/or tablet. There is no need to have a Microsoft account to register.

The 20 best free educational applications

With the advent of digital tools and technology, free educational applications abound, and whole courses can be found online. If the desire to learn a new language or to develop your skills in mathematics itchs you, it’s time or never ! Here is a list of 20 free educational purposes applications that anyone who is thirsty to learn should consult.

1. Edap

Edap is one of the best mobile learning management systems. The application adapts to today’s digital habits, and allows a more efficient micro learning for students, at any time and anywhere. EDAPP is an effective free educational application because it incorporates cutting -edge elements recognized by science:
– Gamification elements;
– Spacing rehearsal.

Learning while having fun, it is possible with Edap !

2. Duolingo

When it comes to free educational applications, Duolingo comes first. It offers 95 different language courses in 23 languages. This free application offers basic flashcard -type language courses so that you can better learn and retain information. This immensely popular free educational application has more than 300 million registered users worldwide.

3. Khan Academy

If you are curious to discover the world, but you don’t want to go back to school, then Khan Academy may be the free educational application you need. Khan offers more than 4000 lessons in all kinds of disciplines, including mathematics, art, history and economy. Their personalized learning dashboard allows you to see the progress you have made and know if you are close to your goals.

4. Grammarly

Compose brilliant trials, effortlessly, with the free online writing assistant from Grammarly, and go beyond a basic spelling verification to find the perfect tone for any project. Grammarly’s Keyboard application works as your personal assistant to correct each email, text and social message before sending it.

5. Cliffsnotes

It’s the university, condensed. Choose from the most popular literary titles of Cliffnotes, personalize your plan, listen to an audio preview and add bookmarks to remember more quickly. Interactive quizs and audio cramcasts make learning even easier.

6. Star Chart

Have you ever looked at the night sky and wanted to know what constellation you look at ? The Star Chart application can help you. Just point your phone to the starry sky, and the application will use a combination of GPS technology and 3D rendering to show you exactly what you are looking at. This is a practical method that allows learners to enter the real world, while giving them the tools necessary to understand what they are looking at.

7. SOLOLEARN

There is no doubt that coder will become more and more important, because our world depends more and more technology to stay connected. But learning a whole new coding language is intimidating and discouraging. Fortunately, Sololearn offers the largest collection of free learning code content for people of all levels, from the absolute beginner to pro. With new content posted daily, you will always have something to learn !

8. Easybib

Do not lose points because of a poorly written bibliographic quote. With Easybib, you can scan the barcode of a book with the camera of your phone, choose a quote style and instantly get a specific quote-approved by teachers and librarians.

9. Brainscape

Take advantage of the modern brainscape flashcard technology, based on cognitive scientific research for the most effective study methods. You can create your own cards or browse thousands of pre -established subjects and cards. With this free educational application, you can also follow your learning progress and collaborate with your peers.

10. Racera

With Racera, not only can you learn scraps of information on a ton of different subjects, but you can also pass a full diploma online if you wish ! The courses are given by world renowned teachers from the best universities in the world, and although some courses are paid, they have enough free content to take care of you and allow you to learn for a good time.

11. Ted

Sometimes the best way to learn is to learn from the best. This is exactly what Ted does. With more than 1,700 Ted Talks videos, you can learn about anything you want, presented by technology geniuses, business gurus, music legends and experts in their respective fields.

12. Photomath

Have you never wanted to have a photo equation and that someone shows you the steps to follow it ? This is essentially what Photomath does ! By showing the equation step by step, you can see where you were wrong or which formula you could have used to solve the equation!

13. The Great Races

Higher studies can be expensive. But if the idea of ​​registering for an additional diploma does not appeal to you, plan to turn to The Great Races. This free educational application offers conferences given by expert teachers who cover a wide range of subjects. The application allows you to download conferences or streaming courses, and you can even connect it to your Google Chromecast.

Learn university level lessons in mathematics, history, science, art and literature, all with your fingertips ! Although the application itself is free, you will have to pay for each course you want to follow. Try their free trial to see if it suits you.

14. Periodic Table

The world is made of chemicals. But it can be difficult to remember all these products, not to mention their properties ! Fortunately, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Periodic Table Application incorporates all kinds of content to help users learn chemistry. From podcasts to videos, this application will help you familiarize yourself with the elements that constitute the building blocks of our world.

15. Litcharts

Litcharts adopts a completely new approach to analyze and explain the literature. Litcharts presents a summary in the form of a flea list of each point of the plot of the book, accompanied by an analysis and a color code of the themes for each point. Each Litchart includes a key to color coded themes, which attributes a color specific to each theme. Find criticism, summaries, themes and quotes for hundreds of titles without any advertisement in the application.

16. Realcalc scientific calculator

Abandon the autonomous scientific calculator and perform all your calculations from your mobile device. Realcalc scientific calculator looks like and works as a real. And you can make screenshots of your calculations to refer to it quickly afterwards.

17. Flashcards

This free application is offered by Chegg, a manual rental company that you may already know if you are a university student. Flashcards+ allows you to easily create flashcards and add images, which makes the preparation of exams funny again. If you do not want to create yours, you can also browse thousands of cards already created. Once you have mastered a card, the application allows you to delete it easily so that you can focus on the areas that you really have to master.

18. Scribd

Learning can take many forms and be done through all kinds of different media. Scribd gives you access to a huge selection of audio books, magazines, news articles, scores and other published documents so that you can expand your knowledge in all kinds of areas.

19. Brain.FM

Brain.FM seeks to improve concentration, sleep habits, relaxation and meditative states thanks to its free iPhone applications for students. This free application offers great potential to improve the cognitive capacities of a person. It achieves its objectives thanks to the use of its patented functional music offered in its free educational applications for students.

20. Behance

Behance presents the new works of incredibly talented individuals in the fields of design, fashion, architecture, photography, graphic animation and in many other areas of work and passion. It is easy to spend hours on this site, where you can follow creators and expressionists of beautiful things that will not fail to stimulate your creative side. The site also offers options to connect to the communities of students and professionals associated with specific organizations and institutions.

20 useful smartphones applications for students

You are a student in secondary or superior student and you have a smartphone ? This article is for you ! Here is a small presentation of the best applications selected by the SIEP to properly approach this school year.

Apps to better organize your time

Microsoft to do-To-do & Task List
6 Wunderkinder GmbH
Free and available on iPhone, Android

Formerly “Wunderlist”, Microsoft to do you create lists of tasks to be accomplished. If you want it, you can also plan and share your lists with your friends. The application can be installed and synchronized on your smartphone, but also on your computer and/or tablet. There is no need to have a Microsoft account to register.

Google Agenda
Google Inc.
Free and available when creating a Google account
The Google application to manage your agenda, plan and share your events, program reminders (notifications, emails, calendars, etc.). Its use must be linked to a Google account.

Timid
Gabriel Ittner
Free and available only on Android

You do not have a google account or do not prefer to use Google Agenda ? The Timatable application is then a perfect alternative. This tool also gives access to an agenda wherever you are and allows you to record your schedule, your examination hours, your homework lists as well as all things to do in your week.

Any.Do task list
Any.DO
Free and available on iPhone, Android.
Slide, move, sweep tasks with your finger to organize your calendar or mark the tasks as finished. You want to erase a task ? Then shake your smartphone ! With this application, organizing your time becomes child’s play … it’s free, simple and funny.

Group work apps

Trello
Free and available on iPhone, Android.
Fog Creek Software
Trello is a collective organization application that allows you to create tables for each task to be accomplished. Your classmates or work pair can notify in common the progress of tasks, make comments, publish photos and videos on these paintings.

Google Drive
Free and available when creating a Google account
Google Inc.
Google Drive allows you to share different types of files (written documents, calculation sheets, presentations, etc.) with your work pairs and all your class if necessary. These documents are stored online and can be instantly changed by people to whom you will have given an authorization.

Apps to save your ideas or the contents of your choice

Evernote
Free and available on iPhone, Android.
Evernote Corporation
You are looking for a way to classify and organize all the daily information that seems important to you ? Try Evernote ! This application is classified in the top 10 applications to have according to the New York Times.

Google Keep
Free and available when creating a Google account
Google Inc.

Google offers a service similar to that of Evernote: Google Keep. This portable organization tool is also used to note and record all your ideas.

WPS Office + PDF
Free and available on iPhone, Android

Kingsoft Office Software Corporation Limited Professional

WPS Office allows you to read, create and share any type of file such as PDF, TXT, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
Thanks to this application, the documents are displayed and changed as on your PC/Mac.

Apps to learn languages

Call
Call
Free and available on iPhone, Android.
Memrise uses mnemonic means in order to accelerate language learning speed. This learning system boosts your brain to make it learn 44 words/hour ! Example sentences, audio, video … All courses are completely free.

6000 words
Fun Easy Learn
Free and available on iPhone, Android.
FUNEASYLEARN offers an original and fun solution to learn Dutch (among other languages) and more particularly thousands of vocabulary words (6000 words).

Wallangues

Free for Walloons and available on iPhone, Android.

Wallangues is a Walloon initiative allowing Walloons to learn French, Dutch and German for free. Many exercises and courses are available on the application.

Discover more applications to learn languages ​​in our article: Learn online languages ​​during confinement

Scientific apps

Assistant chemistry
0.72 € and available only on Android.
AmanPreet s mukker

You have chemistry lessons and must often use your periodic table ? Then try the Chemistry Assistant application ! The periodic table will now hold in your pocket while being easy to use.

Realcalc Scientific Calculator
Free and available only on Android
Quartic software
The perfect application for matheux which tends to forget their scientific calculator during math. This mobile scientific calculator can therefore do the trick in the event of forgetting or loss.

Mathematical formulas
Free and available only on Android
anjokes
The application formulas mathematics is a structured and ergonomic database containing all the main formulas of calculation, algebra, analysis, geometry, trigonometry, analytical geometry and logic.

Apps to work on your memory

PEAK – Brain training
Peaklabs
Free and available on iPhone, Android.
With several million members around the world, Peak is a personalized training program to improve your brain capacities in memory, attention, creativity, language, reasoning and mental agility. Peak was created by experts from games and neurosciences and offers more than 22 games designed to be both fun and stimulating.

Quizlet
Free and available on iPhone, Android.

Quizlet is an application allowing you to memorize your courses and your vocabulary lists. The application allows you to create your own lists, which will be automatically adapted in flashcards, quiz or holes. You can also share your lists with your class ! Quizlet is also accessible on the computer.

Optimizing your student life (and budget)

Student@work
Free and available here
Myocialsecurity
Student@work is an online application that allows you to check the number of hours of student job that you can still preserve. Indeed, per calendar year, the State gives 475 hours of work to each student. If you exceed these 475 hours, the social contributions to be paid will then be higher.

Trout
On iPhone and Android
You have joint spending with your roommates ? You would like to be able to manage your budget more easily and have an idea of ​​what you spend every day ? In Tricout, you can encode each of your expenses and know exactly who owes you money.

To good to go
On iPhone and Android
To save money while fighting waste, you can download the Too Good To Go app ! You can recover the unsold traders near you (restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets …), all at low prices !

• Free maintenance and without meeting at SIEP

You desire discuss your study project or Your professional project with an expert in the field ? Do not hesitate to come to the SIEP for an information or guidance interview

Update October 2016