Top 3 Android Apps for Students

Your trusty Android phone turns into the ultimate study tool with these Android Apps for students. Here are three of the most popular Android Apps to help your organize your student life, take notes and study better.

Class Buddy Pro is the number one student planner in terms of popularity. It helps you track of your course schedule and grades and has lots of extra features to make your life easy and organized. The interface is clear and intuitive. The main features are keeping track of course schedules and events like exams, assignments and class activities with timely reminders. It also keeps track of your scores and even allows you to set weights for your scores so that you have a ready reference of your course totals and your GPA. Class Buddy has a customizable home screen, task manager, support for syncing with Google Calendar and even an Expense Manager. The free version, Class Buddy Lite, has only the basic features like class schedules, attendance management and GPA calculation, but no assignment, exam or task management.

Flashcards are one of the best ways to learn and with android flashcard apps, you don’t have to make or lug around your own flashcards. AnyMemo Free has millions of flashcard decks in its database from anymemo.org, flashcardexchange, quizlet and studystack, covering almost every subject under the sun. What’s even better is that the application is free and open source. The interface is simple and no-frills and allows you to create, edit and view cards easily. The user can grade his performance on each card and AnyMemo will use an adaptive scheduling algorithm to schedule a review in future. You can also import databases into the application in a variety of formats. There are many Android flashcard apps with cooler, flashier interfaces, but AnyMemo stacks up with its rich database and ease of use.

The Evernote Android app is part of the Evernote suite of products that helps you take notes and manage them across devices. Save text notes, to-do lists, web pages, images, songs, scanned receipts and cards on the go with your android device and access them from any other computer or device anywhere. Evernote even employs OCR techniques to allow you to search images saved as notes! Other features are organizing notes as notebooks or tags and sharing notes with friends through Facebook, Twitter or email. The free version is quite comprehensive in itself while the premium version has a few additional features like allowing others to edit your cards or putting a lock on your app.