大学(College)已经够难了，所以欢迎任何额外的帮助。幸运的是，后智能手机一代的学生有许多应用程序可以帮助他们避免不知所措。我们将它们归结为对大学生最有用的应用程序，以涵盖您大学生活的各个方面。
特征(Features)
- 简单直观的设计(Simple and intuitive design)
- 可以管理几乎任何流程或项目(Can manage almost any process or project)
- 团队协作功能(Team collaboration features)
- （付费层免费）((Free With Paid Tiers))
Trello已成为小型企业、远程团队和自由职业者的流行应用程序。这是一个大大简化的项目管理应用程序，它使用排列在“板上”的列和卡片。每张卡片都可以代表您喜欢的任何内容，例如项目中的任务或里程碑。
Trello还可以轻松管理小组任务，因为您可以将每个卡片或列分配给团队成员。您可以在每张卡片中链接附件、创建清单、设置截止日期等。Trello是一个生产力增压器，你可能也会在毕业后很长时间内使用它。
特征(Features)
- 修改到 AP 级别。(Revise up to AP level.)
- 多个主题，带有练习和反馈(Multiple topics, with exercises and feedback)
可汗学院(Khan Academy)是一款主要针对大学预科课程的学习应用程序，为什么它会出现在大学生应用程序列表中？首先(First)，可汗学院(Khan Academy)提供了一些大学水平的材料来帮助高中生为他们的大学之旅做准备。
然而，我们推荐可汗学院(Khan Academy)为那些需要复习他们可能已经忘记的基础语言和数学技能的大学生。大学水平的工作假设你已经掌握了你在高中学到的一切，但我们大多数人在我们开始上大学的时候已经忘记了很多！
最重要的是，可汗学院(Khan Academy)拥有出色的课程映射功能，因此您可以简单地针对您有点生疏的区域！该应用程序在 iPad 或其他大型平板电脑上的体验更好；但是，网站本身也很棒。我们建议您在有几分钟时间修改的时候保留手机体验。
特征(Features)
- 智能有效的语言学习设计(Smart and effective language learning design)
- 广告过多，但提供付费无广告订阅(Ads are excessive, but paid ad-free subscriptions are available)
这个特别适用于学习语言的大学生，但任何人都可以通过额外的一两种语言来做到这一点。如果您注册的学位包括西班牙语、法语、德语、日语或任何其他主要的商业和学术界语言，DuoLingo适合您。
该应用程序可以帮助您学习和练习语法，同时还可以增加您的词汇量。语言课程以直观、游戏化的方式进行布局，它会跟踪您对某些事物的记忆可能会如何消退，让您在忘记之前练习它们。DuoLingo还会根据您在给定语言中最不擅长的事情创建练习，因此您始终在增强语言掌握能力。
使用这个应用程序作为你大学语言学习的伴侣是获得 A 并变得流利的好方法！
特征(Features)
- 多平台、多媒体笔记(Multi-platform, multimedia note-taking)
- 免费层有点限制(The free tier is a little too limiting)
Evernote很可能是当今最好的笔记和思维导图应用程序，并且多年来一直在不断发展壮大。您可以使用移动设备做笔记，包括为黑板拍照和附上语音笔记。它全部同步到您的云帐户，您可以在其中以多种不同的方式对其进行组织。
Evernote已在其应用程序和平台中内置了一些功能，从而减少了使用多个应用程序的必要性。例如，Evernote内置了文档扫描仪功能，因此您可以从照片中进行扫描，并立即使用您需要稍后查找的所有元数据对其进行标记。
Evernote还有一个网络剪辑器可以快速收集研究信息，它可以让你搜索笔记中的手写内容。它的功能比我们在这里列出的要多，但只要说你会发现几乎所有你需要的笔记功能就足够了。唯一的缺点是免费计划有些有限，所以我们建议注册个人(Personal)计划。
特征(Features)
- 免费版的强大基本功能(Great basic features in the free version)
- 为想要升级游戏的付费用户提供复杂的写作帮助(Sophisticated writing help for paying users who want to up their game)
大学生(College)写了很多文章，你总是会被评判（如果注意到，总是评分）你的语言使用质量。如果该语言是英语(English)，那么Grammarly是必不可少的工具。它集成到Microsoft Word和Google Docs等应用程序中，让您实时查看错误所在以及如何修复它们。Grammarly还提供适用于Android和 iOS 的键盘，以便您可以检查您在这些设备上键入的任何内容是否存在令人尴尬的错误。
Grammarly的免费版本足以处理最明显的错误。不过，如果您有付费级别的预算，那还是值得的，因为它提供了与您的写作流利度、清晰度和语气相关的更复杂的建议。
6. Mendeley仅适用于 Web 和桌面(Web and Desktop Only)
特征(Features)
- 可选订阅免费(Free With Optional Subscription)
- 当今最好的参考文献管理和引用工具(The best reference management and citation tool out today)
- 很棒的免费功能，付费功能适合专业学者在其雇主的标签上(Great free features, with paid features suited to professional academics on their employer’s tab)
Mendeley是收集研究材料和管理学术论文参考文献的最佳应用程序。无论您的大学或学科需要何种参考风格，它都可以消除参考的所有痛苦。
您还可以存储和云同步研究论文、突出重要段落以及与他人协作。最后，当您点击一个按钮，您的完整格式的参考列表出现在论文末尾时，您会松一口气，并将节省下来的时间用于获得一些急需的睡眠。
7.适用于Android和iOS的(iOS)Google 文档(Google Docs)、表格(Sheets)和幻灯片(Slides)（免费）
特征(Features)
- 惊人的协作工具(Amazing collaboration tools)
- 单个应用程序非常精简和基本(Individual apps are very streamlined and basic)
Google提供了一整套基于云的工具，包括文字处理器、电子表格应用程序和演示软件。虽然与Microsoft Office(Microsoft Office)或Mac计算机上的(Mac)Apple同类产品相比，它们的功能并不丰富，但您可以在任何配备现代浏览器的设备上使用它们。
更好的是，这些云应用程序可确保您不会丢失文档，并且您可以轻松地与其他学生或讲师协作。Web 应用程序和移动应用程序都允许离线使用。
特征(Features)
- 15GB 的免费存储空间，可选升级(15GB of free storage with optional upgrades)
- 与 Google Office 套件完美集成(Excellent integration with the Google Office Suite)
我们刚刚强调的Google应用程序几乎完全依赖Google Drive来运行，但即使您不使用Google Suite ， Google Drive作为其独立应用程序也值得强调。Google Drive主要是一款云存储应用，只需注册即可获得大约 15GB 的免费存储空间。这比DropBox等竞争对手有更多的可用空间。
如果您已经拥有Gmail帐户，则您已经拥有Google Drive。除了存储您的本地Google套件文件外，您还可以上传您喜欢的任何其他类型的文件，然后根据需要访问或共享它。Google Drive应用程序还具有内置的文档扫描仪功能，这是快速捕获笔记或图书馆中书籍页面的好方法。
9. Chegg Study 应用程序(Chegg Study App)，带有适用于Android和iOS的(iOS)作业帮助(Homework Help)
特征(Features)
- 为教科书节省大量资金(Substantial financial savings for textbooks)
- 丰富的有效作业和学习帮助(A wealth of effective homework and study help)
- Starting at $15 a month
教科书是学习中最昂贵的部分之一，当你不得不在吃或买教科书之间做出选择时，你可能不会饿。许多学生在学习成绩方面遇到困难，因为他们无法获得必读的内容。
Chegg极大地降低了教科书的成本。您不能租用教科书的数字副本，只需支付指定文本的部分费用。当您只需要阅读其内容的一小部分时，它比为教科书支付数百美元要好！
Chegg还提供家庭作业帮助、考试准备和许多其他学习帮助功能。如果Chegg拥有您需要的教科书，那么它就是您武器库中必不可少的应用程序。
特征(Features)
- 练习几乎所有科目的完美方式(The perfect way to practice almost any subject)
- 广告确实占用了免费用户的学习时间(Ads do eat into study time for free users)
Quizlet是一种流行的抽认卡工具，您可以使用它来练习和学习各种科目。这包括关于语言、生物、化学、社会研究等的抽认卡测验。这是一个免费的应用程序，但有广告支持。通过升级到Quizlet Plus订阅，您可以获得无广告的体验，通过最大限度地延长学习时间而不会分心，从而物有所值。
特征(Features)
- 以低廉或免费的费用转移资金的安全简便的方法(A safe and easy way to move money around with low or no fees)
- 每个人都在使用 Venmo，所以很容易找到参与的商店和朋友(Everyone is using Venmo, so finding participating stores and friends is easy)
Venmo可能不需要介绍，但以防万一你在岛上被抛弃了几年（顺便说一句，欢迎回来），Venmo是一个支付共享应用程序，可以轻松地向朋友和家人汇款。您还可以使用它在店内的许多零售商处付款。因此，这是父母立即向学生汇款或学生分摊账单的绝佳方式。
12. Wolfram|Alpha for Android和iOS
特征(Features)
- 它比你聪明(It’s smarter than you)
- 它比你知道的多(It knows more than you)
- 它是来帮忙的(It’s here to help)
- 专业版订阅的特殊学生价格(Special Student Pricing)免费(Free with Special Student Pricing for Pro subscription)
WolframAlpha是一个知识引擎，用于提出复杂的数学和基于知识的问题。向它询问有关物理学、天文学、纯数学、生命科学等的任何问题。你会得到准确的答案，如果涉及任何数学，你也会看到它是如何计算的。
特征(Features)
- 庞大的音乐和播客库(Massive library of music and podcasts)
- 家庭计划很便宜(Family plan is cheap)
- 优秀的界面和平台支持(Excellent interface and platform support)
- 免费层很烂(The free tier sucks)
Spotify是最受欢迎的音乐流媒体应用程序之一，具有负担得起的家庭计划和大量播客可供收听。因此，无论您是想在学习时听一些Lo-Fi或古典音乐，还是只想收听教育播客，都可以在一个地方完成。Spotify已经有一些很棒的学习播放列表，但您可以轻松地在一个地方制作适合身心锻炼的即兴演奏。
14. 适用于Android和iOS的 Google 日历（免费）
特征(Features)
- 可靠的免费共享日历工具(Solid free shared calendar tool)
- 与您的所有其他 Google 应用无缝集成(Integrates seamlessly with all your other Google apps)
在我们看来，谷歌日历(Google Calendar)是最好的免费在线日历应用。它与所有其他Google应用程序集成，并与各种第三方应用程序一起使用。创建共享日历很容易，因此您可以确保您的朋友和家人知道您何时学习或休息。
特征(Features)
- 出色、直观的整体计时器解决方案(Brilliant, intuitive holistic timer solution)
- Time’s up!
在大学（或其他任何地方）取得成功的最大关键是有效的时间管理，而Time Timer是最好的视觉计时器之一，可以准确地显示你为所有最重要的任务剩下的时间。所以你总能一眼就知道你应该做什么。
特征(Features)
- 这是办公室，但月费很低(It’s Office, but for a low monthly fee)
- 您可以获得大量 OneDrive 存储空间(You get tons of OneDrive storage)
- $6 per month with possible student discounts
如果您只需要一个文字处理器或电子表格程序，那么Google Docs或开源选项就可以了。但是，您的大学教授和大学本身可能会在某个时候向您发送Microsoft Office格式的文档（例如PowerPoint、Word或Excel）。虽然第三方办公软件通常可以毫无问题地阅读和编辑这些文件，但有时您需要 MS 套件来处理某些格式复杂的文档。
如果您只需要阅读这些文档，您可以免费使用各种Office移动应用程序，但如果您需要编辑它们，那么订阅Microsoft 365是物有所值的。尤其是家庭计划，其中还包括 1 TB 的OneDrive存储空间，供（最多）六个家庭成员使用。
作为学费的一部分，您的大学可能会提供免费的Microsoft 365会员资格，因此请务必查看！
特征(Features)
- 管理学校或大学生活的方方面面(Manage every aspect of your school or college life)
我的学习生活(Study Life)面向尚未上大学的学生，但在大学环境中也同样有效。这个学习计划系统很受欢迎是有原因的，主要是因为它可以让你计划你学术生活的每一个部分，包括课程、家庭作业、作业和考试。该应用程序干净，易于使用，并且可以跨多个平台同步。尽管不适合上大学，但事实证明它是您可以下载的最好的大学应用程序之一。
17 Apps to Help College Students Do Better in School
College is hard enough, so any extra bit of help is welcome. Fortunately, the post-smartphone generation of students has many apps to help them avoid being overwhelmed. We’ve boiled them down to the most useful apps for college students to cover every aspect of your college life.
Features
- Simple and intuitive design
- Can manage almost any process or project
- Team collaboration features
- (Free With Paid Tiers)
Trello has become a popular application for small businesses, remote teams, and freelance workers. It’s an aggressively simplified project management app that uses columns and cards arranged on a “board.” Each card can represent whatever you like, such as an assignment or a milestone within a project.
Trello also makes it easy to manage group tasks since you can assign each card or column to team members. You can link attachments, create checklists, set due dates, and more within each card. Trello is a productivity supercharger, and you’ll probably use it long after you graduate too.
2. Khan Academy for Android & iOS (Free)
Features
- Revise up to AP level.
- Multiple topics, with exercises and feedback
Khan Academy is a study app aimed mainly at pre-college coursework, so why is it on a list of apps for college students? First, Khan Academy offers some college-level material to help high school students prepare for their college journey.
However, we recommend Khan Academy for college students who need to brush up on the foundational language and math skills they may have forgotten. College-level work assumes that you’re up to speed with everything you learned in high school, but most of us have forgotten quite a lot by the time we start college!
Best of all, Khan Academy has an excellent course mapping function, so you can simply target the areas where you’re a little rusty! The app is a better experience on an iPad or other large tablet; however, the website itself is also great. We recommend reserving the mobile phone experience for those moments when you have a few minutes to revise.
3. DuoLingo for Android and iOS
Features
- Smart and effective language learning design
- Ads are excessive, but paid ad-free subscriptions are available
This one is for language-learning college students in particular, but anyone can do it with an extra language or two under the belt. If you’re enrolled for a degree that includes a language such as Spanish, French, German, Japanese, or any of the other major languages of business and academia, DuoLingo is for you.
The app helps you learn and practice grammar while also building your vocabulary. Language courses are laid out in intuitive, gamified paths, and it keeps track of how your memory of certain things might be fading, letting you practice them before you forget. DuoLingo also creates exercises based on the things you’re worst at in a given language, so you’re always building strength in your language mastery.
Using this app as a companion to your college language learning is a great way to get an A and become fluent!
4. Evernote for Android and iOS
Features
- Multi-platform, multimedia note-taking
- The free tier is a little too limiting
Evernote is quite likely the best note-taking and mind-map app today, and it’s been going from strength to strength for years. You can take notes using your mobile devices, including taking photos of the blackboard and attaching voice notes. It’s all synced to your cloud account, where you can organize it in several different ways.
Evernote has built features into its app and platform that make it less necessary to use multiple apps. For example, there’s a document scanner feature built into Evernote, so you can make a scan from a photo and instantly tag it with all the metadata you need to look it up later.
Evernote also has a web clipper to collect research information quickly, and it lets you search the contents of handwriting in your notes. There’s more to it than we can list here, but suffice it to say that you’ll find just about every note-taking feature you need. The only downside is that the free plan is somewhat limited, so we suggest signing up for the Personal plan.
5. Grammarly for Android and iOS
Features
- Great basic features in the free version
- Sophisticated writing help for paying users who want to up their game
College students do a lot of writing, and you’ll always be judged (if noted, always graded) on the quality of your language use. If that language is English, then Grammarly is an indispensable tool. It integrates into applications such as Microsoft Word and Google Docs to let you see in real-time where your mistakes are and how you may fix them. Grammarly also offers its keyboards for Android and iOS so that you can check anything you type on those devices for embarrassing errors.
The free version of Grammarly is good enough to take care of the most glaring errors. Still, if you have the budget for the paid tier, it’s well worth it since it offers more sophisticated suggestions related to your writing’s fluency, clarity, and tone.
Features
- Free With Optional Subscription
- The best reference management and citation tool out today
- Great free features, with paid features suited to professional academics on their employer’s tab
Mendeley is the best app for collecting research material and managing your references in academic papers. It takes all the pain out of referencing, no matter what referencing style your college or discipline requires.
You can also store and cloud-sync research papers, highlight important passages, and collaborate with others. In the end, when you tap a single button and your entirely formatted reference list appears at the end of your paper, you’ll breathe a sigh of relief and spend the time you’ve saved getting some much-needed sleep.
7. Google Docs, Sheets, & Slides for Android and iOS (Free)
Features
- Amazing collaboration tools
- Individual apps are very streamlined and basic
Google offers a comprehensive set of cloud-based tools, including a word processor, spreadsheet app, and presentation software. While they aren’t as packed with features compared to Microsoft Office or the Apple equivalents on Mac computers, you can use them on any device with a modern browser.
Even better, these cloud apps ensure you won’t lose your documents, and you can easily collaborate with other students or lecturers. Both the web apps and the mobile apps also allow for offline use.
8. Google Drive for Android and iOS
Features
- 15GB of free storage with optional upgrades
- Excellent integration with the Google Office Suite
The Google apps we just highlighted rely almost entirely on Google Drive to function, but Google Drive is worth highlighting as its independent app even if you don’t use the Google Suite. Google Drive is mainly a cloud storage app, and you’ll get around 15GB of free storage by just signing up. That’s more free space than competitors like DropBox.
If you already have a Gmail account, you already have Google Drive. Apart from storing your native Google suite files, you can upload any other type of file you like and then access or share it as you like. The Google Drive app also has a built-in document scanner function, which is a great way to quickly capture notes or the pages of books in the library.
9. Chegg Study App With Homework Help for Android and iOS
Features
- Substantial financial savings for textbooks
- A wealth of effective homework and study help
- Starting at $15 a month
Textbooks are one of the most expensive parts of studying, and when you have to choose between eating or buying textbooks, you’re probably not going hungry. Many students struggle with their grades because they don’t have access to required reading.
Chegg cuts down the cost of textbooks immensely. You can’t rent digital copies of your textbooks and only need to pay for the part of the assigned text. It beats paying hundreds of dollars for textbooks when you only need to read a fraction of their content!
Chegg also offers homework help, exam prep, and a host of other study assistance features. If Chegg has the textbooks you need, it’s an essential app in your arsenal.
10. Quizlet for Android and iOS
Features
- The perfect way to practice almost any subject
- Ads do eat into study time for free users
Quizlet is a popular flashcard tool that you can use to practice and learn a wide variety of subjects. This includes flashcard quizzes on languages, biology, chemistry, social studies, and so on. It is a free app but supported by advertising. By upgrading to the Quizlet Plus subscription, you can have an ad-free experience that pays for itself by maximizing your learning time without distraction.
Features
- A safe and easy way to move money around with low or no fees
- Everyone is using Venmo, so finding participating stores and friends is easy
Venmo probably needs no introduction, but just in case you’ve been castaway on an island for a few years (welcome back, by the way), Venmo is a payment-sharing app that makes it easy to send money to friends and family. You can also use it to pay for things at many retailers in-store. So it’s an excellent way for parents to instantly send money to students or for students to split a bill.
12 . Wolfram|Alpha for Android and iOS
Features
WolframAlpha is a knowledge engine to ask complex mathematical and knowledge-based questions. Ask it anything about physics, astronomy, pure mathematics, life science, and more. You’ll get precise answers, and if there’s any math involved, you’ll also see how it was calculated.
13. Spotify for Android and iOS
Features
- Massive library of music and podcasts
- Family plan is cheap
- Excellent interface and platform support
- The free tier sucks
Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming apps with an affordable family plan and plenty of podcasts to listen to. So whether you want to listen to some Lo-Fi or classical music while you’re studying or just want to catch up on educational podcasts, you can do it all in one place. Spotify already has some great study playlists, but you can easily make your jams for both mental and physical workouts in one place.
14. Google Calendar for Android and iOS (Free)
Features
- Solid free shared calendar tool
- Integrates seamlessly with all your other Google apps
Google Calendar is the best free online calendar app, in our opinion. It’s integrated with all the other Google apps and works with various third-party apps. Creating shared calendars is easy, so you can ensure that your friends and family know when you’re studying or taking a break.
15. Time Timer for Android and iOS (Free)
Features
- Brilliant, intuitive holistic timer solution
- Time’s up!
The biggest key to success in college (or anywhere else) is effective time management, and Time Timer is one of the best visual timers to show you precisely the amount of time you have left for all your most important tasks. So you can always get a feel for what you should be doing at a glance.
16. Microsoft 365 Suite for Android and iOS
Features
- It’s Office, but for a low monthly fee
- You get tons of OneDrive storage
- $6 per month with possible student discounts
If all you need is a word processor or spreadsheet program, then Google Docs or an open-source option is just fine. However, your college professor and the college itself are likely to send you a Microsoft Office format document (e.g., PowerPoint, Word, or Excel) at some point. While third-party office software can usually read and edit these without issue, sometimes you need the MS suite to work with certain documents with complex formatting.
If all you need to do is read these documents, you can do it with the various Office mobile apps for free, but if you need to edit them, then a Microsoft 365 subscription is well worth the money. Especially the family plan, which also includes 1 TB of OneDrive storage for each of the (up to) six family members.
Your college might offer a free Microsoft 365 membership as part of your tuition, so be sure to check!
17. My Study Life for Android and iOS (Free)
Features
- Manage every aspect of your school or college life
My Study Life is aimed at students who aren’t in college yet, but it works just as well in a college context. This study planner system is popular for a reason, and that’s mainly because it lets you plan every part of your academic life, including classes, homework, assignments, and exams. The app is clean, simple to use, and it syncs across multiple platforms. Despite not being for college, it’s turned out to be one of the best college apps you can download.
