The 11 Best Android Apps for College Students

Sure laptops tend to be more widely used for actual school work but phones and tablets are key pieces of your arsenal for school work, not just entertainment and hooking up between and after classes.

How can you make the most of your time? We’ve got you covered with note taking, schedule management, study aids and more.

AndroidAppsReview.com has put together a curated list for you of the best 11 Android apps that every college student should have on their phones and tablets and definitely not leave home without.

Dictionary.com - (Free) - Dictionary & Thesaurus

The Dictionary.com app is a must-have for anyone and especially for students. It’s not just for those studying literature or languages either.

As a student you will be constantly exposed to new subjects and information, much of which with it’s own particular vernacular. Don’t be intimidated if you come across a word you’ve never even seen before, just tap on your dictionary.com app and in seconds you’ll have it nailed.

A nice addition is that it also includes a Thesaurus which will help you avoid using the same words over and over again and painlessly expand your vocabulary.

Evernote - (Free) - Multimedia note taking and sharing

Evernote is much more than the ultimate note-taking app, Evernote is an entire ecosystem of productivity aids and is perfect for students.

It’s fully cross-platform, with an app for every device and an extension for every browser. PCWorld has a terrific article to help any newbies get the most out of it. The article is a bit dated at this point (2 years old) but does a great job of orienting new users to it’s key functions.

Evernote makes it easier than ever to store your notes, photographs, documents, and other details you may need for class. Students regularly use it to organize the materials associated with specific courses or to retain information that will help throughout the degree experience.

Features like keyword search simplify the process of finding the notes that users need to study, write papers, or quickly revisit critical information.

The Evernote apps synch your notes across all of your devices (iPhone, Windows Phone, Android and desktops) and in doing so really amps up its value. You can use the device’s camera to create a new note by snapping a picture, say, of a classmate’s notes, or the office hours posted on your professor’s door.

Any text visible in any images that you save becomes searchable, and Evernote can also keep track of where each picture was taken. Nice.

Tons and tons of other apps let you save things to your Evernote account—a few of our favorites include LectureNotes, the cross-platform image-annotation tool Skitch, and the incredibly flexible IFTTT.

OfficeSuite - (Free) - View and edit MS Office and PDF files

If you need to create and edit Microsoft Office files (that’s Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations) and PDF files on the go, OfficeSuite is worth a hard look.

It lets you work on the go using your iPhone or iPad and connects to all popular cloud storage services so wherever you park your files, you’ll be able to access, edit, and share them with this app. No need to download and upload as additional operations either, just open and save just like you would for local files.

It also provides a gallery of templates for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. If you try the free version and decide it fits your needs, you can upgrade to the “Pro” version for $14.99, currently on sale for $9.99. That’s a one-time full license, not an ongoing subscription as is the case with many highly functional productivity app.

Of course if you don’t need access to edit MS docs, just provide them to others, the suite of free apps from Google, including Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides, do a terrific job.

WolframAlpha - ($2.99) - A computational knowledge engine covering a broad array of topics

OK, we get that the first thing you do when you have a question is to “google it”. But there are questions that Google just can’t handle very well. That’s where Wolfram Alpha comes in.

Wolfram Alpha is a reference app that curates scientific, technical, mathematical, and other resources.

It covers an amazing number of domains and uses its vast collection of algorithms and data to compute answers and generate reports for you. Parts of Wolfram Alpha are even used in Apple’s Siri assistant.

Sounds like a pretty useful study buddy to us.

Mathway - (Free) - Instant answers to math problems

This app may not have the best designed UI but its broad range of mathematics ability more than makes up for that shortcoming.

Mathway can not only solve your maths questions but if you subscribe to its service it will also show you how to arrive at the answer with a step-by-step explanation.

The math topics it can handle range from basic math, Algebra and Trigonometry to Calculus, Finite Math and more.

Its breakdown of the solution is especially valuable and can be a great help when you’re trying to master a new topic.

My Study Life - (Free) - School, homework and exam schedule manager

This powerful planner and scheduling app starts by storing your information in the cloud allowing you to synch your schedule across all of your devices. It then keeps you on track with all of your tasks, from classes to homework to exams.

My Study Life works even when you’re offline and shows you if you have any conflicts in your schedule. It will let you store your exams and supports day and week rotation class schedules.

You’ll never again (unintentionally) miss an assignment deadline, exam or class with its notification feature.

Chegg Study - Homework Help - (Free) - Cheap textbooks, rentals and study help

A stack of college textbooks can cost more than major surgery. This app will keep your wallet nice and fat: Snap a photo of your book’s barcode or search by title, author or ISBN number, and you’ll save up to 90% on buying it.

Don’t want to buy it? Not a problem, you can rent textbooks or etextbooks as well.

hey’ve also got you covered if you need some study help.

If you don’t see what you need in their library of textbook solutions you can submit your question to the online community of subject experts or even set up an online tutor 24/7.