College years are all about having fun and making memories that will last a lifetime. However, it is equally important to stay ahead academically as well. Maintaining a proper balance between both is crucial in order to make it in the College.

If you are a college student and reading this article then you are at the right place. Let’s make your life easier by listing a few Apps that will effortlessly improve your academic life. Let them take care of planning, note-taking, and keeping up with deadlines on assignments. More time for you to have fun.

8  Awesome Useful Apps for College Students In 2021

1. Hemingway

Writing is always a part and parcel of college and there is no way to escape it. Not everyone may have a flare for writing. Nevertheless, submitting essays and other writing assignments cannot be avoided.

Hemingway is your online editor that will make writing easier. The app highlights various shortcomings in your essay by marking them in different colors. For example, lengthy and complex sentences are marked in yellow while adverbs weakening phrases are shown in blue. You can edit your writing easily with this wonderful free app. However, if you feel that there are too many mistakes and you aren’t sure what can you do about them, you can always turn to essay writing help online.

2. Google Calendar

There is a wide array of apps that are made specifically as student planners. Their downside is that they leave no place for fun. Whereas Google calendar is one of those versatile apps that can work for your every need. You can schedule both your classes and your hangouts. It will send you notifications on the scheduled time to remind you of assignment deadlines.

The best feature of this app is that it also allows you to add your friends, stay connected and plan group meetings. And it is free as long as you have a Gmail account. So, if you don’t have one get it soon.

3. Bench Prep

This app is a wonderful interactive course library. It contains study materials for the graduate and professional level exams, practice questions, flashcards and nearly 600 study lessons. Make it your friend and it will help you to pass the exams with ease.

4. Evernote

Want to sync all your study materials, notes, videos, audios and pictures in one place? Get Evernote and you will love it. The key feature is automatic synchronization of everything across your devices to an online account. In fact, Evernote was one of the cloud pioneers. So they know the syncing stuff.

5. Fitbit

College students are notorious for their neglect for health – late nights, junk food, zero exercise (living on campus does not leave much need for walking). Those proverbial freshman 15 don’t come from nothing, you know.

Luckily, there’s an app to keep you in shape. The app keeps a track of the steps taken by you while the phone is with you. With this app you can also log your workouts and set goals for yourself. What’s more? You can monitor your food and water intake as well to make sure you eat and drink healthier.

6. Studious

Do not want to get into your teacher’s bad books because of that untimely phone ring during a class? There’s an app for that! Studious silences your phone notifications completely and turns them back on according to your class schedule. All you have to do is to put your timetable in once and forget about constant turning the silent mode on and off. It’s available free for Android devices.

7. Circle 6

This is your safety app for emergencies. Say you are out of the campus late in the evening or having a great time at a party somewhere – safety should be the first priority. Circle 6 app helps you to stay connected to six of your closest trusted contacts at all times. You can send the pre-programmed “come and get me” message with your GPS location at one click. It also allows you to make national calls and local emergency hotlines.

8. Inshorts

College life can make you so busy that you may hardly have time for news and updates. But that should not stop you from staying up to date with the latest happening around you. Inshorts is the perfect app to keep you in sync with the news from all over. It compiles news from all the reliable resources and presents them to you in 60 words or less. Have all the headlines at your fingertips every day.

Here are some other noteworthy bonus apps:

• Study Blue Flashcards (easy way to memorize with flashcards, pictures etc),
• Easy Bib (generates citation in MLA, APA etc),
• MINT (money manager) ,
• LinkedIn (professional and personal connections)

The above list is not exhaustive as there are plenty of apps available to aid the students. However, those are the essentials for sorted college life.