LIST: Top free apps for college students to utilize

The Blackboard mobile app comes in 30 different languages and is free to download. This app assists students with staying steadily informed on their current courses due dates for upcoming assignments, quizzes, tests, and also allows students to view their current grade standings from the convenience of their smart phone.

Whether It is a group project, study group, or extracurricular organization, this free app aids in efficient communication between large or small groups. It allows students to be a part of multiple organized group chats without the mess of having to constantly save and delete numbers. 

Spotify is an way for students to listen to their favorite music, study playlist and original podcast for free. Spotify is accessible on a computer, mobile device, tablet and now available on the Apple watch. While the free version of this app does require that users listen to ads every few songs, there is an ad free version that is discounted for students at the rate of $4.99, known as the Spotify Premium for Students plan.

Chegg Books grants students access to college textbooks through an affordable rate, saving an average 80% on rentals and eTextbooks, and up to 90% on used books. The Chegg app also offers students cash for used books simply by to scanning the ISBN on their used textbook.

The Google Drive app is free and provides access from smart phones, tablets, and computers. The Google Drive app allows 15GB of free storage and provides users the ability to securely back up files including photos, videos, documents, PDF’s and more. When using this application, users are also able to easily share files and folders with other users and set sharing permission to view, comment and even edit.   

Quizlet is a app that helps students study and practice the curriculum they are currently learning. Through this application, students are able to share study material with other classmates and utilize various study tools such as flashcards, matching and written games.

The Dropbox app is a creative app is aimed at reducing disorganization and bringing all of a user’s files into one space. Dropbox is a free app that allows storage, easy transferring of particularly large files across all devices and file sharing. 

This environmentally friendly app helps users manage their screen time and ability to focus. Whenever someone wants to focus on real life projects and activities, he or she can select the “start” button before going offline. As a user’s time offline continues, the digital Flora seed begins to grow, and over time the seed grows into a tree. Once this goal is reach, a tree is planted in in real life. Flora is an official partner with Trees.org and has already planted over 12,000 trees. 

The Grammarly mobile app is a free Mobile app that features an integrated keyboard that works as a personal editor wherever someone may go. The app can be used while sending an important email, responding to a LinkedIn message, or even when editing posts for social media. The app provides spelling, punctuation and grammar suggestions as well as explanations letting the user know why the correction is necessary.  

This meditation and sleep stories app is recognized as the number one app for sleep, mediation, and relaxation, winning the 2017 app of the year and best of 2018 from Apple. The app includes a multitude of programs for beginners, intermediate and advanced users to help promote better sleep and mindfulness and lower stress and anxiety levels. Other programs on the application include stretching exercises, guided mediations and relaxing music.