9 iPad Apps for Success in Class

If you have an iPad you know that it can be extremely distracting with all the games, Pinterest, and Facebook? Who knew, but you could actually use your iPad to take notes and do well in school!  Here are some apps that I think everyone should use! These apps are also available on your iPhone but I prefer my iPad because it is bigger.

Notability – $4.99 

Basically Notability is a notebook on your iPad. You can make different notebooks to put your notes in. When you make a note, you can change the color of the paper and add lines or grids. You can type, draw, highlight, and erase all your notes. It works wonderfully as a notebook. If your professors give you a PDF, PowerPoint, or another document to download and read, you can download it onto the app and read it from there. You can record your lectures or even add photos to your notes. You can send the notes to people who missed class or to yourself through email, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Honestly, this is the best app for school!

myHomework – Free 

This is a planner on your iPad. First, you add your classes. If your professor has an account then you can find your class with that, but you can also add your class manually. You put in when you have the class, the building, and teacher. Then put your homework in with its due date and priority. It will give you updates on when your homework assignments are due next time. When you’ve finished, mark it off. It’s great for planning your time out for projects.

Flashcards by NKO – Free

This free version of the app is great. You can buy different notecards and make your own ones. When you go into “My Decks” you are shown all your different notecards that you have made. Click on the deck you want and you are offered the basic notecard style of testing along with games, and quiz. It offers you many different ways to study with notecards. Also, it saves paper and money because you don’t have to keep buying notecards.

Penultimate – Free

This is an app similar to Notability. It is connected with Evernote so you can send your notes to your Evernote account. This app is even takes into account on how you hold your stylus and hand as you write. You can make different notebooks and these are just like paper notebooks where you flip between papers.

Google Drive – Free

This app is just the iPad version of Google Drive from Google. It keeps all your documents that you have created or downloaded in one place. You can create new folders, documents, or spreadsheets. You can even upload photos. It connects your iPad to your Google account.

Chegg – Free

This is an app for reading e-textbooks. You can buy or rent a book from the app and from Chegg.com and access the e-textbooks with the app. Chegg really has the best prices.

Microsoft PowerPoint & Word – Free

Both apps are free however the only problem is that you need to have a Microsoft account and have Microsoft Office attached to the account. But after that (which in my opinion EVERYONE should have Microsoft Office) it makes writing papers and making Powerpoints so much easier. Send the Powerpoints and Word documents to yourself with the use of OneDrive (which comes with Microsoft Office) and you’re good to go with all your work.

Quizlet – Free

This is another flashcard app. It is connected with Quizlet.com. The app has the notecards, learn, and matching modes. Notecards is simple flashcards. Learn gives you the definition and you have to type the answer of the first side of the notecard. Matching is the matching game.

**I paid for these apps by myself. These are my own reviews.**

All these apps are fantastic and incredibly helpful apps. Are there any apps that you have used to help you in school?


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