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College Student Study

College Apps to Make Your School Life Easier

Getting through college is hard enough, so we've put together our favorite college apps that can help, both inside the classroom and out.

Manage Your Documents

Whether you need to create, share, scan, or just read a document, these handy apps are just what you need.

Scanner Pro - Scan Documents

Turn your iOS device into a precise, high-quality pocket scanner.

Scanner Pro - Scan Documents

Scan

For anyone who dislikes dealing with paper and encounters it left, right, and center.

Scanner Pro allows you to easily scan documents, receipts, tickets, and more using your iOS device’s camera, with automatic border detection and shadow removal at that. It then lets you save or share your scans as multi-page PDF or JPEG files.

Why we love it

Scanner Pro wouldn’t have lasted for as long as it has if it didn’t offer and continually expand on a robust feature set for quick and easy mobile scanning. More than merely scanning documents, the app incorporates automatic border detection, shadow removal, distortion correction, optical character recognition, workflow integration, and other technologies to let you do more with the files you care about.

Adobe Scan: PDF & OCR Scanner

Go from paper to digital in lightning speed

Adobe Scan: PDF & OCR Scanner

Scan and Save Files in Adobe Scan

For people who have paper they want to turn into PDF files

With Adobe Scan, you can turn almost anything made out of paper into a PDF. Receipts, notes, pictures, documents, business cards, whiteboards, whatever. You scan your paper-based document, turn on text recognition if you want it, and enjoy a gorgeous PDF that you can touch up, crop, rotate, and adjust color on. The built-in optical character recognition engine lets you reuse scanned content by creating a high-quality PDF you can work with in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and you can save your scans to Adobe Document Cloud for easy sharing. The main drawback is that if you want to make things other than text into PDF files, you have to pay for a PDF Pack subscription.

Why we love it

This app works great for scanning text into a searchable PDF. It allows you to quickly and easily import your paper-based receipts, business cards, and other documents into Adobe Document Cloud. You can take just about any paper document and make it digital. That mountain of receipts can become a digital library in very little time. I just wish Adobe Scan didn't force you to make an in-app purchase to turn more than text into PDF files. Then again, the Adobe Document Cloud integration makes the app quite unique, and works well when you frequently (or not-so-frequently) use other Adobe apps.

Capture and Keep Your Notes

From taking notes during class to capturing ideas on the go, a reliable note-taking app is a must for college students.

Notability

Notability is a powerful all-in-one note-taking solution.

Notability

Create smart notes on the fly

For those who need a note app that does it all

The biggest addition in the update involves handwriting. You can now search handwritten notes from the Library and within a specific note. Any handwritten note can now also be converted into text. Just to note, the first time you launch the app after updating the library will be scanned and indexed for handwriting. If you have a significant amount of handwriting, that process may take a while. With the Multi-Note feature for iPads, you can work with two different notes side by side. And a new note switcher makes it easy to switch between notes quickly. That feature even supports audio recording and playback. In the Library, you can view a new recent notes features that shows the 10 most recently opened notes. An updated Help Center also features articles and tutorials to learn the finer points of the app. Designed for the iPhone and all iPad models, Notability can be downloaded now on the App Store for $9.99. Notability's combination of numerous features, an intelligently-designed interface, a fluid, readable handwriting experience, and value is enough to make it unbeatable. The app has a host of great features and they are virtually all implemented in a highly intuitive, user-friendly manner.

Why we love it

Notability has a ton of powerful features and tools to make note-taking a breeze.

Evernote - Notes Organizer

Evernote changes the way you organize your notes & projects. Even works in iMessage

Evernote - Notes Organizer

Choose your plan

Looking for a full-service notes app? Look no further than Evernote.

Evernote is free, universal, and an essential app to share audio recordings. Evernote now includes a 90 minute recording limit. The app even allows you to record audio in the background. Evernote can share that audio to anyone through a simple email. The audio will be instantly accessible to you on any one of your computers or devices with Evernote installed. The app also supports background playback of your audio with controls through the multitasking dock If you opt for an Evernote Premium account, you also get great tools like OCR, more storage space every month, and more. The app is simple and effective and if all you need to do is share audio recordings, then this is the app for that.

Why we love it

Evernote is what Apple's Reminder app wants to be when it grows up.

ZoomNotes

Draw, diagram, and be creative with your notes.

ZoomNotes

For those who want a note app with sketching and diagram features.

ZoomNotes is a wonderful tool for creative note-takers. The editable guide lines help you to scale, rotate, and flip objects in your diagrams. Unlimited paper sizes, styles, and colors give you complete freedom. And, the various pen types, shapes, and symbol library provide you with great flexibility. For sketches, diagrams, and note-sharing, ZoomNotes is a terrific app.

Why we love it

ZoomNotes provides an array of robust features for sketching, note-taking, and creating diagrams with ease.

Get Where You Need to Go

Save yourself the hassle of getting through heavy traffic and then locating a parking spot. With these apps you can check out public transportation or pay someone else do the driving in your college town.

Make Your Plans

Take the guess work out of planning your social events or group project meetings. Discuss details and find out who can participate with a convenient app.

TimeTree: Shared Calendar

TimeTree: Shared Calendar

TimeTree, Inc.

TimeTree Shared Calendar

For those who want everyone’s schedules on one calendar.

TimeFree allows you to create separate shared calendars for the different roles you have - personal, family, couple, work, even clubs and hobbies. Notifications are delivered automatically to everyone in the group when someone creates or changes an appointment, or sends a message in the app - no need to send direct messages to everyone, or to a group chat only to have people not see it. TimeFree supports import from Google Calendar, so you can use TimeTree immediately. You can also view others’ Google Calendars if you have access. You can use your desktop at work or school and mobile on-the-go.

Why we love it

TimeTree helps you clear up miscommunication and find compromise by sharing information about events with the people in your shared calendar.

Doodle: Easy Scheduling

Take the pain out of figuring out when everyone is available.

Doodle: Easy Scheduling

Create polls on the go

For anyone trying to get a group of people in the same place at the same time.

Getting multiple people to meet in the same place at the same time can be tough. When you have a group of individuals – whether students or coworkers – who all have varying schedules, it can get even harder. Doodle allows you to easily send a poll to anyone asking them to indicate whether they are available or busy for set time slots, and the best part is that an account is not required for filling out polls. Doodle also offers some advanced features. For starters, you can allow users to select "if need be" times, that way you can make sure everyone is free and that it's convenient for most. Polls can optionally be set as private, so only administrators can view responses, and they can also be used as sign-up systems for events by only allowing users to choose a select amount of options, or to have a maximum number of attendees per time slot. While Doodle has been known to be web-based, the iOS app in particular allows users to create, modify, and respond to polls on the go. The best part is being able to receive notifications for when participants respond. This makes it a must-have for any Doodle user.

Why we love it

Doodle is the easiest way to find out when everyone's available, and also offers the best iOS solution for this that we've found. Being able to keep up with polls in a desktop web browser, along with in the mobile app with push notifications, makes it easy to use while balancing a busy lifestyle.

Allcal - Your Club and Events

Allcal - Your Club and Events

All Calendars, LLC

Allcal Calendar

For those looking to create interactive real-time calendars.

Allcal lets you create interactive, real-time calendars for your baseball team, nonprofit, book club, and group of friends. You can even share a public calendar of events instantly by creating a public calendar for your business, venue, or school club. Planners can create events of their own with cover photos and real-time updates, or search our public calendars to find fun events to share. The shared calendars make planning easy, keep everybody updated, and even send pop-up notifications of a new event or last-minute change.

Why we love it

It's easy to make plans quickly by searching public calendars for fun events nearby, then adding them directly on your shared calendar.

Budget Your Bucks

Making sure you have enough money for books, tuition, and entertainment does not have to be a chore. A finance and budgeting app is just the ticket to keeping an eye on your cash.

EveryDollar: Budget Your Money

EveryDollar: Budget Your Money

The Lampo Group Incorporated

Budgeting doesn’t have to be boring and tedious. Seriously. You just need a
budgeting app made with you in mind. That’s EveryDollar.

EveryDollar has helped millions of people learn to love budgeting by taking the
stress out of planning and managing money.

Create your first budget in about 10 minutes. Then customize categories, track
expenses, set up savings goals, and more! You can also pay off debt faster, build
lasting wealth, and plan for your future.

Tell Your Money Where to Go
EveryDollar is built on zero-based budgeting. You give every dollar a job to do (see
where we got the name?) before the month begins—so your income minus your
expenses always equals zero. No complicated percentage-based or “month
ahead” planning required—just simple budgeting that puts you in control of your
finances.

Find and Save More Money
When you start to tell your money where to go instead of wondering where it
went, you’ll feel like you got a raise. In fact, budgeters find an average of $332 in
their first month using EveryDollar.

You can start budgeting with the free version of EveryDollar or unlock the
premium version with a free trial.

What’s included with the free version of EveryDollar?
- Create unlimited budgets on the mobile app or on desktop.
- Adjust or reset your budget throughout the month.
- Split expenses across multiple budget lines.
- Stay on top of spending and see how much cash is remaining each month. 
- Manually track transactions.
- Check your budget from anywhere.

What’s included with the premium version of EveryDollar?
- Everything in the free version, plus:
- Connect to your bank so transactions automatically stream in straight from
your bank account.
- Get one-click transaction tracking suggestions (desktop only).
- See custom reporting on income and spending habits.
- View all your connected account balances in the app.
- Export transactions and download as CSV (desktop only).
- Fast-track your debt payoff with automatic balance updates.
- Get priority callback support from our customer success team.
- Set due date reminders three days before a bill is due (mobile app only).

Download EveryDollar and start budgeting today.

Privacy Policy: https://www.everydollar.com/privacy/plain
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Goodbudget Budget Planner

Goodbudget Budget Planner

Dayspring Technologies

Goodbudget is a personal finance app perfect for budget planning, debt tracking, and money management. Share a budget with sync across multiple phones (and the web!).

MANAGE MONEY WITH PEOPLE YOU LOVE
Goodbudget is perfect for sharing a budget with a spouse, family member, or friend. Sync across multiple devices including iPhones, other smartphones, and the web.

* Transactions synced with the cloud and accessible from other devices, including Goodbudget's web app!
* Stay on the same page about finances with those close to you
* Your data is automatically and securely backed up to Goodbudget's website
* Download transactions to CSV (on website)

INSIGHTFUL REPORTS
Goodbudget helps you make sense of your budgeting and spending with in-app reports.

* Know how to modify your budget after analyzing reports
* Spending by envelope report (cool-looking pie chart!)
* Income vs spending report
* Debt progress report (track your payoff!)
* Even more reports on the web

A PROVEN SYSTEM
Goodbudget is based on the envelope budgeting method. But with no physical envelopes...only virtual envelopes!

* Check envelopes balances (aka how much you have left to spend) while you're on-the-go
* Expense tracking optimized for speed
* Proven cash envelope budgeting method
* Track your bank balances in addition to envelope balances
* Pay off debt and manage payments
* Live within your means
* Schedule transactions and automatic envelope fills

Ad-free, Free Forever version includes 10 regular envelopes & 10 annual envelopes. Use envelope budgeting to plan your spending, not just track it!

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SUBSCRIBERS GET MORE FEATURES!
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* Unlimited regular envelopes
* Unlimited annual envelopes
* Sync up to 5 devices
* 7 years of transaction history
* Personal and friendly email support

Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.

If you're looking to track where your money goes, plan your spending, or create a budget that works, try us out!

Goodbudget: Budget well. Live life. Do Good.

Features, bugs? Please email us at support@goodbudget.com! We're happy to help!

** Leading personal finance app downloaded over 2,000,000 times AND previously featured by Apple, The New York Times, Forbes, CNET, LifeTime TV, The Boston Globe, and Lifehacker **

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Money Manager Expense & Budget
Money Manager Expense & Budget

Money Manager Expense & Budget

Realbyte Inc.

“Money Manager Expense & Budget ” is an optimized application for personal account management.

Household account management is complicated. But we make it simple by simplifying the things that are complex. The default settings will get you started, and once you get used to it, you can alter the settings according to your needs with the highly flexible and customizable functions available.

- Super easy and simple to enter data anytime, anywhere.
- View your spending tendencies graphically.
- View statistics by simply entering the data.
- Search and calculator functions.
- Set up sub-categories and main categories as necessary.
- Manage all your accounts at once.
- Use multiple currencies.
- Check weekly, monthly, and annual statistics.
- Use the calendar view.
- Use budget planning features to plan weekly, monthly, and annual budgets.
- Change the start date of the month.

※ Applying double entry bookkeeping
It facilitates efficient account management. Automatic double entry bookkeeping.

※ PC manager function
You can view ‘“Money Manager” application using Wi-Fi. You can edit and sort the data by date, category or account group on the screen of your PC. In addition, you can see fluctuations of your accounts indicated on graphs on your PC.

※ Budget management function
You can manage your budget. It shows your budget and expenditures on a graph so you can compare a number of your expenditures against your budget quickly.

※ Credit Card / Debit Card management function
When entering a future payment date, you can see the payment amount and outstanding balance on the accounts page. You can connect your debit card to your accounts so that expenses are automatically recorded under a specific account.

※ Passcode
You can specify the desired time lapse before the app requests a passcode.

※ Automatic money transfer and frequency functions
You can set up automatic money transfers between your accounts and configure the frequency of those transfers.

※ Sort expenses by the recipient
You can sort your expenses by the recipient and view this information graphically.

※ Payment Profiles
You can easily enter frequent expenditures by creating payment profiles.

※ Backup / Restore
You can backup and restore your data via email, iTunes and iCloud.

※ Multiple currency support – you can have individual entries in multiple currencies, and configure each account to calculate the total balance in your desired currency.

In Full Version. (https://itunes.apple.com/app/id564730202?mt=8)
Manage from PC is available.
There are no Ads.
There is no limit the accounts.
(In the lite version, 10 accounts is available.)


Subscription pricing and terms:

Money Manager offers auto-renewing monthly subscription at US$2.49/month and an auto-renewing yearly subscription at US$19.99/year to provide you with unlimited access to the Money Manager Data Sync Service while you maintain an active subscription.

Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase.
Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified.
You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase.

Read more about our terms and conditions here:
https://realbyteapps.com/policy/terms.html

Privacy Policy:
https://realbyteapps.com/policy/privacy.html

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Daily Budget Original

Daily Budget Original

C Ruttinger

Daily Budget Original takes a different approach to budgeting. When you first open the app, it asks you what your monthly income is, then it’ll tell you how much you have to spend a day based on that alone. After that fun share, it’ll ask you what your expenses are. As you enter them, your daily amount to spend will lower until you are finished entering your expenses. From there, the app will ask you how much you want to save in percentage form, and of course, that bit will be taken away from your daily spending, but it’s all for a better future, isn’t it? Every time you open the app now you’ll be able to add an extra income or input an expense that takes away from your daily balance. One thing that makes this app special is the ability to set up a “Big Spendings” plan by entering the dollar amount and date you’d like to purchase the item. The app will then tell you how much money you’d need to save per day to get that item on time. There are a ton of in-app upgrades available, but for only $4.99 you can upgrade to PRO, which is well worth it.

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Stay Focused

When it is time to put down your device and concentrate on your work, there are apps that can help you do just that.

Forest: Focus for Productivity

Reduce procrastination and contribute to nature at the same time.

Forest: Focus for Productivity

Set an amount of time to focus within

For procrastinators who like games or the environment.

Procrastination is inevitable. You know you should be focusing on something besides your iOS device, but somehow you end up in the Facebook app yet again. Forest hopes to eliminate that distraction with a timer that can be used in a pomodoro-like way, but with an incentive. As long as the app remains open in the foreground while the timer you set counts down, a virtual tree will grow, and you will be awarded coins. The goal is to grow a tree with each timer you set by not exiting the app and, thus, not getting distracted by your phone. Over time, the virtual trees you grow will make up a virtual forest displayed in the app, and you can compete with friends in doing this as well. Finally, coins you gather by focusing can eventually be used to plant trees in the real world once you collect enough.

Why we love it

This app allows users to use timer-based techniques to focus, and actually provides a solid incentive for staying off of your iOS device.

Focus Watch - Stay Focused

Focus Watch - Stay Focused

Andrii Zborovskyi

Focus Watch - Stay Focused

For those who strive for optimal performance.

Focus Watch helps you in planning the tasks you need to accomplish, staying focused on them while running the sessions timer and analysing your progress with insightful charts. Focus Watch perfectly works in background mode, so you can start the timer and switch to any other app - you'll be notified with an alarm when the session ends. It also has AppleWatch support!

Why we love it

It's so easy to track your progress with insightful charts, you can see how many sessions you've spent for any separate task in any given day.