Most Useful Android Apps For Students

Most Useful Android Apps For Students

Here is a large list of apps that a student is going to find very useful. There are apps for things as simple as creating a relaxing atmosphere with appropriate music, to student planners and recovery programs for people who have accidentally deleted their work. There are apps for starting team-speak sessions with other students, and even apps to create your own WiFi network that has restricted access for when you are working on a project with other students.

ZeroPC Cloud Navigator

This is a cloud browser with many tools to allow a student access to their work and documents easily.

ZDBox

Manage and monitor student projects with this app.

Yahoo! Play

Make a peaceful mood for doing your work with the mood categories in Yahoo! Play.

Yahoo! IntoNow

Don’t waste time figuring out what TV show is playing, let this app do it for you.

WiFiKill

Disable the Internet network that you are rooted to if you fear a security breach.

WiFi QR Code Generator

Generate a code for your personal WiFi network so that other students may scan it and join.

Wi-Fi Network Analysis

Monitor your network with this app.

Wi-Fi Chat

Run projects with your fellow students and IM them (chat online) with this app.

Weather Services

Weather cam images of your area, so you can decide whether to leave the dorm.

Wallpaper Changer

Change your Android background when you are bored.

Voxer

This is a push and talks instant messaging app, for playing walkie-talkies with people in other dorms. Great for synchronizing college pranks.

Volume Sync

Mutes the media volume if you mute your ringer, so you don’t disturb your room mate’s studies at night.

Volume Rocker

There are five sound profiles for your Android.

Voice Control Without Internet

Launch apps with your mighty voice and save time.

Visidon AppLock

Face recognition security to keep your college work private from thieving peers.

Viber

Call and text other people with this app for less than mobile standard rates.

Vibe

Custom vibration patterns so you know which calls to ignore and which to answer in class.

Undelete Beta

A recovery program for when you accidentally delete your dissertation.

Ultimate App Guard

Has seven ways of keeping malcontents out of your Android files.

UC Browser 8.0

A data saving web browser which is fast and good for repeated college research.

Trulia Rent A House

Find student accommodation before your peers take the best ones.

TouchRetouch Free

Remove content from pictures so you can use the altered versions on your college work.

The Social Radio

Reads out your Twitter feed–for the highly productive student with no time to waste.

TeamViewer

Remote access to your desktop for when you are in the field (student trips etc).

TalkBox

A cross-platform instant voice messenger for multiple students working on one project.

Tablet Market

Find Honeycomb-optimized apps easily.

Student Timetable

A great student planner that is feature rich to cover every eventuality.

Strimz

This will allow you to stream live video to your Facebook wall.

SPRiiD

You can remote file share between two Android devices. It has to be done over the Internet.

Speaklib

This will read out the text so that the student can hear it spoken. It can also speak it out in different languages, for people who are learning a new language.

Soundtracker Radio

This app will give the student new music, lyrics and allows the student to explore his/her taste in music.

Sonalight Text By Voice

This works both ways as a speech to text program, and text to speech. If a person cannot see very well then they may dictate a text to their Android. They can have the text read aloud to them so that they can check it for errors. They are also able to hear any replies that are sent too.

Social Jogger 2

This is a great little social media aggregator, for the highly productive and busy student.

Snapbucket

This allows the student to fix, alter and style photos for use on their coursework.

SMS Board

This will forward any SMS messages to a person’s email, Twitter or Facebook account. This is good for students who need to remove noise distractions from their dorm room. It is also good for the student who has two boyfriends/girlfriends and does not want their current partner to go snooping on their Android.

Sleep Timer

This is good for the overworked student who keeps falling asleep whilst playing noisy apps. The app is set up so that you can specify how long a multi-media player will play for. This means a student can set a music playlist to start and then stop after thirty minutes, by which time he/she will probably be asleep.

Skitch By Evernote

This works under the same note-taking principals as the popular student app known as Evernote, except for that it allows the student to draw their notes. Sometimes a note-taking app such as Evernote is not good enough to store complex-multi-level equations or formulas. This drawing-note taking app means that the user can make detailed drawings quickly, and save them for later use.

SHREDroid

This is a file shredder which removes all traces of a file from the persons Android or SD card. It means that people may not recover files. It is good for removing a student’s sensitive information.

ShakeCall

Shake your device to receive or end calls. This is good for students who need to take calls during cooking classes and similar exercises where the fingers cannot be used without making a mess.

SemiSilent

This will keep some phone numbers ring tones silent and will allow others to be silent. For example, if a student has a sick family member then their calls will be allowed to ring, but not the calls from other people. This is handy for when a student is in a lecture.

SD Maid

This clears memory from students Androids by removing unneeded files that are left behind by deleted apps.

Say Cheese Camera

This is a voice-control camera for if you want to be in the picture too.