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Here is a comprehensive list of organization & study skills apps thanks to the University of Michigan:
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Compatible with Android devices 1.6 and up.
With this app, you can learn just about anything. There are thousands of free flashcard decks available for download, or you can create your own, and it comes with text-to-speech capabilities.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Audio Class Notes is a helpful tool to record and keep track of class notes. You can easily tag and jump to the important parts of the lecture, making studying easier.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
AudioNote records and syncs your notes. It combines the functionality of a notepad and voice recorder to create a powerful tool that will save you time while improving the quality of your notes.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app can create to-do lists, memos, important information, and diary entries that can transfer easily to email, Google Docs, and Evernote. In addition, you can color code folders and icons to help you stay organized.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
CanPlan is a task management app that breaks tasks down into easy-to-follow steps in the form of photo sequences. It is designed for people with cognitive challenges, and while dyslexics do not have these challenges, they may like the straightforward approach to managing tasks.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
This app allows you to keep track of and remember chores.
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Compatible with Android devices.
Use this app when you want to jot down memos, emails, or a grocery list. You can return to your notes later and edit them, organize them by color, save them to SD storage, and organize your schedule in a calendar.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Corkulous can help you plan, brainstorm, and manage tasks and goals. Create notes and index cards, import photos, add contacts, and much more—all on this digital corkboard.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
CourseNotes color codes your notebooks and adds teachers. You can take notes during your classes, organize them by class and subject, and review them later. You can also keep to-do lists and track assignment deadlines.
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Requirements vary.
With Dropbox, you can take files from your computer or phone wherever you go. You can even share your Dropbox with others, and vice versa.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Evernote allows you to easily create text, photo, and audio notes, which can be synchronized to any computer to help you remember important things.
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Compatible with Android devices 1.6 and up.
Everstudent syncs with Evernote and allows you to easily organize all of your assignments and due dates into one, sleek, customizable planner.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
This app is an easy-to-use interactive whiteboard tool that lets you annotate, animate, narrate, import, and export almost anything to and from almost anywhere.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Use this app to create flashcards to help you study.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
GoodReader is a highly advanced PDF reader. Aside from its robust reading and annotating capabilities, you can also sync your files with Dropbox and FTP servers. It supports PDF, TXT, Microsoft Office files, web archives, and even audio and video.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.1 and up.
HomeWork keeps track of all of your due dates for you. See how much homework you’ve completed, when your next test date is, and much more.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
iAnnotate allows you to receive and mark up PDF files from your students. You can take notes, highlight an important fact, and make corrections.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
iHomework helps you keep track of assignments and grades, and allows you to create to-do lists.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Use inClass to create schedules and calendars to keep track of coursework, job tasks, and social activities. It will alert you when things are due and allows you to take video, audio, and picture notes.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Inspiration Maps is a mindmapping tool that helps organize your thoughts and ideas in one place. It’s great for writing papers or connecting large themes together to study for exams.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
The iStudiez Pro app is great for students. It can help you organize and summarize your schedule, manage your homework assignments, track your grade point average, and much more.
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Compatible with iPad and Android. Requires iOS 5.0 or later and Android devices 4.1 and up.
Kno is an all-in-one app that allows you to access textbooks, take notes, and create study tools.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
LectureTools combines note-taking with a student inquiry-and-response feature to connect professor with student. Interactive elements can be added and accessed before, during, and after the lecture.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app offers voice search to let you look up a word without having to spell it. It includes a thesaurus, example sentences, Word of the Day, and is a great reference tool.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.3 and up.
Mindjet organizes everything from thoughts and ideas to notes and to-do lists. The app contains many customizable features to make your mind maps and lists easy to read.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.3 and up and web browsers on desktops and laptops.
This cloud-based tool lets students create mind maps to structure their thoughts, prepare reports, summarize books, study for exams, and much more. It’s simple and intuitive, offers many export options (Word, PDF, PowerPoint etc.), and features a built-in presentation mode.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
MindNode easily organizes your thoughts as mind maps, taking all of your ideas and putting them in a visual display. This app is great for brainstorming, planning, outlining, and even printing your finished mind map.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.1 and up.
Use My Class Schedule to track homework due dates, upcoming exams, class schedules, and activities. You can color-coordinate your schedules and customize the app in many other ways.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
myHomework provides an easy way for you to keep track of homework, classes, tests, and projects. It creates a colorful calendar of upcoming due dates and even provides audio notifications.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Next Thing is a great app for productivity. Enter all your tasks, and it helps you stay on top of them until you get them done.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Notability is a note-taking app that allows you to type, insert a figure, and insert a web clip or a picture. It also allows you to record a teacher’s lecture.
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Compatible with Android devices 1.5 and up.
Note Everything lets you type, speak, and paint notes right into the app, and you can send your notes anywhere.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Nudge is a quick note to remember something for tomorrow: bring pens to school, tie-dying bring in a white shirt. It is set, and until you shut it off, it nudges you.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
PaperDesk closely mimics a blank sheet of paper for note-taking, but has additional features. You can import or export files, draw pictures to accompany your notes, and more.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
PDF Expert allows you to read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text, make notes, and more. It is compatible with Preview and Adobe Acrobat.
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Compatible with Android devices 1.6 and up.
Pocket allows you to safely store important information on your phone. Everything is encrypted and backed up online.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Popplet allows you to create, organize, and sort all of your ideas. You can make lists and notes, organize diagrams and flowcharts, brainstorm ideas, and even create photo galleries.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
This app allows you to record audio such as memos, class lectures and notes, meetings, and dictations of emails or text messages. It is ideal for professional, educational, and personal use.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
SchoolNotebook lets you organize and share your class schedule. Sign in with your Facebook account, and begin sharing your class schedule and class notes with your friends.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Easily organize your thoughts into a mind map and customize it with SimpleMind+. You can share your mind map via the Internet, email, and your camera roll.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Similar app compatible with Android devices 3.1 and up.
This app is an electronic white board that allows you to write drafts, show models, write, draw pictures, demonstrate your thoughts in meetings, and many other useful things!
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
SoundGecko allows you to convert text articles online into MP3s. Simply copy the website, add your email address, and download the MP3.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.1 or later.
SoundNote records the audio of a lecture or meeting while you take notes. You can add your own notes to certain points in the audio, mark important information, and share your notes via email when finished.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.1 and up.
This app will help you stay focused on your work. It is a timer that randomly checks up on you, so you can’t predict when the alarm will sound.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Use STUDYBLUE to create your own flashcards so you can review class notes in your spare time.
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Compatible with Android devices 2.1 and up.
Sync Voice Note is a note-taker and audio recorder. You can synchronize audio with your own notes, highlight text, and tab over, making it easy to mark your place in a long line of text.
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Compatible with Android devices 1.6 and up.
Time for School is designed to keep your academic life more organized. The app contains an alarm to notify you of when your next class starts, when your homework assignments are due, or when you should wake up.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Use this app for timing activities. As the time elapses, the red portion gets smaller, offering a visual aid. Time Timer also has an audible bell tone played when the time is up.
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Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
ToDo helps you manage tasks using audio alerts, subtasks, and checklists. It can also be synchronized with Outlook and iCal.
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Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Write Pad can recognize handwriting, let you write a note with your finger or a stylus, check spelling, and much more. It is great for those who need help with keyboarding.