Apps that make student life easier

Abhinav

In such growing world where one needs everything done easily and instantly, technology has helped us all the way around. And as we all know very well that, “necessity is the mother of invention”, so with the help of technology a man has come up with a new feature known as ‘App’. The word ’App’ is an abbreviation for ‘Applications’.

Talking about ‘apps’, what exactly are they?

Apps are basically software that can run with or without the help of internet (depending upon how it’s been programmed) on our computer, phone, tablet, etc)

Now, being a student, I would like to talk about some really awesome apps that have made our job much easier and helped us to take some peaceful breath in such rat race society of so-called education system.

CamScanner:

The reason I would like to put this app in the very first place is that this has literally saved me every minute before the deadline of my D.A.

This app is a mobile scanner which scans all your notes, receipts, documents, certificates, etc. Other than that it also extracts texts from image, share PDF/JPEG file, helps in advance editing, and the most important that it secures your important document.

Quora:

Quora is a question&answer platform that helps people to share and grow the world’s knowledge. People here, ask questions about any subject, read about the topics of their personal interest, and share their knowledge with others. Talking about my personal experience, this app has really helped me a lot in clearing my doubts in a certain subject.

SHAREit:

This is one app which really has made life way easier. Sharing anything is no big deal now, all because of this amazing app. It helps the user to share files without any mobile data. It is much much faster than Bluetooth. We can share photos, videos and files of any formats with our friend at any time on our phone or even computer.

Wordweb:

A very basic need of every student is a dictionary, which they need at one point or the other. But then why to carry a whole book when you can just have it on your cell phones. Not only that, you don’t have to go through pages and pages to search just one word, but instead, it can be done with the help of search function programmed in it. Other than that it also has some amazing features like spelling suggestion, definitions, synonyms. An offline audio version is also available in it which makes it even cooler to use.

Inshorts:

Having such hectic life makes it difficult for a student to keep up with the ongoing changes in the world, worry not, there’s an amazing app to solve your problem. Inshorts is a NEWS app that selects latest and best news from multiple national and international sources and summarizes them to present in short and crisp 60 words. It is available in both, English and Hindi. All summarised stories contain only headlines and fact about it, no opinions, to help us stay informed about the current affairs.

Sololearn:

Being a computer science engineer, It is expected from me that I will be knowing basic languages(which I really don’t), so to overcome this problem, we have an app called as Sololearn which gives access to 12 programming languages including Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript, C++, Java, PHP, Ruby, JQuery, C#, Swift. What else would someone want.

BHIM:

As our beloved Prime minister, Mr. Narendra  Modi said,”Go cashless”.

How could we possibly deny his orders? so we got an app, ‘BHIM’(Bharat Interface for Money). It is an initiative to enable fast, secure, reliable cashless payments through mobile phones. BHIM is interoperable with other Unified Payment Interface(UPI) applications, & bank accounts for quick money transfer online.

LinkedIn:

Young souls turning entrepreneur, need a social platform to learn and connect with the professional world out there. LinkedIn is one such app which makes it easier to discover, connect and nurture relationships with people that matter, search and apply for jobs, and get updates on topics and companies. This online social network is a great place to connect and stay in touch with our professional relationships.

Music Apps:

Imagine a life without music!!!

OK, STOP. It’s soo hard to even imagine such life.

Here, I haven’t specified any particular name because there are quite a few good music apps (and all have their pros and pawns).

Some of them being Wynk, Saavn, Gaana, etc…etc.

No matter which one, but must have for everyone!

VitGo:

Last but not the least, and this one is particularly referred to my college VIT University. As we all know how messed up is the VIT site (vtopbeta), so students came up with this amazing app with the name as,’VitGo’, which fetches all the important data of a student, once they have logged in, like their attendance, timetable, DAs, exam schedule, course page and information of your proctor as well. It all helps you to search some basic information about faculties here in VIT.

The list goes on and on but I would like to stop here.

Just that, many more new such apps are yet to come.