Researching, organizing ideas, writing – apps can make your studies easier, can help you write a term paper or design a presentation. We present 10 of these digital companions.
#1 Textkraft Pocket
The app is a writing application and document reader in one. With it you can edit several texts in parallel and have access to offline dictionaries with synonyms as well as many online reference works for spelling, language, expression, grammar, definition and translation. Textkraft also supports common cloud services such as iCloud Drive, Dropbox or Evernote.
Available for: iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch
Price: €4.99
#2 Penultimate
Penultimate from Evernote allows you to save course notes or spontaneous ideas for your homework as digital handwriting on your iPad. You can edit page sections, search for notes, and create different notebooks.
Available for: iPad
Price: free
#3 MindMeister
Mind mapping is the be-all and end-all when it comes to successfully completing a larger project. With MindMeister you can easily and clearly create visual thought frameworks and then share them with fellow students.
Available for: iOS, Android
Price: free
#4 Quip
Do you like writing in a team? Then Quip might be the right app for you. You can work on a document with others, communicate via chat thread and send invitations to collaborate.
Available for: iOS, Android
Price: free
#5 Read faster
Using speed reading exercises, the app promises to significantly increase your reading speed, absorption and retention. This leaves more time for writing...
Available for: iOS, Android
Price: iOS – €4.99, Android – €2.99
#6 Woxikon Dictionary
“Another word for…” – this thought probably accompanies everyone through the writing process. The Woxikon app spits out synonyms, explains abbreviations and translates into 13 languages.
Available for: iOS, Android
Price: free
#7 Eyeplorer
The web app relies on semantics and can help give the topic of your homework or presentation a further perspective. After entering a keyword, it searches for related or related terms and their definitions.
Price: free
#8 Open Library
The goal of the web app is ambitious: in the future, every book ever published should be available online here. There are currently around 20 million data records stored. The loan period is two weeks; The number of books that can be borrowed at the same time is limited to five.
Price: free
#9 Plagiarism check
Are your sources complete, is every quote provided with a footnote? With the PlagiarismCheck web app you can have your work scanned before submitting it. The whole thing happens in chunks of 1,000 words or 300 kB.
Price: free
#10 Sworkit
So, enough reading and writing: Sworkit gives you the right workout for in between. The app has a library with over 160 exercises that can be easily inserted between two chapters.
Available for: iOS, Android
Price: free
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