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Time Management, |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
Reminder, Alarm and Voice Reminders. Remind Me App
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Set voice memos and reminder alarms for yourself. |
Free-$0.99 |
Offers additional purchases, |
Reminders, Alarms, Timers - Beep Me
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An easy to use reminder application. |
Free-$2.99 |
Offers additional purchases, |
30/30
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A productivity timer application. Determine how much time you would like to spend working on each item on your to-do list after the time is up the application will let you know it is time to move on to the next task. |
Free |
Offers additional purchases, |
Flat Tomato (Time Management)
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A timer application for the Pomodoro technique. Here is a video with more information on the Pomodoro technique. |
Free |
Offers additional purchases, |
Chicken Clock: Concentration helper, be focused
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A device blocking application. If you exit the app while the timer is still running you will ‘kill’ your virtual eggs If you do not try to access your device until the timer is finished your ‘chickens’ will hatch! |
Free |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases, |
Wunderlist: To-Do List & Tasks,
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A to-do list application. |
Free or $4.99 a month, |
Offers additional purchases, |
Do! - The Best of Simple To Do Lists
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A to-do list application. |
Free |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases, |
Corkulous Professional
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A virtual corkboard where you can store notes, pictures and task lists. |
Free |
Offers additional purchases, |
Complete Class Organizer - Student Version
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A calendar and to-do list for your courses. |
$2.99 |
No ads · No additional purchases |
iStudiez LITE - Homework, Schedule, Grades
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A calendar and to-do list for your courses. The Pro version has a grade tracking feature as well. |
Free-$2.99 |
No ads · No additional purchases |
Planner Pro - Daily Calendar & Personal Organizer
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A virtual agenda. |
Free-$6.99 |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases, |
Don't Break The Chain!
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An application based on Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity method “Don’t Break the Chain” that can be used to help you keep track of your goals. |
Free |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases |
Habitica: Gamified Task Manager
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A role-playing productivity game application to help you monitor your to-do list, habits, and goals. This application also provides a support network with fellow members through chat forms, challenges, and quests that you can work with your friends to complete. |
Free or you can support the program and subscribe. |
Offers additional purchases, |
Note Taking, |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
Microsoft OneNote,
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Your work is stored in the cloud so once you log in (or sign-up) you will be able to access your notes from any device that has OneNote. The application lets you record but will not let you type or draw at the same time. |
Free, |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Evernote - stay organized.
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Your work is stored in the cloud so you will be able to access your notes from any device that has Evernote. The application lets you record while you type or draw at the same time but your notes are not synced to the recording. |
Free or $3.92- $9.99 |
Offers additional purchases,
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Cogi,
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A recorder application that when open will record the 15 seconds before you start the recording. |
Free, |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Recordium - Free Voice Recorder
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A recorder application that allows you to highlight and annotate your recording. |
Free |
Offers additional purchases, |
Sonocent Recorder,
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A recorder application that lets you highlight the audio of your recording. You can also add typed notes and images to the recording segments. |
Free or $17.99
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Offers additional purchases, |
Livescribe+
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A digital copy of your Livescribe notebook. |
Free |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard
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An interactive digital whiteboard. You can record voice over videos of your interactions with the whiteboard to save for your personal use or to share with others. |
Free |
Offers additional purchases, |
LiquidText PDF Document Reader: Annotate & Excerpt
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Allows you to pull segments of text from PDF documents to create reading notes. You can rearrange these different segments add annotations and add your own personal notes. |
Free or $19.99 |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases, |
Pearltrees - Organize all your interests
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An application that allows you to organize photos, notes, PDFs, web pages, documents, etc. in one place. |
Free |
Offers additional purchases |
Paper by FiftyThree - Sketch, Diagram, Take Notes
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An application that allows you to draw and take notes. |
Free or $5.99 |
Offers additional purchases |
TopNotes - Take Notes, Annotate PDF & Sync Notebook with Dropbox
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A note-taking application that allows you to annotate your notes. |
Free or $6.99 |
Offers additional purchases, |
Notability
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A note-taking application that will allow you to type and draw your notes while sinking the text with an audio recording. |
$13.99 |
Offers additional purchases, |
Pear Note
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A note-taking application that will allow you to record audio wall typing your notes. |
$6.99 |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
MyScript Nebo
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An application for pro tablets that will convert digitally handwritten text, equations, and flowchart diagrams in to type text/digital images. |
$2.99 |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Reading |
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Applications |
Description |
Price |
Notes |
vBooks PDF Voice Reader
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A text-to-speech application that reads PDFs. Until you purchase a voice the application will only read the first page of your document. |
Free-$6.99 |
Offers additional purchases, , |
vBooks PDF Voice Reader US
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A text-to-speech application that reads PDFs. This version of the application will read your entire PDF document.
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$6.99 |
Offers additional purchases,
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Voice Dream Reader
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A text-to-speech application that reads a number of document formats. You can also highlight text and extract the highlights into a separate document. |
$20.99 |
Offers additional purchases,
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Natural Reader,
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A text-to-speech application that reads web pages, documents, and eBooks. |
Free-$13.99 |
Offers additional purchases,
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WebOutLoud
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A text-to-speech application that will read web pages. |
Free, |
Offers additional purchases,
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Speak it! Text to Speech
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A text-to-speech application that will read the text you type into the application. |
$2.79 |
Offers additional purchases,
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Snap&Read Universal
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A text-to-speech reader that will read web pages, inaccessible text, modify text complexity, and provide text translations. |
7-day free trial, after that it $3.99 a month |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
VO Starter
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An application that provides training for the built-in iOS screen reader. |
$2.79 |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
BigBrowser
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An internet browser application that increases the size of the webpage you are looking at. |
Free |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Brighter and Bigger
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Uses the camera on your device to view, tint and magnify text that is too small to read. |
Free, |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Reading Annotation |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
TinyPDF - Fill Forms, Annotate PDF with Professional Reader
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An application that will allow you to read and annotate PDF documents. |
Free |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
PDF Expert 6: Read, annotate & edit PDF documents
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An application that will allow you to read, edit, and annotate PDF documents. |
$13.99 |
Offers additional purchases,
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PDF Max 5 Pro - Fill forms, edit & annotate PDFs, sign documents
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An application that will allow you to read, edit, and annotate PDF documents. |
$6.99 |
Offers additional purchases,
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Writing, |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
Dragon Dictation
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A dictation application. |
Free |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Pages
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A word processor application with a variety of different document templates. |
Free |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Templates for Pages Pro
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Templates for a variety of different documents ranging from bibliographies to weekly planners. |
$4.99 |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Spell Better - Literacy Support for Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Low Vision
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A word prediction application that has text-to-speech capabilities so it can read as you type. The premium version allows you to write more than 250 words and has an export feature. |
$13.99-$34.99 |
Offers additional purchases |
Read&Write for iPad
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A keyboard that has a number of features to assist you when you are typing. For example, a “speak as I type feature”. |
30-day free trial, contact texthelp for a license. |
Offers additional purchases |
Speller - Free Spell Checker
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A spellcheck application. |
Free |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases, |
EasyBib: Automatic Bibliography Generator and Citation Machine
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A citation generating application. |
Free |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Reference Materials |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
Tap Dictionary - In browser definitions
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An application which will allow you to look up the definitions of words by tapping upon them while you are using the Safari web browser. |
$9.99 |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Dictionary.com Dictionary & Thesaurus,
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An offline dictionary application. The paid version has a number of additional dictionaries e.g., a Medical Dictionary. |
Free-$3.99, |
Offers additional purchases |
WordWeb Dictionary
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An offline English dictionary application. The paid version is an offline audio dictionary application. |
Free-$6.99, |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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An offline English dictionary application that has word games to improve vocabulary. The paid version has graphical illustrations and additional entries. |
Free-$6.99 |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases |
National Geographic World Atlas
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A World Atlas. |
$1.99 |
No ads · No additional purchases, |
Mind Maps, |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
Inspiration Maps™
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A mind mapping application, with this application you can make five mind maps. In order to make more than five mind maps and use additional features, you will have to upgrade to the paid version. |
Free-$13.99 |
Offers additional purchases |
SimpleMind+ Intuitive Mind Mapping
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A mind mapping application. The paid version has a number of additional features e.g., sharing and exporting and adding media and documents to your mind map. |
Free-$8.49 |
Offers additional purchases |
iMindQ – Stylish Mind Mapping and Brainstorming
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A mind mapping application. |
Free |
Offers additional purchases |
Flashcards |
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Applications* |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
Quizlet: Study Flashcards, Languages, Vocab & more,
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A flashcard application that will allow you to generate your own cards, download decks made by other people, and study your cards in a variety of different ways (e.g., matching, games, etc.). |
Free, |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases |
Flashcards+ by Chegg - Custom Flashcard Maker
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A flashcard application that will allow you to generate your own cards, download decks made by other people, and study your cards. |
Free, |
Offers additional purchases |
Brainscape - Smart Flashcards
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A flashcard application that will allow you to generate your own cards, download decks made by other people (your peers and experts), and then study your cards. |
Free |
Offers additional purchases |
*An alternative and similar application to Quizlet is GoConqr.
Math, |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
MyScript Calculator
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A calculator application that will allow you to write the equation in your own handwriting. |
Free, |
Offers additional purchases |
Photomath - Camera Calculator
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A calculator application that will allow you to take a picture of the equation. The application will also show you a step-by-step solution to the equation. |
Free, |
Offers additional purchases |
Quick Graph: Your Scientific Graphing Calculator
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A scientific graphing calculator application. |
Free-$1.99 |
Offers additional purchases |
The Calculator - Free and Easy Calculating!
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A calculator application that has the features of both standard and scientific calculators. |
Free |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases |
Scanning, |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
Tiny Scanner - PDF scanner to scan document, receipt & fax
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A scanning application that will convert the pictures you take of a document into a PDF. |
Free |
Offers additional purchases |
Office Lens,
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Converts the pictures you take into a PDF, an image in a Word document, or image in a PowerPoint. A useful application for anyone who has a Microsoft One login. |
Free |
No ads · No additional purchases |
TextGrabber – image to text: OCR & translate photo
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An optical character recognition application that will take the inaccessible text and transferred into an accessible format. This application can also translate the text into another language. |
$4.99 |
Contains ads · Offers additional purchases |
Extra Resources, |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
NFB Films
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Watch films, documentaries, animations, etc. from the National Film Board of Canada. |
Free |
No ads · No additional purchases |
TED,
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An application to watch TED talks. |
Free, |
No ads · No additional purchases |
Khan Academy,
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An application that will provide you with access to the resources on the web-based learning platform Khan Academy that will let you learn almost anything. |
Free, |
No ads · No additional purchases |
iTunes U
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An application that will provide you with a variety of different free university courses and other educational resources. |
Free |
No ads · No additional purchases |
Health and Wellness |
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Applications, |
Description, |
Price, |
Notes, |
My Wonderful Days Lite: Daily Journal/Diary
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A mood-tracking journal application. |
Free-$3.99 |
No ads · No additional purchases |
Breathing Zone: Guided Breathing for Mindfulness
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Breathing exercises. |
$5.49 |
No ads · No additional purchases |
Serenity ~ the relaxation app
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Relaxing videos and music. |
$1.99 |
No ads · No additional purchases |
Headspace: Guided Meditation & Mindfulness
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A meditation application. |
Free |
No ads · Offers additional purchases |