Today’s students need as much help as possible to organize their life and stay on the right track. You have to be organized, create a decent studying schedule, and still be able to communicate with your friends and family. Many students are finding that iPhone applications are useful tools that can help in organize your life academically as well as socially. Aside from the apps serving as basic study aids, there are other apps out there that can promote productivity, organize to do lists, budget, help with writing papers and taking notes, as well as provide entertainment and communication networks. Most of these apps listed are free but there are a few that we felt stood out and should be mentioned regardless. Here’s a look at some of these awesome apps we have compiled for students.

Studying

With gigabytes of storage, dimensions comparable to traditional note cards, and a full color screen, the iPhone is the ultimate study companion. These apps will help make studying a breeze.

1. Instapaper If you find something important during your browsing or have information that you need to deal with later, this application lets you store it an access it at a later time.

2. iFlipr Flashcards You need all the help you can get studying for that final. Use these flashcards when it comes to drilling and memorization.

3. Quickpedia Lite An easier and faster way to use Wikipedia. Get quick answers to your questions using this app.

4. Brain Tutor 3D If you are studying Anatomy or a pre-med students then this is the app for you. Now you can study anatomy, brain terms, and more.

5. Free Wi-Fi finder Use this tool to find places you can bring your laptop to study. This way you will know before you get there and take away the hassle.

6. StudySets – Psychology Lite Psych students will appreciate this application. There is an abundance of psychology learning resources.

7. iTranslator Students studying abroad can use this tool to connect to Google Translator, Babel Fish or Free Translation for translation of many foreign languages.

8. USA Factbook Free Great for anyone in a civics, history or political science courses that covers the U.S. This reference packet lets you access key documents, lists of the flags, state capitals and other stats. It will give

9. Free Driver’s Ed Students practicing for the driving test can review topics and questions here. Giver your parent’s some piece of mind also.

10. Mathemagics Lite Stuck on a math problem?  Using this app will help you figure out squares, complicated multiplication problems and more.

Books

From finding the cheapest text book to simply reading for pleasure, these apps will make a student’s life much easier.

11. iReading Find books by author or title, read them at any time, and add to your personal list of favorites. This app remembers the spot you finished reading each time and will keep that spot next time you load up the same book.

12. Free iPhone eBooks Turn your phone into a free eBook reader. Choose from a growing selection of free eBooks.

13. CliffNotes To Go Read the most popular CliffNotes from your iPhone. Read titles such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Macbeth, and the Adventures of Huckelberry

14. Read It Later Pro Saves web pages to read later in place of bookmarks. Downloads your list of stuff you want to read for offline viewing so you can read it even when you do not have an internet connection.

15. WOWIO Mobile Get access to hundreds of high-quality ebooks from leading publishers, all for free. Choose from a wide range of titles in graphic novels, works of literature, and other popular works.

16. BookBargain A free shopping search utility that tracks down and gives you the best prices on books online at popular stores like Amazon in multiple countries like USA, Japan, UK, France, Germany, and Cananda.

17. Reader Start reading your books on your iPhone. Now all your books will always available on your book shelf and can be easily opened with a single touch. Quickly paste entire books into your reader.

18. Get all the Books Read news feeds from The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book Review, Powell’s Books, New Online Books, and Salon.com.

19. Stanza Designed for reading digital publications, including electronic books, newspapers, PDFs, and general web content. This interface is organized and easy to read.

20. Iceberg Reader An electronic book reader which the experience of reading books to the mobile space. You can get books when you want, wherever you want.

21. Bookstores Not sure where to get that book? Find local Bookstores using your Zip Code on your IPhone.

Writing Papers

These applications will help make your writing assignments more creative and informative. They can also reduce writing time which leaves much more time for fun.

22. Dictionary.com Everyone needs a good dictionary and this app includes more than 275,000 definitions and 80,000 synonyms. It also includes audio pronunciations and similarly spelled words.

23. DocViewer Want to read over your paper one last time before you present it? This app lets you see the document right on your phone.

24. Documents To Go While working on anything from an AP History essay to a Masters’ thesis, bring your .doc or .docx files along for the ride and store them in full formatted glory.

25. Make U Sound Smart 100 Words to Make You Sound Smart is an iPhone app sold in the App Store based on the book. Whether you need to give a speech, write a paper, you’ll be on your way to sounding articulate, educated, and literate.

26. IdeaGenerator By stroking or shaking the screen, three random words appear, taken from lengthy word lists. These random words are designed to spark creative connections in your brain thereby leading to great writing ideas.

27. Text Editor Works to fix the small key problems big fingers have. With Text Editor, each key is two times as large as the typical iPhone’s keys making it much easier to type longer essays.

28. Thesaurus Make your papers better than the rest. Retrieve the synonym for every word. If available you will get antonyms, related terms, similar words, and user suggestions.

29. iTranslate This free iPhone app can translate text into 42 different languages. This is great for philosophy majors needing Greek.

30. SAT Vocabulary Builder Word power alone won’t get you an A on that paper, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. Though designed with students in mind, Vocabulary Builder has tools that can help anyone learn big, fancy words.

Budgeting

Keeping yourself on a budget can be tough but with these helpful applications you can easily stay debt free.

31. Mint.com Not all of these school materials are free. To keep from getting in over your head, turn to, a free app that helps you keep track of your financial situation on the go. S

32. Got Expenses Designed to record and track expenses and allows users to set monthly budgets for personalized specific categories such as Personal Daily Expenses, Shopping, and Books.

33. GasBag Taking a road trip? Find the cheapest gas nearest closest to your location.

34. ATM Hunter If you can’t use your bank card and need some cold hard cash, students can find the location of any ATM using this free iPhone app.

35. Spend A quick and easy budget tracker.  When you enter how much you’ve spent in a particular area it calculates how much you have left for the day.

36. PiggyBank If student life has put a strain on your finances, here’s a simple tool that allows you to keep track of how much spare change is in your piggy bank, water jug, jar, car, etc.

37. Pageonce Gives you the ability to access and view all of your online accounts from a single mobile application. You can even view detailed financial transactions on your credit card or bank account

38. Millionaire Calc Will you ever be a millionaire? Find out how long it will take until you save a million based on starting balance, monthly contributions, interest rate, and factoring in inflation

39. Save Benjiis A free application for your iPhone that provides price comparison, reviews and way to buy over 15 million products from over thousand stores.

40. Transit Save money and take public transportation. This application will help you find the best ways to get where you’re going.

Note Taking

Being a busy student is not easy and taking notes can be very time consuming. With these apps you can jot down a thought as well as records one, all while you’re still on the go.

41. VoiceNotes A free voice recorder that allows you to make a quick note out of something. There’s no better way to do it than by speaking it into your iPhone for later reference.

42. Evernote Create, edit, and organize your notes. This app will always make sure that your notes stay synced as long as you have an internet connection handy.

43. Documents To Go Want to go to the beach with the girls but have some academic obligations. Take your Word, Excel, PDF, and other documents to the beach with you on your iPhone using this app.

44. Jott Make it easy for you to take notes on your iPhone. Tap the record screen and record a note with your voice. It will turn your voice memo into text and appear moments later in a notepad on the screen.

45. Dexy Get convenient free-form note organization with this application. Now you can keep record of all those wonderful thoughts you have throughout the day.

46. iTalk Recorder Whether for recording a brilliant or just preserving the inspiration that struck in the night, a voice-recording app is essential. This one’s free, and it lets you append text notes to your voice notes.

47. YouNote With this app, you can take notes by drawing, typing, or recording. Whichever suits your fancy that day.

48. Writing Pad Swipe your finger across the letters that make up the word you want, and WritingPad will guess what word it is. You can also type normally if you want to.

49. Fliq Notes A fast and easy way to create, save and sort notes and memos by name, category or date. You can also send notes to other Fliq users too.

50. Simple Notes is a very easy and straightforward Application, which helps you to note your thoughts as fast and easy as possible. There are many applications to write down some text, but none of those are that easy, fast and intuitive as.

Productivity

This whole school scene can be one big mess of classes, lectures, events, and dates. These apps will help students stay on top of their busy schedule.

51. myHomework Get your assignments organized by list or calendar, edit details, and track your class schedule, all with an interface that might make keeping up with your homework bearable.

52. A Personal Assistant: This free app organizes your accounts, including online shopping, banking, Netflix and more. It also tracks cell phone minutes, frequent flyer miles, and travel itineraries.

53. Blackboard Learn Access your school’s Blackboard system for connections to your course information, class updates and learn right from your iphone any where you want. Now you can multi-task with no problem at all.

54. iProcrastinate Mobile Students who like to put off tasks will benefit from iProcrastinate Mobile. The free app offers easy task management for the most daunting of schedules.

55. SugarSync You can remotely access your home computer through your iPhone with the help of this app. Get all of your files on-the-go, instantly and securely from any Mac, PC or mobile device.

56. Attendance Countdown: Track the amount of time you spend in class and studying with the help of this app.

57. IOrganiZ Pro A user friendly app that serves as a personal organizer. This ultimate task manager has a set of features that will help manage your time and track your tasks.

58. Google Calendar: You’ll be able to manage your entire calendar from your iPhone using the Google Calendar app. You get access to your tasks and appointments with a simple interface. You can also easily add new events by typing the literal text.

59. iStudent Have your class schedule at your fingertips. Forget having to write down your schedule on papers that often get lost, or which you have forgotten to take with you just when you need them.

60. Package Tracker Lite Waiting on that care package from mom? Track multiple packages from any place at any time from every major carrier including UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL.

To Do Lists

Just remembering where your next class is can be hard enough.  Let these apps categorize and prioritize those things you have to do.

61. Remember the Milk Lets you add, edit, and manage your tasks either on or offline. The best part for students is the “Nearby” feature. You can view all the errands you have taking place in the vicinity.

62. To Do’s This app lets you customize your to-do list according to priority level Great for procrastinators; this free app makes it easy to keep track of items on your to-do list and get those important things done on time.

63. Smart ToDo Manage your to-do list with notes and due dates. This way you should never have a reason for that homework assignment to be late.

64. Stick It Use this app to create personal reminders, shopping lists, and special notes to friends and family. Features over 15 styles of notes, papers, and objects to add your custom text to

65. Done An innovative to do list with some unique features such as Landscape mode and sound effects.

66. ReQall Helps you remember all the big and little things going on in your life. Just call reQall and say what you want to remember before you forget.

67. Checklist Just a single list but it’s an extremely simple alternative for managing a to-do list.

68. Zenbe Lists This app lets you view or edit your lists from your iPhone (also from the web if you accidentally leave your iPhone at home), and share your lists between phones and via email.

Calculators

These iPhone apps put a new spin on the word calculator. Now you can calculate everything from tips to your GPA.

69. TouchCalc Multi-modes make this tool ideal for any student from beginning to advanced. It also has a scientific mode that offers all the usual functions and operations.

70. MyGPA Calculator Worried about if your Biology grade is on the borderline of D or F? Calculate your GPA per semester and cumulatively.

71. Graphing Calculator Turns your iPhone into a high-resolution function plotter and scientific calculator. This way you will always have the answers you need.

72. TheMacBox Converts currencies into dollars, centimeters into inches, Celsius into Fahrenheit and makes other conversions you can’t do because you weren’t paying attention when your middle-school.

73. Tiptap The best app for when your friends are tapping on their wallets and waiting for you to tell them how much they owe. It even features a large custom keypad and a large picker wheel which makes it extremely finger friendly.

74. Carpool Calculator Has your car been on E for the past week? You’ll be able to determine how much you can save by carpooling with this app.

75. iCalc Auto Loan Great for those shopping around for a new or used car who are taking out a new loan.

76. Pizza Calculator This app was designed as a means to ease the complicated process of finding the lowest common denominator of toppings when ordering pizza for a large group.

77. Drink Tracker Use your iPhone to keep track of your BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) while you’re drinking with this personal breathalyzer simulator. Quickly and easily keep a record of what you’ve been drinking with the fully editable one-tap drinks list.

78. EZ Loan Calc EZ Loan Calc is a loan calculator than can quickly calculate your monthly payments based on the information you enter.

Music & Entertainment

When you do have some free time, check out these latest iPhone apps for the best music and entertainment in your area.

79. Pandora Radio Serves as an instant music collection on your iPhone. Build your own playlists based on your favorite songs or artists. Great for those long nights of cramming.

80. Variety Stay current on all the latest entertainment news on this app. Get a look at what’s new in fashion, music, and movies.

81. Shazam Ever heard a song in a store or restaurant that you liked but didn’t know who sang it or the title? With this app, hold your phone up to the music source, and wait as it listens, analyzes, and then returns the results a few seconds later. Pulls from a database of over 6 million tracks, dating as far back as the 50s and it works even in noisy places like bars and clubs.

82. Fandango Not sure what’s playing in the theatre? Find local movies and tickets here.

83. Google Mobile App Get easy access to the best of Google’s applications from within this one free app. Includes plenty of ways to access Google’s search engine, including a voice search, location-based local search, search suggestions, and more.

84. Local Concerts: Find out when and where your favorite bands are going to play with this free app.

85. College Football Live! Missing a game because your paper is due in the morning? Keep up with all the stats, scores and more for college football.

86. Tap Tap Revenge Like a mobile version of Rock Band or Guitar Hero that lets you use your fingers to become a masterful performer, now you can enjoy music and have a blast on your iPhone.

87. IQ-Test: How smart are you? Take this test to evaluate your IQ and exercise your brain.

88. Remote This amazing app allows you to control your iTunes via Wi-Fi from your iPod Touch or iPhone. So, when you bring a lady friend back to the dorm, you can simply set some slow jams to play before even entering your room.

89. myVideos Search, find, and download your favorite YouTube videos to your iPhone.

90. Local Picks by Trip Advisor Use this app when traveling or if you live in a popular vacation destination. You can look up restaurants, bars, and other spots that are favorites for the locals.

91. Fast-food – Top Restaurant Finder If you’re absolutely starving but have $2.25 to your name then this app will definitely help. This fast food directory will connect you to cheap, satisfying food fast.

92. Beer Brands Catalog your favorite beer brands and keep up with microbreweries and emerging brands.

Socializing & Dating

We know that keeping in contact with your friends (boy or girl) while staying focused in school can be a difficult task. These apps will help you stay in touch while you are on the go.

93. Face book With this phone app you’ll be able to keep up with your Face book addiction no matter where you go, letting you know about what’s going on with your friends in and out of class.

94. Birthday Notification Rely on this tool to keep track of all of your college friends’ birthdays. It might help to keep mom and dads on file too.

95. Txtpedia You may know what OMG and IDK mean, but what about CYT and WYCM? If you can’t understand what people are writing, or you’re tired of all that extra typing and want to learn more abbreviations, download txtpedia now!

96. MySpace The MySpace app will help keep you in the social loop. Use this app to post comments, read bulletins, and more.

97. Pick Up Master Use this app to have the red carpet of seduction rolled to your feet. Filled with pick up lines from many categories including Cheesy, Classic, Cocky, and Flattering. Shuffles through lines in random order so you don’t find yourself using the same lines over and over again.

98. Twitteriffic If you’re addicted to Twitter, you already know that it’s hard to keep up when you’re not at your computer. This app will allow you to stay on top of all of your Twitter friends from anywhere you are.

99. UrbanSpoon Need a nice place to take a date? This application makes it easy to find any kind of dining that you’re in the mood for.

100. 5800+ Drink and Cocktail Recipes Free Never get bored with mixing drinks when you have this directory of cocktail recipes. Great for any party.

Of course we know this only scratches the surface of the amount of apps out there, but we can guarantee that the above apps we listed are sure to help students prepare for school, stay on top of their studies, and have fun doing it.