Mobile phone applications provide us with a great amount of convenience and entertainment. However, there are also quite a few mobile apps that can help us with our studies as well. Smartphones have become personal assistants and there plenty of great apps that can help with studying, gathering research, and anything else you need to get an A on that next test.

Amazon Kindle

The Kindle app is essential for those students on a budget. Instead of going to the store to buy the books, a lot of books are available as e-books on the Kindle service. This cuts out the possibility of forgetting your book. As long as you have your smartphone or tablet, you will have your book with you.

Wikipedia

Regardless of what your teachers say, Wikipedia can be an excellent reference for anyone that needs to learn something. There is a near infinite amount of information that’s available on Wikipedia. If you need to brush up on just about anything, Wikipedia is an excellent place to start. Wikipedia is also great for writing essays. While most teachers don’t allow students to use Wikipedia as an actual source, you can just scroll to the bottom of a Wikipedia article and steal those sources. This cuts down the amount of time you have to slave away, finding your own sources.

Unit Converter

This app does exactly what you expect it to do. It allows you convert currency, measures of mass, weight, height, area, anything you can imagine. Not everyone teaches you how to convert units and it can be pretty hard keeping everything in order. However, this is an excellent tool to practice your conversions or to get conversions as you need them.  If you are in a science or math major, this could really come in handy. It will cut time off your homework and allow you to focus on the important parts of your coursework without getting caught up on little things like conversions.

Google Now

Google Now uses Google’s search engine to give you information. Any question you ask it, it will likely have the answer for it. This is a great way to get a little more information. Perhaps you don’t know what a word means during a reading, you can just ask Google Now and it will tell you. Google Now is also an excellent time keeping tool. You can set reminders and alarms to let you know when you need to start studying, take a break, or whatever you need to do. Of all the apps that can benefit your education, Google Now is definitely the most versatile.

Google Drive

Google Drive is an excellent app that allows you to save documents to Google’s Cloud service. Why is this useful? Well, you will never have to worry about forgetting an assignment again. Saving it to drive ensures that as long as you have your smartphone, your notes and homework will be right there with you. Drive can be a godsend for those that need to do a little bit of last minute studying before a test or quiz. Plus, you can use your smartphone camera to “scan” documents to your Drive account. So don’t worry too much about that messy backpack. Using the scan feature allows you to easily keep up with all of your work and use them for reference.

There are an abundance of excellent apps that will help you get good grades, you just need to seek them out and download them so they are ready to go when you need them. Instead of just using your smartphone for entertainment, remember that it can also be an excellent educational tool.

History apps allow you to integrate the best of all worlds, giving you access to all the details of a past event while still allowing you to explore it through pictures, video and even interactive 3D. Your ipad and iPhones bring the history alive to their screens. Here is a list of best history apps for your iPad and iPhone.

Timeline World war 2 with Dan Snow

Timeline World war 2 is a simple audio-visual tour of the Second World War. It is one of the most exciting history apps you’ve never seen with your ipad. The app includes a fascinating zoom able timeline of the entire war. Though the app lacks the depth that an academic book offers, Timeline World War II still does more than just providing an insight of the subject.

It’s clear from the name that all of the war events are neatly structured according to the dates, easily accessible through a Timeline view that can be zoomed in for more info or zoomed out for more of an insight. You can also switch to a dynamic map view, which makes it easy to understand how the war first spread and then advanced at any point to the conflict. Overall this app is a fantastic way to teach young historians the course of conflict.

Building Titanic

Now with this free iPad app, you can travel back to the past and witness Titanic’s construction. Its Timeline feature is absolutely gorgeous that covers major events in the ship’s construction from the approval of the ship’s design to the completion of the design.

What’s even more exciting is that you learn many interesting facts about the ship and the crowd associated with it through archived photos. The information on the app is just amazing that keeps you engaged for hours as you explore the ship completely. It also covers the working conditions of the laborers, the different parts of the ship when it embarked on its final voyage along with its video footage.

The British Monarchy

The app tells you everything you need to know about the British royal family. This app works both on iPhone and iPad. It shows a list of all the British monarchs, from 757 AD to House of Windsor. Selecting each ruler takes you to a brief bio of them. You would be interested to learn more about each UK monarch than the short summary included here. And for more reading, the app provides an appendix of more Acts, speeches and Orders. It’s a handy reference guide that keeps you engaged for hours.

Pyramids 3D

If you’re interested in Egyptian history then this is a must-have app. Explore the ancient monuments of Egypt on your iPad screen in this entertaining, amazing 3D world.

Disclose the amazing story of history’s greatest treasure by exploring Egypt’s famous pyramids and tombs. You can have a 360 degree view of these monuments. Pyramids 3D is an excellent app that is unrivaled in the App store.