The Top Five Apps For Students Are...

• Show me the MONEY!: As we all know money is usually an issue for students. From what I hear from our international students is that they normally eat beans or noodles for dinner, take advantage of the free tasters at the supermarket and schedule their lives around different happy hours in the city! They say they would much rather save their money for trips around the country, and I couldn't agree more, so I would have to say that HotUKDeals is a must for studying in the UK, and that Groupon is practically giving things away in the states. Anything from clothes to manicures, spa days to cinema tickets and free rounds of Golf. And, Both apps are free too, happy days!

• LogMeIn : Allows users to access and remotely control their work and home computers via iphone or ipad. Great app for business users also. Fees may apply. 

• Evernote:An easy to use and free app that helps you organised your life and remember everything. 'Men, you will never need a women again!' This apps allows its users to make voice recordings, take notes, capture photos, create to do lists and more. The app won the New York Times 'Top Ten Must -Have App Award', plus numerous other awards. I haven't used this one before, I have just downloaded it, so I will let you know whether or not we get on. Free, but upgrades are available. 

• Paper By FiftyThree: This is a visually stunning app for jotting down notes, sketching out ideas, keeping a journey and doodling. The reason I place this in the top five is that, thanks to Elizabeth we all now know how beneficial doodling is when a person is trying to concentrate. So using this app in lectures can be especially good for students. Not only that but when your lecturer does say something which needs to be written down-you can do that too. Free app 

• Duolingo: Learn a foreign language. It teaches you, tests you, and even sometimes fails you, all so you can ace that language class. Free app. 

Thats all for today, I hope these apps are helpful. I am going to be adding to this list as new apps come out. Elizabeth is crazy about apps-she has so many that her ipad runs slower than it should.

Let me know how you get on with these apps or if you have any apps which you are dying to share with someone, than we would love to hear about it!

Amber Williams-Director

Bearla International Studies