Best study apps to improve productivity

Are you finding it difficult to focus on your work while studying? Constantly checking your phone for messages or getting distracted with frequent notifications? Luckily, there are many kinds of study apps you can install on your phone or digital device to help boost productivity and improve your study habits. Discover the best study and productivity apps currently on the market here.

Flora – Green Focus

Combining focus timers, clear to-do lists and an encouraging habit tracker, Flora is a great study app to help boost your productivity. The app motivates you to study by growing cute, animated trees based on your focus timers. If you leave the app during your set timer for games or social media, your tree will die. As you complete more focus sessions and study tasks, you’ll discover new trees and plants from all over the world in a grand tour.

Flora also allows you to study with your friends, with account linking functions that track both of your focus sessions. You can choose to grow a tree together while also chatting and motivating each other to boost productivity. The app can be downloaded from both the App Store and Google Play, and is also a Google Chrome extension, meaning you can use it from any device while studying with others.

Not only can you use the app to help you go phone-free during your dedicated study periods, but you can also opt into the app’s Price and Care services that lets you plant real trees on earth when you grow them on the app. Flora is partnered with Trees for the Future and Eden Reforestation Projects to plant fast-growing and soil-rejuvenating trees in Africa, East Asia, and South America. Just by studying, you can make a positive environmental impact with Flora.

Quizlet Flashcards & Learning

Flashcards are a great way to test your memory and help you remember key facts and concepts during your studies. Gone are the days of pen and paper and carrying stacks of physical flashcards around – now you can use an app like Quizlet Flashcards & Learning to keep your flashcards organised and with you on your device, at all times.

Jog your memory and boost productivity by studying with flashcards. With Quizlet, you can create custom flashcards based on your own study notes or use pre-made study sets that are designed for specific topics and subjects.

Quizlet has over 500 million flashcard sets made by teachers and experts from all over the world. From organic chemistry to computer science, there’s a flashcard set on every subject you can think of on Quizlet. You can even generate your flashcards using AI to save on time. The app is compatible with both Android and iOS devices.

Structured – Daily Planner

Perfect for both studying and general time management, Structured is a digital planning app great for improving productivity. Structured is a unique combination of typical calendar and to-do-list apps, visualising your tasks in an accessible and user-friendly format so you can stay on top of your study tasks every day. With tonnes of features available and even more when subscribed to the Pro version, Structured is great app to help you boost productivity.

On Structured, you can add events and keep tasks separate in your inbox so they’re not too overwhelming on your calendar. The app also sends custom reminders and automatically imports other schedules and tasks on your device so you can store all your work in one place. There are over 500 digital icons that you can use to organise your tasks and each task has a notes section for you to fill in with whatever you need. Structured offers help and support in almost 30 languages and is downloadable on the App Store.

Evernote

If you’re looking for a note-taking app that’s intuitive and easy to use, Evernote is one to check out. Available on both the App Store and Google Play, Evernote is a great note-taking app that keeps everything in one place – from typed notes to audio recordings to pictures. You can create and sync your account to any device, meaning you’ll be able to take down ideas on the fly and never lose them.

Evernote is great for writing and collecting notes and can also be used for bookmarking articles and webpages and even scanning and organising PDFs with your camera. It’s compatible with apps like Google Calendar, so you can keep your schedule, tasks and notes all in one place. Rather than having to organise your life across several different apps, you can use Evernote as your one-stop-app, saving you time and boosting your productivity and efficiency.

Study Bunny

Gamify your studying experience with the unique app Study Bunny. Designed to make studying fun and encourage productive focus time, Study Bunny is an adorable app with hand-drawn bunnies and other cute gimmicks to encourage you to develop good study habits while also enjoying learning. The app times your studying sessions and rewards you with in-game currency based on how long and how focused you are during your session. You can then head into the store in-game to purchase foods and decorations for your bunnies or even more study music.

The app also tracks your study hours and time per subject, so you know where your precious studying time is being spent. It has extra tools such as to-do-lists, flashcards, and customisable study trackers as well to ensure you have a seamless and smooth studying experience. You can check out Study Bunny on Google Play and the App Store.

Studyable

A free AI-powered learning platform, Studyable that can work like a study assistant. For example it can help you helps you to mark your essays, explains complicated content and learn with AI assistants. Using Studyable you can test your knowledge via quizzes or creates notes by summarising content. You can also create flashcards and get the app to explain any topic or concept.

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