Whether you want to know the meaning of a word, the name of a bone, practice your French or revise for your exams, iPhone has the smartest apps around.
Tools for school.
iPhone has great apps to help with every subject. Bring the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary to English class, and you’ll never be at a loss for words. Headed to Chemistry? Be sure to take Periodic along—a complete reference to the Periodic Table of Elements that you can organise by name, atomic number, chemical series, symbol or phase. Download Grafly and impress your entire math class with amazing 2D and 3D interactive graphs of equations that can be viewed from any angle.
Available on the App Store
Did you know?
iTunesU is packed with course lectures from the most esteemed professors at top universities. Whether you’re studying art or engineering, there’s probably a podcast for it. And even better, you won’t have to pay tuition.
Learn in a flash.
With Mental Case you can create flashcards on your Mac and sync them to your iPhone, or choose from over 16 million to download from FlashcardExhange.com. Then study on the go with a full-screen slideshow.
Available on the App Store
Parlez-vous franҫais?
Turn your iPhone into your own personal language lab. French 101 is an entertaining way to learn the language or just brush up. Play games, study flash cards and take fun quizzes to add to your vocabulary. Then repeat the native speaker to make sure you get the pronunciation down. Want to be tri-lingual? Add Spanish 101, tambien.
Available on the App Store
Get an A in organisation.
When homework starts piling up, iPhone has apps to help you keep track of it. View assignments by day, week or course with iHomework. Then check them off once you’ve turned them in and even monitor your progress by tapping in your marks. Need a little extra time? You can find your teacher’s contact information here too. Assignments is another handy homework app. In addition to helping you organise your work load, it’ll let you add a recording to any entry.
Available on the App Store
Punch in numbers.
The Calculator app on iPhone isn’t just one calculator, it’s two. Rotate iPhone and it switches to a scientific calculator that’s easy as pi to use.
Be well-read.
Download Shakespeare and you can have the complete works of history’s greatest playwright in your pocket. With the full texts of 40 plays, all six poems and 154 sonnets - all completely searchable - you'll never be at a loss for the bard's words.
Available on the App Store
A body of knowledge.
The best-selling Netter’s Anatomy textbook just got a lot lighter. With Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards on your iPhone, medical students and amateur anatomists get instant access to over 300 annotated images of muscles, bones, vessels, viscera and joints. Tap to test your knowledge in quiz mode or pinch to get a closer look.
Available on the App Store
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Record a lecture.
If you missed something the first time, you won’t miss it a second time when you record class lectures with Voice Memo. Play them back as a study guide, then share with classmates via MMS or email.
Available on the App Store
Record a voice memo:
- Tap
to start recording. You can also press the center button on the iPhone headset. - Tap
to pause or 
to stop recording. You can also press the center button on the iPhone headset to stop recording.
Share a voice memo:
- On the Voice Memos screen or Info screen, tap Share.
- Choose Email Voice Memo to open a new message in Mail with the memo attached, or choose MMS to open a new message in Messages.
