Office Lens trims, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. You can use Office Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files.

Capture your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas with OneNote.

View, edit, sign, and annotate PDF documents by working directly on the text.

Evernote lets you take notes, sync files, and share ideas. This article highlights its potential use for academic research.

Take digital handwritten notes for class or work. Markup PDFs, sign documents, draw chemical structures or other diagrams in this highly responsive app.

Edit, annotate, sign, and share PDFs on desktop, mobile, and web.

The Samsung Notes app is easy writing note for people who like to write and draw.

Microsoft Immersive Reader is a free tool that implements proven techniques to improve reading and writing. In particular, offers text decoding solutions for readers with learning differences such as dyslexia.

Download apps for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and more.

Plant a tree on the app and let it grow while you work. Helps you to stay focused and avoid distractions on your phone. (Paid App)

Online to-do list and task management.

A useful tool that helps you to organize and prioritize your projects using boards, lists and cards.

Lets you create and manage timetables.

Make shopping lists or task lists, take notes, record collections, plan an event, or set reminders to increase your productivity

Lets you bring your photos, documents and videos anywhere and share them easily.

Browzine is a tool that allows you to access and keep up to date with key journal titles that the Library subscribes to in your subject area. You will need to log in using your University ID and password.

Keep all your favourite newsfeeds in one place.

A news and social media aggregator that curates content into a magazine format.

An RSS reader with a useful automated tagging and organising feature that can save you time. You can also track specific keywords and save web pages to view later.

Useful RSS reader that allows you to read content in its original context. It's easy to share stories and you can organise or search for content using categories and tags. Free version limits you to following 64 sites.

Use Pocket to save articles, videos and stories from any publication, page or app to read at a later time.

Free but effective security app for all devices. Helps to protect your device, your data and your identity with mobile security and identity theft protection.

Antivirus protection for android mobile devices.

Anki is a handy app for making digital flash cards to help you revise. You can create sets of flash cards using pictures. You can associate specific questions to specific flash cards and the app will test you on them by selecting questions at random. The app also allows you to select how often specific flash cards are shown based on your confidence in the card topic.

The Simple Mind app lets you analyse your thoughts and structure and organise your ideas exactly how you want .

A useful study app that can create flashcards and quizzes for revision.

GoConqr provides a range of tools for learning. From planning, brainstorming and note-taking to testing and scoring - find everything you need on a single platform.