Sitting at a laptop for studying (and browsing ASOS) can become a bit of a drag and can sometimes be uncomfortable on your shoulders, neck and other areas of posture. Sometimes it's good to kick back, grab your iPad and take a more relaxed approach to studying. The things that make an iPad so great are its dinky size in comparison to a laptop and the fact that it's also bigger than your phone and therefore more suited to loads of things like reading, surfing the web and watching videos.  Here are my top 8 apps (in no particular order!) that I think are great for uni.

1. ASOS

I said in no particular order, don't judge! ASOS is the perfect break from reading lecture notes and writing essays. Get shopping from the comfort of your sofa with their handy app.

2. RefMe

RefMe is a really useful free app which supports loads of different referencing styles that you'll undoubtedly need for referencing your sources in essays and reports. RefMe makes it easy to create projects, annotate web pages from the internet and add quotes from books that you may have borrowed from the library with it's handy barcode scanner. This will make sure that your bibliography is definitely in the correct order and save you losing valuable marks on silly things that could have been avoided.

3. Google Drive

You've definitely heard this before but back up, back up and back up your work again. Keeping a disk drive or a memory stick is all well and good until you lose it and you can't rely on always getting the same PC in the library. Make sure that you're saving your work to a cloud or an online drive such as Google Drive too. Plus, with the iPad app, you can access your work from anywhere that you have wifi so if you have a brain wave on the train and you've got free wifi - jot that down!

4. UNiDAYS

Obviously I couldn't go through a blog post about apps without including UNiDAYS. Shameless, I know. But, seriously, you'll save so much money on the things that you already buy so download it here now!

5. Kindle

Reading on a tablet or iPad has pretty split opinions but I really enjoy it. I like that I don't have to turn actual pages (lazy, I know!) and if I'm travelling long distance, or going on a short vacation, I can read multiple books easily!

6. Padstagram

Instagram had to be in here because it's definitely one of my favourite apps and I really like it on the bigger iPad screen. More room to double tap!

8. Pinterest

Pinterest is awesome for ideas for uni projects, style inspiration and recipes. I always use it for grabbing new ideas for yummy things to whip up in the kitchen. I used Pinterest a lot when I was at uni as I studied Fashion Marketing. There's always an idea that you can adapt, gain inspiration from or share with your group.

9. YouTube

Last but not least, YouTube is the video version of Pinterest for me. I'm always on the look out for tips, tricks, inspiration and more and sometimes it's just nice to be lazy and watch a video instead of read a recipe online! New Zealand students, you can now save up to 10% at the Apple Store for Education using your UNiDAYS discount!  That's a whole load of dollar to save on some seriously essential study aids.

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