College life is both exciting and exhausting with your great expectations and a lot of hard work to get that elusive A. However, making use of the right tools and a good attitude you can manage your busy college lifestyle. So lets look at some of the best smartphone, tablet and laptop apps that will suit you best while trying to attain that 4.0 GPA.

1.)  JiWire WiFi Finder – besides going to the school library to do research for your term paper or wanting to stay connected with classmates on a big group project, you’ll also need to do after hours research work (and no, I don’t mean going on Facebook). It’s important to know exactly where the WiFi hotspots are around you and this app makes that very easy it will show all the places where you can access the net via a WiFi station.

2.)  Alarm Clock Xtreme – Getting up on time and be in class before your professor will is extremely important for your college career and the Alarm Clock Xtreme can be of great assistance. Unlike ordinary alarm clocks this app is programmable to “not let you embrace the pillow for 5 more minutes” with its complex algebra equation that you’ll have to solve to get it to stop ringing; which of course by the time you will have solved the equation you wouldn’t want to go back to sleep anymore. A simple solution to what seemed like an epidemic for most college students!

3.)  Tape-A-Talk – Long lectures especially with boring subjects but you desperately need that A requires something special and the Tape-A-Talk app, which is a recording app is your champion in this case. Record everything that your professor is saying throughout the class and just transcribe later when you don’t feel sleepy like you did during class anymore.

4.)  Tellro – this app is great for undertaking big group projects where you can organize and coordinate your efforts in one place and receive updates through your Smartphone, Laptop and Tablet simultaneously. Now you don’t have to squabble over who should do what or miss out on any deadlines that you set before completing the project as a group. Just use the Trello app and get the project done.

5.)  CamScanner – this app was once only available in James Bond movies now you can access it too! And you’ll see the importance of it once you get into that tight corner where sending your classmates an important file but you don’t have a computer or a fax machine around to do that. With the CamScanner you can simply use your phone’s camera to scan ay document and send it to your classmates and friends in a PDF file instantly! It’s probably one of the coolest apps ever developed.