Android Applications: Top 5 Educational Apps

The formulas app is a collection of important information and tools to help students. It compiles the most important formulas of maths, physics and chemistry, organized according to topic. The chemistry section also contains a functional periodic table to let you tap on the app to view information about the element. Apart from the subjects, the app also contains a scientific calculator, translator, metric conversion tools, web references and interesting facts about the subjects.

Your entire catalog of books is always with you now. This app lets you read and download thousands of eBooks comfortably on your Android phone. With its fully-customizable reading experience, the app comes with an advanced library management system, including EPUB and PDF files. It also features bookmarking, full text search and support for night-time reading. The huge list of eBooks includes best-sellers, new releases and many free classics.

This fun and educational game tests your geography by making you locate capitals, state capitals and famous places around the world. The game maps your travels, marks and saves information about different points in various countries. The game is accurately based on GPS coordinates, and thus, provides an exact distance between the target and point pinned by you. Featuring 4 zoom levels, 8 challenges and 3 levels, the game covers 350 famous places.

Play with words on your smartphone, while learn new ones in the process. This app is a word-finding puzzle, combining elements of Scrabble, Boggle and Bejeweled. Played against a dwindling timer, valid words boost your score. The game offers three different dictionaries:

• Scrabble: It includes 2-8 letter words from the SOWPODS list of Scrabble competition words amounting to 114575, with both UK and US spellings.
• Webster’s: This contains 2-8 letter words numbering to 87416, including some proper nouns.
• Both: It's a combination of the above two ranges to 153136 words. This is used by default.

This flash card application is one-of-its-kind, providing text-to-speech capability. With a fully interactive experience for all age-groups, this multi-sensory teaching method is extremely useful for improving memory and learning. The app lets you create your own flash cards, share them with other users or download decks of cards from developer website. Digital index cards can be used to teach children how to read, help students in their exams, learn a language or prepare for a presentation. The app uses a completely interactive flashcard application for brain building.