College is starting up . . .are you prepared? These 19 apps will help you get there.

SOCIAL

CampusSafe : CampusSafe is a mobile safety & security app designed for your campus. They created a branded app for your college, university, or K-12 school that will inform, report and assist your constituents. CampusSafe is free and can be downloaded at http://campussafeapp.com/.

Hopspot : Hopspot lets you get together with your new college friends easily. Its simple design allows you to make plans, share photos, and tag your friends without the clutter or drama of traditional social media. The best part? It clears every morning giving you a clean slate for your day.

You can download Hopspot for free here.

Rave Guardian : The Rave Guardian Campus Safety app allows students to create safety profiles to alert friends and family when they are walking alone. It also features a safety timer to alert campus security when a student does not arrive at a planned destination within a certain amount of time. The app has a panic button that, when pressed, alerts campus security of where a student is.

Planning

Habitica : Habitica is a free habit building and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. With in-game rewards and punishments to motivate you and a strong social network to inspire you, Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy, hard-working, and happy.

Owaves : Owaves is a day planner app for your health. Plan meditation, yoga, meals, sleep, love & exercise into your day.

Priority Matrix : Priority Matrix works across your team of one or one hundred, providing a single source of truth for your team’s priorities. Complete project transparency at your fingertips– in one clean dashboard. Everyone knows what everyone is supposed to do.

Benchprep : BenchPrep offers a comprehensive toolkit that includes an exam prep engine, content management system, educator tools, data engine, e-commerce solution and a variety of content & instructional design services.

Rescue Time : A personal analytics service that shows you how you spend your time and provides tools to help you be more productive.

STUDYING AND PRODUCTIVITY

SelfControl : SelfControl is a free and open-source application for Mac OS X that lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail servers, or anything else on the Internet. Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click “Start.” Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites — even if you restart your computer or delete the application.

My Study Life : It’s time to say goodbye to your paper planner. My Study Life is everything your paper planner is and more. Rotation schedules, assignments, revision, exams? My Study Life has it covered on all of your devices. Oh, and did we mention it’s free?

Tomato Timer : TomatoTimer is a flexible and easy to use online Pomodoro Technique Timer.

Whenisgoood : Plan the time to have your meeting or event by co-ordinating availability with all the particpants using this fuss-free online tool.

Jumpcut : Jumpcut is an application that provides “clipboard buffering” — that is, access to text that you’ve cut or copied, even if you’ve subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut’s interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard’s history.

Dragon Dictation : Use your voice to dictate a text message or email.

Evernote : Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with Evernote. Your thoughts are always with you, always accessible, always in sync.

EasyBib : Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA.

StudyBlue : Find and study online flashcards and class notes at home or on your phone.

COOKING

Cookbook App : Get 15,000+ kitchen-tested recipes all at your fingertips, for FREE with the app inspired by our best-selling cookbooks. Specifically designed with features to make it easier to cook from your Apple device, the new and improved Betty Crocker Cookbook app is better than ever.

Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner : Get dinner on the table with less fuss and more fun! The Allrecipes Dinner Spinner app gives you instant access whether you are at home, in the store or on the go to Allrecipes’ amazing collection of recipes, photos, videos, collections, ratings and reviews created and shared by 50 million home cooks.