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It’s the beginning of school terms. Everyone’s getting ready to pack up their books, organize their schedules, and register in their courses. Going back to college may not be your favorite time of the year, so we have compiled five simple, easy, and useful smartphone apps to make campus life more manageable and the daily routines more fun and less time-consuming.

Check them out:

1. Mint.com 

Finance and budgeting is always a burden on college students, even if you don't care much about saving and spending, Mint is definitely the app that all college students need to keep track of their financial accounts.
With over 10 million users, Mint keeps your bank account information safe and organized and informs you of your checking, savings, investments and other financial information. Mint is also considered a financial advisor for students with its free advice and up-to-date monthly follow-ups. Not to mention that it sorts transactions into groups and gives overviews of how money is being spent.

2. Lemon Wallet 

With college life comes great responsibility; with great responsibility comes your ID card, your credit or debit card, your student ID card, and even your insurance card. Most students tend to lose one of these cards and have a hard time re-collecting them. That’s why Lemon Wallet comes to the rescue; it allows you to store digital copies of all your cards and access them whenever you want; creates a back up in case your wallet gets stolen; lists transaction details; and allows you to personalize your wallet with great add-ons. All you need to do is scan the front and back of your card, add minor information, and your card details are saved. After that, worry no more: your wallet is safely "kept" in your smartphone. Though try not to lose that, and to be extra sure, download the Find My iPhone app or the Android  Device Manager. More cool app to find your Android phone is  discussed below.

3. Good Reads 

In most classrooms, students are required to search for certain books and read them as class assignments. We all know how tiring it is to go to the library and start searching to find the book that we need. Not to be concerned, now you can access millions of books and references and find exactly what you want on your smartphone with Good Reads. One of the largest sites for book recommendations, Good Reads transforms your whole library on campus into your smartphone, with amazing features like barcode scanning, a must-read list, book reviews and commentaries, latest eBooks, and friend recommendations.

4. Theft recovery: Avast! Mobile Security 

Losing your wallet is one thing but losing your phone maybe even worse. Perhaps one of the biggest problems on campus is a student losing his/her phone. Now you can actually recover your phone and track it down with Avast! Mobile security. This app is available for Android users. It allows them to add protection to their devices by remotely locate and factory reset the devise. It also plaus a siren sound via SMS. There’s no need for Apple users to be disappointed though, a similar app for Avast is available on the App Store: GadgetTrak.

5. Evernote Premium 

You’ve seen it before, you know what it’s about; a note-taking application for your smartphone. Yet Evernote is not any kind of organizing App, it organizes your college life from A to Z. Now, with Evernote Premium, you can sync all your notes across computers and devices, share your files though Facebook and Twitter, record and save voice notes as reminders, email notes and save tweets to your accounts, take notebooks offline and access them anytime and allow others to edit them. Subscription options are 5$/month or 45$/year.