 Admit it, young people have an addiction to smart devices, it's so easy to get lost in the world of apps and technologies, you can keep your smartphone overloaded with apps you do not need. As a young person who wants to make the most of his or her life, part of cutting away distractions from your life is keeping only apps that matter on your phone. Below are lists of selected apps under five different categories, I'm certain will help you ease your life. Education apps 1. Masterclass If you've always wanted to learn directly from the masters, the masterclass app is dope. Get to taught by prominent authors, entrepreneurs and various professionals in almost every field of life. When you sign up for the premium version, you'll gain access to over 70 of the world's best. You can learn anytime, anywhere, and at your own pace. It can cost the fortune, but the education is worth it. 2. Ted Talk If you're a fan of speeches and fresh lessons about all walks of life from excellent minds, Ted Talk should be your go-to app. The Ted Talk app offers inspiring talks by remarkable people, free to the world. With a library of over 3,000 talks, by topic and mood, from tech and science to the surprises of your own psychology, you can feed your curiosity and expand your world with Ted Talks. 3. Udemy Udemy has been around for a while but is still holding up its game. Udemy is an online learning platform with over 130,000 video courses taught by expert tutors. You can take courses in anything from programming languages like Python and Java to personal development classes like design, drawing, writing and yoga. It's up boasts of more than 40 million students who are mastering new skills and advancing their careers. Caution do, it's not free. 4. EdX EdX supports more than 20 million learners, the majority of top ranked university in the world and industry-leading companies offering 200 plus online courses. It was founded by Harvard University and MIT. If you're interested in advancing your career with the certificate programs and online courses in the fastest going field, EdX has your back. The offer courses like computer science and programming, data science, software engineering, web development, business management, marketing, finance, accounting, math, design, cyber security and more. 5. Harvard Business Review It may not be regarded as an education app but if you're interested in deep research and facts that would boost your knowledge and curiosity about business management, the Harvard Business Review app is cool. When you subscribe for a low rate of $5.99 per month, you will gain access to unlimited HBR magazine contents. Going back to 2012, HBR explainer videos and their podcasts. 6. Loop Habit Tracker Most productivity apps focus on the things you shouldn't be doing. However, loops work opposite to put your focus on what you could be doing better. Instead of trying to keep you away from bad habits, getting in the way of your work or life, Loop tries to help you spend more of your time forming beneficial habits. If you're obsessed with developing better habits, check out Loop Habit Tracker, only on Android. 7. Boosted Productivity and Time Tracker If you want to track your activities and take control of your time, Boosted is an excellent app. The app helps you organize your projects into smaller tasks, while you can also view the daily and weekly amount of time you spend on a project. If you want to view your most productive days for a project or you want to quickly check your total daily time for a project from the notification, Boosted has got your back. 8. Forest The forest app claims to be the best cure for phone addiction, in that it is designed to stop you from spending so much time on your phone. This is beautiful, right? If you could like put down your phone temporarily to focus on what's more important in real life, you could plant a seed in the forest with time. This seed gradually grows into a tree. If you cannot overcome the temptation to use your phone and you leave the app, your tree will weed out. The app helps you to stop getting distracted by your phone, become self-motivated and get more things done. 9. Spark Email app by ReAdo Spark is an intelligent email client that turns your inbox into an asset by preventing it from killing your productivity. It helps you categorize your emails from every account assigned to it, always allowing you to filter out the emails that don't matter and prioritize the ones that do. You can also snooze specific emails for later, assign emails to team members, chat with team members, share draft, check reminders for follow-ups and schedule emails to send them later. 10. Keyweek The keyweek app stops you snoozing after your alarm goes off. Some studies have shown that snoozing is actually more detrimental than good. It is a complete waste of time. Keyweek helps you do away with this bad habit, only available on iOS. Writing apps. 11. Evernote Evernote helps me out with organizing my writing that most apps do. With Evernote, you can take notes, use it as a planner, organizer or notebook. Evernote helps you focus on what matters most and have access to your information when you need it. You can impute type notes or scan handwritten notes, add to those, photos, images, web notes or audio and it's all instantly reachable. What's more interesting is that Evernote syncs your notes and notebooks across your devices so your information is always with you everywhere you go. 12. Writer ZOOHO I use ZOOHO Writer and it is an incredibly simple, sleek word processing app to write your heart out. Bring your friends in and talk it over using comments. You can also sync documents across devices and access them wherever you go. Writer is carefully designed to create a clean blank paper-like writing experience across your smartphone, tablet and computer and unlike Evernote, it's free. 13. Wattpad Wattpad is where story lives. If you're a writer who wants to share your stories with the world, Wattpad connects a global community of 70 million readers and writers through the power of story. Download it today to start reading or writing original stories. 14. Workflowey Workflowey is like a notepad with superpowers. This app is an easy, well-designed and flexible note taker. It is a go-to place for storing and keeping track of everything, not just to-dos and grocery lists, when ideas for articles, all the notes you want to gather while reporting, all the tasks you need to do for those articles and even all the stuff you are gathering for a book you are working on. 15. Goodreads Goodreads is a free service where you find, get and share books you love. It is arguably the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations. You can add books to your shelves, scan book covers to instantly read reviews and save it on your shelf, get personalized recommendations based on your tastes, see what friends are reading and lots more. If you are just interested in reading great books, Goodreads gives great recommendations. 16. Carrywise A most fascinated by this finance management app, it lets you save money directly from your bank account with ease. You can choose to autosave daily, weekly or monthly. The company also offers fair enough interest on your savings. If you are looking for an app that disciplines you to save, this app is it. I use it and I love it. 17. RiseVest I just found RiseVest and have installed it. RiseVest combines technology and the experience of finance experts to help you invest your money in high-performing, long-term opportunities in the United States through a simple app. RiseVest not only helps you save money, it also helps you invest your money. Rise helps you make automated and secure dollar-denominated investments in Nigeria. Your investments yield an annual ROI of between 30% to 15%. 18. Personal Capital Personal Capital is a wealth management app. Personal Capital is one of the best money management apps available. It lets you track your budget while including information about your investment accounts. The interface is intuitive and visuals are easy to see on the desktops, laptop, tablet or phone. 19. Mint Mint is a great app for seeing where all of your money is on all of your devices. It can track your bank accounts, credit cards and even investments. You can also use it to plan budgets and future expenses but its main focus is on giving you a financial overview. 20. Spendee Spendee is a budget and expense tracker with a heavy focus on design. Spendee is truly beautiful and does a good job of showing you where all your money is going and how you can adjust costs. The only downside is that you will need to manually enter your transactions. 21. YNAB You need a budget. This app is best for debt pay off. The app helps you gain total control of your money so you can stop leaving paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money. You can easily connect all your accounts in one place and import your transactions so you always have up-to-date information. If this video inspired like the video, we love you.