At last count, there were over 80,000 educational apps available to teachers. There are apps for everything: literacy, STEM, productivity, audiovisual, etc. There are apps which improve accessibility for students with different learning challenges, i.e. text to voice, voice to text, etc.

While many of these may be a dream come true for educators, the dizzying array of choices is also a nightmare. Teachers just don’t have time to filter through thousands of apps to find the one that works best for the needs of their students. To help, we started to create curated lists of the best apps in a variety of education related categories. In this installment, we will present the best grammar and writing apps for high school students.

1. Figment– Vigorous writing community offers authentic feedback.
2. Teen Ink– This platform absolutely helps students become better writers.
3. Turnitin– Ensure that students submit original work and give feedback with this valuable tool.
4. Drafting Board– Help students with their persuasive writing skills with this civics-based essay tool.
5. Citelighter– Comprehensive all-in-one tool scaffolds the research and writing process.
6. Writing Challenge App– The app provides a prompt to get student writing started…then, every minute, the app supplies another prompt to add new ideas, words, characters, sentences, places or actions to the plot
7. American Wordspeller– American Wordspeller is an app that can solve this problem by helping students to “find a word by the way it sounds!”
8. The Interactive Grammar of English– The app is progressive, spanning concepts from basic level understanding to complex, collegiate-level pieces of writing.
9. Grammarly– This platform helps student to improve their grammar and build confidence in their writing ability.
10. WriteLab– Amazing app that provides feedback on student writing.
11. Purdue Online Writing Lab– Provides resources to students who are interested in sharpening their writing skills. Won’t necessarily help reluctant writers.

Did we miss any? If so, list them in the comments section below.