Is There an App for WebAssign, MyLab or MindTap?

The short answer

The apps exist. They don't do your homework. Every major courseware vendor ships a mobile app, and in every case it's an eTextbook reader — read, highlight, take notes, listen. Your graded assignments run in a desktop web browser, and the vendors say so in their own documentation.

Cengage is the clearest about it. Its Cengage Read documentation states the app "does not include activities, attendance, polls, flashcards, and grades," and then tells you exactly where to go instead: "For coursework and grades, access WebAssign in your web browser." That single line is the answer to webassign app, and the same pattern holds for Pearson and for MindTap.

Below: what each vendor ships, the structural reason nobody has built a real homework app, and what you can actually get done on a phone tonight.

What each vendor actually ships

Two of those deserve the detail.

WebAssign and MindTap. Cengage's WebAssign system requirements and its MindTap requirements both list Chrome and Edge on Windows, Chrome and Safari on macOS, and for iOS: Safari, iPad only. No iPhone. The WebAssign page also warns that "features and content are not optimized for a small screen size and might be difficult to use," and recommends a 1366 × 768 display — which is a laptop, not a handset. It adds one more line worth remembering: "LockDown Browser assignments cannot be accessed on iOS," so if your course has a proctored assessment, no tablet will get you there either.

Pearson. Pearson+ is the eText app. The one genuine mobile-homework path in Pearson's line is on the Mastering side, and it isn't an app at all: Pearson's Mobile Mastering documentation says that once you've signed into your Mastering course on a computer at least once, you can use a smartphone or tablet for Mastering assignments, Dynamic Study Modules and Learning Catalytics — explicitly with no special app to download. Note that's Mastering, the sciences line. If your course is MyLab Math, that path isn't yours; see how to use Pearson MyLab for how the naming works.

Why nobody has built a real homework app

This looks like vendor laziness and mostly isn't. Four structural things make a native homework app genuinely hard to ship, and knowing them saves you looking for one that doesn't exist.

• You don't log into courseware, you launch it. MindTap, MyLab and WebAssign are increasingly reached through an LTI link inside Canvas or Brightspace, which signs you in and — critically — is what makes your score sync back to the gradebook. That handshake is a browser flow. An app would have to reimplement it per LMS, per institution, per version.
• Answer entry is the whole product. MyLab Math's MathXL palette and WebAssign's equation editor are template editors: you tab into blue boxes, nest a fraction, put an exponent on it, escape back out. That interaction was designed for a keyboard and a pointer. Rebuilding it for a touch keyboard isn't a port, it's a new product — and it's why our WebAssign equation-editor tips assume a real keyboard throughout.
• Content is authored as web content. A publisher's question bank is decades of HTML, JavaScript widgets, Flash-era simulations that were rebuilt as web canvases, and third-party tools like Bongo or Turnitin embedded inside it. There is no build step that turns that into a native app.
• Proctoring pins it to a desktop. Lockdown browsers only exist as desktop software, and a platform that must host proctored assessments can't move its assessment layer somewhere they can't run.

So the app you wanted — open phone, do problem set — isn't coming from the publishers. What they've built instead is a clean split: reading is mobile, answering is desktop.

What you can genuinely get done on a phone

Plenty, as long as you aim at the right half of that split. A realistic mobile study session:

• Do the reading. Cengage Read and Pearson+ are decent readers with offline access, highlighting, notes and text-to-speech. Reading the chapter on the bus is the single highest-value thing you can do on a phone, because it's the part that makes the desktop session fast.
• Listen to it. Both readers do text-to-speech. For a dense chapter this is genuinely useful on a commute or at the gym.
• Check due dates and grades. Your LMS app — Canvas Student, Brightspace Pulse — handles this well. Note that a courseware score has to sync before it appears there; Cengage says MindTap sync "should take 5 minutes or less."
• Triage. Skim what's due, decide the order, and know what you're sitting down to before you sit down.
• Post to a discussion board. Text-entry work is the one genuinely phone-friendly assignment type. See how to write a discussion post.

What to stop trying to do on a phone: any problem set with an equation editor, anything timed, anything proctored, and any activity your platform's own requirements page describes as unsupported on your device. A mistyped exponent marks wrong exactly like a wrong answer does, and on a limited-attempt problem set that's a real cost for no upside.

Where Silent Student fits

Disclosure: this is our product, and it's worth being precise about what it is, because "is there an app" is the question that led you here.

Silent Student is a signed desktop app for macOS and Windows. Not a phone app, not a browser extension, not an answer site. That's a deliberate consequence of everything above — the work lives in a desktop browser session, so the tool that does it has to live there too. It signs in through your own LMS, syncs your courses, sorts everything by due date, and works the queue in the background, including WebAssign, Cengage MindTap, McGraw Hill Connect and Apex reached through your Canvas or Brightspace links.

Two honest limits. It has no dedicated MyLab or MathXL solver — when MyLab is launched from your LMS, a general visual agent works it part-by-part rather than a purpose-built engine. And courseware work isn't held for your approval: Draft Review Mode covers the essays, discussion posts and file uploads you submit in Canvas or Brightspace, while external platforms like WebAssign and MindTap are worked in the platform and submitted as the solver goes. On a graded, single-attempt, untimed Canvas quiz, a low-confidence answer stops the quiz for your review. You can pause anytime and set rules per course and per assignment type.

None of that runs on your phone, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. What it does is make the desktop session shorter. See pricing or the FAQ.