Match aPhoto is a memory game that is played with real photographs. The photographs are very sharp and clear and it’s nice to see real objects in a memory game. The app provides you with several different photograph albums and you choose the albums you’d like to play memory with. Choices include space, animals, cats, [...]
Match 10 is a matching game that features sharp, crisp photographs on the game cards. The cards are sorted into different categories: flowers, fruit, insects, roadwork, sports, veggies and zoo. You can also create your own matching game by adding in ten photos of your own. The app allows you to zoom and get the [...]
Crazy Shapes is a bit of a twist on a labyrinth game. In a labyrinth app you would tilt your iPhone to make a ball roll around the screen into a hole. When you play Crazy Shapes you use your finger to tap and drag a shape around the screen into a hole. So I [...]
Duck Duck Moose recently released an HD iPad version of their app Itsy Bitsy Spider. This was not my favorite of Duck Duck Moose’s iPhone apps but I love it on the iPad. It felt busy to me on the iPhone screen but everything works very well on the larger iPad. To move through the [...]
Preschool Memory Match is another great app from developer Darren Murtha. The app is “universal” which means it will work on an iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. I tried it out on both my iPhone 4 and iPad and the graphics looked terrific. The game is broken down into three different levels: easy, medium and [...]
The Crazy Balloons app contains four games featuring, you guessed it!, balloons. Here’s an overview of what each game has to offer. Easy Jump Pop – In this game your child will see a porcupine and a number of floating balloons on the screen. They’ll need to tap the screen to make the porcupine jump. [...]
Let’s Bead Friends is a great app for girls. Both my eight year old and my eleven year old enjoy this one. It allows you to create friendship bracelets and then email them to friends or add them to Facebook. To create a bracelet you select a bead (there are five shapes to choose from), [...]
Up With a Fish! is a game based on Dr. Seuss’ classic, The Cat in the Hat. When you play the game you’ll find that infamous cat on your iPhone screen. You must tilt your phone to move him from left to right. Why? There are objects falling from the sky and the Cat must [...]
I’ve always enjoyed Skinny Cow ice cream treats. They’re a great way to indulge without blowing a day’s worth of calories on one dessert. My problem comes when I don’t stop at just one Skinny Cow treat. I often find myself having several because hey, they don’t have that many calories so if I have [...]
DreamScape is a simple yet addicting game. I didn’t find it addicting in the maddening way of Angry Birds, but I did find myself caught up in it. The idea of the game is simple, pop as many bubbles on the screen as you can. The bubbles move around the screen and overlap each other. [...]
Chalk Walk is a very unique iPad app. It has been developed to help your children improve the pincer grip they use to hold a pencil.
iOS 5 Gets Its First Update Thanks to my husband Zack for getting this post out about the new iOS 5.1 release. I’ve yet to install the update…but I’ll be following his instructions below. Shortly after the iPhone 4S hit the market a bug was discovered that severely impacted battery life on those new devices. [...]
I review iPhone apps for moms. I have a decent grasp of techy things but the technical guts (for lack of a better word) of how the apps work are beyond me. So my reviews will be practical and purely subjective. Reviews for moms by a real life, actual mom. My kids will vouch for me.