MiKids

The idea behind MiKids is a nice one, especially if you’ve got more than one child. I feel there’s no shame in admitting that at times I forget who likes what color best, who wears what shoe size and who like McNuggets but not cheeseburgers from the golden arches. I keep track of the kids themselves and that’s what’s important right? For the other miscellaneous details I can now use MiKids. This app is designed to store a variety of information about your children. Things like favorite color, clothing size, shoe size, names of friends, school information, favorite foods, medications. Details that are important but manage to slip my brain. Often.

You start by adding your kids to the app. Touch the plus sign in the top right corner and you’ll get a screen that lets you enter in a name, date of birth and weight. You can also add a picture. Save the info and then tap the child’s name on the main “My Kids” page. From here you’ll see six different icons. Tap each one and you can enter in information in the different categories – Basic Info, Clothes, Meds, Friends Info, Food & Drink and School Info. I think my favorites are the clothes page and the friends page. I’m not going to tell you how many times I’ve been out shopping and had to call home to ask the kids to look inside their shoes and tell me what size they wear.  With the friends information I can keep track of parents names and numbers.  From here you can also call the number directly. I like this because my iPhone is also our home phone. This way I can keep track of the friends phone numbers without having them clutter up my Contacts. Selfish me.

From the very first screen you can also touch a “Pictures” button. This brings up a screen that looks like a photo album. You can add in pictures of your kids to this. I’d like to see the ability to have an “album page” for each child.

So the idea behind MiKids is a great one, but there are just a couple things that keep me from absolutely loving it. For one, compared to other apps I’ve used the data entry doesn’t seem to flow. I can’t quite put my finger on what bothers me though. I know I’d like it if you only saw the numbers keyboard when you were entering numbers in a field. As it is right now the letter keyboard always pulls up as default. Also, the graphics are a bit cutesy for my taste. But I figure once the information is all entered in it’ll be a handy tool for storing all that extra kid information that moms somehow have to keep track of.

Price when Reviewed: $1.99

Available at iTunes

Seller: Vurgood Apps/Kevin Hamilton