The iPhone Mom

Emily’s Girl Talk is a collection of games, some of which I played when I was (much) younger. It includes MASH, The Lemon Game, Cootie Catcher and Love. Back in the day I played them with paper and pencil but things have come a long way. Since my girls are the perfect age for this app I asked my 7 year old do the review. She gave me a great run down and what follows are her words. I put my comments in blue. Take it away Miss S!

Emily’s Girl Talk has four games that are girly. The first game is MASH. There are different categories that you have to fill out. (crushes, cars, cities, jobs, wedding dress colors and numbers) If you press the plus sign you can pick one of the words that are already there. If you tap on the line you can type in your own. (The app comes with a list of preset things you can choose from to fill in the categories. These are seen when you tap the plus sign. If you want to enter in your own tap on the line next to the plus and you’ll get the keyboard.) If you tap “Emily’s Pick” the app fills in the things for you. At the end you pick a number and it does something with that number and then makes a prediction. The prediction is of one thing from each category. It tells you who you’re going to marry and where you work and what car you have and your city and number of kids.

The Lemon Game – You type in girl names, boy names, body parts, cities and things you can do with a lemon. (Again, plus sign brings up preset list, tap on line to type.) Or click on “Emily Picks” and she picks things for you. Touch a lucky number. Like MASH it uses your number too but it takes your things to make a silly sentence. It’s kind of like Mad Libs. My sentence when I showed my mom was “Victoria will suck Kevin’s ear in Lima”. (I’m not so sure about that sentence!)

Cootie Catcher – Type in a question that you want a yes or no answer to. (There are no preset questions.) Then tap on a number on the cootie catcher, then on a color, another color and then you get an answer to your question. The answer is not always true. I like this version of Cootie Catcher. My girls can play it and now I don’t feel guilt because I threw away all the paper versions that were lying around the house. Plus there are no mean results.

Love – Enter your name and the name of your crush. I did my sister and Obi Wan Kenobi. It does some sort of calculation and comes up with your chance of love, like 23%, 38% or even 100%.

The Journal – The journal keeps track of everything (your results) for the games you’ve played.

Emily’s Sticker Album – When you finish a game it gives you a new sticker for that game.

Email Emily – You can email Emily by clicking on “Email Emily” on the front page.

Options – Has background music, sound effects, something called Twitter settings and a clear button for your journal.

Emily’s Girl Talk has been a big hit with my girls! I think it’s perfect for tween aged girls. I’ve been given two promo codes to give away, if you’d like one leave me a comment. The codes will only work in the US app store.

Price when Reviewed: $.99

Seller: Broken Thumbs Apps

Disclosure: I received a free copy of this app for review purposes.

Framed has been providing plenty of chuckles for my kids. The app provides a selection of frames that you use on your photos. Frames include wanted posters, cereal boxes, book covers, billboards and more. All that you’ll need to do is choose a frame, take a picture or choose one from your camera roll and there you go. Once it’s perfect you can email the image, save it on your iPhone or share it on Facebook. My kids enjoy taking pictures of each other and messing with all the frames. I’m hopeful that the developers will continue to update the app with more even more options.

Price when Reviewed: $1.99

Seller: Image Chef, Inc.

Disclosure: I received a free copy of this app for review purposes.

Pimp My Ultrasound is just plain old, silly iPhone fun. The idea is to take your ultrasound photo and jazz it up a bit.  The app provides you with all sorts of accessories to add to your picture – hats, sunglasses, and conversation bubbles just to name a few. The “take tour” section was well laid out and very helpful. It explains exactly how you can go about your pimping. That sounded bad. I was impressed with how smoothly you can rotate and resize the accessories you add to your photos. It’s been nicely done. When you’ve got your ultrasound totally pimped out you can add a frame and save the new picture to your camera roll. From there you can share it with the world. I didn’t have an ultrasound photo to play around with so I used one of my kids. The accessories worked just as well with that and it was great fun seeing my son wearing a tiara.

Price when Reviewed: $1.99

Seller: 2 Guys, LLC.

Out of the blue tonight my son says to me “Mom, have you seen Monkey Preschool Lunchbox?” Cracked me up that it was “Monkey Preschool Lunchbox” instead of “The Monkey App”. I said yes I had seen it. Then he says to me, “That one’s funny”. And it is. My kids all seem to get a kick out of the silly monkey in this app.

There are five different activities in this app. They teach about colors, letters, counting, shapes and matching objects and they’re all mixed together. Do a matching activity and then a counting one and so on. The activities all involve foods that a monkey would eat. When your child finishes an activity the monkey packs something in his lunchbox and gets very, very excited. That’s the part my kids love.

The activities in Monkey Preschool Lunchbox are just right for  preschool kids and the app is clever and funny enough to keep their attention. This app has been a big hit at our house. Even making it’s way into dinner conversation.  Doesn’t that make you wish you were a fly on the wall at my house?

Price when Reviewed: $.99

Seller: THUP Games

Looking for a few good “Yo Mama So…” jokes?? This just may be the app for you. Begin by choosing a Yo Mama category (fat, ugly, lazy, old, etc.). You’ll see a list of insults to choose from. Tap the one you want and there’s a screen that shows you the entire joke. From here you can email it out to friends, mark it as a favorite or get rid of it. From what I can tell choosing “dump it” will ask you if you can write a better joke. If you choose no, the joke stays on your list. If you choose yes you then submit your own joke. To be honest, I don’t know what happens after that because I couldn’t come up with a joke of my own. Anytime you have a joke to share you can tap the “Add a Joke” button at the top right of your screen. Along the bottom of the screen you’ll see several buttons. “Favorites” pulls up the jokes you’ve marked as favorites. “Popular” pulls up a list of the most popular jokes. (I’m not sure how those are chosen.) “Sent” will show you the jokes you’ve sent out and “Received” shows you the ones that have been sent to you.

Yo Mama So…is an amusing app that’s good for a chuckle. I shared some of the jokes with the husband and we did laugh, a lot. I’d be curious to see how often the jokes are updated and screened. One suggestion (and yes, this is said mostly tongue in cheek), how about an optional lock code for those who want the laughs but don’t want their kids sharing the jokes with their entire fourth grade class?

A note – Yo Mama So….Lite is supported by ads on the screens. Yo Mama So…Pro costs $.99 but is ad free.

Price when Reviewed: Free

Available at iTunes

Price of Yo Mama So…Pro: $.99

Available at iTunes

Seller: Clever Twist, Inc