Footprint Puzzle – Footprint Puzzle is a fun new children’s app that consists of four games that teach little ones how to identify animal footprints. With this app, children can learn to identify 30 animals and their footprints. The four games featured in Footprint Puzzle are: Match the animal fingerprint, Match the animal to your [...]
Get your little one ready for preschool and kindergarten with the app, Abby – Basic Skills Preschool. Abby – Basic Skills Preschool is completely kid oriented; no complicating menus to navigate, bright colors, fun characters, and prizes make this app extremely easy to use and engaging for young children. Abby, the monkey train conductor, guides [...]
A lot of things happen to us (physically, emotionally, etc.) when we become pregnant. The PregnancyDiary app by Everyday Maternity is an easy and convenient way for expectant mothers to keep track of all their pregnancy highs and lows (and everything in between). This pregnancy journal allows you to conveniently make notes of your thoughts [...]
Keep your little one entertained for hours with the Kids Fun app by toomanyscreens. Kids Fun features more than 70 animal based games and activities. Kids Fun is extremely kid friendly; there are no written words, only pictures depicting the activities and young children can easily navigate through the app with the use of a [...]
I love sticky notes; I use them to help me remember important phone numbers and dates, make lists of what I need to do that day or for the week, and jot down anything I don’t want to forget. Basically they keep me organized. The problem with sticky notes is they sometimes lose their stickiness [...]
I haven’t had a chance to give Nearparent a test run but I wanted to let you all know that this service is now available for the iPhone. It’s been available for the Android for awhile now but was only recently released in the App Store. The app is billed as a “Check-in and trusted [...]
YouTube is great but not exactly kid friendly. You get your little one all set-up watching a clip of their favorite cartoon and the next thing you know little fingers have gone wandering and you hear questionable language or content coming from your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. If you are like me, this has probably [...]
Mommy’s Heartbeat- The Mommy’s Heartbeat App is specially designed to slowly adjust the newborn baby to life outside the womb. Most noise maker apps make the sound too low to be heard well on the small speakers of an iPad/iPod/iPhone, but the Mommy’s Heartbeat app has a specially designed heartbeat sound that mimics the rhythmic [...]
Safe&Sound is one of those “just in case” apps. The kind of app you never want to use but will be so glad you have should you ever need it. This app stores photos and description information of your children on your iPhone. If your child ever goes missing then you have the information immediately [...]
The Baby Video Monitor will take two iOS devices and turn them into a baby monitor for you. I’ve talked about our inability to buy a lasting baby monitor in the past and I so wish these apps had been around when my children were younger. I think they’re great! I tested this one out [...]
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.