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The Video Star app lets your kids become the next Spike Jonze

I have no idea why it took me so long to finally download and try the Video Star app, but now that I did, I’m so in love. Mostly with how creative my kids are getting with it. Aw, and just when I thought nothing would tear them away from Minecraft. This is...

Silent Film Studio video app will take your videos back. Way back.

by Nicole Blades | Fun Apps

If you want to add a fun twist to your next short iPhone video, you’ve got to try the Silent Film Studio video app, which lets you turn it into a black-and-white silent movie clip, complete with old-timey crackle ‘n’ pop organ music, black dialogue...

Geography fans will love playing SmartyPins with Google Maps. That is, if you can handle it…

by Julie | Fun Apps

The increasing essentialness that is Google Maps is fairly well known by now, so it’s no surprise that as parents, we’re loving their latest project — a geography trivia game called SmartyPins that will take you around the world. Each game starts you...

Kid Dad Fun app. Yep, just what it sounds like.

by Julie | Fun Apps

Long before we had kids, I knew my husband was going to be a fun dad. (I also knew I was going to be the uptight mom who shook her head and sighed a lot.) So when I checked out the Kid Dad Fun app, I started cracking up immediately. This app was made for our family,...

The Monument Valley app is a stunner. And a stumper.

by Liz Gumbinner | Fun Apps

The new Monument Valley app may be the most gorgeous, mindblowingly cool app I’ve seen in a while. And that’s saying something. It’s a puzzle game that’s like Figaro Pho meets MC Escher. Your job is to get the silent little princess Ida...

Stories, etc: A new app that lets you preserve your epic Ryan Gosling story for your great-great grandchildren

by Nicole Blades | Fun Apps

So much of social media relies on storytelling. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, even YouTube and Vine — they are all platforms for sharing our stories with each other. Pubsoft recognized this need we have to capture and share our memories, and launched a fun family...

6 cool Android apps for sports fans to help you get the most out of the NCAA Basketball Finals at home

by Cool Mom Staff | Fun Apps

If you’re anything like the sports lovers in our lives, you’ve got the game on the big screen and your smartphone in your hand, flipping through Twitter, Facebook, and other cool Android apps for sports fans to help bring the game to life in the best ways...

Mibblio: An awesome interactive music app for kids with real star power

by Christina Refford | Fun Apps

Mibblio, an awesomely interactive music app for kids, would be pretty terrific even if it only played generic nursery rhymes. But given that it also features music from some of our favorite names in kindie music, like Dan Zanes, Recess Monkey, The Pop Ups, Lucky Diaz,...

The Threes! app. Prepare to meet your new obsession.

by Julie | Fun Apps

You might think that my dark circles are due to my kids, or work, or simply insomnia, but they’re not. I’ve only got Threes! to blame. The cool new Threes! app for iOS has got me absolutely obsessed. Slide numbered tiles around a board, and combine tiles...

Ken Burns’ new app takes his docs to digital

by Nicole Blades | Fun Apps

Full disclosure before talking about the new Ken Burns app: I’m a big Ken Burns fan. For nearly 40 years, the award-winning historical documentarian has been telling beautiful, expansive, influential stories on film about everything from the Brooklyn Bridge and the...

Spotify vs. Rdio: A streaming music smackdown

by Kristin | Fun Apps

It can sometimes be difficult to keep tabs on the dizzying array of digital and streaming music services and choices. Add on top of that free vs. paid services, pricing models, and mobile vs. web or desktop options — and well, are we confused yet? So we put...

Flappy Bird app: You must have it.

by Julie | Fun Apps

If you haven’t yet heard of the Flappy Bird app, let us be the first to welcome you to this 8-bit circle of hell. In the best possible way. Flappy Bird and the pipe obstacles he has to dodge are driving everyone to distraction: our little kids, our big kids,...

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