Sponsored Message: The free Hobnob app makes creating and sending invites as easy as tap-tap-send.
This is a sponsored message from Hobnob With the holidays right around the corner, the free Hobnob app for iOS makes sending invites to your holiday events, and sharing the photos afterwards even easier. Plus, you could win a $200 Target gift card just for giving it...
Donde Fashion app is like a visual shopping search engine, and it’s awesome.
Shopping online has been Captain Convenience for so many of us for years now, although when you’re shopping for clothes, it can sometimes lean into “this is such a hassle” territory if you’ve got six open tabs to compare prices at six different...
Privet by KidsLink: A great new addition to parenting advice apps
Along with the diapers and burp clothes and countless other pieces of baby gear, perhaps the most valuable things that new (and newish) parents can receive are the BTDT words of wisdom from other parents who are boldly and actively doing the hard work of parenting....
Doctor on Demand app: A smart way to get help for breastfeeding issues and more.
The trend of online doctor visit apps is definitely reaching critical mass as people learn it’s a great way to get professional advice and even subscriptions without the hassle of making appointments or schlepping out the door. And now we’re starting to...
KidsLink app: A smart alternative to social media oversharenting
I didn’t even know there was a term for it, but of course there is. Oversharenting. It’s that thing that so many of us parents do on social media — especially on Facebook — where we share, or overshare, info about our kids that ranges from cute...
Apps parents should know: Meerkat and Periscope now let your teens live stream. Just let that sink in for a second.
I’m not even kidding that when I heard the the word Meerkat being tossed around for the past couple of weeks, I thought to myself, Is that Meerkat Manor show back on TV again? But then, when the Periscope live streaming app for Twitter launched this past week, I...
Immortalia: The family history app to download before your next visit to Grandma’s house.
My grandmother once stowed away in the back seat of her father’s Model-T while her sister went on a date. Then they crashed the car, into a pig. Now that she’s gone, I really wish I’d had her record stories like that one so that my kids, especially...
More of the best sleep tracking apps to help you get your snooze on
We’ve already declared that 2015 is the Year of Better Sleep, so here we are with even more helpful techie ways for all of us to get those good Z’s. I tried two more of the latest sleep tracking apps to see whether they’d be a good fit for parents....
The Funny or Die Weather app can make you laugh when the weather makes you want to cry
The weather is so crazy lately that I wouldn’t be surprised if the actual forecast was cloudy with a chance of meatballs, or some other spherical meat product. We all need a sense of humor with weather like this, and while we have a great roundup of funny...
Sending online thank you notes: It’s never too late!
I’m patting myself on the back for finally sitting down this weekend and sending out the thank you notes for holiday gifts that, yeah, I probably should have sent a bit earlier. But then, it was the holidays! I’m a busy working parent! In other words, I am...
20Stamps: Cool customized photo stamps for the holidays and beyond
It’s not often that we have good news for procrastinators, but if you haven’t yet mailed your holiday cards, then today is your lucky day. Because we just discovered 20Stamps, an awesome iOS app that lets you design your own customized photo stamps, right...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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