Teaching kids foreign languages with a most genius interactive app

by Stephanie Mayers | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Finding nifty little apps of merit for the kids can be a chore all on its own. Every so often though we come across sweet and simple apps that not only entertain them but that also impress us.   Color Genius for iOS does just that. It’s really the simple...

SnapCat app, ready to pounce when your kid screws up on Snapchat

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

With two tweens, I’m increasingly aware of all the trouble they might get into using social media like Instagram, Facebook, and especially Snapchat. A.K.A. “the sexting app”–eep! Even if it is just an accidental lapse in judgment, it takes only...

It’s not easy being red on Zoe’s Green Planet

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I had moved three times by the time I was eight, so I totally understand how it feels to be a strange kid in a strange land, a topic that is explored in a lovely new app for both iOS and Android users. Even kids like my own who have never had to be “the new...

Net Nanny goes mobile, because our kids are too.

by Jeana | Best Apps

As parents, we’re huge proponents, obviously, of Internet safety and the many tools and services to help us out in that arena. We’ve recommended the Net Nanny software previously, and phew, we are finally glad to see that it has caught up with a new iOS...

6 of the best ABC apps for iPad. Says our kids.

by Shari | Best Apps, Educational Apps

If you’ve got an alphabet-hungry kid and are craving some awesome ABC apps for your iPad, I understand completely. When my son little, he was so obsessed with the alphabet that he saw letters in everything: a scotch tape dispenser was a G, a pancake needed to...

How do I get my kids more into the news? Try the interactive stylings of News-o-Matic

by Shari | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I review a lot of apps for kids and thus, am inundated with spinning, whirling, jumping, and shrieking characters/animals/aliens on my iPad. But once in a while, an app comes along that makes me breathe a sigh of “well, finally.” Such is the case with a...

Please tickle the octo-moose-hog

by Delilah S. Dawson | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Don’t pet the strange dog. Don’t poke the sleeping cat. Don’t touch the dead bug behind the grocery store toilet. I can’t imagine how frustrating it is to be a child and have your exploration curtailed due to pesky things like hygiene and...

DayOne: A fantastic baby book app, even if your baby isn’t a baby anymore

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

Now that I’ve discovered this amazing new journaling app, I know plenty of parents can make up for lost time without going out of their way. In fact, it might be the very best baby book app I’ve found. I pretty much ditched the baby book after my oldest...

Your life…turned into a comic book

by Eva Glettner | Best Apps

Ready for one crazy addictive app for you iPhoneographers and world travelers?   Halftone lets you iOS users turn your pictures into pages straight out of a comic book. The colors are bright and vibrant, the fonts are straight out of an old Batman episode, and...

The Ringya app is every busy, cluttered, not-so-organized parent’s dream. Really.

by Jeana | Best Apps

If your fridge is like mine, it’s covered with artwork, kids’ papers from school and class lists that I’m just too busy to input into my address book, computer or phone. Well how about an app that can do it all for you? Really. Lo and...

A great to-do list app for iOS (how does swiping away your chores sound?)

by Jeana | Best Apps

Maybe it’s an age factor or the fact that I have a lot in my brain, but I’ve been relying more heavily on making lists to do, well, everything. We’ve covered quite a few great ones here at Cool Mom Tech like Teux Deux, Orchestra and Cozi, but...

8 of the best apps for preschoolers available on both iOS and Android

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

Even though it can be a bit challenging finding great Android apps for kids, we are always looking. But what makes our jobs easier is when we find cool apps and ebooks for preschoolers that are available for both iOS and Android users–especially great if...