Wurm with that Apple?

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

I find that with kids and apps, sometimes simple is best. Such is the case with a funky, fun, creative iPad drawing experience known as Wurm Junior. A tot-targeted spinoff of the very cool original Wurm app, the Wurn Junior App is a creativity-inspiring drawing...

A memory game app that doesn’t get boring so fast. Huge!

by Pilar | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Memory games are a great idea–in theory. Those brightly colored cards with rounded edges that fit snugly in grabby little palms are supposed to develop memory, recognition and visual identification skills, so what’s not to like? At least until someone...

Ikea’s got nothing on these new digs from Toca Boca.

by Pilar | Best Apps

Swedish app developer and CMT favorite Toca Boca has done it again. They somehow read my lingonberry and minimalist furniture-loving mind, and channeled it into a shiny new app released today that your kids are going to love, the same way they love every Toca app....

Phonics apps for early readers? Reader Q&A

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I (want) to know what some of the best apps (are) for a 4 year old. She’s so interested in learning to read, yet I have no idea where to begin. I think she may have a bit of photographic memory, so it’s hard to tell if she is actually reading, or just has...

Getting tough on aliens this Presidents’ Day

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps, Educational Apps

This Presidents’ Day, between shopping for a car (heh) and going to crowded play spaces with every other kid on their day off from school, find a quiet spot and spend a little time flinging presidents at alien attackers. Don’t worry, it’s way...

An app to put the kibosh on texting and driving.

by Molly | Best Apps

We all know that texting and driving don’t mix. But whether we don’t trust our text-loving teen–or even ourselves when we hear the joyous ding of a new message on our phone–this genius app has a very clever solution. (And hint, hint: It’s...

TV Anytime app is a parent’s road trip savior

by Jeana | Best Apps

Picture this – you’re into hour two of your long road trip to the inlaws, only to discover that you left your DVD player with Cars 2 on the kitchen counter. All those painful whines could have been averted if you had the TV Anytime app. TV Anytime is a...

Send an Instagram valentine with Lovestagram

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

The geek love story of 2012 goes like this: Kaitlyn Trigger, the girlfriend of the wildly popular Instagram app co-founder Mike Krieger, decided to surprise him with an app of her own for Valentine’s Day. So she taught herself HTML, CSS, and a slew of other...

Fab app gets a makeover

by Jeana | Best Apps

If you’re a Fab.com lover like we all are, you’re probably already making good use of their fabulous app every morning at 11 AM Eastern when you’re away from the computer. So we’re happy to see the Fab app has just been updated with some key...

Disneyland Explorer App: The happiest place on iPad?

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

Having just returned from Disneyland after running in the Tinker Bell Half Marathon, I was anxious to show my kids where I had been. And what perfect timing, that Disneyland launched an amazing new app that made my kids feel like they were at the park with me. The...

One app two app Seuss app new app

by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps

What parent among us has not relied on the genius of Dr. Seuss to keep our kids entertained with his wacky rhymes and memorable verses? When my kids were younger, I would literally walk around with sentences in my head like, “wet foot, dry foot, low foot, high...

Move over Eloise, Sophie and the City is here.

by Melissa | Best Apps

First-time author Kelly Florio Kasouf penned a chic and whimsical children’s book, The Super Adventures of Sophie and the City, that caught the hearts and minds of New York’s fashion elite. Why? Kasouf’s actual dad is Steve Florio, the former...