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An awesome photo app that helps preserve more than snapshots, it preserves your family stories.

by Nicole Blades | Mother's Day Gifts, Photo Apps

So, you have tons of photos on your iOS Camera Roll, right? Yeah, same. Now, how would you like to preserve those memories — with audio — forever and a day? Yeah, that’s what I said. Bring it! That’s why I was happy to discover the everyStory...

Recently Magazine App turns your photos into a magazine…of your own life

by Jeana | Photo Apps

Getting excited at a recent dentist visit to sit and read an actual magazine made me realize how little time I have to myself. (And perhaps that I need to find a hobby). People aside, turns out I found a magazine of sorts that I’ll most definitely make time for...

Picjoy: Because one way to help with a photo organization problem is to have an app do it for you.

by Nicole Blades | Photo Apps

If we asked you to count the things you’d rather spend a day doing than iPhone photo organization, what number would we be talking about here? Fifteen? Fifty? Eleventy hundred other things you’d rather do? Yeah, wrangling the tons of photos we’ve all...

How to repost an Instagram photo: A comparison of the 3 top #regram apps

by Kristen Chase | Photo Apps

We have gotten a lot of questions about how to properly repost an Instagram photo on your own feed, and no surprise, there are a ton of apps to help you do just that. Yes, you can technically just screenshot the photo, upload it to your own feed, and just tag it with...

The Instagram 7.0 update is practically begging you to travel

by Nicole Blades | Photo Apps

Oh, Instagram. Just when we think we couldn’t love you more, you go an pull something like this? Yes, our fave photo social media app just got a really cool update that will help you discover new places and may just revitalize the way your travel this globe....

Last minute gift idea: 6 great video editing apps that let you easily send something more sentimental than a card

by Kate Etue | Photo Apps

One of our favorite last-minute suggestions for sentimental Father’s Day gifts (and any gift really) has been to make a short, shareable video that you can create easily. While video editing used to reserved for professionals with zillions of dollars worth of...

The Kids Stay in the Picture: A pre-Father’s Day brunch event with Cool Mom Tech and Amazon Cloud Drive

by Cool Mom Staff | Photo Apps

As admittedly heavy Amazon Prime users, we can’t believe we didn’t know about the free access all Prime members have to Amazon Cloud Drive. And we can’t believe how many other in-the-know friends weren’t aware either. (Hey, Prime isn’t...

The Pictli photo framing app yields one sweet, sentimental Father’s Day gift if you hurry.

by Stephanie Mayers | Photo Apps

I have always loved giving photos as gifts for everything from Father’s Day to birthdays. Really, what’s better having the luck to capture a perfect moment, then having someone special enough to share it with. So I am crushing on Pictli, a service with a...

MyBabyD: Not your everyday baby photo sharing app

by Liz Gumbinner | Photo Apps

Over the years, we’ve found great illustrators who have taken their own baby photos and turned them into fantastic collage drawings. But now we found a sister team out of Barcelona who’s attempting to do one better with their new Kickstarter: The MyBabyD...

Sound the alarms! The new game-changing Google Photos app is pure fire.

by Nicole Blades | Photo Apps

I am a longtime, shameless, all-things-Apple fan. But that doesn’t mean I don’t tip my hat frequently to cool, non-iOS products. And, when it comes to this new Google Photos app? I’m basically standing up and doing a slow-clap, because the app is...

Instagram apps that allows you to add text over photos? Reader Q & A.

by Nicole Blades | Photo Apps

Hey Cool Mom Tech! Do y’all know of an Instagram app for iPad that allows you to add text or make a collage? -Delilah, via Twitter Hey Delilah! The short answer to your question is: Indeed we do. And we totally get it, too. Sometimes you just want to...

Disposable cameras are back! Only…not.

by Julie | Photo Apps

I have to admit that disposable cameras make me pretty nostalgic for the old days of pressing the shutter, then having no idea how those snaps turned out until I picked up the envelope of prints. (Ed: Or better, finding an undeveloped disposable camera in a drawer...

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