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3 great sleep tracking apps for parents. Because we need it.

We know it can be really hard for parents to get a good night’s sleep, but tech is here to help. We’ve found 3 great sleep tracking apps that can track your sleep, and help you build better habits to improve it. From waking up at your body’s natural...

How the Apple Watch 4 is helping me stay healthy, be more mindful, connect with my kids, and disconnect from my phone

by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion + Accessories, Fitness + Health, Gear

I had an original Apple Watch way back when it first came out, and I really liked it. I also ended up feeling like it was “another thing” — another thing to charge, another thing to take care of, another thing to buy accessories for. Sometimes...

Merriam-Webster’s informative (and sometimes snarky) free dictionary app

by Kate Etue | Educational Apps For Kids

We’re getting a good laugh out of the Merriam-Webster Twitter account, and don’t we all need a good laugh, lately? If you’re not following them, you should. Also, may we suggest downloading the free Merriam-Webster dictionary app? Sure, it’s...

7 helpful apps for your Super Bowl party, or any given Sunday.

by Liz Gumbinner | Lifestyle Apps

If you’re getting ready for Super Bowl 50 (whoa) this Sunday, and plan on having company to make it more fun, we’ve got 7 iOS and Android apps for your Super Bowl party that you’ll want to download stat, from party planning help to food and drink...

Shop through apps, get Valentine’s deals. Nice!

by Liz Gumbinner | Shopping Apps

If you’re an iOS user, check out iTunes and you might be interested to see a new category called Valentine’s Deals with Apple Pay. Well, at least I was interested so I took a closer look. And it seems that as an incentive to use Apple pay through your...

Two fun, creative, and (mostly) free apps for kids to keep them engaged when they’re stuck indoors.

by Christina Refford | Fun Apps

If you’re tearing through the list of snow day activities to keep the kids occupied when you’re stuck indoors, allow us help you with two beautifully designed, really fun new apps we’ve discovered from Seedling. As in, the same company whose...

Web Coolness: The best tech of CES 2016, the FitBit Blaze smartwatch, and Star Wars. Lots of Star Wars.

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

We’re digging this inspirational desktop wallpaper from our friends at Design Milk. Head over to their site to download it free. Parents are monitoring their kids online, and according to this study are mostly doing it right. FitBit launches at smartwatch at...

Keep calm and carry on this holiday, with the Spire anti-stress tracker.

by Kate Etue | Fitness + Health

If you’re considering a fitness tracker purchase this winter — especially with the holiday food and party season coming up, yeesh! — there’s a new device on the market you may want to consider. While most fitness trackers will calculate your...

Todoist app may be our new favorite to-do list app.

by Nicole Blades | Productivity Apps

Where would any of us be without our to-do lists? Probably reclined somewhere on a beach having sweet nothings whispered into our ears by our hot-to-death boyfriend Idris Elba. (Okay. That’s just me. Big Driis and I have history.) The point is, sometimes our...

New Moleskine Timepage app for iPhone is about beauty and brains. We like that combo.

by Nicole Blades | Productivity Apps

First, let’s get this out of the way: There’s an ongoing tomayto-tomahto situation around the correct way to pronounce the popular notebook-maker Moleskine — is it skin or skine? The official response according to the company is, your way is the...

Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.

We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.

We even have the privilege of sharing our tips + tricks with The TODAY Show, CNN, HLN, GMA, Nightline, newspapers and magazines around the country, and our favorite -- regular parents who stop us at PTA meetings and ask us how old kids need to be to get a smartphone, and whether they really need to panic about Snapchat.

(Answer: It's complicated.)

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