Tiny Builders construction app: All the fun of digging and excavating without the travel delays

by Julie | Best Apps

Road construction is one of those travel hitches we all want to avoid, unless you’re one of those toddlers and preschoolers who think those giant machines are the coolest ever. Now they can get their fill of drilling, paving, and bulldozing with the brand new...

Brain Dots: A brain teaser of an app that proves you may not be smarter than fifth grader.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Educational Apps

When the director of our ad team, Lisa, tells me to try a new app, I know it’s going to be a good one. She has good taste. And this time it’s Brain Dots (for iOS and Android) which happens to be fun, challenging, infuriating, and sometimes totally...

Queen Bee in Paris: Explore France with this illustrated ebook and travel guide for kids

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I’ve vowed that someday we’re going to take our kids to Paris like I did on a brief, very memorable weekend there in college (ooh, the croissants) but it’s not on the schedule yet. While we save up our money, I’ve been letting my kids play with...

The ABCiné app develops literacy of the pop culture variety.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

Yes, it’s an ABC app. But unlike other ABC apps we’ve covered here, I don’t know that the new ABCiné app (as in cinéma) from Spanish design studio Atipo for Meikme is going to help kids with the alphabet as much as it will help adults — and a...

Makesto is a sweet, free storytelling app to let kids’ imaginations run wild

by Stephanie Mayers | Best Apps, Educational Apps

They say every picture tells a story, which makes my six-year-old a master story teller. We get a book’s worth of drawings from her each day and the explanations of her creations are always mind blowingly crazy awesome. So imagine our excitement when we...

A new fireworks app for kids that is all fun, no fear

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

If a single BOOM from a nearby fireworks display sends your kids running to bury their heads in your lap, you may need kinder, gentler fireworks this Fourth of July. Like the ones found on this cute new fireworks app, Fireworks Lab, which lets our youngest kids set...

Alto’s Adventure: A beautiful app to cool you down on a hot day

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

I may be the last person to discover Alto’s Adventure which blew away the gaming world when it launched a few months back. Even my eight-year-old is like, Mom! You finally got it? But I admit that when I hear “snowboarding app,” I don’t feel...

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

by Kate Etue | Best 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...

MyBabyD: Not your everyday baby photo sharing app

by Liz Gumbinner | Best 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 | Best 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...