So smart! Brain, Child magazine goes digital

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

Those of us who love smart-parenting magazine Brain, Child, The Magazine for Thinking Mothers know that we’re in for a treat whenever another funny, tender, intelligent and quirky quarterly issue shows up in our mailbox. However, I don’t leave home without...

Life of George: the competitive LEGO iPhone game

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

Ask my son to write up his Christmas list, and he’ll hand you the LEGO catalog with about a hundred things circled. While I love watching him sit and build everything from the Space Shuttle to a mulitcolored house for all his LEGO mini figures, there is a new...

The perfect road trip app for any egocentric toddler

by Molly | Best Apps

One of my kids’ favorite things to do on my iPad is flip through all the pictures and search for photos of themselves. Yes, they’re self-centered like that. So you can imagine their sheer joy at this newest app which makes their shining little faces the...

What should I draw, mom? This app has the answer.

by Pilar | Best Apps

As the proud mama of a shiny new iPad, I’ve managed to keep my kidlets’ touch screen-seeking fingertips off. Now I’m not sure I want to. Blame it on What Should I Draw? an HD iPad app that brings together Mad Libs and drawing in an epic mashup. Not...

Join the circus

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

In my experience with iPad apps over the last couple of years, I’ve learned that sometimes the simplest apps are the most entertaining and educational. And that’s exactly how I’d describe this adorable new parent-created app for preschoolers and...

This new app for kids doesn’t do anything. (And that’s the point)

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

Some of the apps on my iPad blow me away with their technological innovation, their touch-screen capabilities, and their ability to make my kids gasp, shriek or just marvel at how cool they are. But, the latest app they are hogging my iPad for hardly does anything at...

3 cool, ghoulish Halloween apps for kids

by Molly | Best Apps

With Halloween just around the corner (how did that happen?!), we’ve been on the lookout for a few cool apps that will keep our kids entertained while we’re busy gluing sequins on mermaid costumes and eyebrows on Angry Birds. Let me just say–there...

Toca Boca has two more reasons I’ll never get my hands on my iPad again

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

I’ve professed my love for the creative and entertaining apps by Sweden’s Toca Boca before, and I know I’m not alone in my admiration if our very vocal Facebook fans are any indication. My own kids already have six Toca Boca apps to give them a...

3 paper doll apps that take paper dolls into the digital age

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

I think for those of us moms with fond memories of playing with paper dolls, there’s something really lovely about seeing how they’re being translated for the tablet age. I love that even on the road, without a pair of scissors, my girls can dress up their...

You oughta be in pictures

by Jeana | Best Apps

If you’ve ever dreamed of seeing your name in the rolling credits of movies, well, this app doesn’t quite do that. But it does let you customize movie clips with your own messages and that in itself is pretty cool. The app is called PercyFX, Percy being...