Toca Boca Monster Mashup – Get it while it’s free!

by Pilar | Best Apps

That kids always want to play with their food is no secret, and now they can (digitally speaking anyway), thanks to one of our all time favorite developers, Toca Boca. (Cue loud cheers.) The funky Swedish developers have just come out with a messy monster edition of...

Angry Birds Space Review: Is it worth your 99 cents?

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

Birds! In! Spaaaaaace!So will you like Angry Birds Space? I guess that’s a “duh” sort of a question–consider the fact that Angry Birds developer Rovio is so gaming-savvy, they’re now valued at more than Jet Blue. Clearly they know a...

Instamatch: Play memory with your Instagram photos

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

I have no qualms about professing my love for the Instagram app, which is probably one of my favorite ways to capture images of my kids on the go. So when I heard about a new app that lets you play memory with your Instagram images, I had to take a peek. You...

If Tim Burton created an app, Sir Benfro’s Brilliant Balloon would be it.

by Pilar | Best Apps

While Tim Burton has yet to get into app development, I’m pretty sure if he did it would be this one. Light Emitting Daves, Timorous Fizzles, mustachioed Brackle McSturdys, and Eggbutt Snaffles sound like things sprung from a beautifully eccentric mind, and...

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...

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....

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...

Gube: Like YouTube. Except safe for kids.

by Pilar | Best Apps

Justin Timberlake dressed as a cup of soup. Michael Bolton vamping as Captain Jack Sparrow. Both are a YouTube hoot. The idea of my kids coming across either one while clicking through to what they think might be age appropriate is not. Enter Gube. Think of it as...

Karaoke for the preschool set

by Molly | Best Apps

I know I don’t have the only 2 year-old who can pick up my iPhone, unlock the screen and navigate apps. And it never fails, when the phone is in her hands, the Nursery Rhyme Karaoke app, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, is the first thing she clicks on every single...

DuckyTube: Like YouTube only, you know. With ducks. (Not really.)

by Pilar | Best Apps

My kids have a serious iPhone habit, and yes, I suppose you could call me the ultimate enabler since the kidcentric apps on my devices vastly outnumber the ones meant to help adults make a decent mixed drink (ahem). And then there’s YouTube. Both kids have...