by Cool Mom Team | Educational Apps, Best Apps, Entertainment, Kids
This is a sponsored message from KinToons Music! Singing! A flying turtle with a jet pack! An ice cream-eating duck! It all comes together in the wonderful new KinToons Nursery Rhyme DJ app, a fun, colorful, and totally safe environment for nursery rhyme-loving kids....
by Kristen Chase | Best Apps
A little over two years ago, we featured Amazon Rapids, a reading app full of stories for kids that read like text messages. Talk about meeting kids where they are, right? Well, just yesterday, Amazon Rapids went from a free app + monthly subscription, to totally 100%...
by Kristen Chase | Best Apps
With my daughter in Japan for the entire month of July, we needed to come up with a communication plan, most of which involved texting apps because they’re free. Whether you’ve got a teen or college student heading overseas, or you’re traveling there...
by Kristen Chase | Best Apps
Over the weekend, my husband and son became completely engrossed in these escape room apps (or puzzle room, to some people), and after taking a look myself, I can totally see why. Warning: they are pretty freaking awesome, so much so that you might have a hard time...
by Caroline Siegrist | Educational Apps, Best Apps
As my son gets older, I’m starting to look for cool educational apps to give him a leg up on counting and letters and other basic skills. The clear favorite for now? The brand new Khan Academy Kids, a free learning app from Khan Academy and Duck Duck Moose,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys
I’m always happy when companies find a way to take their kids’ toys, games and activities and add components or extensions that keep them fresh for kids to play with. One of the best tech companies at this: Wonder Workshop, whose robots we’ve called...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
No judgments, parents — we too have admitted (often) that it can be hard to manage kids’ screen time, especially when our kids get older and we’re not attached at the hip. Well Apple gets it too, and in today’s big iOS 12 announcement,...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps
This is a sponsored message from Spotify Spotify remains the world’s largest global music streaming subscription service and for good reason. It’s transformed the way we can all find and enjoy music for free. And now, thanks to some amazing updates ...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
Every so often, a commenter gets frustrated that we have reviewed an iOS-only app, and asks why we don’t review more Android apps. We feel you. So every so often, we offer a response as to why iOS apps tend to be better than Android apps, and why iOS apps are...
