The new Urban Decay Vice Lipstick app might just be the coolest thing to happen to make-up in a very long time

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

If you’re like me, you try a bunch of lipsticks out on your hand, then think you find the right one only to realize it’s totally not your color. Well, that’s all about to change thanks to the new free Urban Decay Vice Lipstick app which is currently...

Sound Sleeper white-noise app for parents: Our cool free app of the week

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Babies

If there is one gift I could give to all new parents, it would be the ability to make their baby fall right asleep on command. But since my super powers were never really strong in that area, I’ll have to settle with telling you about a cool free app that might...

Yummly Recipes: Our cool free app of the week

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

I have fallen into a dinner rut, relying on a few tried-and-true recipes that I can whip up before the kids get too peckish at the end of a busy day. But now that I’ve download the free and gorgeously designed Yummly app, which is available free for iOS,...

Yuggler for parents: Our cool free app of the week

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

It’s Sunday morning and your kids’ friends just had to cancel their afternoon playdate. Or, you are on vacation with your toddler, and rain has just ruined your plans to visit that cool new park you read about online. What to do? Well, nowadays, there are...

Operator app connects you with shopping experts| Free app of the week

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

As much as I love the vastness of the internet, sometimes I just want to find the perfect little black dress (should Liz and Kristen not be around to tell me just what to buy!) or the name of a great family restaurant at the beach without having to scroll through a...

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

by Liz Gumbinner | Best 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...

With the Felt greeting card app, your kids will be begging you to let them write their thank you notes

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

If you haven’t quite gotten around to having your kids write out their thank you notes for all those Christmas and Hanukkah gifts they got last month, you might want to check out the new Felt greeting card app which just launched. By letting you design your own...

Apps to help you tackle your New Year’s resolutions

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

If you’re looking for help tackling your 2016 New Year’s resolutions, we’re here to help. Check out these cool, free apps that our Editor Kristen featured on The Today Show this morning.   Lark: To help you keep your fitness goals Lark (free,...

10 of the best shopping apps to put some yay in your holidays. (Holidyays?)

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

Each year around this time, we love sharing our favorite shopping apps with you. Because who doesn’t love going shopping and landing a fab deal? Exactly. And how much do you love it when you land that fab deal in the middle of the madness that is holiday...

Let the StoryCorps app capture stories of your family’s history this holiday. The result is really beautiful.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

When I’m driving around running errands, I usually have NPR on the radio, unless I’m listening to Spawned, of course. The stories that almost always end up with me in tears, searching for a Kleenex in the console, are the reports from StoryCorps which...