photo apps

I love when I catch that perfect, precious moment of my sweet little guys and girl on camera. But the ability to add their adorable little voices to the photo? Stop it. The new Shuttersong app does this effortlessly. This is seriously ra…

While there are a ton of photo editing apps that we've recommended, there's a new one made just for families that we think you'll be particularly interested in. Not just because it was created by Soleil Moon Frye, who's reinvented hersel…

There are so many photo apps out there (too many to count) and our job is to help parse out the ones that are actually worth downloading. Recent apps we've featured like the Story app by Disney and Qwiki for creating customized photo and…

We've been touting the benefits of Animoto video editing since the very first day we discovered how easy it was to make fabulous videos from your own snapshots, how professional they look, and how free they can be. (At least the short on…

While we adore Instagram , we still approach the Facebook takeover of Instagram with a healthy dose skepticism. Still, the network only seems to be growing, and the fact that there are so many cool things people are doing with their feed…

To write this post, I just checked my cell phone's Photo Gallery to see how many pictures I've collected. 318. Three hundred and eighteen photos and videos. And I'm sure for some, that number would be on the low side. So what do we do wi…

Despite the easy filtering and editing of Instagram, I still find some of my favorite photos come from photo apps in which I can choose the film and lenses right in camera before the shutter snaps instead of editing photos afterwards. We…

There are so many fun photo apps that we have covered on Cool Mom Tech-- Afterglow , BeFunky and myMosaic , to name a few. But I've recently started playing around with another iOS photo app called Split Pic 2.0 that not only offers fun …

I took the cutest video of my daughter at her piano lesson last week playing Beethoven Sonatas, jazz riffs and Billy Joel covers. It was amazing! OK, fine, it was a run-through of "Do Not Sneeze" accompanied by her piano teacher, but I s…

I have taken so many pictures of my kids on my iPhone that I tend to group them into "series." There's the Florida series, the winter snowstorm series, the soccer game series, and so on. So I'm excited to have found a new app called Pice…

As much as I love Instagram (and boy do we love Instagram ), there are days that are so busy that I just don't get the chance to see what great--or silly--shots my friends are posting. But now that my Instagram feed can easily become my …

If you're like me, you've got tons of family videos on your smartphone and lots of aspirations to do something with them all. But then "one of these days" turns into months and years, because who really has time to sit down and edit toge…

Q: With all your evaluations and explorations, have you found a great place for on-line storage of cell phone pictures? A place where you can upload and then invite friends and family to view? - Gloria Hi Gloria, great question! I have o…

I've never been a huge Instagram user, which I guess after recent major changes to the Instagram Terms of Service , isn't a bad thing at all. But I am a fan of good quality photo editing apps, especially when they're free. We have been k…

Q: You keep posting all these awesome must-have apps , but what about for those of us who have Windows phones? I am looking for a photo app. Do you know of any that are worth getting? Right now I just send all my pictures to Facebook, wh…

Recently, I wrote about Animoto's Best of 2012 Facebook video feature allowing you to create a montage of major highlights in 2012. A cool way to look back on big moments, but what if there were a way to compile all the small moments tha…

As much as I love the iPhone camera, I don't tend to pare down as much as I should, meaning I'm scrolling through 2,000+ photos to try and find that shot from that time that my son was feeding that horse on that school field trip. And no…

After hearing about the new Instagram Terms of Service changes that announced yesterday, so many of you are writing to us asking for an alternative. And while they've updated with an explanation (sort of) on the Instagram blog that's a c…

I admit that I am really bummed about not being able to post Instagram photos on Twitter anymore. But now that Twitter redeemed itself with adding photo filters , it looks like Instagram might be moving back into favor with me as well th…

If you've been hearing the buzz about Instagram web profiles, we've got the scoop. As you know, there are a plethora of amazing things we have seen done with Instagram , aside from the awesomeness of its photo app, of course. We've featu…

If you're already a fan of the Keepsy app for creating photo print books directly from your iPhone, your world is about to get seriously rocked. It isn't enough that Keepsy allows you to create printable photo books directly from your iP…

I just returned from a fabulous adults-only trip and after looking through my camera roll, realize I was too busy reveling in the sun, surf and eating meals without interruption to take many photos of the splendor. Thankfully, my travel …

I'm not big on sharing kid photos on Facebook--I find my privacy settings magically change too often--but I'm also not great at queueing photos in emails to send to family and friends, either. This results in irritated people who are tir…

Just like you, we rely on trusted sources to pass along tips for great apps. So when a strong reco came in to try out Pixlr-o-matic , we had to check it out. Yes, we know, there are tons of photo editing apps already out there for both A…