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Toca Boo: A fun Halloween app for kids, on sale for a limited time!

If you’re looking for a little downtime for your kids this Halloween weekend, we bet they’ll love Toca Boo, a fun Toca Boca app our own kids love to play. And, it just so happens to be on sale for a limited time. Your younger kids will love playing a ghost...

Toca TV: A cool, new Toca Boca app unlike anything they’ve done before

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

We always get excited when there’s a new Toca Boca app to download, and their newest launch, Toca TV, is no exception. It’s a cool, kid-friendly, parent-approved video streaming service for kids age 3-8 that you’ll want to check out stat. Related:...

Up, up and away with the Sago Mini Planes app

by Jeana | Best Apps

Lately, my preschooler is all about airplanes, but even if your kids aren’t as obsessed as mine, I bet they’ll still love the Sago Mini Planes app. Similar to Sago Mini Friends app (which we’ve featured here on Cool Mom Tech), the Sago Mini Planes...

Calling Toca Boca fans: Get ready to bust a move with the new Toca Dance app

by Jeana | Best Apps

As much as I can hold my own on the dance floor, the stark reality is that I have about two moves I heavily rely on. (Ask anyone at any wedding I’ve ever been to). Despite my efforts to expand my moves repertoire, I think I have to relegate myself to the fact...

Fun Christmas apps for kids: 8 options that they’ll still want to play in January.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Holiday Picks

Sometimes I need just a little quiet at home over the holidays, you know? And since my kids are app-crazy anyway, they always think it’s a treat to find cool new Christmas apps for kids that they haven’t tried yet. While we have a few from years past that...

The new Toca Blocks turns your kids into their own masters of the universe. Mainly because they’re building it from scratch.

by Jeana | Best Apps

My entire household is pretty thrilled that Toca Blocks, the 30th(!) app from favorite app developer, Toca Boca, just launched today. I got an early peek at it, and I’m happy to report, it’s just as fabulous as the others. And while Toca Hair Salon and...

13 of the best Android apps for kids, all right on Google Play

by Cool Mom Staff | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Since so many of you write us asking for the best Android apps for kids, we are so honored that Google Play reached out too, asking us to be this month’s expert kids’ app curator in their family category! We get to join the likes of trusted...

9 fantastic gender-neutral apps for kids around themes that traditionally weren’t. Because girls like robots and boys like styling hair.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

This week I was reading a post from one of our favorite app developers, Toca Boca, about how actively they try to create gender-neutral apps, and I was really impressed learning just how much effort they put into it. Like the sketch they featured in developing the...

Apps for (RED): Help fight AIDS, right from your iPhone

by Julie | Causes and Giving Back

Tomorrow may be Cyber Monday, but it’s also World AIDS Day. Which means it’s an awesome opportunity to do some extra good when you shop, and at one of our favorite places too, the Apple store. All this week through December 7, Apple will donate a portion...

Bring the great outdoors inside with the scenic Toca Nature app

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

Though my kids love to explore the woods behind our house, with the weather turning frosty their time spent outdoors will be shortened considerably. So for those days when Mother Nature is less than hospitable, I’m thrilled to find the Toca Nature app from Cool...

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