iOS apps

Every Saturday morning, I wake up and check the website Mommy Poppins to see what's going on in New York City with kids. So do tens of thousands of other parents; so it made perfect sense that they would convert all those great listings …

Remember playing the telephone game when we were kids? That one where you'd sit in a circle and whisper a phrase all the way around, and by the end it was nothing like the original secret? Well, now that game has had a makeover, hit the …

Pretty much every time we find an awesome new pick for toddlers, I sigh about how much I wish I'd had something similar when my own kids were toddlers. I'm especially impressed by the way tech has been integrated into learning and develo…

This has been a major week for air travelers and tech! First, Delta became the first airline to allow use of small devices on take-off and landing. (Something we tried ourselves this week and yeah, it was kind of nice not to have to turn…

I've got so many great Instagram photos in my feed that I want to share with friends and family. What are your favorite ways to print Instagram photos? -Carolyn Some of our own favorite photos are from Instagram, Carolyn, and we've found…

While we've been singing the praises of Toca Boca apps for kids for ages now, we're not the only ones. They are wildly engaging, often educational, and absolutely charming with quirky details and humorous characters that can only come fr…

Don't tell our beloved, drooly Black Lab, but my kids have been spending an awful lot of time with another adorable pooch. This one has been sneaking into their hearts with a series of totally cute iPad stories that combine funny storyte…

We've featured a ton of amazing to-do list apps here on Cool Mom Tech and some of them, like TeuxDeux and SwipeList , my fellow editors swear by. But for me, I'm still an iPhone notes or old fashioned paper kind of girl. Until I discover…

If you love giving your kids access to ebooks but hate having to buy them a la carte, check out the new ebook library recently launched by Zuuka, one of the oldest and best resources in the ebook world. Over the last few years, iStoryTim…

Every year, the team at Cool Mom Tech gets a little silly with the hilarious Halloween JibJab cards that make it look like we are shimmying and breakdancing to any number of catchy songs. And now, for our younger kids, we're thrilled tha…

Once again, it's that time we seek out the very best Halloween apps for kids to help keep them in the Halloween spirit, without wearing out their costumes and polishing off the mini Kit-Kats before the 31st even hits. And once again, it'…

These days, I rarely have any reason to use a printer let alone a scanner. All I need is Hello Fax and I can pretty much avoid the printing, faxing, and scanning all together. But just a few days ago when I had to scan a few receipts for…

They say variety is the spice of life, and I've definitely found that to be true where it comes to educational kids' apps. The more awesome kids' apps I load on the iPad, the more likely it is my own kids will keep exploring and learning…

Cute? Funky? Funny? That's entirely up to you in this new colorful world from Toca Boca , one of our favorite developers of kids' apps , and it's all created with kids' wild imaginations in mind. Toca Boca just released its latest iOS tr…

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us ! Then check out 5 of our most popular pins from this week. 1. Our favorite TV science guy is back . What an awesome program for kids! 2. Get geeky with your breakfast food . Hilarious. 3. Thi…

As if we haven't already learned that everything lasts for ever, even a selfie on Snapchat , another app developer is pushing boundaries with a copycat version though this one gives the user a little more control. Presumably. If you have…

I'm a project manager by trade, and my husband has a Master's degree in Logistics, so you'd think we'd have our acts together when it comes to our calendars, right? Unfortunately, we still miss dental appointments, forget who was going t…

This mom is a writer, so obviously it makes my heart soar when I see my children reading a good, old-fashioned book (you know, one with pages) or writing their own. But since we live in a time when there are more often tablets in their h…

My husband and I really want our kids to learn to appreciate other cultures, which means we have to actively seek out ways to expose them to other cultures, and here's a wonderful new one. One Globe Kids was created by a multi-cultural, …

If you're the type who uses your Instagram and Facebook accounts to share photos of delicious meals that you've enjoyed at fab restaurants, now you can use new iPhone app Feedie to post your food photos and do more good than just making …

I'm the type of person who loves to be organized. It's embarrassing admitting that school supply shopping tops my list of fun stuff to do. But when it comes to calendars, I'm kind of a stick in the mud. I mean, even though we've reviewed…

My second grader is crazy into made up games he creates and customizes himself. Everything from blueprints for Star Warsian buildings to trains crafted from Toca Builders blocks are on his roster of perpetual projects, and creating his o…

I'm all for kids getting to use my iPad to color and create. But I love getting them offline to do the same with old-fashion crayons and markers too. (Remember those?) Here's an app company that's doing both. The Silly Aliens Supercrayon…

Hi Cool Mom Tech! A few months back you recommended an app where parents could save or store specific videos. This was to ensure kids using iPads wouldn't stumble onto questionable material on YouTube. I feel like "Tube" was the last par…