Category: Moms

McGruff SafeGuard Browser is a free safety browser that’s been designed to look like Safari but with parental controls that can block and filter out websites you don’t want your child to access. The app is named after McGruff the Crime Dog and may seem familiar if you’ve used their SafeGuard for PC product before.…

  inCharge is an app that’s different from those that I usually review on the site because the purpose of inCharge is to help you NOT use your iPhone. The tagline for the app reads: “Do you or your loved ones spend too much time using their smartphone instead of sharing time with the people…

This week my Weekly Special comes courtesy of my kids. iOS 5 introduced a feature that I was totally unaware of until my nine year old daughter gave me a heads up last week. Miss S. showed me how to set up individual text tones for my contacts. Did you know you could do that?…

My Secret Folder Pro – Hide Your Secrets is an app for organizing and locking down photos and videos that you don’t want others to stumble upon on your iPhone. The app allows you to create folders and sub-folders and then import your videos and photos from your camera roll. My Secret Folder also gives…

  I wish this app had existed three years ago when I was getting ready to have my daughter. It definitely would have made chronicling everything that was going on in our lives at that time so much easier and I would have been able to keep track of everything as it was happening. The…

  The developers of the Sprout Pregnancy Essentials app have created a new, separate Pregnancy Journal. It will allow you to create a personalized record of your entire pregnancy. The app comes with journaling prompts that make it easy to capture this, that and everything in between. There are entry ideas for each week of your pregnancy,…

Kidlee is like a Twitterfied version of a baby book. It gives you an outlet for storing short (140 characters) posts about your children. Each of your children gets a profile and writing about them is as simple as tapping on their name, typing and then tapping save. Posts accrue in the app and you…

How many photos do you have on your iPhone’s camera roll? How many of those photos are decent pictures that are waiting to be transferred over to your computer so you can have prints made? If you’re like me the answer is a number that keeps growing and growing because somehow those photos never make…

  Last week I reviewed 4 Kids Phone. The app has been designed to look like your iPhone’s Home Screen and each “icon” that your child taps brings up a different game or activity. I had more to say about the app and you can follow this link to read my thoughts. After I posted the review…

I have no idea why I haven’t reviewed the app Intuition before. It’s a free app and I had it in my library already when I received an email requesting a review. I remember taking a look at it awhile back but I don’t know why I never went any further. Something probably came up…

ABCya.com is behind the apps Math Bingo and Create a Car – two that my children absolutely love. They’ve generously given me oodles of promo codes to give away to my readers. There are codes for Math Bingo, Create a Car and Carve It! (a brand new app for Halloween). Instead of having you wait on me for emails with…

If you’re looking for an app to help you keep track of feminine issues then take a look at Pink Pad. It is my current favorite app in this category. The app is intelligent, easy to use, has a great interface and incorporates built in user forums. For me, the key to Pink Pad’s success…

Family & Offender GPS Tracker App Review App Info Price: Free In-App Purchases Overview Family & Offender GPS Tracker is an app that I’m very glad to have on my phone. It does two things – gives you a way to track your family members locations and provides a look at registered sex offenders who…

Dr. Seuss Senders lets you send silliness in e-card form. The app gives youe 100 different cards to choose from. They’re grouped into categories so it’s easy to look for just the right card. The categories are Happy Day,  Congrats, Success, Love, Travel, Thanks, Get Well and All Cards.  Each card features a saying that…

I am allergic to budgeting. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. But every once in awhile I get the urge to try and “cure” my allergy so I decide to give budgeting a try again. Now that I’ve got my iPhone I’ve been searching for a magic app that’s going to suddenly make…

Grocery Gadget App Review App Info Price: Free Overview This is an app that you are going to want to grab as soon as you can! Keep reading all the way to the end of my review for the feature that makes this app a slam dunk. (Saving the best for last I guess.) When…

Thank You Gift List isn’t a gift tracking app but one that tracks your thank you notes instead. When my kids receive gifts I usually write them all down on a piece of paper, then hope that I’ll remember where I put the paper when it’s time to ask (forcefully remind) them to write their…