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Maybe photography is your passion and you possess enviable photo editing skills. The rest of us just take way too many pics of our kids and want our images to look as cool as possible with minimal time and effort! Snapseed allows you to enhance and transform your photos in seconds for results that look like you have more skills than you do. Result!
Available from iTunes
Become a collector…of memories. Limetree is an easy way to gather all those special moments of childhood as they happen, for one or multiple children. Add photos, notes and special letters to capture their precious and fleeting childhood years and create a priceless keepsake that you and your children will treasure always. Best of all, your memories are safe in cyber space, no risk of losing your memories along with a lost or stolen computer.
A parent’s life usually involves a myriad of things to keep track of. Your busy life and hectic schedule is much more manageable with the right calendar app to keep you organised! Calendars+ works perfectly with Google Calendar and your phone’s built-in calendar to manage events on and offline. So you’ll never forget what’s on your to do list and who has to be where when.
Buy it for $6.99 from iTunes
Babies come with a LOT of necessary stuff and like it or not, the early years of parenthood involve a LOT of bag packing. Imagine how much head space would be freed up if you had lists for what to pack for outings, swimming lessons, childcare, holidays… This simple but life changing app allows you to select from ready-made lists or customise your own to make it quick and easy to get packed and get out the door.
Get for $0.99 from iTunes
This app is so fun that kids won’t even notice the healthy eating messages they’re being fed! The Yum Yums need to harvest as many different coloured fruits and vegetables as possible to power up their Rainbow Machine, start the carnival rides and get the Yum Yum party started! Kids will love the interactive games and cute animations and parents will love the underlying message about the importance of ‘eating a rainbow,’ educating kids about how eating a mix of bright foods helps their bodies grow. Compatible with iPhone & iPad.
Available from iTunes – $1.99
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Little ones 1-3 years, who get a thrill from hide and seek games, will be entranced by this adorable story app about mummy animals looking for their babies. Read the story, match the animal pairs, learn animal sounds and sing along with the catchy song. Bright graphic animations make for fantastic, engaging, farmyard fun. Compatible with iPad only.
Available from iTunes - $2.99
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Kids’ art is colourful and expressive and a beautiful way to track their development. Which is why most of us have wallpapered fridges and bulging drawers of masterpieces that we just can’t bear to throw away!
If you live with a prolific artist and your home has run out of ‘gallery’ space, you need Kids Art Keeper, a new App that allows parents to easily capture and share children’s artwork or school work. This App is a stroke of genius, with features to create galleries for different children, label, date, organise and store each precious piece. You can capture your child’s cute descriptions of their art (yes, that scribble is a crocodile eating a cupcake) and then create slideshows or share their best work with friends and family.
Available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android on iTunes and Google Play – $0.99
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Get toddlers on the right track to learning to write with this fun maze app! Featuring twenty mazes (that you can print for paper practise too) with interactive characters like clapping seals and sailing goats, little ones will love the engaging illustrations and animations.
Get it for $0.99 from iTunes
Disney proves they can do more than princesses and mice in this super popular app. In fact they know a thing or two about underground plumbing! Help Swampy the Alligator have a shower by guiding the water to him in this deceptively simple, physics-based game. Play is intuitive with vibrant graphics and a catchy soundtrack and any app that wins the ‘favourite app’ title from my 5 year old is high praise indeed.
Get it for $0.99 from iTunes
It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s addictive and it’s fantastic exercise for your brain! Think ‘Where’s Wally’ with incredible graphics, but so much more exciting. Play solo, against the computer or against your friends and develop thinking skills while you’re having fun. This great app will be enjoyed by the whole family and is sure to become one of the most clicked icons on your device.
Get it for $0.99 from iTunes
