40 LIFE CHANGING APPS FOR MOMS

Pregnancy Tracker – BabyCenter – This app is created by the most trusted parenting brand and is immensely helpful for every phase of the parenting journey. Whether you are just beginning to think about getting pregnant, trying to conceive, already pregnant, or maybe just curious about baby growth and development, this app has it all.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

The Bump – Pregnancy Count – The Bump is the #1 baby tracker app for moms with many features. From the pregnancy planner, keeping track of doctor’s visit, creating a baby registry this app can help you keep a track of your pregnancy and beyond. You can also document your baby and belly photos using this app.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

MyMedela app – One of my favorite apps that was very helpful to me in my breastfeeding journey. It helps you to track your breastfeeding and pumping progress as well as track your baby’s height, weight, sleep and diaper changes and you can also get instant expert guidance by using the problem-solver feature.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Milk Maid – This is another great app designed for moms to record their breastfeeding sessions and pumping stash. This easy to use app keeps track of individual bottles and bags by pumping date so that you can use the oldest milk first.

Price: $2.99 on IOS

Available: IOS

Today’s Parent My Family – There is always so much to do while taking care of a baby and there are so many questions to be answered. Through this app, you can create personalized content based on your child’s age and stage, all in one place. You can also get recipes, activities and a lot more ideas for your growing baby. Another great feature of this app is the storytelling feature where this app collects all your family’s precious moments and converts it into a storybook.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

The Wonder Weeks – One of the bestselling baby apps, it creates a personalized weekly calendar of your baby’s mental development that will keep you informed about the leaps and bounds and the fussy phases of your baby. This app has more than 500 video explanations about your baby’s cognitive development, the complete audiobook of the Wonder Weeks and a lot more.

Price: iTunes $4 and Google Play $5

Available: IOS and Android

Glow baby: Newborn tracker – From breastfeeding to diaper changes, you can get all your baby’s or toddler's milestones and track developments with this app. Comes with interactive features like timers to track your baby’s feeding, sleep schedule and more, notifications to stay on track of everything baby-related, growth charts for your baby and personalized summary of all your baby’s data.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Cloud Baby Monitor – Connect any two MAC devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or a MAC as a baby monitor and remote and place it in your baby’s room and get access to live full-screen video and clear audio of your baby’s room. Additional features are you can talk to your baby, chose from a library of popular white noises and lullabies, night light with brightness control feature and a lot more.

Price: $6

Available: IOS

Sound Sleeper – This sleeping app comes with a large selection of white noise, sounds of nature and lullabies to calm your baby. This app is a great companion for mom to help develop healthy sleep habits in your baby from infant to toddler years. Also, if you use this app from two IOS devices it can act as a baby monitor and you can control the sounds from your bedroom.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

CareZone – CareZone makes it really easy to take care of your baby’s prescriptions. You can take pictures of the meds and dosage instructions and save it via this app. Also, it will send you reminders of when to take the medicine and other doctor appointments. This app is an easy way to journal, track and share your meds with your healthcare provider.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Happy Kids Timer – Routines are the base of any family and Happy Kids Timer helps in forming a morning and night routine for your kids.  This app can be operated by a child and doesn’t require your direct supervision. Plus, it’s got cute animations, appealing music and winning certificates for task completion to help keep kids motivated and get everyone out of the house on time.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

ContinuousCare – Another great healthcare app! This can help keep track of everything health-related for the entire family. You can store scheduled appointments, prescriptions and medical records, ask health care specialists medical questions and sync information from your device’s health app to monitor any ongoing treatments for you and your family. Through this app you can also schedule video consults and follow-ups wit the doctors without ever leaving the house.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Baby Connect – Baby Connect is one of the most popular apps for moms. Through this app, you can track everything baby-related from nap time to diaper changes. For nursing moms, you can even track on which side you last nursed and when you last pumped. Perfect app to keep track of your baby's development!

Price: $4.99-$8.99

Available: IOS and Android

Curbi – If you’ve ever wished there was an app to help manage and monitor your kiddos’ screen time, Curbi is the solution. Especially have you suffered having to listen to loud nursery rhymes because your toddler cries every time you touch the remote.. haha.. With features that include creating “rules” to control electronic access, a “timeout” option and so much more, managing your kids’ screen time in a safe, effective way has never been easier.

Price: Free

Available: IOS

UrbanSitter – UrbanSitter lets you find a sitter or a nanny in times of need. You can find a nanny and also read previous reviews shared by families about their experience with that sitter. And even better you can message the nanny, call and book straight from the app, and also be able to pay!

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Artkive – This app is an archive for all of the beautiful art and crafts that your kid creates. You can choose the required package, digitalized and upload all the crafts to a gallery for your viewing. You can even turn their work into a hard covered book or other custom products, such as mugs, puzzles, and more.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Peanut – Peanut is like a dating app, but this app helps connect moms to moms so that you meet, chat and share your journey. It connects women going through the same phase as pregnancy, motherhood anfd more so that they don’t feel isolated and are able to form a good support system.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Hey! Vina – Hey! VINA app is there to help you connect with and meet other local moms. Whether you've recently moved to a new city, want to connect to moms while you're traveling, or simply want to meet some new friends at home, this app allows you to make connections wherever you are.

Price: Free

Available: IOS

ChoreMonster – ChoreMonster, on the other hand, is for younger kids. Through this app you can teach your kids about completing their chores on a daily or weekly basis, with personalized age-appropriate tasks.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Chorma – Helps distribute tasks between each family member. You can even set incentives for the family members who get the most done.

Price: Free

Available: IOS

Task Rabbit – Task rabbit is a great resource for moms to get their day-to-day tasks taken care of by being connected to a reliable handyman, repairman, etc. One-stop to find solution to all those lingering household tasks!

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Insta Cart – This is my favorite app to use. Just add the groceries in the list and have them delivered to your doorstep in less than an hour. An easy way to shop and can help you keep track of items that are out of stock so that you can order them in the future.

Out of Milk– Through this app, you can keep a pantry inventory, save recipes and add ingredients directly to your shopping list manually or with a bar code scan, get deal alerts on shopping list items and alerts when you’re running low on something. Also, you can easily share your past shopping list with your family members.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Sweat – One of my favorite workout apps. If you haven’t heard about Kayla Itsines – BBG Workout, then you need to check that out asap. Kayla Itsines recently a new mom has been sharing 30 mins quick at-home workouts that are very effective and you can start to see changes from very early on. Sweat has a huge community of over a million users who are women on the same journey of fitness and losing weight.

Fitbit – You all must be aware of the Fitbit band that has been very famous over the past few years. Fitbit is a great app that can help you track your all-day activity, workouts, sleep and more. It can be easily connected with the Fitbit’s many activity trackers and the Aria smart scale to get a complete picture of your health.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Nike+ Running – This Running app has added full access to Spotify this year. With the new music streaming integration, Nike+ Running can now build a playlist based on your target pace and music preferences. I use this app for running and love it!

Price: 

Available: IOS and Android

Cozi Family Organizer – Cozi is the ultimate family organizer app where you can create shared family calendars, shopping lists, to-do lists, recipe boxes, etc. It is an easy to use app that can store all your important files as well as act as a family journal so that you can keep your favorite memories that you don’t want to get lost.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

KonMari – Marie Kondo, the author of the best-selling book, The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up, has an app that can help everyone, from college students to busy moms, get organized and stay tidy. Kondo provides various tools such as checklists, progress trackers, and friendly reminders that can help you keep organized.

Price: Free

Available: IOS

Ink Cards – It's now, even, easier to send out thank-you notes or Christmas cards to family and friends. Ink Cards lets you customize and send cards for any occasion all in one go right from your phone that can help you save a lot of time.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

VSCO – A great app to edit photos and also store them. I use it all the time to edit my photos and absolutely love it. Comes with great free presets!

Price: I use the free version, but you can also buy some additional presets.

Available: IOS and Android

Pandora – This app allows you to create your own personalized radio stations.  As you listen, the app customizes the songs that are played based on your liking.  You can create multiple stations and they even have stations for the kids!

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

YouTube – This is the ultimate entertainment app for moms.  You can find music videos, nursery rhymes, learning videos for the kids, exercise videos, makeup tutorials, cartoons, DIY videos, and a lot more.  A must-have app for home!

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Rakuten (previously known as Ebates) – Sign up for Ebates where you can earn free CASH BACK for just spending like you would normally do. Ebates makes a small commission from the store that you stopped by and they let give you a small amount from that as a thank you.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Mint – Mint is a favorite because it makes monitoring accounts, expenditures and bills extremely simple with an attractive interface, and it allows you to budget and adjust spending and saving as your finances require it.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Amazon – You can find almost everything you need on Amazon.  And with Amazon Prime, you can have those things delivered to you as early as the same day or in two days in most cases.  I am sure it's every one's favorite!

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Groupon – This is a great app to find local bargains, fun activities, and to find budget-friendly travel packages.  You can find great deals for any household activity.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Playground Buddy – Playground Buddy is another locator app, this time for playgrounds and parks all over the world, so when you’re out on errands or in an unfamiliar place for any reason, your kids can burn off some energy at a nearby playscape. Users can also update playground information or add new spots to the map if they spot an unlisted playground. 

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android

Trekaroo – Trekaroo is similar to Playground Buddy, only instead of searching for playgrounds, you can search for kid-friendly things to do, like zoos and museums as well as kid-friendly restaurants and hotels. You can search by rating, price, age appropriateness, and distance, as well as get tips on traveling with kids. You can even book hotels directly through the app, thanks to the app's relationship with booking.com. 

Price: Free

Available: IOS

Kids Eat Free – Kids Eat Free is pretty much exactly what it says it is. When you’re out and about and you need to feed the little ones, you can easily bring up a list of nearby eateries that offer free meals of the kids’ menu.

Price: Free

Available: IOS and Android