Best Free Apps for Kids - iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android

Educational iPad Apps for Young Kids

iPad is quickly gaining recognition as a premier piece of educational equipment. Schools are using the tools to teach, while parents are able to enlist the services of the iPad for homework assistance and basic learning for young tots. An ever-expanding market of apps designed exclusively for operation with the iPad offer educational opportunities in every subject imaginable, and this week we’ll take a look at five of the highest rated iPad educational apps.

Be Cool: Gift an iPhone or iPad App This Christmas

by Natalie

There are plenty of bland holiday gift options out there: an itchy sweater, a personalized coffee mug or perhaps a Snuggie would express the proper sentiment? Or, maybe this year you want to make a statement with your gifts while still having a little cash left in your wallet at the end of the merry season. Gifting iPhone or iPad apps via the iTunes store is a fantastic way to send a gift that offers an array of benefits. What are our favorite reasons for gifting an app or two?

4 Ways to Customize Your iPhone and iPod Touch

People replace the standard desktop background of their computers with a photo of their dog and teenagers personalize school binders with stickers. So why shouldn’t you be able to customize your iPhone to reflect your style? You should! And you can. The allure of the iPhone device is only amplified by its ability to be customized to fit your lifestyle and taste while still remaining a useful device.

 

Best iPhone Cookbook Apps

by Natalie

I have an obsession with the Food Network, which leads to the hoarding of cookbooks, crammed shelves and jeans that are usually a little snug around the waist. Recently I found a solution to my crammed shelf issue through the discovery of iPhone cookbook apps. Not only does an iPhone or iPod Touch take up less space on my kitchen counter while I’m whipping up a new recipe, but cookbook apps take recipes to a whole new level of portable. How simple is it to pull up a recipe in the grocery store and take a quick inventory of your cart to ensure all the necessary ingredients are on hand? Whether you love to cook, or struggle through dinner every night, iPhone cookbook apps are sure to add some ease to your time in the kitchen.

Best Free Android Games for Kids

Just because you may not have an iPhone doesn’t mean that there aren’t lots of great games available for your kids on your smart phone. The Android market features an ever expanding selection of children’s games with the low, low price tag of…free!  Whether your kids are in elementary school and seeking a game of strategy, or you have toddlers in the house prepping for Kindergarten, there is sure to be a free Android game to meet your needs. Let’s take a look at a few of the more popular free game apps in the Android marketplace.

Kid Safe Browsers for iPad and iPhone

by Natalie

Parents know that it’s not safe to allow children unrestricted access to the internet. You wouldn’t let little Jimmy run around all willy-nilly in a strange city and you surely wouldn’t allow anything of the sort in cyberspace, right?

The issues with internet access and children come in many forms. Your child may be young enough that they accidentally stumble upon inappropriate content ranging from nudity to foul language, leaving you to explain the human anatomy at a much sooner time than you had imagined. Or, perhaps the kids are at an age of curiosity or rebellion and are purposely seeking out off-limits topics online.

Best iPhone Videos on YouTube

by Natalie

I know what I do with my iPhone, but sometimes I wonder what everybody else does with theirs. Although my capacity for iPhone creativity doesn’t extend far beyond using apps that add mustaches to my photographs, there are some folks who have found a way to extend the boundaries of iPhone and iPad far beyond that of, well, a phone or other standard portable electronic device.

Through the wonder of YouTube, we all are fortunate enough to share in some of this creativity and be left to wonder, “How’d they do THAT?!?”

Math Fun With iPhone

by Natalie

iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad has some of the best kids math apps that makes studying math a lot of fun. Math skills, in part, depend a lot on practice and repetition. Here we list the most popular math apps that are sure to entertain while educating. 

How to Disable Internet Access and App Downloads on iPhone & iPad

There are often times when parents want to allow their child use of an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with restricted access to the internet and app downloads. While it may be suitable for the child to use previously downloaded apps, disabling internet and app downloading capabilities helps prevent children from accessing inappropriate content via the web or racking up an unauthorized bill in the iTunes store. A few months ago, a local mother here in California had to scramble to have a $900 iTunes charge reversed when her son accidentally began download of an expensive law reference app on accident. Simply disabling app purchases can help keep you, and your kids, out of a similar predicament!

Best iPhone Apps for Eating Healthy

Being conscious of what we eat becomes even more important with children running around the house. Their growing bodies need a vital mix of vitamins, minerals, protein and carbohydrates to grow big & strong while us parents need good, nutritious food to keep us energized and healthy. However, eating well isn’t always easy. Cupcakes are delicious and take out is a quick fix for dinner when the entire family seems to be running in different directions. To combat the world’s edible temptations, Apple app developers have joined the fight to help us all keep better track of what we put in our mouths through the creation of a variety of informational, motivational healthy eating apps.

How to Disable Auto Correct Spelling on iPhone

by Natalie

I had never been a fan of the whole predictive text ability of phones until I purchased an iPhone. Most f the time when I begin tapping away at my iPhone’s tiny keyboard it will insert the correct spelling and punctuation of a word when my fingers stray. However, sometimes, I just don’t want it to correct me.