Home Mom Hacks 18 Parent Apps New Parents Should Download by Julie SegussJuly 10, 2022 Vitolda Klein on Unsplash Advertisement Trending Now Viral & Trending Adult Happy Meals Are Here & It’s About Time Food & Drink Fall & Halloween Products Have Arrived at Trader Joe’s Viral & Trending Book a Night at the Creepy ‘Hocus Pocus’ Cottage on Airbnb Celeb & Entertainment ‘Dead to Me’ Season 3 Finally Has a Release Date Viral & Trending Elementary School PTA Cracks Up Parents with Hilarious Car Line Signs Advertisement Becoming a parent means you’ll be relying on an entire village to help you navigate the world of babies and kids. Lucky for you, there’s a whole slew of apps from infant to school years to help along the way. From managing and sharing baby photos with family and friends to connecting with a new community of moms, here are some of the best parent apps. Peanut Peanut is a social networking app for current and soon-to-be moms so they can connect with other mamas. Sync up with women in the same life stage to share tips like how to keep kids entertained and balancing work and life. Peanut has also created a resource for users to contact those around them using free Community Postcards. Simply use the code HERE4YOU to get a 20-pack with free shipping. Fill out the postcard with your contact information and marl which services you can spare time to help out with like late night chat sessions or help with collecting supplies in your community.Available on Google Play and the App Store, free. Tinybeans: Family Photo Album The Tinybeans platform was founded by entrepreneurs with young kids and offers parents a private space to share photos, milestones and other moments with their children amongst family and friends in a private social network. The app is a modern day baby book at parents fingertips that helps save them time, with the primary advantage for parents not having to give away ownership of the images and videos they post. The app itself, also includes additional privacy features not typical of larger social media sites.Available on the App Store and Google Play, $4.99/month or $39.99/year. Busy Kid BusyKid, the brainchild of a father of six, is the world's first online platform that allows kids to earn, spend, invest, and save their allowance. It's a virtual chore chart, really. Parents upload chores (based on age) to the app and to each kid's profile, the kids check off the ones they've completed, and then they're paid via the app. It's possible for kids to make charitable donations, invest in stock and stash away for big purchases. Available for download from the App Store or Google Play, $38.99 (after the free trial) for a year for the whole family. Moshi Twilight With calming audio stories and guided relaxations, Moshi Twilight helps kids find a healthy nighttime routine. The stories are set in a dreamy world, and the lulling voices help little dreamers nod off. Perfect for kids learning to sleep through the night, or how to sleep alone, this award-winning parent app is worth downloading. Available at the App Store, GooglePlay and Amazon App Store. $9.99/month or $59.99/year after a 7 day free trial. Basket Now that your sweet bundle has arrived, you'll want to know where the best bargain on diapers and food can be found. That's where Basket comes in handy. This crowdsourcing app searches nearby stores to see which one carries your total cheapest list. By allowing you to compare online and in-store prices (which vary from 30 to 40% each week), you'll be able to decide where to spend your hard-earned cash. Available on the App Store and Google Play, free. Baby and Child First Aid When it comes to tackling family health and wellness, proper preparation and education are often more than half the battle. The British Red Cross has developed a clever app, Baby and Child First Aid, that’s chockfull of useful video tutorials and easy-to-follow advice that cover what to do when various ailments or medical crises arise. The app also lets parents record their child’s medication needs, and includes a list of tips and a handy checklist. While the emergency numbers in the app are for UK users, the information and advice are useful to anyone, anywhere in the world.Available at the App Store and Google Play, free. Mark All Those Moments with Babypics If you haven’t yet, you are going to be taking hundreds of pictures. In a week. Here’s how you’re going to manage it: Babypics. Capture all the precious moments, mark them with beautifully crafted artwork and words. With an array of custom features, including filters and milestone markers, you can create, save, share and order prints with just a tap. Available at the App Store and Google Play. $2.92 per month billed annually. Baby Monitor 3G HD Baby Watching: Baby Monitor 3G This HD- quality video and baby monitor for your phone, tablet or computer allows you to hear every noise, stream live video and even comfort your baby remotely. Available at the App Store and Google Play, $5.99. Play It Safe: MommyMeds Not sure what medication is okay to take when you are pregnant or nursing, or how much? MommyMeds app from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center will help you figure it out. Just search or scan the barcodes of thousands of medications, both prescription and over-the-counter and find clear, drug and safety recommendations and ingredients. Available on the App Store and Google Play. $3.99. Create a DIY Baby Monitor: Cloud Baby Monitor Visiting grandma but forgot the baby monitor? No problem. Download the Cloud Baby Monitor app and put your iPad, laptop or iPhone next to your little love. Then use your partners iPhone or another device as the parent unit for secure streaming of your hopefully sleeping baby. It will also send you notifications of motion or sound changes. Want to attempt to soothe Baby from afar? Use the app to play lullabies, white noise or talk to Baby. This app is also a great sub for those times when your regular monitor is out of range (we mean working in the garden people, not running out to the grocery store).Available on the App Store, $5.99. Help Baby Sleep with White Noise Baby With more sounds than the average white noise machine and go-anywhere ease, the White Noise Baby app wins our vote for drowning out outside sounds when Baby is trying to snooze. It includes 20 soothing ambient sounds to help you—uh, we mean your baby—snooze. Choose from options like traditional white noise to “truck ride” or “vacuum cleaner,” there is something to soothe all sleepers. There is even a timer system that slowly fades audio in and out so you can sneak your phone back once baby drifts off and if you leave your device in the nursery, you can set it up to come back on when crying is detected.Available on the App Store, $0.99 and Google Play, free. Track Baby's Every Move with Sprout Baby Sprout Baby is a do everything baby app. Not only will it keep you posted on the latest developmental feats your baby should be going through at every stage, but also it lets you track your baby's specific milestones with photos and journal entries and track everything from feedings to growth. You can also track health records and generate a report to share with your doctor during visits.Available on the App Store, free. Find Trusted Baby Advice at Your Fingertips with BabyCenter When you have a baby, suddenly everyone from your mom to the lady at the grocery store is an expert. BabyCenter’s Your Baby Today app puts their (less annoying) expert advice in the palm of your hand. No need to thumb through heavy books, this app keeps you on top of important developmental milestones, health and safety advice and even suggests age-appropriate activities for each week. Now who’s the expert, huh? Available on the App Store, free and Google Play, free. Nursing Help in Seconds: Baby Nursing App Breastfeeding can be complicated enough at the start. Did they latch? Football or cradle hold? Which side did they eat last? When did you eat last? Nipple confusion? How about mom confusion. Don’t stress. The Baby Nursing app tracks their latest feeding time, which side and for how long they ate, bottle feeding records, sleep and more. It logs all the information in handy dandy nursing history logs, which you can share with your doc (or whomever else cares to ask) and look like a total pro. Available on the App Store, free. WebMD: Your Source for Solid Health Info The WebMD app includes a lot of the same features other baby apps do: sleep tracker, diaper tracker and a feeding/nursing tracker. But the big difference here is the content. The app is a fantastic resource for new parents featuring a wealth of medically-approved content on week-by-week development, milestones, doctor visits, emergencies, baby care and more.Available on App Store, free; and Google Play, free. Eat Sleep: Simple Baby Tracking The newborn stage is all about eating and sleeping (and pooping). So the Eat Sleep parent app tracks all of that for you in detail. Log bottles and breastfeedings. Clock in times that baby sleeps and wakes (you may even start to see a pattern one day!). And watch those dirty diapers to ensure your little is eating enough.Available on App Store, free. A Must for Pumping Moms: Milk Maid If you'll be pumping a lot, whether back at work or at home, Milk Maid will help you stay organized. Not only does it track when, how much and how long you're pumping, but it also can calculate whether or not your current stash will cover your next business trip.Available on App Store, $2.99. Up Your Photo Game with Snapseed You take dozens of photos daily, or maybe even hourly, and for those priceless keepers, giving them a quick edit will make them even better. Snapseed is an easy-to-use photo editor even for not so savvy users. Quick swipes can adjust brightness, contrast, color and more. This parent app can also rescue any money shots that just happened to be taken in bad lighting.Available on App Store, free; and Google Play, free. –Taylor Clifton, Julie Seguss & Karly Wood RELATED STORIES 80 Mom-Invented Products Our Editors Love Instagram Launches New Features to Keep Users Safe and Informed These Kid-Friendly Live-Streams Can Help Beat the Boredom Share This ArticleClick to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Copy (Opens in new window) Welcome to our Tinybeans family! Be sure to check your email for new activities, recipes and parenting hacks – and to see if you’ve won! Do you have a dog or cat? Select YES below and click submit to start receiving FREE pet ideas and inspiration, news about new pet products, exclusive offers and limited-time promotions. Yes, I have a pet! 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