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ContinuousCare
- This app facilitates the storing of medical information, allows you to schedule appointments, puts you in contact with healthcare professionals, allows you to monitor treatments, and much more.
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Happy Kids Timer
- Morning time is very challenging for children and maybe even more challenging for their parents. Happy Kids Timer is an interactive app that guides children through their morning routine with fun and playful animations, timers, and challenges.
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VarageSale
- Everybody knows how fast junk can build up in their home or garage. This app is an online marketplace to sell anything in your home, from baby clothes to Tupperware. It is mostly used by parents, and is considered a safe community.
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Playground Buddy
- This app allows you to locate playgrounds and parks anywhere in the world. Users can also update information on the park’s opening hours and safeness.
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Trekaroo
- This application is all about finding fun activities for children. It'll help you locate museums, theaters, zoos, and more. You can also access ratings and reviews on each listing.
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Kids Eat Free
- Doing what it says on the label, this one lists the restaurants in your areas that offer free meals for children off the kids’ menu.
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Chorma
- Often one person does the majority of the work around the house. This app will end any disputes about who isn’t pulling their weight regarding carrying out chores. Tasks are listed, and users earn points for the housework that they do.
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ChoreMonster
- ChoreMonster covers similar ground to Chorma, but is directed more for parenting young children. Parents can assign and track the completion of age-appropriate tasks on a daily or weekly basis. It also incentivizes the completion of tasks.
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Instacart
- This app takes shopping out of the equation. You create your shopping list with the option of choosing items from multiple stores. It stores past shopping lists, and you select a delivery time that suits your schedule.
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Out of Milk
- This app is the ultimate tool for grocery shopping for a household. It stores inventory, allows the adding of entire recipes with their ingredients, facilitates the adding of products to a shopping list by scanning bar codes, provides alerts for deals and when you’re running low on something, and allows you to share shopping lists easily.
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Keepy
- As kids create art, Keepy provides a platform where photos of their artwork can be stored, commented on by members of your group, and even allows you to purchase products with their artwork printed on them.
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Moms Pump Here
- A community of users describe and rate nursing rooms or nursing-friendly spaces that can be located using the app.
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Cozi Family Organizer
- A one-in-all app that incorporates functions to help schedule appointments, make to-do lists, write grocery lists, and much more. All the information is shareable.
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MamaBear
- Knowing your children are safe is the most important thing for any parent or carer. This app is installed on the parent or carer's phone and the child’s phone, which provides location and arrival alerts for parents. It can also be used to monitor certain content on social media. In case of an emergency, the child can alert their carer by pushing a panic button on the app.
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CareZone
- This application is for anyone who would like assistance keeping track of their medical records. It helps to keep a record of prescriptions and dosages of medicine, reminds users when to take their medication, and is a tool to monitor symptoms.
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TripCase
- Traveling in groups is hard, especially with children. TripCase allows you to consolidate hotel bookings, travel itineraries, car rental information, and much more, all in one place. It also helps by gathering messages and emails you receive regarding your trip.
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Brili
- This app tracks the routines and progress of tasks completed by children. It’s not standard, as it learns how they’re progressing and adjusts accordingly. It's designed to help parents monitor children with learning disabilities or attention deficit disorders.
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UrbanSitter
- This app is handy in helping to find childminders. Users can rate their experience, book through the app, and pay through the app too.
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SitOrSquat
- This is a godsend for anyone with children who are being potty-trained. It may be useful for many other people too. The app works like a GPS to locate and navigate to the closest restrooms or changing facilities.
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Mint
- Its user-friendly interface makes budgeting, financing, and saving achievable and straightforward. You can also create alerts for when bills need to be paid and pay them through the app.
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Milk Stork
- For mothers who are breastfeeding and are away from their children, Milkstork provides a service to deliver their breastmilk from anywhere globally to their babies in the US.
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Peanut
- This app works like Tinder for mothers who want to meet friends or caregivers. It allows them to network in a safer way without physically going to meetups or mixers.
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Trello
- Trello is a must-have for any entrepreneur with children. It allows the scheduling of meetings, assignment of tasks, and date organization. It's also built for collaboration so that schedules, plans, and meetings can be shared with partners or co-workers.
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Headspace
- It is of primary importance to relax and unwind to continue performing in all the required areas of our lives. Headspace, though an outlier in that it is not purely functional, should be mentioned. The app provides guided meditations to relax and unwind or assist you in getting some shut-eye.
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Bank of Mom and Dad
- Bank of Mom and Dad helps assist in tracking children’s personal bank accounts to teach them about the concept of money. It also allows parents to track their screen time and socializing habits.
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Yummly
- Every parent who cooks will understand the struggle of deciding what to cook for children. Yummly battles this problem by allowing caregivers to enter what ingredients and recipes the children liked and disliked and suggests recipes for meals.
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Banquet
- For those who enjoy wine, Banquet allows the purchasing and delivery of wines from all around the world.
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TaskRabbit
- Vetted 'taskers' are available for hire to do household tasks such as mowing lawns, cleaning, furniture assembly, home repairs, running errands, and more.
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Gumshoe
- Gumshoe's premise is to aggregate information about food so that consumers don’t have to spend time squinting at labels and physically writing down to keep track of ingredients. Sources: (Working Mother)(SheKnows)(Bustle)
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The best apps for busy parents
Creating time for what's important
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Parents understand how immensely challenging it is to manage the many facets of their lives. Whether they’re working or not, there are hundreds of things to do every week to keep a household in order. Between financing, scheduling, cooking, cleaning, and helping their kids with school work, it’s no task for the faint-hearted.
With this in mind, many companies have designed applications that can help parents in their day-to-day lives. Keeping things going is hard, and these apps help to share the load. If you're a busy person, an entrepreneur, or simply struggle in deciding what to cook in the evenings, one of these apps is sure to provide some relief.
Click through this gallery to discover the most useful and practical apps on the market that can make your daily life more comfortable.
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