Parents Day 2024 – Top 5 Apps for new Parents!
Since becoming parents – we were keen to work out how best to use our phones to support our family and kids!
Since having our family, we have been looking and exploring apps that make our life easier! Phones and tablets can be a blessing and curse and its important to work out your values as a family and what is going to work for you. There is of course an app for basically everything – including parenting, fatherhood, motherhood and lots regarding childhood development!
These are our top 5 most used apps as a family!
Family Album
This app has been life. changing.
We try to keep our kiddos off social media for the most part – the occasional post here and there. However living overseas for such a long time, away from family and friends mean there are lots and lots of moments that we want to share with them without having 80 million duplicate images in Whats App or Messenger.
Enter Family Album!
There is a fantastic free version, as well as a premium version.
You just upload all your photos and invite grandparents, aunts, uncles and whoever you might like. Its incredibly user friendly (important for some of the less technical of us) and you can add more than one user. So if your little one visits Grandpa on a Monday and he would like to share pictures directly – you can give him permissions to upload directly. There are also commenting functions and the app automatically makes little ‘memory’ videos for you!
Nooie
Nooie App links to our 360 cam that we use for watching the littles overnight. The night vision is amazing, they are incredibly affordable, you can link more than one camera e.g. baby monitor, pet monitor and door bell, AND you can get notifications to your phone/watch.
You can set up alerts for when baby moves/ there is motion as well as noise. The night vision has been reassuring for us, especially when the littles take a while to get to sleep.
Sprout Baby
I have used this now for the two littles and it has been a life saver for a type A personality like myself.
You can track as much or as little as you want to in this app, and I tracked everything for 1 year (overkill I know!). This helped us with various things in the new born haze; last nappy, vaccinations, last feed (and which boob), as well as lovely journal options to reflect and fill in during those late nights.
I loved that I could also start and stop things on my watch, which meant I didn’t need to have my phone nearby – you can also enable Siri if you need completely hands free. Another element that really helped us was being able to have options of both breast and bottle/formula feeding to keep track of top ups and anything our littles needed.
There is also a Sprout Pregnancy app and one for those living with more chronic conditions.
The Wonder Weeks
A week by week breakdown of baby’s leaps in the first year. So every useful at explaining those times where you think ‘what is going on’…. and ‘ah-ha’ moments of ‘its a leap!’.
Another app where you get out what you put in, but we found it helpful and almost to-the-day of behaviour changes and leaps for our little ones.
Solid Starts
Solid Starts (free and paid versions; we have the paid version). This has literally been life saving for us #allergies.
I highly recommend you follow these guys on Instragram/ the socials; they have lots of free and amazing resources as well as lots of paid guide to help with baby led weaning.
You can track all the new foods, any reactions, how many times a little one has tried a food (we need to try foods 15-30 times before we know if we like that – how else as a busy family are you meant to keep track of how many times baby has had zucchini?)
Highly recommend and we have used for both of little ones.
Other apps we use often:
- Online groceries app (life saver!)
- Health link/ Hot Doc for booking medical appointments – especially when its impossible to call e.g. 2am
- The timer app – 2 mins of playing then we are going etc etc
- Banking apps – life saver, near impossible to get to the bank with 2 children! This includes the budgeting app we use.
- Spotify! For kids music and mine!
- Robot Vac App – I have wanted one for years and we finally got one in the Boxing Day sales. I love her so much, she runs twice a day both up stairs and down stairs and I love her.
- Google calendar – for all our shared appointments and the kids stuff. This is a game changer!
- Ausland app – we do a lot of key-word-signing so its amazing to have that app on hand. We usually use the dictionary but it was so handy when were at the zoo!
- Day care apps – more of an Australian thing I think, but keeps us up to date on what the kiddos have been doing at day care!
Apps a great way to help us with everything from parenting to play; what are your favourite apps??
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