Nine helpful apps your mom will love: Google picks its favorite Mother’s Day apps
Whether she is an Android junkie or just starting out her smartphone she will find something according to Google
Google has put together a selection of great
mom-worthy Android apps for Relaxnews in time for Mother’s Day.
Whether your mother is just starting out with
her smartphone and needs some tips or she’s a powerhouse Android junkie who
doesn’t take her hand off her device, she’s bound to love these helpful apps
from the Google Play app store.
For busy moms there's to-do and personal
assistant apps to keep her life organized; for new moms there's apps that will
help her find the perfect baby name and baby monitors that will keep a watchful
eye on newborns; and for moms with lots of hungry kids there's shopping and
recipe apps.
Google’s selection of
Mother’s Day apps:
FREE
Searching for the perfect baby name? This app
lists over 50,000 names for little boys and girls, and you can search by
meaning, country of origin and popularity. The app is also integrated into
email, Facebook and Twitter, so you can keep running lists and share favorites
with family and friends.
FREE
Astrid is more than just the perfect to-do
list -- it's the personal assistant for busy mums on the go. Get your life
organized and never miss a deadline with fun reminders, subtasks, lists, and
widgets. Then access your tasks anywhere with automatic syncing across your
phone, tablet, and Astrid.com.
$2.99
This innovative app turns your Android
smartphone into a high-tech baby monitor. Highlights include: ‘Phone Alert’
calls a preselected number when there is noise in your baby’s room, ‘Mum’s
Voice’ plays a recorded audio file when your baby wakes up and becomes noisy,
and ‘Sweet Dreams’ plays media from your music library to help your baby get to
sleep
FREE
Cozi turns your Android smartphone into the
ultimate family organizer with a centralized calendar, shopping lists, to do
lists and a journal that everyone can share on the go. If you have teenagers
with smartphones, Cozi is a great way of ensuring that everyone stays in sync.
FREE
Healthy eating is important, for moms, dads
and kids alike. MyFitnessPal has the largest nutritional database of any
Android calorie counter with over 1,100,000 foods! You can also create custom
exercise routines and track your cardio and strength training including sets,
reps and weight.
FREE
OvuView tracks and predicts your period,
ovulation and fertility using sympto-thermal methods (STM). This app can be
used both as an advanced birth control tool -- or as a simple menstrual
calendar -- and replaces STM paper charts with a more convenient, digital way
of tracking cycles.
FREE
Got hungry kids? This app provides a quick and
simple way to find recipes for the ingredients you have -- or the ones you
want. There are over 70,000 recipes in total, including appetizers, main dishes,
drinks, side dishes, desserts and ethnic recipes.
FREE
Scan faster. RedLaser uses state-of-the-art
barcode recognition that can read virtually any product barcode. Shop smarter.
RedLaser searches for low online and local prices from hundreds of thousands of
retailers. Watch the dollars and cents add up.
$1.49
Forget about counting sheep -- that’s so
analogue! The Sleepy Time app is a digital sound machine designed to help you
sleep better. Choose from nature sounds, wild things, urban sounds and all
sorts of things that whir, hum, chime, tick and tock.
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