Top 50 iPhone Apps for Moms
About a week after I began using my iPhone, I was in love. I had a calendar with me at all times, and I was able to stay on top of my family's schedule - even though there are six of us! I had email access while I was out, so I wasn't constantly playing catch up with PTO business in the evening. And then I discovered apps! With these programs, I could track my baby's feeding schedule, my family's illnesses, and my attempts at exercise. And there were apps that could help keep my children entertained and educated! My iPhone was quickly becoming a vital tool that made my busy mom life more manageable.
In January 2009 I began a website, The iPhone Mom, dedicated to helping moms find apps that could do the same for them. Since beginning the site, I've seen both the quantity and quality of useful apps for moms grow.
Babble.com asked me to put together a list of my Top 50 iPhone Apps for Moms. Here, in descending order, are my favorites and the ones I think you'll find most useful.
--Heather Leister
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Food Essentials Scanner
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Food Essentials Scanner is a wonderful resource if you or someone you shop for suffers from food allergies or intolerances. This app allows you to scan the barcode of a food product to retrieve oodles of information, including nutrients, allergens and additives. For example, I have big migraine issues when I eat something that contains aspartame or MSG. I’ve set up Food Essentials to tell me if either of those ingredients is listed in the products that I scan. This app has saved me both the time and headache, literally, of standing in the grocery aisle reading ingredient lists and trying to decipher what those multi-multi-syllable words mean.
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Do you have a link for this app? I can’t seem to locate it via a search in itunes. This would be of great help with multiple food allergies & intolerances in our household.