10 Android apps for parents

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

With the arrival of a child in the home, hundreds of previously unknown worries and problems descend on family members. Developers could not stay away from the needs of parents and grandparents. Google Play has a variety of apps designed to make parenting easier. We will now tell you about some of them.

We tried to collect applications from a wide variety of areas: entertainment, development, health, safety. The resulting list should be seen not only as a recommendation, but also as a source of ideas. Even if you don't like a particular application, you will surely find a suitable analogue on Google Play.

1. Newborn timer

A simple program, the main purpose of which is to record the time intervals that have passed since the last feeding, sleep, medication, and the administration of natural needs. The app will remind you that it's time for your baby to eat or that it's time to check the diaper. Additional functions include a white noise generator for calming the baby, the function of remembering which breast you breastfed the previous time, and color illumination.

2. Baby Monitor Annie

Transforms two smartphones or tablets into a baby monitor. Allows you to watch the baby from the parental device in real time, talk to him, turn on lullabies on the baby device. According to the specified parameters, the application will determine that the child has woken up and notify the parents. You can supervise four children, the number of parental devices is unlimited. There are five levels of video quality for networks with different data rates.

3. Baby Care

Baby Care is a mobile diary of a child's development from the first days of life. Parents record the parameters of the baby's physical development (height, weight, body temperature, head circumference), and Baby Care builds cute graphs and diagrams. Data on the daily routine, vaccinations, medications, doctor's visits and much more are presented in a systematic form. You can attach photos to your diary entries.

4. Baby Connect (toddler magazine)

In many ways it resembles the previous one, but can do much more. The application is cross-platform, all information is synchronized between devices and available on the site. There are various timers and reminders. Data can be exported to HTML, CSV, sent by email. For comparison, the child development standards of the WHO and the United States are given.

5. Mom's book

A mobile guide containing information about the most important aspects of a little person's life. Among the topics of the guide are child care (bathing, toilet, swaddling), baby feeding, vaccination calendar, medical assistance, development standards, advice and recommendations to parents. In the section "Analyzes and decoding" the norms of indicators for analyzes of urine, blood, stool are given. All this is available offline.

6. Smart kid

The "Smart Kid" application contains five types of educational games: "Who's Who", "Guess", "Silhouettes", "Riddles" and "Puzzles" - on six themes: "Animals on the Farm", "Cars", "Our vegetable garden”,“Forest animals”,“Our garden”,“Toys”. Develops memory, vocabulary, fine motor skills. Google Play has a large number of different educational applications, we even made a special selection.

7. Math and numbers for toddlers

Designed for learning counting and numbers from 1 to 10. Helps the kid learn not only spelling, but also the pronunciation of numbers. Classes are held in a playful way. The child listens, pronounces, paints, circles the numbers, mastering the skills of elementary counting within a dozen.

8. KIDOZ

KIDOZ combines the functions of parental control and entertainment services. On the one hand, the app allows parents to restrict their child's access to unwanted apps on their phone or tablet. While the device is in children's hands, calls, SMS, in-game purchases, installation and removal of applications are blocked. KIDOZ allows you to limit the time of using the device. On the other hand, the application has its own store of educational games and multimedia content. All content is checked, and parents can rest assured that their child will not encounter something forbidden.

9. Family Tracker - Life360

From entertainment to safety. Life360 is a GPS tracker adapted for use by family members or other groups, such as hikers. Parents can always see the location of the child's phone, track his movements. The tracker can send notifications to parents' devices when a child reaches a certain point: school, at home, and so on. Through the application, you can exchange messages with each other. When the panic function is enabled, Life360 sends alarm messages to all family members through the application itself, by SMS, call and e-mail. Messages contain the coordinates of a child in trouble.

10. Child control - Child lock

The addiction of modern children to digital gadgets is difficult to control, and we wrote about this. To somehow help in this, the developers create parental control programs. Child lock is one of them. With the help of Child lock, parents can restrict or completely deny access to certain applications or entire groups. For example, games or all applications using an internet connection. Child lock hides the icons of unwanted applications, without making other changes to the shell, and itself disguises itself as a standard "Notepad". The application is password protected and does not stop working after the device is restarted.

In conclusion, I would like to remind you that these applications will not turn you into ideal parents. No baby monitor can replace a child's living motherly warmth. No amount of parental control will solve the problem of a child's excessive addiction to the tablet, and geotrackers will not ensure its safety. Nevertheless, mobile technology can help parents.

What parent apps do you use?