Families today often have busy schedules and lots of things to manage, but constantly evolving technology can also help to make parenting easier. Apps in particular can help with tasks like balancing schedules, keeping your family healthy, and even shopping easier. We’ve selected some of the best apps out there and the result? Our list of the 5 best apps for families in 2018.
Picniic
When it comes to keeping your busy family organized, Picniic can keep all of your important information in one place, so it’s always easy to access. This app can help to keep families on track with its shared family calendar, and the convenient to-do lists feature allows you to create lists and assign them to anyone in the family.
Those aren’t the only features to love, though:
- Locate your family members in real time with the family locator
- Store important information, like family medical details, in the info locker
- Save recipes so you’re never short on dinner ideas, then schedule meals with the meal planner
- Create shopping lists for your favorite stores
Picniic is available for iOS and Android.
ChoreMonster
Motivating kids to do their chores is an endless challenge, but ChoreMonster makes that task easier. This app allows parents to schedule chores and assign points to each task. Kids collect points that they can earn to “purchase” any sort of reward of their choosing.
Here’s what you can expect from this app:
- Set up a list of chores and a schedule
- Your kids can access their version of the app and complete the chores that need to be done
- You then approve each completed chore, and the kids earn points that are tracked in their app
- Once your kids have earned enough points, they can redeem them for rewards that you’ve designed
The fun, engaging interface is sure to capture kids’ attention. This app is a great choice for families with younger kids and eliminates the need for a chore chart.
ChoreMonster is available for both iOS and Android.
Winnie
Struggling to come up with family-friendly activities? Exploring a new area and looking for kid-friendly places? Winnie makes that easy. This is a great app for families since it can help you to find local resources for families such as:
- Playgrounds
- Kid-friendly restaurants
- Daycares
- Camps
- Entertainment
- And more
The app even allows you to connect with other parents to ask questions and get their opinions on parenting-related topics.
Mango Health
If you have multiple family members on different medications, keeping track of those medications can be a challenge.Mango Health offers customizable reminders for both pills and supplements, so your family won’t forget to take important medications.
The app does more, though. You can:
- Receive healthy habit reminders to keep your family’s health monitoring activities on track
- Be alerted to potential medication interactions
- Receive refill alerts so you don’t run out of medications
- Learn about the potential side effects of your family’s medications so you aren’t caught off-guard
- Use the health diary to track your history, and earn points to keep you motivated
Mango Health has even made staying healthy fun – as you take your medication correctly, you’ll earn points. The more points you earn, the more chances you’ll have to win prizes.
This app is a great choice for families with younger kids who can’t yet keep track of their medications unsupervised. Mango Health is available for both iOS and Android.
GoKid
Between school, sports, and after-school activities, it’s difficult for working parents to keep up with their kids’ hectic schedules. Getting your kids to and from their activities on time can be a challenge, especially when you have multiple kids in different afterschool activities. When you’re working or shuttling kids around, conflicts are sure to arise – and that’s why we created GoKid.
GoKid is a carpooling app that helps parents to schedule carpools with other parents and their kids. By sharing the driving duties with other families, you’ll have more free time – and spend less time driving. Carpools mean that you can get your kids to school, activities, and back home again even on days when your schedule doesn’t permit you to do the driving, yourself.
GoKid is easy to use. This app allows you to:
- View a master family schedule so you can keep track of everyone’s activities
- Invite only parents you trust to drive your kids
- Set up carpools within the app, and edit the details if needed
- Message other parents through the app for simple and fast communication
- Receive reminders about carpools so you’ll always know when you’re scheduled to drive
Plus, thanks to the integration with TeamSnap, you can set up carpools with the parents of kids on your child’s sports teams. You can see a list of the families right through the app and can set up carpools to get kids to practices, meets, competitions, and more.
But there’s another reason to feel great about using GoKid – it doesn’t just save you driving time, but even helps to reduce the traffic and congestion that are such problems at school drop-off and pick-up lanes. Carpooling means fewer cars are in those lanes, and the cars release fewer emissions, too. GoKid is a must-have app for families with active kids.
GoKid is available for both iOS and Android. Plus, the GoKid web app means that you can always access your carpool information, no matter what device you’re using.
The 5 Best Apps for Families
These 5 apps are a great choice for busy families and parents. They can help you to stay organized and provide valuable support during your daily activities. Whether you’re trying to motivate your kids to help with chores or need to get your kids to their activities on time, these apps can help, and they’re all conveniently accessible right through your phone.
Which of these family apps do you plan to download?
