Apps for everyone in the family

ABC Kids

Starting with the toddlers and preschoolers, this app has been one of the best selling apps for getting your babies going in their academic pursuits early on since kindergarten. Primarily aimed at teaching phonics and alphabets, the colorful and vivid UI is deemed to keep the kids engrossed to the screen. Tracing alphabets, hearing cues and visual instructions make the app extremely kid-friendly. To top it all off, the developers have decided to keep the app ad free to prevent annoying popups or unexpected redirections.

 

Duolingo

Sticking to the learning business, Duolingo is one of the most prolific ways of learning a new language straight through your smartphones. Chopped into bite size lessons for learning various scenarios, Duolingo’s courses are interactive and fun learning. Reward systems, points and lives give a game like twist to the learning platform. Rather than devoting an hour or so into it, just pop the app open while waiting in queues or passing time at home. Again, this one doesn’t bother you with ads either.

 

 

Inshorts

This one’s for the busybees in the house. Very often, we hear people complaining that they have no time to watch the news or read the paper. However, everyone spends some time on their Facebook or Twitter, don’t they? In similar fashion like the news feed, Inshorts caters you with news in no more than 60 words. With a flurry of options like news reader, toss to share, save for later or read the full version if something does conjure your mind, keeping upto date with the latest happening just got very convenient.

 

Choremonster

We’ve put this to help parents get their kids to do chores. The concept behind the app totally revolves around the reward system that keeps kids excited to do the things they particularly don’t like. By giving kids rewards for the chores they complete, they get virtual rewards in the form of cute interactive monsters. Besides, you can set personal goals with kids to reward them in real life upon reaching a certain milestone. Say, you can agree upon an hour of game time for getting all chores done. Happy kid, happy parent. It’s a win win.

 

Family Locator

Clearly, this is a tracking app. While some will have immediate security concerns when dealing with GPS tracking, for those who are not wary, you can use this awesome app by Life 360 to track not just family members but your teammates by adding them to your circles. Nevertheless, you can stay updated with where your family members are allowing notification services when they reach certain destinations. In case of lost family members or lost cell phones, the app comes in quite handy. Also, its available for both iOS and Android so even if the family is divided in terms of smartphone choices, you’ll never miss a family locator alert.

 

 

Forest

Conquer your distraction with the fear of letting your tree die. Forest basically lets you set a timer that aims to keep you focused. Forest - Stay Focused will foreground on your phone and if you turn up your display or try to exit, it will alert you to get back to work or that your tree will die. You motivation is eventually the trees that you’ve successfully grown. Oh! the longer you set the duration, the bigger a tree you get.

 

It has become difficult to keep your hands off portable devices. Everybody clings on to their phones at the least and travels with additional devices like laptops, tablets or a second phone even. While we are surrounded by devices constantly, it is very easy to get distracted and end up with nothing productive. Kids pounce on every opportunity to play games. Even though we cannot resist the temptation of peeking into our devices or engaging with electronics, we can try and make the most out of it rather than just pointlessly swiping through social media feeds or goofing around. So we’ve handpicked apps that help you make the most out of your smartphone.