5 life-saving mobile apps for single moms
Being a single mom is a larger-than-life task. While there’s no such thing as a quick-life-fix, these mobile apps are guaranteed to make your day to day tasks a lot easier
Hashtag Mom
Hashtag Mom is an ingenious app for single moms and any parent that allows kids old enough to be out with friends or other parents on their own, but not truly on their own for long, to check in with mom using the #mom hashtag via FourSquare. When your child uses the #mom tag, you’ll get a notification on your phone so you’ll know where your son or daughter is without having to bug your teen with tons of phone calls.
What’s For Dinner?
The What’s For Dinner app is a simple one that makes finding helpful resources for healthy meals and snack ideas simple and convenient on your smartphone or tablet. The app can help you find recipes for a meal or for a week’s worth of meals, and it can even prepare a grocery list you can use to grab everything you need to make healthy meals for yourself and your family.
Intuition: Mom’s Personal Assistant
Designed to help busy moms keep track of multiple items like to-do lists, grocery lists, coupons and schedules, Intuition: Mom’s Personal Assistant is about as close to a real personal assistant as many moms are going to get.
Intuition: Mom’s Personal Assistant can even help you find the best way to maximize your time through smart routes and planning if you have multiple locations on your to-do list.
iSentry
iSentry is technically a home security app, but it can be a great resource for single moms who want to take a step up from traditional baby monitors. You can set up a computer in your baby’s room to monitor them; however, unlike a traditional camera where it continues to record at all times, it sends a video or photo to your smartphone or mobile device whenever movement detected in the room exceeds the motion sensitivity limit. This makes a powerful, yet simple home security tool.
MapQuest 4 Mobile
A lot of smartphones come with interactive maps, but they don’t all provide voice navigation. A map is helpful, but you can’t be staring at a screen while you’re driving around with restless children in the backseat.
MapQuest 4 Mobile is a simple app that gives you directions via voice, and even recalculates your route if you go the wrong way or miss a turn without entering your information manually.
