153 Best Apps for Every Aspect of a Busy Mum’s Life

Handy-to-Have Apps

LED Torch

This super-bright LED Flashlight instantly turns your device into a bright flashlight. The ultimate lighting tool takes full advantage of the LED light. This is super handy when needing an extra bit of light when you don’t have access to a torch.

iTranslate

iTranslate enables travellers, students, business professionals, employers and medical staff to read, write and speak in 90 languages, anywhere in the world. This app is used for all types of reasons and purposes which is helpful for the user types above.

Find My iPhone

If you misplace you iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac, the Find My�iPhone app will let you use any iOS device to find it. This is obviously a helpful app when you are stumped to find your device, what a great idea! It can ;locate your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac on a map, play a sound for two minutes at full volume (even if your device is set to silent), remotely lock your device with a passcode, and display a custom message on the Lock Screen.

Evernote

Let Evernote change the way you organise your personal and professional projects. Dive in: take notes, create to-do lists, and save things you have made. This app is great for assisting in organizing you tasks from your devices. Here, you can write, collect and capture ideas as searchable notes, notebooks, checklists and to-do lists, take notes in a variety of formats, including text, sketches, photos, audio, video, PDFs, web clippings and more, and use the camera to effortlessly scan, digitise, and organise your paper documents, business cards, handwritten notes and drawings.

Free Wi-Fi Finder

The app will help you find FREE WiFi hotspots in more than 50 countries around the world: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil etc. This is extremely helpful when you need to connect online or when your data is invalid.

Dictionary.com

Dictionary.com is the world’s leading online source for English definitions. For over 20 years, Dictionary.com has been helping millions of people improve their use of the English language with its free digital services. This is always handy when you can’t work out or remember how to spell a certain word, which happens to all of us!

Yelp

The free Yelp mobile app is the fastest and easiest way to search for businesses near you. This is helpful when trying to find types of businesses in your local area. It can help you find the newest and hottest restaurants in your area, make reservations, pick up food and order for delivery, all from your phone, and filter restaurant search results by price, location and more.

Zedge

Zedge is the most trusted app in phone personalisation with free wallpapers, ringtones, app�icons, alarms, and notification sounds to easily customise your phone. This is a fantastic app to make your phone perfect for you, any unique style you desire.

SitOrSquat�

Looking for a pit stop? Search, view, rate, and add bathrooms! Download the app for your smartphone and enjoy the go while you are on-the-go! This can be a great app when travelling or in areas where you are unfamiliar with where services are located. This app can help you search and use public restrooms nearest your current location on a map or in a list, map results with an interactive, location-based map, and register using Facebook Connect, Twitter or the SitOrSquat account to Rate, Add, Upload Pictures, and Bookmark bathrooms.

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Clare Whitfield Chief Editor

Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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