Digital Tools for Parents of Young Children

• The Bright Parenting App offers personalized lessons for parents searching for easily accessible answers to their child's behavior problems. The app specializes in lessons targeted at children aged 2-10.
•  Jenzy is a digital shoe sizing tool that helps parents of children aged 0-6 find the correct shoe size across a variety of brands and styles while shopping online.
•  News-O-Matic is an educational tool designed to allow parents to teach their children about media literacy while also promoting their reading skills. This app is marketed toward children aged 6-12.

Bright Parenting App

• Bright Parenting is an app for cell-phone use. The app is free to download and offers a free lesson, but then access to all their lesson plans costs $4.99 a month.
• Each lesson plan consists of parenting information surrounding the "most requested parenting topics," all rolled in to a 2-5 minute daily lesson plan.
• Lessons are targeted at parents of children with behavioral problems who are attempting to be nurturing while at the same time "setting clear limits for children." These lessons are targeted at common troublesome behavior of children aged 2-10. 
• The app also makes sure parents or other assigned caregivers receive the same lessons, so that both they and their children can be on the same page. 
• Reviews on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store appear predominately positive. Parents express that the app helps keep "parenting goals to the front of their mind" and helps remind them of information that continues to be "relevant" from day to day.
• Bright Parenting has also garnered some interest online among parents of children with ADHD, since it has special courses geared toward behavioral problems. Additionally, the app's head of clinical development is Dr. Joanna Robin, Ph.D. and the founder and head of Westchester Anxiety Treatment and Psychological Services.

Jenzy

• Jenzy is an app designed to help parents with purchasing the correct size of shoe for their children due to sizing errors and fewer department stores with varieties of children's shoes.
• The app is designed to help parents who have a difficult time finding a shoe in their child's size in the store but run into issues with the varying child shoe sizing standards when they attempt to order online.
• To use the app and purchase shoes, all a parent has to do is snap a photo of their child's foot. The sizing experts at Jenzy size the child's foot, and then they utilize their partnerships with different brands to ensure the correct size is ordered for that brand's sizing standard.
• Jenzy specializes in sizing shoes of children aged 0-6.
• To date, Jenzy has a rating of 4.6 of 5 on the Apple App Store, out of 154 reviews. Multiple reviews mentioned the excellent customer service and feasibility of shopping for shoes in a way that avoids toddler meltdowns.

News-O-Matic

• News-O-Matic is a children's newspaper app designed to help promote children aged 6-12 to read nonfiction and news articles.
• The app is designed as an educational tool that can be used either in the classroom or at home. The app publishes five news articles daily, along with activities to help promote children learning from the articles.
• Each article is written by a child psychologist, so children can learn about sensitive subject matter in a non-threatening way.
• The app also features tools for parents, so they can speak to their child about media literacy. 
• Parents report the app helped their children learn to love reading and provided a helpful tool for children who preferred to read nonfiction. However, some parents did express some concern with different bugs on the app, the subscription fee, and the settings for children's reading levels.

RoosterMoney

• This app, which is in the money management category, is designed to help parents teach their children how to manage money. This app allows parents and their kids to set up savings goals. It can be used by parents who have children that are as young as four years.
• According to the Google Play store, "RoosterMoney is a pocket money allowance manager, chore chart, savings tracker and piggy bank all within a single app." Their mission is to assist parents in teaching children the "value of money in a digital age." The app is available on iOS and Android. 
• This app also allows parents to take a picture of things at the store which they can set as savings targets for their children to save up for.
• The app generally has good reviews on the Google Play store, garnering an average rating of 4.6. Reviewers are saying that it is a brilliant app that encourages their kids to save the pocket money that they give. Add to that, reviewers are saying that it is a helpful app for managing the allowance of their kids.

Find My Kids

• Find My Kids is a tracking app that helps parents locate their young children if they are not with them. This locator app is designed for family safety and parental control.
• Aside from allowing parents to track their children's location and monitor whether the children arrived safely at home from school, it also allows the parents to listen to the surroundings of the child in order to feel certain that the child is safe and secure.
• The app has a 4.6 rating on Google Play Store with over 200,000 reviews. Reviewers are saying that the app is great and it allows them to feel at peace regarding the safety of their children. Also, reviewers are saying that the tracking is timely and accurate.

ABC Kids - Tracing & Phonics

• ABC Kids is an educational teaching app to help toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners learn phonics and to trace letters. It consists of a set of teaching games to teach children letter shape recognition, associate them with phonetic sounds, and apply their knowledge with fun matching games. The app was also designed for parental participation and allows for easy engagement with Teacher Mode, look at report cards, or toggle the tracing and phonics games to facilitate the child's learning.
• ABC Kids is developed by RV App Studios who have a catalog of 10 kids apps that are all free and feature no in-app purchases and no ads. Their catalog includes 19 games and 17 utilities that are free to play. Other ABC Kids apps include Sight Words, Multiplication Kids, Math Kids, and more
• ABC Kids is free, full featured, and free from "in-app purchases and third party advertisements" to allow for learning without interruption.
• Reviews really like the lack of advertisements and other distractions from learning. Other reviews state that the app has been successful in teaching children letters and how to trace them. The app is us by almost 45,000 people and over 10 million downloads.

Chore Pad

• Chore Pad is a chore chart app designed to teach young children responsibility in a fun and engaging way. Parents set up chore charts and rewards that regenerate each week and can easily be adjusted to change goals, and children are delighted by sounds and animations.

• The Parent Mode keeps the parents' setup features behind a parental gate and is used to configure users, chores, rewards, and more.
• Features of the app include chore charts, payout rewards, chore chart themes, awards children trophies as achievements, and parents can give extra stars for chores done well.
• A review by Geek Mom finds Chore Pad to be a fantastic way to organize household chores. The Wired Guide describes it as possibly the "most comprehensive chore-management tool out there".
• Its effectiveness is evidence by Chore Pad being a multiple time winner for Best Parenting App from the Best App Ever Awards, has received the Golden App for homeschooling apps, has been featured in numerous publications including Wired.

PBS Parents Play & Learn

•  PBS Parents Play & Learn is a bilingual educational app designed that features 13 interactive games that parents can play with their children and makes it easy for parents to identify those teachable moments. The games are themed-based around familiar locations like the grocery store, are interactive, and have "simple hands-on activities that connect math and literacy skills to everyday experiences".
•  Key features and enhancements of the app are given to be that it uses a variety of proven methods to build early math and literacy skills, it has over 100 features in a free-play area, game-related resources that are updated regularly, weekly push notifications with additional ideas, and a social sharing feature.
• The app has won the Parents' Choice Silver Honor.
• Reviews on the Apple App store and Amazon state that is a great learning tool for young children. Other reviews rave that children love it and that it makes learning time fun. One review gives it to be "a great opportunity to participate in your child's learning!"