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

Entertainment and Music Apps

Audible

Not enough time for all the books you want to enjoy? Download the app by Audible, an Amazon company, to listen to audio books on the go.

At Audible, we love listening to books and think you will too. We have titles from some of Australia’s favourite narrators and authors. We’ve got you covered, whether you feel like embarking on The Rosie Project, touring Australia’s history with Girt, exploring short fiction with Nick Earls’ The Wisdom Tree or celebrate some of our finest personalities, such as Michelle Payne’s Life as I Know It. We also have the best in international audio books, including fantasy epics like Game of Thrones, thrillers such as Girl on the Train, and classic self-help guides such as How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Spotify

Spotify is the best way to listen to music on mobile or tablet. Search for any track, artist or album and listen for free. Make and share playlists. Build your biggest, best ever music collection. Get inspired with personal recommendations, and ready-made playlists for just about everything. Listen absolutely free with ads, or get Spotify Premium.

Netflix

Watch TV shows and movies recommended just for you, including award-winning Netflix original series, movies, and documentaries.

Netflix has something for everyone. There’s even a safe watching experience just for kids with family-friendly entertainment.

Songkick

Be the first to know about concerts. Track your favorite artists so you never miss them live.

Songkick gives you an easy way to track your favourite artists and provides concert alerts as soon they announce tour dates near you. Buy tickets straight from the app and never miss another show!

Our free concert app allows you to import your favourite artists from services like Apple Music, Spotify, Facebook, and Deezer. We’ll build a personalised local concert guide just for you. You’ll be notified when new concerts and festivals are announced so you’ll be ready when tickets go on sale.

Podcast Addict

Podcast Addict helps you manage your audio and video podcast collection, as well as supporting audiobooks, RSS feeds, and YouTube channels. This app is great when you want to listen to your favourite stations. You can search by podcast name or keywords (450,000 podcasts / 10M+ episodes), browse new/trending/top podcasts by category, browse podcast networks (NPR, Gimlet, BBC, Ted Talks, …), browse custom recommendations based on your current subscriptions.

Turn your iPhone or iPad into a Kindle with the free Kindle App, and carry all your eBooks with you, wherever you go. Kindle is fantastic when you want to read a book, article, ect. instead of social networking. This app is great to access your favourite books at any time. It has a sample of any eBook for free, magazines, newspapers, graphic novels and textbooks with high-res colour images, a customisable reading experience with your choice of font style, size and more, and comfortable reading day and night with adjustable screen brightness and page colour.

Pandora

Powered by the Music Genome Project®, the most comprehensive music analysis ever undertaken, Pandora gives you personalised radio that plays what you love and continually evolves with your tastes.

Soundcloud

With over 135 million tracks, SoundCloud is the world’s largest music and audio streaming platform. From major label superstars to independent artists and bedroom DJs, SoundCloud’s enormous catalogue lets you discover amazing hip hop, rock, electronic, classical, jazz, podcasts, audiobooks, sports and much, much more.

Qantas Entertainment 

Discover the world of Qantas’ in-flight entertainment streamed straight to your iPad or iPhone. This app is very helpful when finding ways to keep you entertained on long flights, such as watching your favourite shows and movies. This is a very popular app for active travellers.

Gossip Junkie

The biggest selling Gossip app of all time is now available for your Mac! Have a handy browser where you can quickly read and share gossip articles from 22 major gossip sites. Share articles via Facebook/Twitter & Email! Add your own gossip sites as well! Gossip Junkie delivers 23 of the hottest celebrity news sites/blogs into ONE app. Just select your favourite gossip site and start reading/sharing! Add sites to make it your own custom gossip browser! Come see why Gossip Junkie has become the #1 Gossip app!

Shazam

Shazam is one of the world’s most popular apps, used by more than 100 million people each month to identify music, get song lyrics, and now to discover the music that artists discover themselves.

TheChive

All day, every day, theCHIVE brings you the most funny, sexy, and heartwarming photos & videos. theCHIVE app is a buffet of hilarity and hotness, with a touch of humanity”¦all served up in pictures and videos for your viewing pleasure. You must be really special!

+Plus 7 

The Plus7 app is the easiest way to catch up on your favourite TV shows on-the-go and offers video streaming of full-length episodes as seen on TV. This is an app that can give you entertainment at any time with the help of your device. New episodes are added daily and are available for 7 to 28 days. You can pause, fast forward and rewind programs. Find out when a show is next on television. Share your favourite shows and episodes with your friends. Search and browse episodes by just added, most viewed and expiring soon and by genre.

Stitcher 

Welcome to the Spoken World. Audio News, Sports and Entertainment, now with exclusive content from your favourite podcasts. This app provides awesome radio podcasts to listen to at any given time.

IMDB

IMDb, the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV, and celebrity content.

PulseNews

Pulse is your daily professional news digest. It’s a single place to get your daily news, powered by your professional world.

Pulse gives you access to your top ten headlines through our Apple Watch app. Save articles to check out later or like them to easily share with your LinkedIn connections. You can see even more top news on your phone and easily share to your social networks.

Whether you use your watch or your phone, Pulse breaks through the noise by tailoring news for you, so you get all the timely headlines and save time. See what your network and colleagues are reading, get the latest trending news in your industry, and be notified when your connections make the news. Pulse gets even smarter as you go, learning what you’re interested in from every topic, person, and company you follow, so you get personalised recommendations. You’ll be on top of all the latest headlines in minutes each day and have something sharp to talk about.

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