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Family Tech

Family-focused apps cater to adults seeking a more harmonious life

Implications - While planning a family is often a prime objective for most middle aged adults, figuring out how to balance between work and family can be daunting. Apps dedicated to satisfying both harmoniously are, at this point, a necessity for consumers who are not willing to sacrifice quality or quantity from any facet of their life.
Trend Themes
1. Integrated Parental Control Apps - Apps such as OurPact which offer more flexible parental control options that mirror daily routines and schedules create unique opportunities for innovation in the parental control industry and related device security industries.
2. Apps for Family Time Management - As more families incorporate technology into their lives, time management apps like Squarehub and Time to Roam provide opportunities for development and innovation within industries concerning activity planning, parent-child scheduling apps, and even online family social media platforms.
3. Tech-enhanced Family Dinner Apps - DinnerCall provides new opportunities for innovation in the culinary industry, while providing the chance for smartphone apps to not just focus solely on social sharing, but also to encourage offline interactions and conversations.
Industry Implications
1. Parental Control and Safety Industry - Integrated parental control apps provide fresh impetus for tech innovators to develop and better sell products to safeguard young children's digital experience.
2. Personal Scheduling and Time Management Industry - Apps for family time management offer opportunities for tech innovators to capitalize on the explosion of personal scheduling apps by targeting multi-generational families who can benefit from integrating specialized features for their routines.
3. Food and Home Cooking Industry - Tech-enhanced family dinner apps provide wide-ranging opportunities for app innovators to develop and market complementary products, enhancing family dinner interaction in the process and contributing to healthier eating habits and social dynamics.
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Date Range:
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Featured Examples

Digital Family-Organizing Apps
Digital Family-Organizing Apps
Squarehub is a Family Calendar App That Makes Planning Easy
When the fridge isn’t good enough for your on-the-go life, a family calendar app can really help you handle the logistics. Families who are constantly on the go and have children who participate... MORE
Time-Restricting Apps
Time-Restricting Apps
OurPact Manages Parental Control Settings Based on a Child's Schedules
Accessibility to mobile devices in family homes leaves many caregivers no other choice but to put some parental control settings into place. The OuPact app by ParentsWare is one such example of a... MORE
play_circle_filledChild-Translating Newspaper Apps
Child-Translating Newspaper Apps
The Tokyo Newspaper Develops an App to Translate News for Kids
This video introduces the newspaper app developed by the Tokyo Newspaper in an effort to attract younger audiences and increase family communication levels. The challenge is straight forward: how... MORE
play_circle_filledFamilial Dinner Apps
Familial Dinner Apps
DinnerCall is a Family Dinner App That Aims to Make Mealtime Special Again
Smartphones get a bad rap for driving a wedge in human communication, but that doesn’t have to be the case when this family dinner app is used. DinnerCall is an app that actually encourages... MORE
Family Adventure Apps
Family Adventure Apps
This App Helps Busy Families Connect and Foster Deeper Connections
‘Time to Roam’ is an app that helps busy families spend more quality time together. For many families, it can be difficult to find a balance between tuning into the digital world and... MORE

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