brightwheel: Childcare App

4.8
9.03K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Brightwheel is the #1 software solution for preschools, child care, daycare, camps, and after school programs.

Brightwheel is the only app that integrates everything you need: sign in/out, messaging, learning assessments, daily sheet reports, photos, videos, calendars, online bill pay for parents, and much more.

Brightwheel lets you manage your center, streamline workflows, and engage with parents, so you can save time and money, make life easier for your staff, and improve satisfaction for your parents.

Join the thousands of preschools, child care, and daycare programs across the globe that have fallen in love with brightwheel!

PRESCHOOLS / CHILD CARE / DAYCARE / CAMPS: Manage your students and classrooms, track attendance and room ratios, share photos and videos, assess learning milestones, communicate with parents, send paperless invoices and payments, review daily sheets, and manage staff. Brightwheel is your all-in-one child care and daycare management app!

PARENTS: Engage in your child’s day with a real-time feed of photos, videos, reminders, and updates. Use brightwheel’s digital check-in to securely sign in and out, pay tuition online, and even invite grandparents, nannies, and friends to join in the fun!

Features include:
• Central Database: Store everything related to kids and families in one secure place.
• Student Check-In: Multiple digital check-in options available including digital signatures, 4 digit check-in codes, and a kiosk mode - all aligned with child care licensing requirements.
• Staff Check-In & Ratios: Make administrative tasks easier by managing staff check-in to see your ratios across all your rooms in real time.
• Attendance: Easily log attendance and absences for your school-age students, infants, and toddlers. Use our attendance tracking system to keep track of your toddlers.
• Photo and video sharing: Snap photos, record videos and tag students with one click. Automatically saved to your account and shared with parents (with no extra work!).
• Daily Sheet Reports: Log naps, meals, bathroom, and other activities. Parents get a feed and daily summary. Daily sheet reports are a breeze with brightwheel.
• Assessment & Observations: Make note of progress, achievements, and activities with pre-loaded state standards and a DRDP tool. Share with parents or privately amongst teachers.
• Student Feed: Parents get a personalized feed throughout the day. Save time – no more paper tracking sheets or sending individual photos.
• Parent Communication: Manage parent communication from one central hub (notices, calls, texts, etc.).
• Calendar: Share events, holidays, and important dates with both families and staff.
• Paperless Billing: Seamless electronic billing and payments for tuition and fees. Use brightwheel for all your child care accounting needs.
• Reporting: Detailed reports of every brightwheel feature for billing and licensing requirements.
• Seamless Sync: Brightwheel stays up to date across all phones and tablets – so teachers can use their own device or a school device.
• Web Portal: Easy management and great functionality available on the web, too.
• Affordable. Both free and premium plans available to fit your needs.

And... much more coming! Brightwheel is the #1 early education platform for preschools, child care, and daycares, and we’re always committed to innovation with frequent improvements and new features.
Updated on
Nov 20, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, Photos and videos and 3 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 7 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.8
8.76K reviews
Kelly Benemerito
November 16, 2024
This app has some great features but it's annoying to navigate and it limits the features you can use on mobile. They call and want to train you with multiple live meetings which is great except who has time for that just to use the app/program? You have to follow very specific click paths to get what you need. It's not intuitive or quick. I always find I want to click attendance or messages by going to the child's name where I do all the other things for them but you have to do those separately
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Beth Sims
September 27, 2024
The main classroom page will no longer refresh to show children asleep, awake, checked in or out. I have to close and reopen the app for that to refresh. I also wish I was able to swipe between children in the classroom while looking at their individual pages. Edit: the refresh issue has been fixed
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brightwheel
September 26, 2024
Thank you for reaching out and for your helpful feedback. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Our engineers have recently released a fix for this issue, so we recommend that you update your app to version 5.32.0. If that does not help, you can contact our Support Team at [email protected] for more information.
Angie Harrison
September 12, 2024
I love everything about this app except two things: One is that video can't be uploaded, two is that I get notifications for the same update sometimes three and four times a day. Also every time I get a round of notifications, it also notifies me that the app has downloaded successfully. I do know this after a year of using the app lol. So just a couple improvements there but otherwise it's really helpful!
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