brightwheel: Childcare App

4.8
9.72K 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
25 Jun 2025

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
9.44K reviews
Gabriel Marin
6 June 2025
The last update made the app so much harder to use for my use case. I am usually looking at pictures and videos from the last few weeks, trying to save some of them. The app always lacked a way to jump to a particular date, but the date was shown at the top of the screen as I was scrolling. Now, the date is not shown anymore, so it's even harder to navigate to an older date. The worst part, when navigating back from viewing a picture or video, the page scrolls itself back to a different day.
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brightwheel
9 June 2025
Thank you for your feedback, and we’re sorry for any frustration caused by the recent update. We’d love to take a closer look—if you could send any screenshots or screen recordings, along with your device details, to help@mybrightwheel.com, our team would be happy to investigate. Thank you for reaching out!
Angela M. D.
21 April 2025
While I love having an app to communicate with the parents of the children in my class, the app has hardly functioned since its last few updates. Error, no internet connection, resizing pictures, and all it does is just sit on that page. Says it allows 10 pictures to upload at a time, yet it hardly does more than 5 if it works, and only 10 at a time is such a low number to allow too. I have to constantly restart my phone. And now I have no enter button for paragraphs in messaging to the parents!
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Rowena Li
27 April 2025
update: link opening issue is fixed but there's still something wrong. when more than one attachment is in a message, only the first one shows up on Android. makes for missing critical school info! (original) after the latest update, we can't open links in messages anymore. please fix!
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brightwheel
21 April 2025
Thanks for letting us know! Our engineers have identified the issue affecting links in messages on Android, and a fix is included in version 5.45, which is set to roll out very soon. In the meantime, full messaging functionality—including working links—is available on our web platform.