Best Child Care Software

Products Buyer's Guide
8.8
Childcare
★★★★★

Childcare

Childcare by Tadpoles is revolutionizing the childcare and preschool market by helping to streamline operations and parent communication through mobile technology.

Time Saving & Secure Communication - Lydia S.

Ease of use
9.3
Support
8.5
Ease of Setup
0.0
6.2
KidReports
★★★★★

KidReports

KidReports is more than daily reports and email. It's your mobile solution. KidReports revolutionizes parent engagement and classroom management.

Notifications and easy to read and use - User in Education Management

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Languages supported: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.6
EZCare
★★★★★

EZCare

EZCare provides a complete software solution for managing every aspect of your child care, daycare, or afterschool program.

Executive Director of Youth & Family - Jenny P.

Ease of use
9.1
Support
9.7
Ease of Setup
8.3

Languages supported: English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

8.0
Jackrabbit Care
★★★★★

Jackrabbit Care

An online way to manage enrollment, scheduling, attendance, billing and communications for your center, afterschool, and preschool programs.

Dance Studio Management made easy - Christian C.

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Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

8.6
KidKare
★★★★★

KidKare

KidKare lets you manage your daycare business from your desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device. KidKare makes it easier for you to manage your child care business via your smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop.

Fee for invoice use but user-friendly and organized - Kristen S.

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Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

6.6
sparkADMIN
★★★★★

sparkADMIN

sparkADMIN offers an integrated software package to meet administrative needs with the diverse curriculum features sparkPRO can offer.

Solid but unintuitive - Administrator in Education Management

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10.0
Famly
★★★★★

Famly

Famly is a digital platform for daycares, nurseries and parents that eases administrative tasks and day-to-day activities to make more time for what is important - the children.

Everything you need all in one place - kelly Y.

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Languages supported: Danish, German, English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.0
Kangarootime
★★★★★

Kangarootime

Every care center can create a better connection with the families that they serve. Kangarootime.com automates check-in, tuition billing and payment and child-specific instructions for daily care.

Incredible All in One Platform, WE LOVE IT!!! - Jennifer S.

Ease of use
8.8
Support
9.0
Ease of Setup
8.7

Languages supported: English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

8.6
Procare
★★★★★

Procare

Procare Child Care Software simplifies management of child and family information in a variety of business settings including: child care centers, daycare providers, preschool and afterschool programs, school districts, enrichment programs, gymnastics clubs, child activity centers and similar facilities.

Many functions, not intuitive - User in Alternative Medicine

Ease of use
8.2
Support
8.5
Ease of Setup
9.0

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.2
HiMama
★★★★★

HiMama

HiMama is software for the modern, busy child care center.

Happy Campers at Ally Child Care - Kortni C.

Ease of use
9.3
Support
9.1
Ease of Setup
9.0

Languages supported: English, French, Spanish

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.8
Sandbox Software
★★★★★

Sandbox Software

Sandbox child care software is making life easier for centers and preschools all over North America!

Sandbox, a great software for your program! - Anthony A.

Ease of use
9.8
Support
9.8
Ease of Setup
9.4

Languages supported: English

9.6
Kidkonnect
★★★★★

Kidkonnect

Kidkonnect is the ultimate school to parent communication tool. Kidkonnect provides schools with an easy way to communicate to parents about everything they need to know about their child at school like Diary, Alerts, Comments, events and galleries, Holiday calendar, school notices, school timetables, Absentee forms, school documents and much more.

Very userful and make life easier for parents and School administrator - User in Information Technology and Services

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Languages supported: English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu

9.6
Remini
★★★★★

Remini

Remini enables teachers and directors to document and share photos, messages, videos, newsletters, events, developmental milestones and much more to tell the story of each child at our school.

Easy communication between parents and teachers! - Zarina B.

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9.0
Minute Menu Kids Pro
★★★★★

Minute Menu Kids Pro

Minute Menu Kids Pro is used by about 30,000 family child care providers across the US to record menus and attendance, manage child information, prepare their taxes, invoice parents, prepare lesson plans, and more!

Excellent Productive well worth the price. - Jaclyn S.

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9.0
Kinderlime
★★★★★

Kinderlime

Kinderlime is an exciting startup in the San Francisco Bay area making it easy for schools to manage their child care and after school programs.

Best app with the best employees - Kacie S.

Ease of use
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Languages supported: English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

8.6
Abacus
★★★★★

Abacus

Abacus allows you to concentrate on providing a warm and loving environment for children at your setting, by taking the pain out of carrying out routine administration tasks which take up too much time from your week.

Great tool - User in Automotive

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Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

8.0
Educa
★★★★★

Educa

Early education software to document learning and inform parents, nurturing parent-teacher connections.

Visible and learning simplifier. - Faith M.

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Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

7.6
EduKids Connect
★★★★★

EduKids Connect

EduKids Connect Systems provides a mobile and web based information system for childcare centers to connect with parents, improve compliance and reduces costs.

Connection with parents - Mary Beth B.

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Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

4.6
KidCheck
★★★★★

KidCheck

KidCheck provides secure childrens check-in systems, and helps you streamline your check-in process, improve security, easily track attendance, and create a positive parent and visitor experience.

Works pretty good, but wish it'd sync better - Adam N.

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9.2
Tadpoles
★★★★★

Tadpoles

Tadpoles is revolutionizing the childcare and preschool market by helping to streamline operations through mobile technology.

Great for Educators when Not Buggy! - Jessica B.

Ease of use
8.5
Support
9.4
Ease of Setup
8.0
9.4
Illumine
★★★★★

Illumine

Illumine is a child care management software for parent communication & school operations. It helps in streamlining new admissions enquiries, automated or ad-hoc billing, share holiday, event & daily schedule and make parent engagement easy for teachers. It can be accessed on any device from anywhere. Communicate with parents using our childcare management software efficiently, without print outs, diary-writing or sending Whatsapp messages. Send ...

I love using illumine!! - Sourabh A.

Ease of use
9.3
Support
9.4
Ease of Setup
8.5

Languages supported: Arabic, Bulgarian, German, English, French, Hindi, Malay, Dutch, Chinese (Simplified)

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.2
brightwheel
★★★★★

brightwheel

Brightwheel is a leading provider of software for the early education industry. With brightwheel, teachers save valuable time through easy tools for assessment, communication, and photo sharing; administrators can manage their business with enrollment, reporting, and online bill pay; parents get a beautiful, real-time view of their child's day that helps them participate in the learning + continue it at home.

Brightwheel is Amazing - User in Education Management

Ease of use
9.0
Support
9.2
Ease of Setup
9.7

Languages supported: English

Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

9.0
LifeCubby
★★★★★

LifeCubby

LifeCubby celebrates early learning, and connects life chapters for parents by giving them a FREE account that they can keep and use forever!

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Platforms: Mac, Win, Linux

Price: $$$$$

Business Size: 1

8.0
ChildCareIRiS
★★★★★

ChildCareIRiS

ChildCareIRiS is a cloud-based application that is designed to support child care providers by easing common staffing pain points so providers can focus on operating their high-quality programs more efficiently.

Staffing Schedules - User in Education Management

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8.0
DayCareControl.com
★★★★★

DayCareControl.com

Preschool tool that enhances productivity and communication between kindergarten, DayCare, teachers and parents.

Grading and communications in daycares - User in Education Management

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8.0
KigaRoo
★★★★★

KigaRoo

This is what KigaRoo offers to Kindergartens, Daycares, Nurseries, and Nannies.

Great daycare communication - User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

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8.0
spark@HOME
★★★★★

spark@HOME

A safe and secure, web-based software, specifically designed for Parents and Carers.

Just recently started using this - Deb N.

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