Our daycare switched from Brightwheel to this platform due to background features apparently, but as the parent the experience has been poor. 1) The interface feels cluttered and dated making it not intuitive where to go. Brightwheel used simple interfaces that landed you where you were more frequently going and hid other information that you might go to once or infrequently (think account and info)2) although I have notifications on it seems to only push for announcements and messages and not feed activity. Brightwheel let the user pick the level of notifications. I want all feed activity to show me throughout the day. 3) you can’t use a desktop version. While at work I don’t always have my phone on so I like to see the browser or be able to download photos not on my phone or to see things bigger there where it is more ergonomic to read than on a phone. 4) you can’t zoom into images and see the details of your kids experiences amongst the group. 5) teachers are also not notified about messages so early pickup times might be missed if it wasn’t when they were deliberately looking at the app. The team should definitely check out brightwheel for user experience tips and steal what they legally can. KT might be better on the pocket or the 5 office staff but it is a huge downgrade to the parents and my understanding to the teachers in the room. I’m sad. I loved brightwheel.

Our childcare center just changed over to this system and the app is trash. I’ve accidentally set up my bank account multiple times because it doesn’t load the accounts properly and now I can’t disable auto pay on the extra accounts. I’m sure it will process my account multiple times for our tuition. What a pain…

Kangarootime is a fine app with only a few missing features such as logging previous nights sleep and when your child woke, or push notifications for certain things. KT Connect feels like the beta version of a lite free trial version. Here’s all the features so far that are noticeably gone/worse than the original version: - No health screening - No way to mark child absence - No mobile check in - No logging of last bottle/last diaper - No check in/out times listed in activities - No daily summaries - No web version - No ability to message center or teachers??!! - No calendar - No longer has Photos in daily activities feed, so no way to see if a photo has been uploaded without checking the gallery - No time stamps on photos Photos are in reverse order so you have to scroll to the bottom to find new ones - No ability to change parent photo - No ability to change child photo - Activities log out of order Duplicates (I.e. shows 6 bottles logged of 4)

The KT Connect app is supposed to keep parents updated on their child’s daycare experience, but it completely misses the mark on one of the most important features: check-in and check-out notifications. Instead of receiving an alert when my child is dropped off or picked up, I have to log in and navigate through several screens just to find that information. This makes the app frustrating and inconvenient to use, especially when quick updates should be a given. Until this feature is fixed, I can’t recommend it.I hope this aligns better with your intention!