OWNA Childcare App

Name: OWNA Childcare App
Rating: 4 (556 reviews)
Author: Owna

Not another Childcare App

Free · Designed for iPad

556 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Owna
Language

EN
+ 6 More
Size

70.8
MB

Welcome to the OWNA Childcare App! The Best Childcare App for Families and Centres and it's all for FREE. For Educators - Curriculum Programming & Planning - Upload Images, Videos & PDFs - Portfolios - Observations, Follow Ups, Learning Stories ++ - Record Daily Routine - Meals, Sleep, Sunscreen, Nappies, Bottles, Sleep Check++ - Complete Checklists - Private Messaging - Receive Notification Alerts - Checkin/Out (Timesheets) - QIP - View & Contribute - Looks Great & Easy to use - Super fast and robust - Plus loads more+++ For Parents - View children's Daily Stats (meal, sleep, bottles etc) with past history - Digital Attendances (time logged, signature captured) - View Writeups, Images and Videos - Read Children's Portfolios - Notify Centre of Non Attendances - Upload Immunisation Record - View Programs, Policy Documents & more - Events Calendar - Secure Communication with Centre - Receive Notification Alerts - Looks Great & Easy to use - Plus loads more+++ For Owners/Directors/Management - App for both Educators & Parents - Responsible Person & Daily RP Log - Room Ratio/Across the Service Check - Digitise Reports - as per ACECQA's req'd - Administration Dashboard to oversee your Centre or multiple Centres - Centre Documents, Policies & Procedures, Helpful websites and more - Staff Timesheets, Stats & Performance - Events Calendar - Centre's Menus with automatic rotation - QIP Report - Safe & Secure Platform. Data stored locally. Adhere to industry standards. - Plus loads more+++ So if your centre is not on OWNA - tell them to get on it now! Enjoy and do let us know what you think. - OWNA Childcare App

Ratings & Reviews

4.0

out of 5

556 Ratings

Small improvements would make app so much better.
06/07/2023

teejaay
First up I like this app and find it great to stay up to date with my child’s day. Lots of useful features and overall easy to use. There are few things which could be improved. The child sign in screen for instance could pre-fill the previous entered pickup time (userdefaults store could be used for that). There is no loader or blocking screen when entering the sign in screen. Pressing signin multiple times, because the internet connection is slow opens the screen multiple times!iPad has plenty of layout related issues when moving between landscape and portrait. The photo gallery doesn’t update properly. Videos can’t be swiped once the playing.
Small improvements would make app so much better.
06/07/2023

teejaay

First up I like this app and find it great to stay up to date with my child’s day. Lots of useful features and overall easy to use. There are few things which could be improved. The child sign in screen for instance could pre-fill the previous entered pickup time (userdefaults store could be used for that). There is no loader or blocking screen when entering the sign in screen. Pressing signin multiple times, because the internet connection is slow opens the screen multiple times!iPad has plenty of layout related issues when moving between landscape and portrait. The photo gallery doesn’t update properly. Videos can’t be swiped once the playing.
Clunky
15/03/2022

bcncac
As a parent I find this app so difficult to navigate. There are so many folders and little buttons that take you to other menu’s and it’s all just a bit overwhelming. Information about just my child is difficult to find and I still haven’t worked out how to post a question or information to just my child’s caters rather than the main feed where all the families of the centre can see it. The selling and art/craft sections are somewhat handy but cannot work out how to filter to location with the selling/buying stuff (can filter to centre but their are other centres local to my area I might like to buy from). Also I don’t think that these features deserve pride and place on the app’s home page - they’re handy but I want to easily be able to click into my child’s profile etc rather than these features. I have used Storypark in the past and so far much prefer that. There are some great features on this app (being updated on sleep times, nappy changes, meals etc - being able to see the staff’s roster so you know who to expect at drop off/pick up is probably my favourite feature) but it’s just so confusing to navigate!!
Clunky
15/03/2022

bcncac

As a parent I find this app so difficult to navigate. There are so many folders and little buttons that take you to other menu’s and it’s all just a bit overwhelming. Information about just my child is difficult to find and I still haven’t worked out how to post a question or information to just my child’s caters rather than the main feed where all the families of the centre can see it. The selling and art/craft sections are somewhat handy but cannot work out how to filter to location with the selling/buying stuff (can filter to centre but their are other centres local to my area I might like to buy from). Also I don’t think that these features deserve pride and place on the app’s home page - they’re handy but I want to easily be able to click into my child’s profile etc rather than these features. I have used Storypark in the past and so far much prefer that. There are some great features on this app (being updated on sleep times, nappy changes, meals etc - being able to see the staff’s roster so you know who to expect at drop off/pick up is probably my favourite feature) but it’s just so confusing to navigate!!
Great app
28/12/2022

tatapach
I’m a first time mum so sending my child to kindy could be a bit distressing. With this app, I love the fact that I can keep tabs on my child, what he ate, how much and sleeping times. I also liked that I can checkout their roster to see who’s on for that day. Their daily posts and photos are very good too. I find the calendar useful as well so I can plan ahead if I need to get costumes etc for some of the events. The app does need a bit of playing with to get used to the interface but I find it easy to navigate anyway. It does sometimes lag with new posts that I guess can be fix with an update. Overall, I find the app very informative and useful. I can easily send a message to my child’s carer which is important for me. I can read all the progress notes as well and other documents in one place.
Great app
28/12/2022

tatapach

I’m a first time mum so sending my child to kindy could be a bit distressing. With this app, I love the fact that I can keep tabs on my child, what he ate, how much and sleeping times. I also liked that I can checkout their roster to see who’s on for that day. Their daily posts and photos are very good too. I find the calendar useful as well so I can plan ahead if I need to get costumes etc for some of the events. The app does need a bit of playing with to get used to the interface but I find it easy to navigate anyway. It does sometimes lag with new posts that I guess can be fix with an update. Overall, I find the app very informative and useful. I can easily send a message to my child’s carer which is important for me. I can read all the progress notes as well and other documents in one place.
Great app for parents!
27/01/2023

Elle_5
Our childcare center changed over to the OWNA app last year and I could not be happier with the change after the last one was quite clunky. This app is so much easier to navigate and makes it easy to check in on both of my children throughout the day.I love the fact that it shows you the nap times and how much food they have eaten in real time. Makes it that much easier to meet their needs when they get home knowing what they have had during the day.Love getting the photo updates and the option to filter post per room/child is helpful too.The admin side of it makes life easy too, like checking payments and adding immunisation records etc. Super happy and easy to use for parents on the go!
Great app for parents!
27/01/2023

Elle_5

Our childcare center changed over to the OWNA app last year and I could not be happier with the change after the last one was quite clunky. This app is so much easier to navigate and makes it easy to check in on both of my children throughout the day.I love the fact that it shows you the nap times and how much food they have eaten in real time. Makes it that much easier to meet their needs when they get home knowing what they have had during the day.Love getting the photo updates and the option to filter post per room/child is helpful too.The admin side of it makes life easy too, like checking payments and adding immunisation records etc. Super happy and easy to use for parents on the go!

New Features -Introduced a new ratio widget for staff users -Added the ability to view all attending children in Evacuation & Head Count -A new Parent Hints & Tips page now replaces the old Parenting News Fixes - Signed excursion forms now display a check mark correctly for parents - Prevented multiple actions on the Check Into Centre button - Fixed an issue where room names were not fully displayed on the Roster screen Improvements - “View Child’s Observation” has been renamed to “View Child’s Portfolio” - Staff alert pop-ups now support tappable links - Account switching is now disabled when the device is in Staff PIN Mode - Selected attendance tags are now highlighted and many more Update now and enjoy!