Brightwheel is an all-in-one childcare management software that saves time and simplifies operations for early education providers.
From billing and parent communication to curriculum and admissions, it combines everything you need in one easy-to-use platform.
Trusted by millions of educators and families and backed by a dedicated support team, brightwheel strengthens family connections and ensures seamless operations with reliable performance and robust security.
With brightwheel, you’ll spend less time on admin, more time with children.
Features include:
• All-in-one platform: Brightwheel combines billing, attendance, family communication, lesson planning, and reporting in one easy-to-use platform.
• User-friendly design: An intuitive interface that is quick to set up and easy for staff and families to use.
• Fast, quality support: An industry-leading, dedicated support team at your fingertips with 24/7 access to chatbot, tutorials, webinars, and community.
• Secure and reliable: Advanced security features like two-factor authentication and compliance with the highest data protection standards. With 99% uptime, the app is available virtually all the time.
• Billing and finances: Automated billing and payments for tuition and fees, customizable billing reports, and expense tracking.
• Family communication: Connect with families in real-time and centralize messaging, newsletters, and alerts.
• Photo and video sharing: Snap photos, record videos, and tag students with one click.
• Daily reports: Log naps, meals, bathroom, and other activities. Families get a personalized feed and daily summary.
• Calendar: Share events, holidays, and important dates with both families and staff.
• Lesson plans: Add, customize, and share your lesson plans with teachers. Upgrade to Experience Curriculum to enhance program quality with digital lessons and hands-on learning materials.
• Assessment and observations: Make note of progress, achievements, and activities with pre-loaded state standards and a DRDP tool. Share with families or privately amongst teachers.
• Admissions and enrollment: Build custom admission packets, manage your waitlist, and make it easy for prospective families to apply online.
• Attendance: Easily track student and staff attendance via quick scan or a code. Stay in compliance with room ratio and capacity tools.
• Reporting: Detailed reports of every brightwheel feature for billing and licensing requirements.
• Real-time syncing: Brightwheel stays up to date across all devices, including web and mobile.
• Affordable: Both free and premium plans available to fit your needs.
And... much more coming! Brightwheel is the #1 rated childcare management software, leading the industry through continuous innovation, frequent enhancements, and new features driven by valuable customer feedback.
Excellent platform regardless the size of your setting. Very easy to use and saves a lot of time. Parents loves being able to see all updates right away especially pictures or videos. All van be done from your phone, ipad or a computer. I absolutely love it.
Hate everything about this
Shay jaywhydoineedauniquename
Great, yet another way for daycare to bother me. Why don’t parents understand that it’s ok to leave your children at school without knowing what is happening every second of the day? The teachers now have to spend all day writing updates for this stupid app instead of just playing with the kids. I don’t need to know how many fishes the kids counted, I’m in a goddam business meeting! I don’t even understand the point of this. I can see how much they ate when you send the lunchbox home. I don’t need them to write it down if they ate or not. And this app does nothing else but make you obsess over how much your kid is eating and sleeping and learning. It’s not healthy! Holy cow its a whole new level of clingy obnoxiousness that doesn’t let parents or kids get a two minute break from each other.
Five stars
Mayson mum
They are so professional
Game Changer
Natman1986
I’ve been running a dayhome for over 5 years and have tested many forms of communication, reporting and recording information in that time. I’ve used paid apps, paper, emails, Facebook and texts. I love that this app has everything you could ever need and that you can personalize it. I’ve added foods we eat regularly and it minimizes my time in the app. I like how quick it can be when it’s running properly. My parents love that they can keep up throughout the day. They love the accountability it creates and the communication it offers, so they know what’s happening in their child’s 10 hours away from them. ❤️I do, however, hope they can add a minor adjustment. In other apps, they enable you to check multiple children in and adjust the time they arrived rather than putting the current time stamp. I run a full dayhome and sometimes am not able to update things immediately, so if I would be able to check in my set of siblings registering at 7:23 when it’s currently 7:35, that would make the app so much faster for me. Otherwise I check them in, and then need to edit each check in on each profile, and it wastes time.
Minor improvements and performance enhancements
Version 3.99.0
The developer, DSSV, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
DSSV, Inc.
Size
119.5 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
