brightwheelReviews of mybrightwheel.com

Brightwheel is such a fun and easy app! I love the convince of being able to leave a quick note or picture to the parents. I also love this app from a parent view and being able to get updates about my child's day right on my phone, especially when the work day gets busy and I may not have access to my email or a landline phone.

I’m a newbie to brightwheel so I don’t have much to say yet.

Simple to get started but still missing a few things that would help with our daily use.

Very helpful, keeps me informed about my son’s day, pictures and messages.

How I have been using the app: I have been texting parents both in group and individually. I have sent pictures and videos. I have entered items on the calendar. I have sent/ set reminders for snack. I have taken attendance. I have sent “Kudos” and filled out an “Incident” report. Things I love about the app: Ability to send quick texts, reminders, pictures, videos. I like that this has individual text streams so you can send group and individual messages. And so I’m not texting from my personal phone number. “Kudos” is a fun option and I like the electronic boo boo report! I feel like it takes the place of using my phone for texting parents and takes the place of the Remind App. Things I think they could improve on: I wish they had a desktop version. Entering all the info onto the calendar and in a longer text message on my phone without a keyboard is difficult and time consuming. At the beginning of each school year I typically enter snacks/ birthdays /color days and holiday parties for the year. This would be quite tedious without a keyboard option. You can’t set reminders to be sent from the calendar. (snacks, color days, etc…) You cannot print your calendar. You can’t send a reminder text without sending the text you are setting up right away…. (I wanted to send a snack reminder for a child set for Friday. I was entering into the app on a Tuesday. the parent received the reminder on the day I entered it and again on Friday, the day I set it up to send reminder.)

As a childcare provider I have tried multiple tracking apps- Brightwheel is hands down the best one I’ve tried! The interface is extremely user friendly and easy to set up and parents love the real time updates on how their kiddo is doing throughout the day! The only thing I wish was easier was using the app to make lesson plans available for viewing by parents (in case their kiddo needs some thing specific for that activity such as water shoes) and easier tracking for potty training. Other then that I love brightwheel and will continue to use it for many years to come!

Love this app!! And parents love it too! It is one of the reasons a family chose our center!

Great app because it shows every thing my children does from the start of their days until the end. I would give 5 stars if we also had a way to check in and see what our children are doing at any moment (As in a live video)