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Great App
I have been using this app for over 4 years. It have been great, consistent and always improving. My only wish was that there was a way to groups download photos and videos. My kids have recently graduated from preschool and so I’d like a way to capture them without having to save each one separately. I’d also like to be able to save videos where there are other kids too after a certain number of years passed.Show lessEmilyVonderHaar
Better Notifications for Important Reminders/Information
Tadpole allows me to stay connected with my son during my work day so I don’t miss special moments. What would make this app better is improving the notifications and notes to make sure I don’t miss important reminders, asks or health updates. On several occasions I’ve missed notes for supplies. Notification should be more persistent. We are inundated with notifications from various apps all day. How can we make Tadpole standout? Give us the option to if necessary have to check a box or confirm receipt of note. Given the matter, I think parents would be okay with better features.Show lessMrJackDempsey
Love Tadpoles!
Our 8 month old baby recently started preschool and they use Tadpoles. From a mom and dad perspective, we love it. Getting the pictures through the day are a joy (and a relief in knowing she’s doing well). And seeing the tags to the learning objectives is awesome (her former-teacher grandmother loves see those each day). And then getting the Daily Reports at the end of the day are oh-so-helpful in knowing when and how long she slept, how she ate, what skills she worked on learning, etc…. From a dad of an 8 month old bundle-of-awesomeness, Tadpoles is fantastic and we love that her center uses it.Show lessMDtiger10
Missing the basics
Definitely lacking functionality. I can’t share or even download pics! Come guys, you can do better.WilsonandRylie
Why can’t you push updates throughout the day?!?!
I like that the app is available at my children’s daycare but if you built the capability to get updates throughout the day with the ‘my bright day’ app, why not make that functionality available in the tadpoles app?!?! It would be great if that was implemented, since I know it’s capable because I used to have and use the ‘my Bright day’ app when at a bright horizons facility. As a parent of an infant, having that information throughout the day would be great.Show lessjiffy18
It’s okay
The app is okay. I just have a few suggestions. Maybe have it so that we can communicate back and forth with the daycare if need be throughout the day. I would like to also have an update every time they change her or feed her at that time instead of just when I check her out at the end of the day. Maybe the app should be designed to remind the daycare its diaper changing time or time to eat etc.Show lessTasha213
Horrible compared to others
If I could give 0 stars I would! My child was at another daycare that used another app & I loved it so much that when I had to change daycares I made sure they had an app but this one looks the same but I don’t get real time notifications like the other one did. Not knowing how my child is doing throughout the day when I have known constantly every diaper change, feeding, how long the nap was & got to view photos & videos throughout the day of the activities that they all did as a class put me at ease. This instead does nothing for me. It’s useless. I don’t know if any of the information is true or if the teacher just quickly added in the details before the daily report was sent out. Which in the end is making me want to just change daycares completely because I need this reassurance throughout the day. Not just one notification that I dropped off my own child! This is completely pointless & useless!Show lessakeyes0214
2.5 stars- developer suggestions included in review
I love the convenience of this app for daily checkin (we used to manually fill this info out on a sheet of paper at drop off) and ability to keep all my kids daily records in one place (gives me the ability to go back and check sleep habits of my infant etc). HOWEVER it’s buggy and doesn’t always update properly. I usually can close the app and reopen, but this doesn’t always fix the problem.
Ideas for future updates-I would love the “food provided” section to be more user friendly (allow me to select multiple food items at a time or store meals that I often send together. Also I’d like to indicate which meal the food is intended for- for example I’d like yogurt served at “lunch” or as a “snack”. Right now teachers don’t know what food should be served when and just have to guess. Also it would be great if teachers could add reminders to the app that “pop up” for parents when filling out info for the next school day. For example when we are asked to bring in more wipes, that message appears on the daily report, but might be missed or forgotten by tomorrow. I’d like the previous day’s teacher notes to pop up the next day while filling out that days drop of notes. Maybe even with a check box to indicate it was completed. Hope that makes sense!Show lessatgarrett
Works mostly well
This app is very helpful in keeping teachers and parents on the same page. I have been using it for about 3 months now. Only one small bug I have noticed within the past few days is when I try to update the contact info for that day, the app doesn’t update. I have been adding that info in the “Notes” section but it would be great if that feature was working again. Thank you for the great app!Show lessKeetaRay
There’s gotta be a better app
It’s GLITCHY EVERYDAY. After a short period you have to pay for the app. While I pay every month, I feel that it should work better then it does. Everyday I add stuff or the teacher adds stuff and it’s wrong or doesn’t show at all. Checks them out at 5pm at pick up and I don’t get a report until 7,8 or even 9. At that point I’ve already had to ask the teacher when my baby last ate/changed/got meds. It’s awful! On the days it does work, it’s nice and I love having the reports to check for trends in her bathroom habits but awful when I have to wait hours for the summary. They are quick to turn off the app when you don’t pay, so why aren’t they quick enough to update it. Plus paying per kid and not a family membership is also stupid. Get it together.Show lessMrsVeit415
