Comparison

Baby's Days vs Parent Admin

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Baby's Days

This comprehensive childcare management system streamlines daily operations for providers and enhances parental involvement. It digitizes paperwork, tracks child development with multimedia, and facilitates secure communication and record-keeping.

Highlights
  • Digital record-keeping and paperwork removal
  • Child development tracking with photos/videos
  • Daily activity logging (feeds, sleep, toileting)
  • Digital parent signature for policies and accidents
  • Visitor sign-in with digital signature
  • Attendance tracking
  • Learning journey and next steps management
Features
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Baby's days is the most established and most advanced childcare management system in the industry, evolving its secure system since April 2009 for a broad spectrum of childcare providers ranging from childminders, to nurseries and preschools. We pride ourselves in working together with customers to gauge what they really want from a childcare management system and bridge the gap between the child's learning and parental involvement. We are so much more than "just a system for tracking progress" we can and will remove 99% of your paperwork by allowing you to run your business entirely online with parental interaction every step of the way. The Baby's Days App makes life easier for Baby's Days customers and parents too, our sophisticated App will furthermore speed up your working day. As well as tracking each child's learning and development with the use of observations, next steps, COEL, videos and photos you can run your entire childcare business from our app. Just like the web version, the App offers so much more than other Childcare Apps on the market. Parents can login and use it too, again making their lives that little bit easier. The PIN Protected App compliments the web version wonderfully pinpointing the most used features and putting them together. The App allows Childcare Practitioners to: Manage their setting including adding Administrators, Children, setting up Parental Access, editing your Profile, adding Diary Helpers, adding Rooms, and viewing Children's Birthdays, recording daily activities such as bottle feeds, sleep times, sun cream applications and toileting. Edit and view the Daily Checklist seeing at a glance what needs to be done not only today but any day of the year. Assign contracts, policies and permissions for parents to sign digitally directly on the app. Sign in and verify Visitors with our sophisticated Digital Signature feature. View and create Diaries for each child in the setting, allowing you to complete notes, upload photos and videos, add observations and record the child's day in full. Update each child's development and achievements within their learning journey including adding observations, COEL, photos, videos, next steps, and of course 450 sample next steps ready for you to assign to any child. Add medications and Accidents to the system and request that parents sign using the sophisticated Digital Signature feature. Record each child's attendance at literally the click of a button with the fantastic one touch in and out feature. View and upload photographs and videos to each child's gallery and link these photographs and videos to the child's progress section too. With over 100 features as standard, there is no other system anywhere in the world as advanced as Baby's Days.

About

Parent Admin

This app streamlines communication between parents and nurseries. It allows parents to manage bookings, update child details, and view invoices. Nurseries can send important updates and newsletters directly to parents.

Highlights
  • Send booking change requests
  • Update child registration details
  • View invoices and payments
  • Receive nursery notifications
  • Manage funding eligibility codes
  • View booking patterns
Features
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Making life easier for nursery and pre-school parents to communicate with their nursery. Parents can send notifications directly to the nursery requesting any booking pattern changes, extra sessions, changes to emergency contact details, new allergy requirements, etc. The Nursery can also send notifications to parents keeping them up to date with emergency closures, newsletters, etc. This app allows parents to keep their children’s registration form details up-to-date including collection passwords, emergency contacts, permissions, consents and much more. We also allow parents to view all their invoices to date and see all payments made to their children’s account. This also reduces any confusion of how much is outstanding on their account. Booking patterns clearly displayed for all current and future sessions enabling the parent to see exactly when their children are scheduled to be attending the nursery. Funding (HMRC) eligibility codes can be kept up to date to ensure the parents don’t miss out on any funding claims. This app is designed to give parents access to parent admin on the go on any device, anytime, anywhere.

Screenshots

Baby's Days4 screens
Parent Admin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Baby's Days at 59% against Parent Admin's 14%. Baby's Days also leads on iOS requirement (14.6 vs 18.0). Parent Admin's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
Baby's Days versus Parent Admin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBaby's DaysParent Admin
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews59.4% of reviews β€” better14.3% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.6 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size59 MB47 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSysIQNursery In a Box Ltd

Customer experience

Baby's Days

Written reviews69 reviews
Positive59.4%
Neutral4.3%
Negative36.2%

Parent Admin

Written reviews42 reviews
Positive14.3%
Neutral4.8%
Negative81.0%

Bugs and requests

Baby's Days

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Server response error 0
  • Update download frozen
  • Recurring event feature not adding subsequent dates
  • Cannot save photos
  • Many bugs, frequent login issues
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  • Lost entire parent questionnaire after signing
  • Unable to save changes when adding invoices
  • Error messages when trying to log in
  • Payment failure bug
  • App crashes when opening photos
  • Latest update is terrible, crashes regularly
  • Cannot swipe between photos in media section
  • Documents cannot be viewed or downloaded
  • App keeps crashing since an update
  • Cannot access things requiring a signature
  • Cannot see feed from previous days
  • Alexa integration issues
  • Notification system issues
  • Second parent parental access notifications are annoying

Requested features

11 requests
  • Watch app functionality
  • Ability for parents to download all photos/videos
  • Consolidate app sections (diary, live feed, children)
  • Optional email notifications for parents
  • Ability to log assistants' daily register on the app
Show 6 more
  • Improve photo viewing and scrolling
  • Make gallery viewing easier
  • Dark mode option
  • More intuitive login process for parents
  • Ability to view or download documents
  • Fix recurring event feature

Parent Admin

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Baby's Days

No in-app purchases

None

Parent Admin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Baby's Days free?
Baby's Days is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Parent Admin free?
Parent Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Baby's Days or Parent Admin have ads?
Neither Baby's Days nor Parent Admin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Baby's Days or Parent Admin?
Baby's Days ships an update every 2 weeks, and Parent Admin every 2 weeks. Most recently, Baby's Days was updated on September 28, 2026 and Parent Admin on October 11, 2026.

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