ECM Parents vs BFNL Team
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ECM Parents
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ECM Parents gives you access to information of your child's day. In the News Feed you can view relevant diaries, bulletins, activities, and current images and videos. It is also possible to reply to invitations, activities, conferences and much more. For a better overview of it all, access the App's own Calendar. In the Calendar you can easily access all relevant events sorted by day, week or month. Some more features are: - Gallery with images and videos of your child. - Communicate with your child's daycare centre. - Maintain your contact information. - Add profile images of yourself and your child. - Send playdate invitations to other families. - Register holiday and sick days. - Log in with touch/ face ID. - Check your child in and out of the institution.
BFNL Team
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With BFNL Team from Babilou Family Netherlands B.V. you can administrate everything about the daycare, including the children, parents and teachers. BFNL Team is a tool for creating diaries, news, bulletins, accessing the children’s index cards, as well as communicating with other users and much more.
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Verdict
ECM Parents and BFNL Team are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ECM Parents ships an update every 2 months, BFNL Team every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ECM Parents | BFNL Team |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | English Childcare Maastricht | Babilou Family Netherlands B.V. |
In-app purchases
ECM Parents
No in-app purchases
BFNL Team
No in-app purchases
