
85
BU Score
Excellent
brightwheel: Child Care App
✍️ BU Analytics Review
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brightwheel: Child Care App is an iOS app from DSSV, Inc. in the Education category, currently rated 4.9★ across 129,850 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 85 — Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Education app, that means strong product-market fit.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (129,850 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.9★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 81 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 16.0+🔖 v3.96.1🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN, ES📂 Education💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
📝 About this app
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.
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.
🆕 What's New · v3.96.1
minor bugfixes and improvements
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- brightwheel: Child Care App
- Developer
- DSSV, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- com.sandbox.Sandbox
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN, ES
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- #1 childcare management software
- Description
- Start the new school year with one less thing to worry about. Brightwheel is the most trusted all-in-one childcare management platform for billing, communication, attendance, and more.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- OG image
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- $6.2M ($1.8M – $6.2M)AI medium
- AI annual estimate
- $75.0M/yr
- ML model estimate / mo
- $16.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://twitter.com/brightwheel
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightwheel/
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- https://mybrightwheel.com/blog
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: MEDIUM
Brightwheel's annual revenue was estimated at $21.5 million in 2023 and grew to $37.5 million in 2024. As of July 2024, the company's annual revenue was reported to be $75 million, translating to an estimated monthly revenue of $6.25 million.
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.37★ · 75.5% 5★ · 8.2% 1★
5★37 (76%)
4★3 (6%)
3★3 (6%)
2★2 (4%)
1★4 (8%)
+13,459 ratings/week
Praise: love ×21 great ×8 best ×5 recommend ×3 fantastic ×2Complaints: worst ×3 subscription ×2 terrible ×2 hate ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Feature request
Great app. I wish it had a feature to send messages to the parent rather than the kid though. For example, I have 3 kids at the same daycare and I get the same message for every kid a few times a week. Would be nice to not have to click thr…
★★★★★ So grateful
I absolutely love seeing the photos of all the kids playing throughout the day! They clearly love it there so much and the teachers create wonderful experiences for them each and every day! Thank you all! 🥰…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Not a good app anymore
They’ve taken away most everything they can to make you pay for subscription. I will be talking to parents and most likely doing away with anything but payment options until they take that too. Hate this app now. Sad it’s gone to this.…
★☆☆☆☆ Worst functioning app ever
This app constantly stops working. It drives me absolutely crazy. I have to get on the web browser because it kicks me out or says “error” at least one-two times a week.…
📈Ratings growth129,850 ratings+14% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (42 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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