Compare brightwheel vs ParentSquare: What's right for you?

Brightwheel was built for early educators from day one

Easy to use for your teachers and staff
Seamlessly manage daily tasks, including nap checks, documenting activities, curriculum, and family communication.

Manage all parts of your childcare business
More easily manage enrollment, billing, payroll, communication, and business from the brightwheel app.

More flexible billing options for your business
Brightwheel makes it easier for families to divide charges between multiple guardians and agencies, pay one-time charges, and to pay invoices before they're due.

Brightwheel is more than a communication tool

Everything you need for admissions in one place
With brightwheel, send and prefill forms, share forms and fillable documents, and track enrollment on one platform.

Check-in and attendance tracking
With quick QR-code check-in, attendance reports, and tools to help you manage ratios, save more time with brightwheel.

Give families more insight into their child's day
Brightwheel keeps families involved with real-time learning updates, progress reports, photos, videos, and two-way communication.

Easily stay compliant

Best-in-class security and payment protection
Brightwheel keeps payment and personal data protected with the highest security and encryption standards, 24/7 monitoring, and PCI Level 1, the highest financial compliance level.

Easily meet licensing requirements
Brightwheel is the easiest way to meet licensing requirements in all 50 states with contactless check-ins, health checks, and room ratios tracking.

Extra support with licensing regulations
Brightwheel is committed to helping you navigate compliance and regulations with the largest support team in the early education industry.

#1 childcare software

Ranked as leading childcare center software based on external reviews.

Apple App Store

(31,000+)

Google Play Store

(6,000+)

Capterra

(3,000+)

Brightwheel is the best! I am 100% sure the app is helping grow my enrollment, and it helps me be more in control of my center.

Get Brightwheel before you think you need it! It’s been a life-saver for us as new business owners, allowing us to focus on the families and children we serve.

Brightwheel is user-friendly and saves mounds of time. I enjoy all the tools they give Directors. We love it!

Brightwheel gets an A+ for parent satisfaction. A huge piece families love is how brightwheel brings them into the room. We get so many compliments.

Brightwheel’s customer service is phenomenal. I receive quick answers, and I always tell people to write in to Support. They are so informative.

We were the first ones to use brightwheel in our town. Now, every other center has adopted it as their software. It is an amazing all-in-one tool… Worth every penny!

My staff love attending brightwheel webinars. They’re able to learn how to use the system to its fullest potential. I think we are using every single feature on the platform!

Having everything on one platform makes it easy for us to train teachers. We use brightwheel to set expectations on the quality we expect.

I LOVE how easy it is to record a payment in billing. We no longer cross our fingers hoping our numbers match! It’s beautiful.

We have many grandparents and they love using brightwheel. It’s easy for them to use, and they enjoy interacting with an app that is so user friendly.