Your daycare shortlist and tour notes, then the day itself.
Clear Day Family is an app for parents, free to start, from the people who run this childcare directory. While you look for care it keeps your shortlist and your tour notes. Once your child starts, it keeps the day: nap and feed logs, the school calendar, and the photos the grandparents keep asking for.
Free. Sign in with a code we email you. On the web now, iPhone and Android apps coming soon.
How does it help while I’m choosing a daycare?
It holds the three things you’d otherwise keep in your camera roll and the back of an envelope.
- Your shortlist, on every device
- Save centers from the directory on your phone, and they’re there on the laptop when you sit down to decide.
- Tour notes for each center
- Check off the questions you asked, add the day you visited and write what stood out, before the third tour blurs into the first.
- The centers you follow
- Follow a center from its page. For centers that use Clear Day, you can ask for an email when one is accepting enrollment, at most once a week.
Your shortlist and notes are yours alone: no center sees them. How the shortlist and tour notes work
What does it do once my child starts care?
The same account becomes the place the day lands, whatever app the school uses.
- Nap and feed logs.Log a bottle, a nap or a diaper, or type “4 oz at 2, napped 3 to 4:10” and the assistant drafts the logs; nothing is saved until you approve it. Give your co-parent or the sitter access and they log the same day.
- The school calendar, specials included. Take a photo of the monthly flyer or upload the PDF, and pajama day, picture day and early release land on one family calendar next to lunch menus and custody days. The free plan includes 3 school calendar imports a month.
- The school email you’d miss.Send the school’s email to your family inbox address (the free plan assigns one; Family Circle lets you pick it), then ask the assistant what’s due this week; it answers from the email itself, and if it can’t find something, it says so. The free plan includes 5 questions a day.
- Photos for the grandparents.Choose who sees each photo. Grandma opens a link; she doesn’t need an account or an app.
Questions parents ask
Does my child's school need to use Clear Day?
No. Clear Day Family is yours, not the school’s. It works the same whether your center uses Clear Day, another app or paper sign-in sheets. If your school does use Clear Day, sign in with the same email and you keep one account.
What does it cost?
It’s free to start. The free plan includes the shortlist and tour notes, logging, the family calendar and sharing with 2 people besides parents. Family Circle is the paid plan for bigger families: unlimited sharing, full-size photos and video. The current prices are on the pricing page.
Is there an app for my phone?
It runs in any browser on a phone or computer today. The iPhone and Android apps are coming soon. You sign in with a code we email you, so there’s no password to forget.
Do grandparents need an account to see photos?
No. You send them a link, they open it in their browser and see what you chose to share with them, nothing else. Here’s what they see.