Most childcare apps tie your child’s history to the school’s subscription. The school moves on, and years of photos, daily reports, and messages with the teacher you still think about go dark with it. Clear Day works differently. Your account stays yours, with read-only access to everything, for as long as you keep it. One login for every kid and every school they ever attend.
One account for every kid, at every school.
Photos and milestones don’t disappear when you switch schools. Your child’s history is yours, not a school subscription’s.
Switching schools? Two taps.
The new school adds you by email or phone. Same login, same history, same app. No second download, no “we couldn’t find your previous account.”
No fees buried in the fine print.
Pay by bank transfer or card. Many schools choose to absorb the card fee, and when they don’t, you’ll know the policy up front. No surprise auto-deductions, no fees buried on the receipt.
The first day. The art project that came home covered in glitter. The teacher who knew exactly how your kid liked their nap rolled out. Those moments belong to your family. We treat the data that way.
Export the whole archive whenever you want. Request full deletion if you ever decide that’s the right call. Switching schools doesn’t reset any of it. Canceling Clear Day doesn’t either.
Three steps. No re-onboarding, no second app, no “please reset your password” loop.
Tell your new school you already use Clear Day
Just give them the email or phone number on your account. They add you in under a minute.
Open the same app you already have
Your kids, your photos, your messages, your billing history. Same login. The new school is just a new tab inside it.
Pick up where you left off
Old conversations stay readable. New ones land alongside them. Changing schools doesn’t erase anything from your child’s history.
Most of what a childcare app should do happens in small moments: the morning rush, the grandparent pickup, the “are we off the waitlist yet?” Here’s how those go.
See your actual waitlist spot
Open the link your school sends and see your family's place in line (a number, not a “we'll be in touch”), then confirm your spot from the same page. No account or password needed.
Book a tour without calling
Pick an open slot from the school's link. Life happens? Reschedule from the same link. Your old slot isn't released until the new one is booked.
Accept an offer from anywhere
When a seat opens, the offer arrives as a link. Read it, accept it, done: from your phone, before the seat goes to the next family.
Check in on your own phone
Skip the lobby line: check your child in from your phone at drop-off. A teacher confirms every self-check-in, so the school's count is always a person's count.
Pickup passes for the people you trust
Grandma's picking up on Thursday. Issue her a pass: name, photo, and an expiry you choose. Staff scan it at the door, and you can revoke it anytime.
A note home, when there's news
A short recap of your child's week: the moments, the photos, the little wins. A quiet week sends nothing at all, rather than a summary of nothing.
Childcare is already one of the largest line items in your budget. The software you use to pay for it shouldn’t add to it. Pay by bank transfer or card, and when a school passes a card fee through rather than absorbing it, you’ll know the policy up front, not on the receipt.
Autopay is yours to control. Turn it on if you want one less thing to remember. Turn it off whenever you want. If a payment fails, Stripe retries it automatically over the following two weeks instead of silently rolling into next month.
Encrypted and US-hosted
All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, stored on US-based infrastructure with strict access controls.
Never used to train AI
Your family’s information stays yours. Never shared, never sold, never used to improve AI models, including ours. The AI never touches photos.
Only the right people see it
You see only your own child. Staff see their own school, and no school’s data is visible to another. Permissions are built in from day one, and changes to your child’s record are recorded with who changed what and when.
Need help? Email us directly.
Parent questions go to [email protected]. Real humans read every message and respond within one business day. We don’t bounce billing or login questions back to your school.
The app our family used disappeared the day our oldest moved up to elementary. Years of first words and first projects, gone behind a subscription that wasn’t ours. Clear Day is the software we wanted then: the account belongs to the family, and the history follows the kid.
The longer story is on the about page. If your school isn’t on Clear Day yet, the most useful thing you can do is forward the pricing page to your director.
The Clear Day founders
If your child’s school isn’t on Clear Day yet, the easiest path is to forward our pricing page to your director. We make it free for them to try for two weeks, and we’ll handle the migration from whatever they use now.