🇨🇦 Built for Canadian daycares & day homes — every province
Every little moment, shared.
Daily sheets, attendance and family messages for Canadian day homes and daycares, in one app. Parents see the meals, naps and photos. You stop rewriting the same message to every family.
30 days free · No credit card · Parents always join free · Cancel anytime
🔒 PIPEDA-aligned privacy practices · Program data hosted in Canada
What is Nestlings?
Nestlings is childcare management software for Canadian daycares, day homes and family day-home agencies. Providers record daily sheets, attendance, photos, menus and lesson plans; families follow along live in a free parent app with messaging built in; and billing runs in Canadian dollars with GST/HST handled automatically.
Screens built for busy childcare days
Parent updates, educator logging and provider dashboards stay connected without adding another layer of admin work.
Parent mobile app
Educator daily sheets
Provider dashboard
Everything your program needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Every feature can be switched off per program — a two-child day home stays simple, a 100-child center runs everything.
Daily care
The core loop — record it once, parents see it live.
Digital daily sheets
Meals, naps, diapers and moods — recorded in two taps, shared with parents live.
Attendance
Check-in and check-out with timestamps, plus an automatic "arrived safe" notification.
Lesson planning
Plan each week by learning domain and publish it straight to families.
Menus & calendars
Post the week's meals and every closure, holiday and field trip.
Family communication
The other half of the loop.
Parent messaging
Direct threads per family, plus one-tap announcements to everyone — with push notifications included. It's the other half of the daily-sheet loop: the moment you record becomes the moment they see.
Business ops
Run the program, not just the classroom.
Billing & payments
Recurring plans, invoices with GST support, and cash, e-transfer and cheque payment tracking.
Center & classroom management
Rooms, staff roles and invites, child profiles with allergies and emergency contacts.
Registration & waitlist
Track prospective families from first contact to enrollment, right from your own website.
Compliance & scale
Built for licensed programs, ready to grow.
Agency oversight
Agencies oversee many licensed day homes from one web dashboard — one subscription covers every home.
Privacy first
PIPEDA-aligned practices. Parents see only their own child. Photos are private with time-limited links.
Up and running in three steps
Apply for your free trial
Tell us about your program. We review every application, usually within 1 business day. No credit card.
Set up with your invite code
Create your program in the app, add your children, and share a simple invite code with each family.
Share the day
Record meals, naps and photos as they happen. Parents see them right away, and families join free.
Who Nestlings is for
A good fit
- Licensed, approved or private Canadian day homes and daycares
- Day home agencies that coordinate several homes
- Programs sharing daily updates with families on paper or by text today
Not what we do (yet)
- Payroll
- A French-language app
- Provincial funding or subsidy calculations
Give parents their favourite notification 🐣
Parents get meals, naps and photos in one place — and you stop rewriting the same message to every family.
Apply for your free trialNo credit card · Cancel anytime · Program data hosted in Canada