brightwheel: Child Care App Reviews – Page 6
5/5 rating based on 85 reviews. Read all reviews for brightwheel: Child Care App for iPhone.
brightwheel: Child Care App is free iOS app published by DSSV, Inc.
Used to be good
Tiredofbuttons
It used to be a very useful app. It went from being one of my favorite apps to my least favorite when it recently caused all updates of any kind to send a notification. Since I can't configure which updates ring my phone my choice is either silence, or the app nonstop buzzing, chiming or ringing for my 3 kids. If I didn't need it for notes from the daycare I would uninstall it. Unfortunately those settings did not help me. I will reinstall today and see if they work then.
No Touch ID Support?
Adam V.
Overall, I like the Brightwheel app. It gets the job done and allows my wife and I to stay in touch with what’s going on during our son’s day at daycare. However, one thing that’s baffled me since we started using this app about a year ago is that it doesn’t support Touch ID or a passcode to access the app. If your phone is unlocked and someone picks it up, they can get right into this app. I keep thinking that Touch ID/passcode support will be incorporated in a future release, but after several releases now, I have yet to see the feature added.
Additional feature
add feature
Would love the ability as a parent to “like” a pic or teacher feedback, so they know I appreciate everything they are sending me. Teachers love to see how much I look at their feed. Thanks!
Needs to be able to save videos
Odinmode
Great app! I love it! But my only complaint is that it will not allow you to save videos. You can save the photos. Just not the videos. If they add this to the app and maybe the ability to LIKE activities like Facebook or Instagram, the app would be perfect!
Only one flaw!
Sgoding
We just started using this for our daycare and love it! The only problem is that I cannot save the videos. They take some adorable videos of my kids and I’m unable to share or download the videos. Otherwise, this app is great!
Not a good app
KUweatherman
1) Only have one child? It still makes you click on their name first before seeing updates. 2) Messaging System? Can see a potential lawsuit or class action suit forming from this part of the app. It makes it APPEAR like you are only messaging the child’s teacher. Wrong. EVERY teacher in the center has access to these messages. It is equal to sending a private message in a group chat. Horrible implementation that can lead to seriously awkward situations and even privacy concerns. Highly suggest parents to stay away from this part of the app. Would not recommend.
Very Disappointed with this Co
Jets21NY
We have been using the app regularly since our daughter joined daycare over a year ago. The school just informed us that the messaging function will no longer be available starting next week due to it becoming a ‘premium’ feature. This is horrible, taking something away that was included before and that as parents we rely on heavily on a daily basis when we need to communicate with the teacher. If you’re going to have a premium package, make it for new features coming out not for features that your customers have been using for years. I’m sure now other features will follow this path eventually making the whole app useless. Corporate greed at its finest, thanks a lot.
really wish it were free as advertised
super_ita
Wish video was available for ALL versions of the app, not just premium versions. We are a non profit organization.
Here's how to download videos
The Max Awesome
The devs of this app are using Amazon Cloudfront to stream video. If you use Fiddler on PC or HttpWatch on iOS to watch the traffic log as you log in via the web browser and start a video playing, you'll see a Cloudfront url ending in "-brightwheel.m3u8". That's your video. They should set up a second Cloudfront option or account with the delivery method set to "Download" and then add a setting in the mobile app and website app to let the user choose if they'd rather stream or download the video. Also -- there is no login required for the Cloudfront stream, so be careful who you share the link with. Seems like a security flaw. Here is my workaround: 1. Install HttpWatch app and visit the mybrightwheel.com website in it's built-in browser. 2. Log in and access your child's feed. Click on the video I want, and check the HttpWatch log to get the URL to the m3u8 stream. 3. Copy the URL and email it to yourself or whatever. 4. On your PC/Mac, download the ffmpeg open-source app. There is no installer -- it runs from wherever you downloaded and extracted it. 5. Run the following command, using the URL you emailed yourself earlier, to save the stream to a file locally: .\ffmpeg.exe -i "https://<specific url details here>.cloudfront.net/<specific url details here>/<stream name here>.m3u8" -c copy -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc <some filename I want here>.mp4 So many hoops but hopefully Brightwheel will do the right thing and add download capability soon. Enjoy!