Brightwheel vs Procare vs Bloomily.
The two most-compared childcare systems publish no price. Here is what each one actually says, and what we say.
Free for home daycares · $99 a month for everyone else · 60-day money-back
What you would be looking at · Preschool & daycare
Good morning, Dana — 44 of 47 expected are in, and every classroom is in ratio.
- DecideAbsence requestEllis family · Thursday
- DecideLate pickup 6:12Nguyen · $15 fee
- In ratioCaterpillars8 of 8
- Who is inButterflies11 of 12
- In ratioSunflowers13 of 14
- In ratioLadybugs12 of 13
Tap a room to see who is in it.
Today so far — Finn Rossi checked in 8:02 · Ms. Ortiz clocked in · Invoice #1042 paid
| What you are choosing | Bloomily | Brightwheel | Procare |
|---|---|---|---|
| The price you can read today | $99 a month per location, or $990 a year. | Not published — a seven-step form.mybrightwheel.com · read 7 September 2026 | Not published — “one low monthly price”. |
| What the price is based on | One location. Never per child. | The form asks your maximum enrollment and your number of locations.mybrightwheel.com · read 7 September 2026 | Not published. |
| The fee on a payment | 3.5% on cards (plus $0.30 on payments under $60), 1% on bank transfers (at least $0.50, never more than $8). You choose who covers it. | Not published.procaresoftware.com · read 7 September 2026 | Not published. |
| Try it without a call | Sign up and start today. A call is offered, never required. | No. | |
| Money back if it is wrong | 60 days, contractual, on your first paid subscription. | Not published.mybrightwheel.com · read 7 September 2026 | Not published. |
A row appears here only where both of us have published an answer, and every cell about Brightwheel vs Procare links to the page we read it on and the day we read it. Where their page is silent we leave the row out rather than guess — and where they win, the row says so. Last checked 7 September 2026.
$99 a month per location, or $990 a year. Free for licensed home daycares up to 18 children. See pricing
None from either.
mybrightwheel.com · read 7 September 2026If you move, here is exactly what moves.
- Children with birthdays, allergies, dietary notes and medical notes
- Parents and guardians, with the email their invite goes to
- Emergency contacts and pickup people, each with a kiosk PIN
- Staff with their role, so nobody re-picks permissions one dialog at a time
- Current enrollments onto sessions that already exist here
- Saved cards and bank details
- What families owe you today
- Past invoices, payments and receipts
- Old attendance, daily reports and messages
No system in this category hands another its saved cards or its ledger. We say it first, and we say what happens instead.
Questions, answered
Neither publishes a number, so nobody outside their sales teams can answer that. Bloomily is $99 a month per location, or $990 a year, and free for home daycares up to 18 children.
Brightwheel is the newer, lighter product; Procare has deeper administrative and accounting tooling and a longer history with multi-site organizations. Both ask for a call before a number.
One Bloomily roster runs a school year and a summer camp, because camp is a program kind here rather than a second product. Weigh that against what each of them quotes you.
Stop comparing. Start running.
Set up in an afternoon, and see it with your own program’s name on it.