Childcare by Tadpoles

Teaching Strategies, LLC

About this app

Tadpoles helps childcare directors and teachers manage their young classrooms.
Save time and throw out that paper. Track attendance, naps, meals and potty breaks for an individual or the entire classroom. Instead of writing the same thing on 20 daily reports, enter it once!

Access medical and emergency contact information instantly! Capture observations and incidents electronically for quick and easy recording. Pull up later on our Director's Dashboard.

Parents will love teachers and childcare directors who use Tadpoles Pro—imagine being able to securely share photos and videos of children throughout the day, or even send personalized messages and alerts. Parents with the Tadpoles app will feel more connected than ever, giving them security and peace of mind.

Please note: Childcare by Tadpoles requires a monthly subscription.

Ratings and reviews

It is too buggy, freezes all the time, and shuts down in the middle of writing notes. Tadpoles is unreliable, and I always have a hard time uploading pictures and videos, and when it works, the planned activities don't even show up. I tried logging out and in, and uninstalling and installing the app, but all the same issues arise. Please fix the issue.

Mixed emotions about this app. Overall, it's okay and minimally does what it's supposed to do. However, it does not load memories when you tap on "tap to load more" and it doesn't refresh the class list when you pull down. The camera lags a little when you take a picture if it even loads at all so I usually end up taking it on my phone and going through the album tab.

The app is only reliable about 15% of the time. It constantly crashes, it takes forever to load, it rarely ever updates the classroom status, kids will randomly disappear and then pop up in other class rosters, you can't preview videos before you send them, the message interface is so absurdly stupid- It is constantly sending off accidental half written messages. It's just awful. I curse whoever in my company decided to trap us in the living hell of having to use this godforsaken app every day.

What's new

As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates our mobile apps to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers. This new release includes new Demo School capabilities, including: - Health Screening - Messaging (i.e. two-way communications) Additionally, this build includes routine bug fixes.