KinderStart: Childminder App

KinderStart LTD

About this app

KinderStart is the all-in-one app built for UK childminders. Attendance, daily diaries, EYFS observations, invoicing and Ofsted compliance, all from your phone, even one-handed.

Solo and Team plans. Team adds staff logins for assistants and co-childminders, 50 GB storage and 3× KinderAssist. Existing subscribers keep their price.

DAILY DIARY AND ATTENDANCE
• One-tap attendance with real-time occupancy and ratios
• Daily diaries with photos, meals, naps and activities, shared instantly with parents
• Voice diary: say what each child did and it's written into their diary for you to check
• Smart contract builder with digital signatures
• Automated invoicing with funded hours worked out for you

EYFS AND LEARNING
• The Learning Tree: every observation fills a leaf, so each child's progress is easy to see
• KinderAssist writes professional EYFS observations from your notes in seconds
• Learning journeys and progress tracking (EYFS, Scotland's ELC and Wales)

PARENT APP
• Real-time updates, photos and daily summaries
• Invoices, weekly menus and noticeboard
• Accident and incident acknowledgement

MENU PLANNER
• Plan weekly menus from your own recipes, or import recipes from the web
• All 14 UK allergens flagged, with warnings for children's allergies
• Kitchen prep sheet, shopping lists, food budgets and rotating menus
• Publish your menu so parents can see what's cooking

FINANCES (MAKING TAX DIGITAL READY)
• Income and expense tracking with receipt uploads
• Scan a receipt photo or PDF and it's read into your expenses
• HMRC cash basis categories and mileage logging
• Tax-ready reports for Self Assessment

OFSTED AND SAFEGUARDING
• Ofsted registration tracker: step by step from DBS to certificate
• Digital body maps, accident and safeguarding logs
• Risk assessments, policies and inspection practice

TEAM
• Staff logins for co-childminders and assistants, with onboarding and timesheets (Team plan)

TRUSTED AND SECURE
HMRC Making Tax Digital recognised • GDPR compliant • ICO registered • EYFS and ELC aligned

SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS
KinderStart is free while you register. Two plans are available as subscriptions:

Solo: for childminders working on their own
• Solo Monthly: £14.49 per month
• Solo Yearly: £139.00 per year

Team: everything in Solo, plus staff logins for assistants and co-childminders, 50 GB storage and 3× the KinderAssist allowance
• Team Monthly: £19.99 per month
• Team Yearly: £189.00 per year

Existing subscribers keep their current price while they stay subscribed.

Prices are for UK customers.

Privacy Policy: https://kinderstart.co.uk/privacy

What’s new

New in this version:
• Voice diary: tap the mic on Daily Diary and say what each child did. KinderStart writes it into the right child's diary for you to keep, change or discard. It understands meals, bottles, naps, nappies, sun cream, moods, activities and absences.
• Scan receipts: take a photo or choose a PDF and the date and total are read into your expenses.
• Fixes and improvements.