Get Dayling

The day, written down once.

A nanny logs it as it happens. A parent opens their phone and sees it. Naps, feeds, nappies and hours, in one record you both already agree on.

See what it does

Built in South Africa for parents and nannies

What it does

Everything that happened, and who said so.

Naps, on a clock

Start it when they go down and stop it when they wake. Both phones show the same timer running.

Play, timed the same way

Tummy time, the park, the paddling pool. Start it, stop it, and it lands in the day.

Feeds in millilitres

Bottles by the millilitre, with the time and the person who gave it.

Meals, and how much

What was offered, and how much of it was actually eaten.

Nappies and potty visits

Wet, dirty or both, and every potty visit, each one stamped with a time.

Baths

One tap when they go in, so the evening is written down like the rest of the day.

Medicine and temperature

The name, the dose and the reading, recorded at the moment rather than remembered.

An incident, if it happens

The bump nobody wants to explain by text at six in the evening. Written down, with a note.

How it works

Install it, invite her, and then you can stop asking.

Get Dayling

Install it from Google Play and sign in with your email address or your Google account.

Make a household

Add your child, their date of birth, and the notes a new person should read first. Allergies. What settles them.

Invite your nanny

She gets a code that works once, for her alone. You decide who joins, and you can remove anyone.

Log the day

She taps as things happen. You open your phone and the day is there, without either of you having to ask.

Why Dayling?

A few reasons a parent and a nanny both keep it open.

One record, not two

No end of day summary written from memory, and no messages to piece together. The nanny logs a nap when it starts and stops it when it ends, and the parent watches it happen.

One record, not two

No end of day summary written from memory, and no messages to piece together. The nanny logs a nap when it starts and stops it when it ends, and the parent watches it happen.

Who logged what

Every entry carries the time and the person who recorded it. That is the whole point of separate accounts, and it is why the day reads back as one record rather than two people’s memories of it.

Who logged what

Every entry carries the time and the person who recorded it. That is the whole point of separate accounts, and it is why the day reads back as one record rather than two people’s memories of it.

Hours and pay, agreed

A shift starts when she arrives and ends when she leaves. Set a rate, an overtime rule and a pay day, and Dayling works out what is owed. It is the same record for both people.

Hours and pay, agreed

A shift starts when she arrives and ends when she leaves. Set a rate, an overtime rule and a pay day, and Dayling works out what is owed. It is the same record for both people.

Locked to your household

Everything you log belongs to one household and only its members can read it. That is enforced by the database, not by the app being careful: a request for another household’s records is refused at the source.

Locked to your household

Told when it matters

A notification when a nap has run long, when an overtime request needs an answer, or when somebody needs you. Nothing else, because nobody wants a phone that chirps all day.

Told when it matters

A notification when a nap has run long, when an overtime request needs an answer, or when somebody needs you. Nothing else, because nobody wants a phone that chirps all day.

Your country and currency

Set the country, currency and time zone when you make the household, and the days and the pay follow. It was built in South Africa, which is why the pay side takes public holidays seriously.

Your country and currency

Set the country, currency and time zone when you make the household, and the days and the pay follow. It was built in South Africa, which is why the pay side takes public holidays seriously.

Sound familiar?

The conversations Dayling is meant to end.

“Did she eat?” Asked at the front door, answered from memory, and forgotten by the morning.

“Was that the Tuesday or the Wednesday?” An hour of overtime nobody wrote down, argued about on pay day.

“How long was the nap?” A number somebody has to guess at, three hours after it ended.

“Has she had the Calpol already?” A dose given twice, or not at all, because the note was a text message.

“I did tell you about the rash.” Two people remembering the same day differently, with nothing to check it against.

“What has her temperature been?” A week of readings, somewhere in a chat thread, needed in a doctor’s room.