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How to Download All Your Daycare Photos

Save every photo and video your daycare has shared, at full quality, before your account is closed. Here is the fast way, app by app.

Why download your daycare photos now

Your daycare has probably shared hundreds, maybe thousands, of photos of your child through an app like Procare or Famly. First finger-paintings, playground grins, the nap where they konked out mid-snack. Then one day your child ages up or you switch centers, the login stops working, and all of it is gone.

The center is not keeping a copy for you. Most daycare apps let you save photos only one at a time, which is hopeless when there are thousands. This guide shows the fast way to download all your daycare photos at once, at full quality, before you lose access.

Downloading photos from Procare

Procare (also shown as Procare Connect, and formerly Kinderlime) is the most common daycare app in the US. On the web, open your child's Photos page in the dashboard. Procare only offers a hover-and-click download on each photo individually.

To save them all at once, install the NurseryDownloader Chrome extension, open your child's Photos page, and click Download all photos & videos. It collects every photo and video for that child and saves them to your computer at full resolution, neatly organized into month-by-month folders. Your first 20 downloads are free.

Downloading photos from Famly

Famly is used by daycares in the US as well as Europe. Open your Famly feed or your child's profile, and the extension adds a one-click download that saves the whole photo history, plus a spreadsheet of dates and captions so each photo keeps its story.

Downloading photos from KinderCare and Lillio (HiMama)

KinderCare's parent app runs on Lillio (formerly HiMama), and both work the same way. Sign in at classroom.kindercare.com (KinderCare) or app.lillio.com (Lillio/HiMama), then click Download all photos & videos in the panel. The extension saves every photo and video from your child's Journal, for every child on your account, in one go.

Downloading photos from Brightwheel and other apps

Brightwheel doesn't give parents a bulk download, and the extension doesn't support it yet either. There are still three ways to get your photos out, including a bulk export most parents never think to ask for: how to download all your Brightwheel photos.

We support Procare, KinderCare, Lillio (HiMama) and Famly today, with more daycare apps on the way. If your center uses a different app (Tadpoles, Daily Connect), email us and let us know which one, so we can prioritize it.

Step-by-step guides for your app

Keeping your photos safe once you have them

  • Back up the folder to cloud storage (Google Photos, iCloud, Dropbox) so a lost laptop does not lose the memories.
  • Keep the original full-size files, not screenshots. Screenshots are lower quality and drop the date.
  • Filenames start with the date the photo was taken, so everything sorts in order automatically.

Save your daycare photos today

Install the free extension, open your daycare app, and download your child's entire photo library in one click. Your first 20 photos are free, no card needed.