Lillio

What Lillio is for and who uses it

Lillio is a childcare app published by Hi Mama Inc., formerly under the HiMama name, and it is listed under Education. It has two sides: tools for the staff who run a childcare center day to day, and tools for the families whose children attend it. The Google Play listing shows 4.43 stars from 10,059 ratings.

Center directors and teachers use the management side to keep the day's records. Parents use the family side to see what happened with their child. The curriculum tools add lesson planning for the classroom.

Running the day: reports, attendance and meals

The center side covers daily reports, schedules, attendance, check-ins and meal planning. Staff record the day in one place rather than on paper, and the listing says this covers the routine paperwork a childcare program produces.

Attendance and check-ins give a running record of who is in the building. Meal planning sits alongside the rest of the day's entries, so food and routine are tracked with the same reports families receive.

Sharing photos, videos and daily reports with families

Families receive the daily reports, along with pictures and videos from the day. The listing presents this as the main way the center keeps parents informed.

Because the reports and media go to the family side of the app, a parent does not have to wait for pickup to learn how the day went. The listing does not describe any other way of sharing.

Registering children and taking payments

Families can register through the app, and the listing says the registration and payment options are built for families to use directly. It does not give details on which payment methods are supported or how fees are set.

Lesson plans built on state standards

The curriculum tools provide lesson plans that the listing says are research-based, developmentally appropriate and aligned to state standards. Themes come pre-populated, so teachers start from a themed plan rather than building one from nothing.

This part of the app is aimed at the classroom staff who plan early education activities. The listing names state standards but does not list which states or grade bands the plans cover.