Kaymbu for Families Hack 3.2 + Redeem Codes

We have used the Kaymbu App for five years now at our Montessori School. Our infant parents loved the videos and photos so much, that as their children grew older, they asked if we could use Kaymbu in our toddler and pre-primary classrooms. We use these school wide photos and videos to reach out to people on Facebook, Insta and Twitter also.
It’s an amazing app that there is no downfall to. Your school will love it!

Needs to be a way to clear all unread messages. Our family joined a school here recently mid semester and the app shows a red dot on our messages icon. I’m assuming this indicates we have “new” unread messages. I’ve read the messages sent to us since our joining the school, but what I don’t need to read and scroll through is every single message sent to the class in the past year prior to us enrolling. The red dot indicating new messages is pretty much pointless as currently configured as unread messages prior to us joining are irrelevant and keep the red dot indicator illuminated falsely showing a new message/s.

I contacted the developers over a month ago about the app not working even though I use a popular model iPhone, have updated my OS and reinstalled and updated the app, and confirmed that my account information works on other devices. They have been non-responsive and have offered NOT A SINGLE FIX OR EVEN SUGGESTION. I miss updates and messages every day about my 21 month old daughter and they don't seem to care.

App is great but it updates Families way too late. Whenever a teacher or an announcement is made, it usually takes a few hours before it actually is applied to the app where people can see it.

Daycare switched for no reason and i hate this app. Constantly getting email and push notifications for everything. Cant mark vacations easily. I don’t find the interface intuitive at all.

Tried it multiple times and reinstalls. Keep getting black screen after entered phone number or email.

I can not even login to this app. My OS is up to date and my phone isn’t ancient (it’s an iPhone X).

When Our child’s daycare center switched to Kaymbu, it appeared like this app was made by a kid who just learned HTML. Turns out it really is just a wrapper around a bad website. Digging deeper, I quickly found out that there was no thought put into how the site was made, or how families would use it. All of the data about your child is stored on publicly accessible URL’s. Any data added by your school/childcare center, including child’s location, pickup/drop off times, photos, videos, and anything else your school uploads, is accessible on the web without a password. Security by obscurity for your child… Furthermore, upon leaving the center, I requested all data to be exported, and removed from Kaymbu servers. The childcare center also made this request, as somehow they have all of the rights to your child’s digital data when using these apps. Kaymbu has not exported the data, and is now ignoring all follow-up requests to do so. (2 months after both parties requested).

Update to developer response: the security of the URL’s was brought up to the childcare center in July 2021 to which the members of your team responded “the engineering team is actively looking into this and they are hoping to have a clear answer for you soon”. The issue was quietly “resolved” many months later with no update. I put “resolved” in quotes because I’m speculating that the URL’s are now just hidden from parents, but still universally accessible. This would make sense since there has been no change to the authentication process, which would likely be needed to secure the URL’s.

Even if the issue was resolved, my point still stands that the initial implementation of this app did not take security or the end-user’s privacy or usability into account.

As far as my data deletion request goes, it has now been “resolved” after several months of emailing your team almost weekly. And as a side note: somehow they were able to re-gain access to the deleted data (they forgot to export it prior to “deleting”) after confirming it was completely removed from the servers. I have zero confidence that the data has actually been removed, or any changes have been made to the app (website) that would change my original review in any way.

Great idea, love the immediate notification of pics. Would like to be able to access the daily notes at any time during the day (eg if I access it at 12pm, I should see all the information on my child entered until that time). Needs a calendar view, so I can pick a timeframe and see the notes/pics from that day or week, etc. Also, need to be able to use the info in the same manner as any of the multiple baby tracker apps available, so I can see trends and pattens with the food/nap/diaper info recorded. Would be great to have parents be able to leave brief daily or weekly notes for the teacher as well, such as general directions (feed bottles every x hours, solids 2x per day, use diaper cream today, other relative picking up today, etc.). Wish I could give it 2.5 stars, but went up to 3 since the UI is simple and clean.

When I first started using Kaymbu, I loved that parents didn’t have to do anything but check their email to get all of the photos and anecdotes about their child’s learning. With the addition of the app for the family, it is really nice for families to have a choice of viewing in their email and on the app. The app allows families to see all of the phtotos in one spot and return to reflect on what they wish easily. Getting messages in email, gives families small chunks of information and updates about their child. Depending on the family, sharing this option is great!