ILY for Schools
Keep parents close to the school day — free for your program.
Preschools and daycares share classroom photos, message families, and keep calendars in sync. Parents get direct teacher communication at no cost. Competing school-chat products can run into thousands of dollars a year. ILY charges your school nothing.
$0 for schools · $0 for parent–teacher chat · Photos, chat & calendars
What schools get
- Photos — share classroom moments with the right families
- Chat — message parents without mixing school and work inboxes
- Calendars — field trips, conferences, and holidays in one place
- No school fee — parents never pay for teacher communication while enrolled
For schools
How ILY helps your program — without another annual software bill.
Many school messaging and photo tools charge programs thousands of dollars a year, then still ask families to adopt yet another app. ILY is different: your school pays nothing, enrolled parents pay nothing for direct communication with their teachers, and everyone uses the same private ILY apps on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.
$0 school fee
No per-seat licenses, no classroom subscriptions, no annual quote that grows with enrollment. Apply, get approved, and start sharing.
Direct teacher–parent chat
Updates, pickup notes, and everyday questions stay with the right family — free for parents for as long as their child is enrolled.
Photos & calendars
Teachers upload classroom moments and keep schedules current. Parents see the school day without hunting through SMS threads or public feeds.
Built for the school day
Teachers and admins invite families once. Parents open the same ILY app they can keep using at home — for school-linked moments now, and for a full private family album if they choose to upgrade later.
Photos
Classroom moments
Capture the day and share with guardians who belong to each class — privately, without public social feeds. Teachers upload the moments they create; they do not browse a family’s private home library.
Chat
Family messaging
Quick updates to parents and caregivers. Keep school talk out of personal SMS threads — at no fee to the school or to enrolled families.
Calendars
School events
Publish trips, conferences, and holidays so every family stays on the same schedule.
For parents
Free while enrolled. Optional Premium when they want the whole album.
The school-linked experience costs families nothing: photos from class, chat with teachers, and calendars for the school day. Our model is not to bill the school — it is up to parents if they want more.
Most parents also want a real family album: not only school-added photos of their child, but every moment and memory from home, weekends, and travel. With one click they can upgrade to ILY Premium on the same account, then import their own camera-roll photos into a private timeline.
School-linked · free
Classroom photos, teacher chat, and school calendars while the child is enrolled. No fee for direct communication with teachers.
Full family album · optional
One-click Premium upgrade. Import personal photos and videos. Build a lifelong album that includes school days and everything else.
Private from teachers
Teachers cannot see private family uploads or imported memories. A teacher has upload access only for photos she creates and shares — not the family’s private library.
Privacy
Classroom content stays school-linked. Home memories stay with the family.
When a parent upgrades and imports their own photos, those moments remain private family media. School staff do not get access to that library. Teachers upload what they capture at school; they do not browse weekends, trips, or home-only albums.
More for families on ily.chat/schools and ily.chat.
Ready to bring ILY to your school?
Apply in a few minutes. We’ll review and unlock your school dashboard — free photos, chat, and calendars for your program and enrolled families.
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