Across Europe, kindergartens already document beautifully — on walls, in folders, in portfolios. Oyku brings that documentation into the parent's pocket, one child at a time, with leadership approval and GDPR-grade consent built in. Photos, short videos, reactions, and a printed book at year's end.
Lena Jonas built a bridge for the ants so they wouldn't get wet. Engineering with empathy.
These are the sentences we hear on almost every call with kindergartens, Kitas and early-years schools. If two of them are yours, Oyku will probably feel like relief.
Announcement tools are useful and joyless. Oyku is the other half: the photo of the ant bridge, tagged to one family, arriving at 10:40.
Keep the folder. Oyku is the daily glimpse that makes the annual meeting a conversation between people who already share a hundred moments.
Fear comes from ambiguity. Oyku makes consent explicit per child, enforces it automatically, and gives you a DPA your Träger's lawyer will actually sign.
Every tagged moment stays with the child's record. New colleagues inherit context, not just a name on a list.
A photo needs no translation. Reactions need none either. Oyku's captions stay short; the picture does the talking.
Oyku separates ‘family-only’ from ‘cleared for public’. Only consented, leadership-approved moments become website or social content.
Oyku is deliberately not a billing, attendance or admin system. It is the layer parents open — and the one that makes your kindergartens, Kitas and early-years schools feel as good from the outside as they are on the inside.
Parents open Oyku and see only the moments their child appears in — tagged by the teacher, approved by the school. No public timeline, no strangers, no ads.
Snap on any phone, tap the children in the photo, pick the activity, post. Oyku handles grouping, captions and tagging so teachers spend time with kids, not with an app.
Admins can review, restrict or approve every photo and video. Per-child consent flags mean a child whose family opted out is never shared — even by accident.
Hearts, stars, smiles, cakes and balloons. Teachers see who loved what. Principals can pin recognition badges to the moments that deserve it.
The best classroom moments, cleared for public use, become ready-to-post content for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp Channels and Google Business — the admissions engine you already needed.
Oyku gathers each child's most loved moments into a beautifully printed hardback that arrives at the family's door. Eighteen years from now, there's a row of them on a shelf.
No new job for teachers. No new inbox for parents. Just the moments that already happen, arriving where they belong.
A tearful goodbye. Ten minutes later a teacher posts a photo of the same child grinning at the water table. A parent on the train exhales.
A first hand raised. A first word read aloud. The teacher taps the child, chooses “Literacy”, and posts. The photo is tagged to exactly one family.
A quick group photo of the room at nap time. Approved by the admin in one tap from the office. Six families get a gentle ‘all is well’.
A twelve-second video of a relay race. The principal adds a ‘Teamwork’ badge. Parents react with balloons. The teacher sees them.
“How was your day?” becomes “Tell me about the water table.” The conversation at dinner starts from a photo, not from ‘fine’.
The year's best moments — chosen by Oyku, approved by the parent — arrive printed and bound. Real paper. Real teachers' words.
A 20-minute call. A free pilot classroom. No card, no contract.
Oyku is used across the US, UK, Europe, the Gulf, India and Asia-Pacific. The product is the same; the language, the consent norms and the reporting expectations are not — so we tuned for each.
GDPR/DSGVO data-processing agreement (AVV) and EU hosting available. Consent per child, approval by Leitung, and an export for Bildungsdokumentation. Works alongside absence and messaging apps.
Pedagogical-documentation tags, minimal text, and a design that respects the ‘no faces in public’ norm many municipalities follow: family-only by default, public sharing off unless explicitly consented.
For kindergarten grades inside elementary and international schools: class-level and child-level tagging, a principal recognition layer, and one-click child summaries for conferences.
Illustrative moments from settings like yours. Every photo in a real Oyku feed is tagged to one child, approved by the school and shown only to that child's family.
Your teachers are already doing the work. Oyku just makes it visible.
Capture in ten seconds. Approve in one tap. Print once a year. That's the whole product.
Teachers pull a ready-to-run activity with materials, steps and the moment to capture. Or send a ten-minute brief home and watch the photos come back.
Oyku is designed for GDPR from the ground up: explicit per-child consent, leadership approval before any sharing, data minimisation (short captions, no open chat), encryption in transit and at rest, retention controlled by the setting, and a data-processing agreement (AVV) for your Träger. EU hosting is available.
Oyku is a different job. Absence and messaging apps are the notice board; Oyku is the window into the room. Many Kitas run both, and parents open Oyku far more often because it's about their child, not about logistics.
Under €9 per child per month; most settings land near €5. Start with a free pilot group for 60 days — no card, no contract. We'll quote your size on a short call.
Yes. Public sharing is off by default. Only moments that leadership explicitly clears — and only for children with public consent — ever leave the family feeds.
Mark the child as opt-out. They are never tagged, never appear in other families' feeds, and are excluded from all exports and public content. Their own family can still receive moments if you choose to allow it.
The app UI is in English today, with German and additional languages on the roadmap. Because captions are short and the photo does the work, kindergartens with many home languages report high engagement regardless.
Oyku for kindergartens, Kitas and early-years schools near you
What UK and EU GDPR actually require when a nursery or Kita shares photos of children with parents or publicly — lawful basis, consent, DPAs, retention, DPIAs and the questions to ask any app vendor.
Reggio-inspired and Montessori settings document beautifully — on walls parents see for four minutes. How to bring pedagogical documentation into families' daily lives without losing its depth.
Practical, tested ways to increase parent engagement in preschool — from daily photo moments to five-minute rituals — with the research behind why they work.
You bring the questions; we bring a live account with real classroom moments. If Oyku isn't right for you, we'll say so on the call.
Tell us a little about your setting. We'll reply within one school day with two or three time slots and a live demo link.
