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Cloud-based childhood education platform

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Tapestry - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: October 2025

Tapestry overview

What is Tapestry?

Tapestry is a childhood education platform that has education expertise at its heart. Available as both a website and app, Tapestry provides comprehensive, award-winning tools to help educators build strong relationships with families and reduce barriers to engagement. The platform allows users to document each child's unique learning and development, while streamlining planning, monitoring, and reporting processes from Early Years through Key Stage 1 and 2 for mainstream and special provision.

Nurseries and childminders can also benefit from Tapestry's Nursery Management Software, which offers clear, transparent, and accurate invoicing, smart occupancy planning, and in-app attendance registers for children and staff. Tapestry puts each child at the center of their development and education, encouraging their interests and following bespoke learning pathways to ensure every child can thrive. The platform also supports reflective practice and pedagogy development for educators, helping them implement inclusive provision that has a meaningful impact on learning and growth.

Key benefits of using Tapestry

- One subscription, all features: with Tapestry, what you see is what you get, no matter how big or small your account. You’ll never have to pay additional fees to access premium features. Every Tapestry account includes all our award-winning features, and it is up to you to decide which ones you implement!

- Equal parent partnerships: Tapestry helps families stay connected to their child’s learning and be part of it all through observations, reports, instant and secure messaging, activities to do at home, memos, and a safe space to upload all your important documents, such as policies and permission slips.

- The original learning journal: build every child’s unique learning journey through observations – share these with families and have them upload their own!

- Unlimited media: At Tapestry we do not limit how many photos and videos you can upload per child and/or observation.

- Monitoring and reporting that adapts to your needs: follow the British curriculum and assess your children against the EYFS (including Development Matters and Birth to 5 Matters guidance), ELGs, IEYC and National Curriculum in England. With Tapestry you can also design and upload your customised curriculum and monitor child development exactly the way you need.

- Support children with learning differences and disabilities through the multiple assessment frameworks designed specifically for children with SEND. This includes the highly commended Cherry Garden Branch Maps, which are exclusive to Tapestry.

- Enrollment: boost your revenue with space forecasting, and check room capacity and required ratios at a glance.

- Attendance: in-app registers for children and staff.

- Invoicing: invoice parents directly from your account, simplifying their experience with notifications and parent invoice dashboard. Record and track payments, and monitor pending bills. Create discounts, consumables, ad hoc services and apply funding!

- Daily care logs: record the care that you provide and keep parents informed. From meals to accidents and everything in between.

- Unlimited staff and relative accounts: add as many staff members and relative accounts as you want.

- Reflective practice: embed reflective practice and demonstrate its impact on your provision.

- Give children agency over their work: with Child Login children can access and participate in their learning journals, enabling meaningful feedback, putting them at the heart of their learning and assessment, and boosting their self-esteem.

- Printed journals: we have teamed up with publisher Group Hugs to give parents the chance to turn their child’s learning journal into a professionally printed book – a beautiful keepsake for all families.

Starting price

53 /
per year

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Tapestry’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Tapestry reviews

Overall rating

4.2

/5

18

Positive reviews

83

%

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend7.75/10
Rating distribution

5

4

3

2

1

11

4

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Pros
“I loved getting pictures of what the children were upto at school and how what they were doing was integrated into the curriculum.”
ST

Suzanne T.

Senior Biomedical Scientist

“Tapestry is very easy to use, I find it great to communicate with my key parents.”
AF

Antonella F.

Early year educator

“Tapestry is pretty easy to use, everything is quite clear and easy to understand.”
JL

Jasmine L.

Childminder

Cons
“Considering on your website you seem you seem to have a considerable number of staff I am confused why your support is so bad.”
MD

Marie D.

Office Administrtor

“If staff have an account they cannot be listed as a parent as well which causes a problem if your child attends the setting and you need to notify them of an accident etc.”
RE

Rosie E.

Early years educator

“There isn’t much that is wrong with the software.”
TN

Tahmina N.

Classroom assistant

Who uses Tapestry?

Based on 18 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Education Management
Primary/Secondary Education
Dairy
E-Learning
Others

Use cases

Student Engagement Platform

Tapestry's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Tapestry users:

Student group management
Interactive learning
Reporting/Analytics
Real-Time notifications
Communication management
Community management

All Tapestry features

Features rating:

Location tracking
Student Portal
Student management
Real-Time updates
Progress tracking
Progress reports
Performance metrics
Monitoring
Mobile app
Learning management
K-12
Customizable reports
Class scheduling
Chat/Messaging
Attendance management
Assessment management
Alerts/Notifications

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Tapestry pricing

Value for money rating:

Starting from

53

Per year

Pricing details
Subscription
Free trial
Free plan
Pricing range

User opinions about Tapestry price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Tapestry's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“I loved getting pictures of what the children were upto at school and how what they were doing was integrated into the curriculum.”
ST

Suzanne T.

Senior Biomedical Scientist

“Tapestry is very easy to use, I find it great to communicate with my key parents.”
AF

Antonella F.

Early year educator

Tapestry support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
FAQs/Forum

Training options

Webinars
Documentation
Live Online
Videos

Tapestry FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Tapestry offer?

Tapestry has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: £53.00/year
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. Who are the typical users of Tapestry?

Tapestry has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Tapestry support?

Tapestry supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Tapestry support mobile devices?

Tapestry supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone


Q. Does Tapestry offer an API?

No, Tapestry does not have an API available.


Q. What level of support does Tapestry offer?

Tapestry offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum

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