What sickness is going around your neighborhood?neighborhood?
Ickly is the early warning layer for childhood illness: community-powered pediatric health intelligence, anonymous, local, and built by the parents and providers living it.
What to do with this
Knowing what's going around changes your next move
This isn't about telling you what to do. It's about giving you the information to decide what's right for your family. Every parent's situation is different, and better information means better decisions, on your terms.
Take them in sooner
Sore throat and strep is going around? Skip the wait-and-see and ask for a rapid test. Catching it early means fewer sick days and a faster return.
Keep them home when it counts
Big meeting or work trip coming up? If something's spreading, you can plan ahead, keep them home a day, and avoid the 6am scramble.
Send them, but stay sharp
Activity is low? Send them to school knowing what to watch for, so if symptoms show up you're ready instead of blindsided.
Restock before you need it
Nothing worse than a sick kid in your arms and expired Tylenol in the cabinet. If something's spreading, check the medicine shelf now, not at 2am with no partner home.
Know you're not the only one up
3am, nursing or holding a feverish kid, is a lonely hour. Seeing that other parents nearby are up with the same bug makes it feel less like just you against the night.
Learn what to look for, before it hits
First time your kid gets hand, foot, and mouth? Most parents have never heard of it until it's in their house. Knowing what's coming lets you read up on symptoms and remedies ahead of time, instead of mistaking a rash for a mosquito bite at midnight.
The payoff
For your family, and for every family in your community. The more parents report, the clearer the picture gets for everyone.
Check your area
What's going around your ZIP right now
No account needed. Enter a ZIP and see the schools and daycares we track there, plus what parents have logged in the last 14 days.
Take Ickly with you
Get school and neighborhood health alerts on your phone.
Take Ickly with you
Get school and neighborhood health alerts on your phone. Scan the QR code with your camera to download the Ickly app.
Scan to downloadWhy Ickly exists
Pediatric health is shaped by communities, not institutions.
The gap
Hospitals see kids after they're already sick. Schools email after the outbreak is over. CDC dashboards lag by weeks. None of it helps the parent making a Tuesday-night decision.
The signal
Parents already know what's going around, they tell each other in group chats, at pickup, in WhatsApp threads. That informal network is the real early warning system. It's just never been wired together.
The category
Ickly is the early warning layer for pediatric illness: community-powered pediatric health intelligence that turns thousands of anonymous parent signals into a live picture of what's actually circulating near you.
How Ickly works
A neighborhood collaborative map, but for the ick.
See what's going around
Real-time symptoms in your zip code, neighborhood, and at the schools and daycares you care about, reported by parents like you.
Follow neighborhoods & schools
Follow your zip code, your child's school, or anywhere you go. We'll ping you when symptoms spike.
Report in 20 seconds
Log a cough, fever, or stomach bug. Your check-in helps every parent in your community stay ahead.
Built on trust
Your family's data, protected by design.
Ickly was built by parents and reviewed by pediatricians. We collect only what's needed to help your community, and never what could identify your child.
- Fully anonymous reportsNo names, no exact addresses. Just zipcode and optional school.
- Encrypted and HIPAA-awareReports are encrypted in transit and at rest, with strict access controls.
- Reviewed by cliniciansSymptom categories and outbreak thresholds vetted by pediatric advisors.
Right now
Latest confirmed reports
Real logs from Ickly parents, showing the illness, the place, and how often it's come up in the last two weeks.
From parents
"It became part of our routine."
"I knew strep was at our daycare three days before the email went out. That alone made Ickly part of our routine."
"Finally, a way to see what's actually going around without doomscrolling Facebook groups at midnight."
"The privacy model sold me. I'd never share my kid's data, but a zipcode and a symptom? Happy to help."
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For organizations
Built with the people who care for kids.
Schools, clinicians, and researchers partner with Ickly to surface what families are seeing first.
Free school share kit
Ickly works better when your whole school is on it.
The share kit is a free, ready-to-send bundle for PTO leaders, room parents, and school staff: a newsletter blurb, a printable poster with your school's QR code, and a group-chat message. Copy, paste, send. Every family that joins makes the illness signal at your school sharper and earlier.
Newsletter blurb
Pre-written copy you can drop straight into your next school email.
Printable poster
A QR-code flyer for the pickup door, hallway, or classroom board.
Group-chat message
One tap to share with class parents in your group thread.
"A space where parents can finally see what's spreading at their kid's school before it walks in the door. I'm convinced this will help prevent the next pandemic."
"Ickly is a welcome sign that local health intelligence is finally catching up with how families actually live. It's a game changer for the industry."
"Think of it like Waze, but for childhood illnesses. Ickly helps parents navigate what's going around before they hit the traffic jam of sick kids."
Questions
What parents ask us
Browse schools, illnesses, and parent guides
Real-time health signal from the schools and daycares parents are watching most.
Know what's going around,
before your kid brings it home.
Free, anonymous, and built by parents. Takes 20 seconds to set up. We'll do the watching.
"Saw three HFMD reports at our daycare, kept her home Friday. Felt like a cheat code."
No credit card. No email spam. Just signal.