eyLog is now eyworks. Here’s what actually changed.

eyLog Ltd began in 2012 with online learning journals for early-years settings. As the company added finance, enquiries, recruitment and community tools, its original name described one product rather than the growing suite. The company announced the eyworks rebrand on 5 October 2022.

The Companies House record is straightforward. Company number 07939645 was incorporated in February 2012 as EYLOG LTD, then changed its legal name to EYWORKS LIMITED on 21 September 2022. It remains active at the same Milton Keynes address. That points to a rename, not a merger or acquisition. You can check the company record yourself.

Why the old name never quite went away

1. eylog is still a product. It is the observations and daily-records module inside eyworks.
2. The apps retain the old family of names. Parents use eyparent; practitioners use eylog. Both listings name EYWORKS LIMITED as the developer.
3. The review footprint is split and thin. Current aggregator listings sit alongside older references to eyLog, while the current Capterra profile has only two reviews.

The old eylog.co.uk address now redirects permanently to eyworks.co.uk. It is one company and one product family, not two competing systems.

eyworks sells six products separately or in combination. A nursery can buy the finance software without the learning journal, or the journal without replacing its other management systems.

eyworks’ own company timeline shows how that suite accumulated: eymanage arrived in 2015, eyenquiries became standalone and eyrecruit launched in 2019, eyengage followed in 2020, and the company later added eypeople.

There is no single starting price for the whole suite. eymanage and eylog are priced by the number of children on roll. eyrecruit is priced by active vacancies. The other three modules have flat monthly prices.

Monthly equivalents when billed annually, per branch, excluding VAT. Annual billing is presented as one month free. Figures returned by the live eyworks pricing calculator, checked 11 August 2026.

For more than 200 children, the pricing FAQ lists top-ups for eymanage and eylog in 50-child increments at £12 per month or £132 per year, per product. The site also states there are no setup fees, onboarding and training are included, the initial licence is 12 months, cancellation after that requires three months’ notice, and a 30-day satisfaction guarantee applies at the start. The published terms confirm the 12-month minimum and three-month notice mechanics; ask for the exact order form before signing.

Bring real examples from your nursery. These questions are more useful than a standard feature tour:

1. 01

   Show one child moving from enquiry to enrolment, invoice, daily record and parent update. Where is data re-entered?

2. 02

   How many accounts, sign-ins and permission models do a manager and practitioner need across our chosen modules?

3. 03

   Reproduce our real funding pattern and one correction. What appears in the audit trail and reports?

4. 04

   Let us use the current practitioner and parent apps. Show notification controls and failed-notification handling.

5. 05

   Export our core child, parent, financial and journal data. Which formats are included and which require support?

6. 06

   Give us two references from settings with our child count, module mix and number of branches.

If someone recommended “eyLog”, they meant the learning-journal product now sold by eyworks. The legal company is the same and the apps still use the old names. You do not need to compare eyLog with eyworks. You need to decide whether the eyworks modules suit your nursery better than one all-in-one system.

Put Famly or Ovivio on the shortlist if a visibly unified all-in-one experience is the priority. Compare Tapestry if the learning journal is the centre of the decision. Consider Parenta Abacusor Cheqdin when price structure or a narrower operational brief matters more. Our nursery software comparison puts the main options side by side. Compare current quotes using the same child count, modules, support, migration and contract term. Headline starting prices rarely cover the same package.

eyworks is worth a demo if you want to choose modules separately or if the learning journal is the main reason you are buying. The prices are public, the company has operated since 2012, and the parent app has thousands of ratings.

What is missing is solid independent evidence about the staff software. A 4.5 score from two Capterra reviews is not enough. Before signing, ask eyworks to show how your chosen modules share data, how exports work, and how staff complete the jobs they do every day.