Daycare search, as easy as ABC.

Tell us your child's birthday (or due date), your postal code and start date once. Rank the daycares you love. When one opens a spot that fits, you hear right away, even months ahead — not family #214 on a waitlist.

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Durham families signed up
298
Daycares listed in Durham & nearby
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For families and daycares
How it works

Stop calling. Start getting called.

No more voicemail, deposit panic, or spreadsheets of nine different waitlists.

1

Tell us what you need

Your child's birthday or due date, your postal code, your start date and program — full day, part-time, before/after school or Montessori. Set it once.

2

Rank your favourites

Pick the centres you'd actually choose. Partner daycares post openings on TinyMatch, and we rank every family by fit.

3

Get there first

Each opening goes to the three families it fits best, not a blast list. When it's you, you get the alert with a match code. Call, tour, and claim it before it hits a 400-family list.

New · Parent rankings

See Durham's most-wanted daycares.

Every family ranks the centres they want most. We add it up, city by city, so you can see where demand is highest — and where you might have a better shot.

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Matt, founder of TinyMatch
Built by a Pickering dad
“My wife and I called it the Hunger Games. We put deposits on daycares we didn't even want.”

We moved to Durham from Toronto in 2023, expecting our first. Friends in medicine told me about Match Day — you rank hospitals, hospitals rank you, and an algorithm finds the best fit. Why doesn't childcare work like that? So I built it.

Now we have a toddler and a newborn, and TinyMatch is live across Durham Region — free for parents, free for daycares.

— Matt, Founder

For daycare directors

Keep your list. We tell you which families on it will actually say yes.

Your waitlist is a snapshot of the day each family signed up. It can't tell you who has since found care, who needs a spot this fall, or whether you're a family's first choice or their fourth. We add that one column and change nothing else.

  • Your list stays yours: your order, your spreadsheet, nothing sent to anyone unless you ask
  • Post an opening in 2 minutes; families who ranked you hear first, not a blast list
  • Free: no migration, no training, no contract
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