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Parents who are divorced, separated, or were never legally married use TalkingParents to manage all communication regarding their children. Whether your co-parenting situation is amicable or high conflict, our cutting-edge tools make joint custody easier to navigate, while keeping interactions saved to a court-admissible Record. TalkingParents is here to help you coordinate more seamlessly, set boundaries, and focus on what matters most: your children.
Secure Messaging: Send messages that can’t be edited or deleted and easily organize them by topic. All messages and read receipts are timestamped, allowing you to see when your co-parent sent or viewed a message.
Sentiment Scanner + Writing Assist: Scan messages for sentiment before you send them to understand how your words may come across. Rewrite messages using professionally developed communication methods designed to reduce tension and minimize conflict.
Accountable Calling: Make phone and video calls, complete with recordings and transcripts, without ever having to share your phone number.
Shared Calendar: Manage custody schedules and your child’s appointments and activities all on a Shared Calendar that both parents can access. Create single events for things like doctor’s appointments and repeating events for your child’s extracurriculars and custody transition days.
Accountable Payments: Make payment requests and securely send or receive money, allowing you to keep track of all shared parenting expenses. Requests and payments are timestamped, and you can also schedule monthly recurring payments.
Info Library: Share important details about the kids with customizable cards that both parents can access without having to contact each other. This feature is a great place to store frequently used information like clothing sizes, medical information, and more.
Personal Journal: Keep private notes about thoughts and interactions you want recorded for later. Whether it’s in-person discussions with your co-parent or child behavior observances, journal entries are just for you and can include up to five attachments.
Vault File Storage: Store photos, videos, and important documents. Your Vault cannot be accessed by your co-parent, but you may choose to share files with any third party by copying or emailing a link, which can be set to expire. You can also download files to your device.
Unalterable Records: All interactions within TalkingParents are stored to Unalterable Records that are trusted by legal professionals and accepted in courtrooms nationwide. Each Record includes a Digital Signature and unique 16-digit Authentication Code that verifies the Record is genuine and has not been modified in any way. PDF and Printed Records are available for Secure Messaging, Accountable Calling, Shared Calendar, Accountable Payments, Info Library, and Personal Journal.
FAQs:
Do I have to be on the same plan as my co-parent?
No, you can communicate through TalkingParents no matter what plan your co-parent is on. We offer three different plans—Essentials, Enhanced, or Ultimate.
Is TalkingParents court-monitored?
No, though Unalterable Records are court-admissible and can be used as evidence in family law cases, no one monitors interactions between you and your co-parent. This is for the privacy of our users.
Can I change plans?
Yes, TalkingParents offers monthly subscriptions that make it easy to modify your plan at any time. If you don’t think your needs will change throughout the year, we also offer annual plans that include an 8% discount.
Can my account be deleted?
No, TalkingParents does not allow the deletion of accounts once created and matched. This ensures that neither co-parent can remove an account and clear messages, call records, or other details within the service.
I wish there was a way to limit the use of the person by telephone number instead of email. My sons father let his girlfriend download the app on her cellphone and now they both harass me. I never know who I’m talking to. Some days it’s her and some days it’s him. But they are both always attacking me. It’s mentally exhausting. I’ve stopped checking my messages, and he’s accused me with the court of ignoring him. So now that I have proof that the girlfriend has the app on her phone, I’ve notified the court so they know why I’ve chosen to ignore their constant harassment and why I’ve chosen my mental health over their constant arguments and fights with me. I don’t know what to do now as far as communication goes since I cannot tell who is reaching out to me. I get anxiety attacks just seeing the notifications. Amazing that people can find anything to use as a weapon to harass and disturb your mental health. Until there’s a way for the girlfriend to be blocked, I will not be using any of these apps but this app was great and I have nothing but great things to say about it. So thank you to the developers. Hope you can fix it to make it be allowed one phone number downloadable rather than email. Thank you
Fraud
App Store is hacked
I can prove that the responder is lying and have proof and have shown proof. As we speak, I’ve been having a 10-week long battle with a gentleman named Paul, Carlos now on with Ava, who said that they finally escalated it to their development team. That was over 4 weeks ago.Correspondence between coparent have without a doubt been deleted from December 17, 2021 to January 22, 2022. Christmas and new year of 2021 and 2023video attachment of a drunk man admitting to crimes, and TalkingParents is gaslighting and covering it up, or they are simply too incompetent to run such organization with integrity.I’ve been a paid member since day one and I want those attachments. It is obvious when you get on the website that the transcripts are there and I’ve downloaded the PDFs but I now need the attachments.. high level social engineering coming from china and most likely involved in human trafficking. Talking parents are complacent in this.All of the proof is in the video that has been removed on the bugged app.I want the video and I will not stop until all of the data regained from this account is recovered.It also does not send videos, photos or messages.If TalkingParents is not involved directly in this crime, then they are complacent in allowing their app to be bugged and not accounting for the evidence shown in countless emails.When you show them evidence, they disappear. Just like any guilty party.
Developer Response
Once again, we want to be very clear that TalkingParents is not covering up or deleting any of your shared communications, and we take such claims seriously. Our service is designed to preserve records exactly as they are submitted and maintain their accessibility. Additionally, our support team members are verified representatives of TalkingParents and work within defined processes. Claims that our staff are misrepresenting themselves or participating in wrongdoing are incorrect. Our team has already escalated your inquiry internally, and we encourage you to continue working with support so the appropriate teams can address what is technically available and what next steps may apply.
DON’T USE TALKING PARENT-NO CUSTOMER SUPPORT-WORST CO-PARENTING APP TODAY
Terrie a s
This was a great app until it wasn’t. They have had significant upgrades that have made the app horrible, inoperable, and glitchy. Even worst is when you lose all your data and there is no phone number to call and they do not respond to the in app help. If you love your kid/s and depend on this data, DO NOT USE TALKING PARENT. Your entire case will evaporate and there is no one to help or that responds to in app request for help. It’s obvious their priority is their on-line reputation responding to every review quickly (look for yourself). WORST CO-PARENTING APP EVER. The Accountable Calling works when it wants and you my find all your calls gone and no one to help you. The picture function is now also broke where you once could attach photos very easily. Now if sends the same picture over and over even when you know you choose the right picture. The Calendar is useless. Our Family Wizard is much better and you can get customer support. It is very hard to change once you start. Make the right choice the first time with an ESTABLISHED business like Our Family Wizard. To add they also MAKE you sign new policies/rules under duress since you HAVE to sign it to stay in compliance with the court orders to get back into your account. Read them carefully because I would never sign or agree to any of those terms if I didn’t need back into my account to only find all my calls are gone and the new calls not captured. DO NOT USE TALKING PARENT IT IS THE WORST
Developer Response
Hi Terrie, we’re sorry to hear you’ve had a frustrating experience, and we appreciate you taking the time to share this feedback. A few important clarifications may help.Your data is not deleted or lost: Any interactions, documentation, and files uploaded to TalkingParents are retained in perpetuity. They cannot be edited, deleted, or removed from your records.Some of the behavior you described is not expected: Issues like call logs not appearing correctly or photo uploads repeating should not be happening. If you’re still experiencing this, our team can help troubleshoot and get you access to what you need.Terms of Service updates: TalkingParents only prompts users to review and accept updated terms when our Terms of Service are changed. This is standard practice and ensures parents are notified of updates before continuing to use the account.Regarding support response times: We do respond to in-app support requests, but replies can occasionally be filtered by email providers. Please check your spam/junk folder for prior responses. If you still don’t see anything, please go ahead and submit an email ticket to support@talkingparents.com or open a live chat on our website, and we’ll be glad to assist.
too many glitches
Nandez312
ever since I downloaded the newest update, my app has been glitching like crazy. It continuously logged me out every time I open the app and at times I can’t even get notified since I’m logged out without even knowing. The app is consistently freezing or glitching to wear whenever I try to open the new message it lags and freezes for about a good two minutes before I can finally open up and see what the message was about. when I do finally get the chance to respond, the keyboard is so delayed that I have to finish writing my message and it takes about another minute for the message to still type through the app. Once the message is ready, then I can continue writing, but have to still wait again for the message to finish getting written. and randomly it will scroll up through the messages without being able to stop it or even close out back to the home page. and when i close out the app and try to reopen, it stays frozen to the messages page.
Developer Response
We're very sorry to hear about your recent experience with the app. We understand how frustrating these issues must be, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. Please know that our team is working to address these glitches and improve the app's performance as quickly as possible. We would also love the opportunity to work with you directly to resolve any problems, so please reach out to our support team at your earliest convenience.
General performance and maintenance improvements.
Version 8.6.1
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