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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 have used the journal, calendar and conversation space in the Talking Parents App for around 6 months now. It has made it safe for me to communicate with my sons father taking away the anxiety which was associate with opening an email which might be passive aggressive or manipulative. It is in a neat organised structure making it much easier to follow than email trails. It has made a real difference for myself although I still don’t feel our communication is strong enough to improve outcomes as much as I had hoped for our son the improvement will be seen in the bigger picture by this app. I dislike that I have to type every changeover in week by week due to their been no option to repeat and there is occasional glitch.
App does not work outside US
MFG R
App features are good except for the fact if you are outside the US you cannot make phone calls. Still charged full amount no discount offered. No information of this issue listed by app
Developer Response
We appreciate your feedback! Phone calls through our service are only supported using a US or Canadian mobile phone number beginning with +1. Phone calls are connected using a third-party toll-free phone number that currently only supports locations with the +1 country code. However, Video Calls are connected app to app; therefore, parents can use video calling anywhere the TalkingParents Android and iPhone mobile app is available. For more information about our Accountable Calling feature, please visit our Help Center or reach out to our support team directly at support@talkingparents.com.
Glitchy
Bobby Jim Progeny
The app glitches in regards to notifications and calendars and has to be restarted. It also sometimes shows the message coming from the other person when it came from you. Very expensive for a messaging platform that has loads of bugs.
Developer Response
Hi Bobby, we sincerely appreciate your feedback and are sorry to hear about the issues you're facing. We're always working on improving our service's stability, which includes investigating any problems our users may be experiencing. Please get in touch with our team at support@talkingparents.com so we can look into this issue further and assist you directly.
Full membership and unable to download audio for court
Y'Castro
I have paid $40 a month and contacted customer service 3 times in the last 72 hours to look into why I am unable to play audio from a recorded call. I need this to prove DV and this apps entire existence is flawed if the user is unable to download evidence.
Updates that help keep the app running smoothly and reliably on supported iOS versions.
Version 8.8.2
The developer, Monitored Communications LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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