AppClose 4+

Great parenting app!

I love this app and all the details it holds. The calendar is awesome and I like that it has the expenses on it too. I would like for the calendar to have different colors for categories so when you see the month you can tell which days have events and which days have expenses (and other colors coded to other categories like school calendar days). Even without the other parent being involved with the app it’s still very handy to have everything kept in one place. Tracking expenses helps with budgeting as well as showing where money is being spent on your child(ren). I have a separate budgeting app for my everyday bills and spending but it would be nice to have some of the features this app has for expenses (pie charts, expenses broken down by type, etc). If this maker doesn’t already have a budgeting app they should make one. I definitely recommend this app to any parent whether single parent doing it on their own, parents still together, or separate parents who are coparenting. This app is remarkable. I am using it for both of my boys and their fathers a I love that more than one “circle” can be formed in the app. My request to the developer is to find a way for the view for both parents to be similar. My coparent does not see anything the way I do.

Developer Response ,

Dear Ap­p­Close User, over the past 6 years, we’ve be­come the #1 Co-Par­ent­ing App be­cause of peo­ple like you! Feed­back from our users has al­lowed us to build the best app for co-parents. The new update which is coming later this year will in­clude, among many oth­ers, the fea­ture you men­tioned in your re­view. Thank you!

Would recommend

We recently started using this app and have had a good experience thus far. I really appreciate that it is a free app and has the ability to add the parenting schedule, kids activities, medical info, payment tracking, messaging, memos, etc. It really does a good job of covering all the bases. And you can export all the info for court uses if that's something you need. I really only have one thing I'd like to change; I wish the calendar monthly view showed the event name instead of just color coded dots. I really like to look at a month view and see the event name from that view.

Great app, 10/10 would recommend. Also worth noting, if you have multiple children this allows you to choose that child for that event/parenting time. This could be a very resourceful app for parents with multiple children with different dads/moms as you could have all parents connected through this app and separate the schedules per child & their other parent.

Developer Response ,

Dear Ap­p­Close User, over the past 6 years, we’ve be­come the #1 Co-Par­ent­ing App be­cause of peo­ple like you! Thank you very much!

Poorly designed and ill-thought out feature set

The calendaring support on this app, one of its primary draws, is absolutely horrendous. I don’t think the app designers/developers have ever actually used a modern calendar system. They require that you view all of your apps in their app, if you want to have a combined view of all of your calendars. They don’t publish their calendars outside of the app. That’s already annoying but if you actually use calendars for work and life and try to view all of them in the app alongside your parenting calendar the whole app bogs down and can’t handle the strain.

Then turn to messaging. Thread with your coparent aren’t searchable.. So if you do need to go back and find something, your options are screw up till you find it, export the thread to PDF or text and search it there. The apps solution, allowing you to bookmark individual messages is a largely useless feature, as you will not remember what you need to look for until after you’ve scrolled away from it.

If I didn’t have to use this app, I wouldn’t. I wish the company would invest as much in making the app useful as they clearly have in lobbying jurisdictions to mandate its use. Now, rest assured they respond with their boilerplate response indicating that they don’t actually care.