Co-Parenting Access and Records Exchange
A record neither parent can rewrite.
Expenses, payments and messages, kept in a log that only ever grows. No edits. No deletions. Corrections sit beside the original.
Built in Canada · iOS in TestFlight · Android next
01 — The record
A correction sits beside the original. It never replaces it.
Every action becomes a numbered entry, sealed with a hash of the entry before it.
Only ever added to
Nothing is edited or removed — not by either parent, not by us.
Every entry sealed
Timestamped and hash-chained. Attachments are hashed at upload.
Belongs to the case
One parent closing their account never erases the shared history.
02 — Messaging
“I never saw it” stops being available.
- Read receipts cannot be switched offThe time a message was read enters the record.
- Undo before it sends, never afterAn optional five or ten second window. Then it stands.
- Attachments are sealedHashed at upload, so a file is provably the one sent.
- Pin privatelyMark what matters. The other parent never sees your pins.
03 — What’s inside
Live today, and what’s coming next.
Every item says plainly where it stands. Nothing is described as finished when it isn’t.
Expenses & ledger
Log it, split it, attach the receipt. Your own categories, several currencies, and a balance that counts confirmed payments only.
LiveMessages
Attachments, replies, search, pins, and receipts that can’t be turned off. Group threads with family or a professional when you need them.
LiveA moment before you send
A heated message gets one quiet nudge to reread it. Nothing is scored, nothing is stored, and it never rewrites your words.
LiveChild information
Allergies, medications, school, insurance — with documents and photos. Both parents see it; emergency contacts see only what’s critical.
LiveParenting schedule
Week on/off, alternating weekends, 2-2-3. Run a summer schedule over your regular one, repeating every year, and the calendar resolves which governs each day.
LiveThe notice chain
Every request to change a day, the deadline it carried, and the answer — or the silence — that followed. Silence is never recorded as agreement.
LiveExchange records
Late, missed and swapped handovers recorded as they happen, with the other parent’s response attached to each one.
LiveCourt packet
A dated, paginated export built for filing. Choose which sections to include — the packet then states, in its own voice, exactly what was left out and how much of it.
LivePrivate journal
Your own dated notes, sealed the moment you write them and visible to nobody. Enter one into the shared record when you choose — or export the lot, with its proof attached.
LiveCase documents
The court order, the custody agreement, the school registration. Each one fingerprinted, so the packet can prove the file it cites is the file you filed.
LiveRecord integrity
See the seal for yourself: how many entries, whether the chain verifies, and the fingerprint of the record as it stands today.
LiveCalendar export
Parenting time in your own calendar app, as a file you keep. Not a live link that hands anyone a standing view of where your children are.
LiveProfessional access
Scoped access for your lawyer or a mediator, granted section by section, instead of emailed screenshots. Free for the professional, always.
LiveStart on your own
You don’t need their permission to begin. Record from day one, name them, and everything folds together the day they join — with no deadlines waiting to ambush them.
LiveDocumented calls
Audio and video inside the app, so neither of you has the other’s number. Who called, when, and for how long goes on the record. What was said does not.
Coming04 — Where we differ
Against the apps courts already know.
| C.A.R.E. | Typical alternative | |
|---|---|---|
| Record integrity | Hash-chained, tamper-evident | Rests on the provider’s word |
| Editing & deleting | Never, for either parent | Varies by product |
| Read receipts | Always on, written into the record | Often optional |
| Attachments | Hash-sealed at upload | Stored and retrievable |
| Closing an account | Shared record stays with the case | Often unclear what survives |
| Who pays | One price for the case, whoever pays it | Each parent buys their own |
| Court familiarity | New. We have to earn it | Long established |
What a separated couple actually pays
Nearly every co-parenting app charges per parent, which means the parent who wants a record has to persuade the other one to pay to be recorded. That is the reason so many of these accounts sit half-empty. We charge for the case instead.
| Per household, per year | How it’s billed | |
|---|---|---|
| C.A.R.E. | $199 | One price for the case — covers both parents |
| Custody X Change | $144 – $288 | Per parent, or a family plan |
| TalkingParents | $154 – $707 | Per parent · free tier withdrawn March 2026 |
| AppClose | $192 | Per parent · free tier withdrawn January 2026 |
| CoParenter | $200 – $312 | Per parent, or a shared annual plan |
| OurFamilyWizard | $220 – $600 | Per parent — the second buys separately |
Published prices as at September 2026, converted to a full year for two parents where a product bills monthly or per person. Check each provider before relying on these figures.
05 — For lawyers & mediators
Evidence you can test, not a folder of screenshots.
When a client hands you exported messages, the first question is whether they are complete and unaltered. Usually nobody can tell.
C.A.R.E. answers that with sequence and hashing. It does not make anything automatically admissible — that is for the court — but the usual authenticity objections have a factual answer.
It is free for you, and it always will be. We don’t pay for recommendations and we don’t want a fee sitting between you and your client’s interests — a record is worth less the moment someone can ask what you were paid to suggest it.
- Representing a party LiveYour client grants access, section by section. You see their case without them emailing you anything.
- Acting as a neutral LiveMediators and parenting coordinators can be granted access by both parties, seeing what each has allowed.
- Notice & response history LiveEvery schedule request, the notice given, and the answer or silence that followed.
- One list, every client LiveAll your matters in one place, sorted by what moved most recently, each showing exactly which sections you were granted.
06 — Pricing
One price, for the case.
Not per parent. The one who wants a record shouldn’t have to talk the other into paying for it — and family members you invite are never charged at all. Nothing is charged today while the app is in testing.
On your own
Free
Until your co-parent joins. However long that takes.
- Your private journal
- Expenses and receipts
- Child information and documents
- A court packet, marked as one-sided
- No card, no time limit
Both parents
$19.99 /month
Three months free once they join. Then $19.99 a month for the case — about ten dollars each if you split it, or one of you covers it. $199 a year saves you two months.
- Everything, for both parents
- Messages, schedule and the notice chain
- Exchange records and appointments
- Court packet and calendar export
- Every professional you invite
Lawyers & mediators
Free
For family lawyers, mediators and parenting coordinators. Permanently.
- Every client who grants you access
- Neutral access where both consent
- One list across all your matters
- Court packets from any case you hold
- No fee, and no referral payment
Never hold a record hostage
Stop paying and the record freezes — it is never locked. You keep reading it, verifying it, and exporting a court packet, for as long as it exists.
Never charge the other parent
One subscription covers the case. If the parent paying it stops, the other can pick it up; neither is ever billed because of what the other did.
No advertising, ever
We won’t sell attention inside a product where people discuss their children.
07 — Roadmap
Published in full, including the parts we haven’t finished.
You’re being asked to trust us with a family record. That starts with being straight about where the product actually is.
ShippedWorking today
- Append-only record Numbered, timestamped, hash-chained entries you can verify yourself.
- Expenses & two-sided payments Splits, sealed receipts, your own categories, several currencies, confirmed-only balance.
- Messaging Read receipts, attachments, replies, pins, search, send delay, and a nudge before a heated message.
- Parenting schedule Repeating patterns, holidays, and a seasonal schedule that can run every year over the regular one.
- The notice chain Requests, notice periods, responses and silences, all as entries. Silence never counts as agreement.
- Actual vs scheduled time Late, missed and swapped exchanges recorded as they happen.
- Court packet Dated, paginated, with an integrity page — and a plain statement of anything the generator left out.
- Private journal Sealed as you write, shared only when you choose, exportable with its proof.
- Case documents Court orders and agreements, fingerprinted so the packet can prove the file it cites.
- Professional access Scoped access for a representing lawyer or a neutral, granted section by section.
- Starting on your own Begin before your co-parent joins; everything folds together when they do.
- Account lifecycle Verified email, closure, and reopening within six years.
NextIn build
- Android Built cross-platform from the start; in testing now, behind iPhone by a few weeks.
- Documented calls Audio and video in the app. Neither parent has the other’s number; the call goes on the record, the conversation does not.
- Paying for it The subscription above. Free while it doesn’t exist.
LaterIn queue
- Recorded calls Only where both parents switch it on, and only where the law where you live allows it.
- Daily external anchor The day’s record sealed somewhere we don’t control, so integrity is verifiable without trusting us at all.
08 — Deliberately absent
Three things we won’t build.
Child location tracking
Requested more than once. The answer is no. A record of what happened is not surveillance of a child.
Charging the other parent
C.A.R.E. records what is owed and what was paid. Money never moves without the payer initiating it.
Deleting a sent message
Not even if unread — the notification already reached their phone. That’s what the undo window is for.
09 — Get in touch
Tell us what we’ve got wrong.
C.A.R.E. is in testing on iOS. If you’re a parent who needs this, or a professional whose clients do, we’d like to hear from you — especially if something here wouldn’t survive contact with a real file.
If you are in immediate danger, do not use this app to raise it. Contact your local emergency number. C.A.R.E. is a record-keeping tool and is not monitored in real time.