What two parents actually pay

Most co-parenting apps in this category bill per parent, and where that is not true we say so: 2houses bills per family the way we do, at $14.17 a month, and Custody X Change bundles both parents into its top plan. So the honest question is never the sticker price, it is what the two of you pay together in a year. Here is that number for each of us, with a link to every source and the date we read it.

⚠ First, what we do not have. FamCheck has no parent-to-parent messaging, no call recording and no tone-monitoring. If a court has ordered you to communicate through a specific platform, that order almost certainly means one of the others, and you should use the one your order names. We are a shared calendar and a record of the schedule, that is the whole product, on purpose. Everything below is only worth reading if that is what you need.

The yearly cost for a two-parent household

Service	How it bills	Two parents, one year	Free tier
FamCheck	Per household	$119.88	Yes, the calendar, custody days, care notes, printing and deleting everything are free forever
2houses	Per family	$169.99	No, a 14-day trial and they ask for a card
OurFamilyWizard	Per parent	from $220.00	None for co-parents
AppClose	Per user, unconfirmed^†	$83.88 to ~$167.76	Ended January 2026
TalkingParents	Per parent	from $168.00	Ended March 2026

Cheapest published plan for each, annualised, doubled for two parents, as published on 14 September 2026: OurFamilyWizard Basic $110/yr per parent (their pricing page); TalkingParents Essentials $7/mo per parent (their pricing page); AppClose $83.88 per user on a one-year prepay (their pricing page); 2houses $169.99 a year for the whole family, read 16 September 2026 (their pricing page). Higher tiers cost considerably more, OurFamilyWizard's own "most popular" plan works out near $300 a year for two parents. Prices change and ours is the only one we control, so check theirs yourself before you decide anything.

† The one we could not settle. AppClose publishes $83.88 a user on a one-year prepay and never says on that page whether a second parent needs their own. We went looking twice and found no sentence either way, so that column shows the range from one subscription to two rather than the single number that would flatter us. Custody X Change is mixed in the same way: its lower tiers are per parent, its top "Family" plan bundles both, and it keeps a free guest mode that will not let you save, print or export. Both re-read on 16 September 2026.

Who else has to pay

This is where per-household stops being a pricing detail and starts being the point. A real week involves more than two adults.

Here, nobody else pays, ever. The sitter. Both sets of grandparents. The aunt who does Thursday pickup. The neighbour who has your spare key. They get a link, they see only the day they need, and there is no account to make and nothing to buy. If you have four sitters on a rotation, that is still $9.99 for the month.

On a per-parent or per-user plan, every additional adult is either another paying seat or simply not invited. 2houses is the fair comparison here: their one subscription also lets in children, third parties and mediators. It costs $169.99 a year against our $119.88.

What is free here that is usually not

The second parent. One household, one price.
Read-only access for a guardian ad litem, mediator, parenting coordinator or custody evaluator, with the case number on it, and an audit log of every view that both parents can read. No charge to them or to you. What a professional sees.
A certified copy of the schedule, which anyone can check at famcheck.co/verify with no account, including the other side's attorney.
Taking your data out, and deleting it. Export is offered before deletion, not hidden behind it, and neither costs anything.
Printing a clean record for a hearing bundle.

What the $9.99 actually buys: several share links at once, push notifications, your own private tab, and saved regular caregivers. Convenience, never the calendar, never a safety feature, and never the way out.

What their own reviewers keep saying

We are not going to characterise anyone's product. But the complaint patterns on these companies' own public review pages are consistent enough to be worth naming, and you can read them yourself:

Being made to pay for something you did not choose. The most repeated theme across all three, resentment at a court-ordered expense, distinct from the amount.
Per-parent billing, described as paying twice for one family.
Billing and cancellation friction, unwanted charges, autopay, refunds.
Slow or unreachable support.

Aggregates read on 14 September 2026: OurFamilyWizard on Trustpilot. These are their customers' words, not ours, and a review page is a self-selecting sample, go and form your own view.

The only honest answer we have to the first of those is the one thing we can control: the price covers the household, the core is free forever, you can leave with your data in one tap, and a person answers the email.

Try it yourself, right now. One click opens a real demo family, two parents, two children, a month laid down, a sitter link and a guardian-ad-litem view already made. No account, no card, nothing to fill in. It deletes itself after 24 hours.

When you should not choose us

Your order names a different platform. Use the one in the order.
You need messaging of record between the two parents. We do not have it and are not pretending to.
You need call recording or tone analysis. Same answer.

We would rather you read that here than find it out after paying us.

Open the calendar

Your first week is free. After that it is $9.99 a month for the whole household, and you can cancel in one tap from the same screen.