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.
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 four different plans—Free, Essentials, Enhanced, or Ultimate. (Free users do not have access to the mobile app.)
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 a 16% 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.
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Reviews TalkingParents: Co-Parent App for iphone
Don’t use!
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By rubicon322
Product is designed to make lawyers rich at loving parent’s expense. It’s a NO GO for parents that love their kids. Designed for scum bag lawyers to get rich. If the developer of this app wants to help children… scuttle your app. I know this app was created by a family law attorney who is part of the divorce industrial complex and is profiting off of destroying children’s lives. This app is the garbage all the tin foil hat folks warned us about.
Glitch/error message
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By Zlatansb7
What’s going on with the app? Take a few seconds to open up. When you receive a new message notification and try to open it, the app takes forever to load. And it does not work, it takes to login in again.
It got better
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By jayyyy geee
I pay for the standard plan. It’s not a perfect app. It logs me out once in a while or forces me to go back to the message list and then click again the thread that I was JUST on just to get a new message in that same thread (if that makes sense, essentially a big loop).
I just noticed today (09/02/25) I had an hour of call time on here that I DID NOT PAY FOR! Which is a big deal! That means they quietly rolled out free call time with the standard plan which was not possible before! My co-parent noticed he had one too! Yay! Hopefully this is a monthly deal? How did I not know about this? Because I cannot afford almost $30 for just 30minutes. Woo-hoo, thanks for finally adding that, developers!
Clunky
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By Matthew Gordon 1988
One of the worst apps I’ve personally used. Has caused me to miss out on scheduled video calls multiple times because it times out or drops constantly. Messaging is bad as well. Sometimes I open the app and just get the spinning wheel for 30 minutes. I pay for premium too. Really poorly operating app for such an important need. Disappointed
Worst User experience and zero accountability
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By smschoen23
Our Family Wizard is light years ahead of Talking Parents. They feature all are archaic and hardly perform as expected. It’s like they want to make coparenting more difficult. Updates seem to make the app worse not better. Filing a petition to request we switch to Our Family Wizard to best protect me and my family from a dangerous person. Talking Parents cannot provide the peace of mind or protection.
Slowest app/tech ever
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By TJW5
It’s a joke how slow this app is…I have complained and reached out to their support and all I get is “do you have the latest version?” Give me a break. Yes, of course that is the first step anyone takes in troubleshooting. If you like waiting for a looooong time to see your messages, this service is for you!
Overpriced
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By Why_ do_ I_ need_ a_ nickname
Can’t believe I had to pay for this garbage. Sometimes the app takes five minutes to load. And if you’re “coparent” doesn’t use a paid version, they won’t even know you’re sending them a message unless they check their emails.
Unequal treatment
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By JSon1964
My ex uses the premium version and some how she was able to read the messages without it showing me her read receipts making her able to use this to her advantage.
Rigid Video format
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By Un _Bias
Video chat feature is useless. My side of video is Smacked right in the middle of chat & I can’t even see my child’s face. !!!
Mid-level app got worse with new rollout
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By Lakirsten
I’ve been subscribed to this app for four years. It was basic, but functional.
However, about a month ago, they rolled out a very big updated version. It has a slightly better look and feel - but at the cost of not working. Basic functionality has been lost - THE ONLY REASON I PAY TO USE THIS APP HAS BEEN BROKEN!!
Now:
*I don’t always get notified when I get new messages
*It often takes up to three minutes for the app to load
*Sometimes the app refuses to load at all
*New messages don’t show up and I only find them after I coincidentally reopen the app for another reason
FOCUS ON BASIC FUNCTIONALITY AND QA - FIX YOUR APP!!!
