TalkingParents: Co-Parent App

Monitored Communications, LLC

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About this app

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.

Ratings and reviews

The app works well for messaging, phone quality has even gotten better. I updated to 1 star, because of how many times the app crashed when I was trying to reply to one message, and the fact that the phone call membership price is now $25 when I thought it was $15 before? Maybe I'm wrong, either way, this app sucks, don't use it if you can avoid it. You'd be paying $25 for a Gen 2 iPhone simulator, except this one you have to login into everytime you want to use it, and it crashes even more.

The latest update occurred and now my app is no longer working. I have uninstalled it and reinstalled from app store multiple times with no success. I keep going to log into the app and get "version no longer supported". I can access my account through website but unfortunately I need to be able to use it for phone calls for my daughter to her dad. I'm disappointed that there is no customer service number so immediate assistance. Update: the app update issue was fixed within about 36 hours.

Wow, way to paywall people! I thought this would help my ex and I with the kids schedules. I was wrong! This is a poorly designed web app with an app you can only use if you pay and you have to pay to get your records out of it. Complete BS! I switched to a shared Google Calendar, free, easier to use and it does way more! Plus I don't have to pay to print records and everything has an audit trail of who changed what and when. People are in enough stress with co-parenting without having to pay for records out of an app that has ads everywhere. Make up your mind, either charge people for the whole thing or use ad revenue, not both. Don't let this company sucker you in and then charge you through the nose to get YOUR RECORDS. There are less expensive, much better solutions out there.

What’s new

Behind-the-scenes improvements to enhance app performance and stability, including Video Calling bugfixes.