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Coparity vs AppClose: which co-parenting app fits your family
If you're choosing between Coparity and AppClose, you're probably doing it in the middle of a hard few months, and you'd rather get it right once. Both apps work, and both will give you a shared calendar, a messaging thread you can't edit later and a place to split costs. The real question is what each one was built to do with all of that.
Coparity is built for
Coparity is built around a child's everyday life in two homes: a 12-section parenting plan you agree provision by provision, which then runs the calendar, the expense split and the notice periods, so the arrangement and the record are the same thing. It's a UK product, billed per family space, with each parent's Journal, Evidence and legal notes private to them.
AppClose is built for
AppClose, made by AppClose, Inc. in the US since 2016, is built to be the complete, unalterable record of co-parenting, on one all-inclusive plan per parent with no tiers — calendar, messages, recorded calls, expenses, payments and certified records exports, across several countries and languages.
Side by side
| What you get | Coparity | AppClose |
|---|---|---|
| Custody calendar with schedule templates | ||
| Change requests with approve / declineCoparity: trips and time away are requested and agreed; care days are changed directly. | In part | |
| Documented messages that can't be edited | ||
| AI tone help before sending | ||
| In-app audio / video calls | ||
| Shared expenses with receipts | ||
| In-app payments between parentsAppClose's in-app payments are US-only. | ||
| Court-ready / certified records exportCoparity: Snapshot and a full data export; neither is certified. | In part | |
| Shared child info bank | ||
| Private journal / notes | ||
| Works without the co-parent joining | ||
| Family, child or third-party access | ||
| Lawyer / professional access | ||
| Private lawyer thread and case preparationAppClose Pro's AI summarises the records a client shares with a professional. | In part | |
| AI parenting planCoparity's plan is agreed provision by provision by both parents. | ||
| AI reads school letters into the calendar | ||
| Proactive, child-first early signals | ||
| One price covers both parents |
What two parents pay
- Coparity · One price per space; both parents included
- £12 a month
- Family £12/mo after a 14-day trial
- AppClose · Per parent, one all-inclusive plan; each parent pays
- $16–$18 a month
$7.99/mo on the web, $8.99/mo in-app, $98.99/yr
60-day free trial, no card
Read-only after lapse; fee waivers for hardship and DV survivors (26k+ in 2026)
Coparity is billed per space, so both parents are covered by one subscription: a 14-day free trial with no card, then Family at £12 a month. AppClose is billed per parent on one all-inclusive plan — $7.99 a month on the web, $8.99 a month in-app, or $98.99 a year, after a 60-day free trial with no card — so two subscribing parents are at about $16–$18 a month. Both go read-only if a subscription lapses, and AppClose waives fees for parents in hardship and for domestic abuse survivors. The two are priced in different currencies, so it's worth comparing them as they stand rather than converting.
AppClose may suit you better if…
- A court order, a solicitor or a mediator has asked for AppClose by name — if someone in your process has specified it, use it.
- You need calls between parents to happen inside the app and be recorded, or you want a certified records export rather than a plain download.
- Your family is in the US and you want to send money between parents in the app; AppClose's in-app payments are US-only.
- You want other people — a grandparent, a new partner, a child, a third party — to have their own access alongside the two parents.
Coparity may suit you better if…
- You want to settle the arrangement, not only record it: agreeing a provision writes the live setting, and a change made elsewhere shows as drift rather than passing quietly.
- You're in the UK and would rather pay one price for the family space than ask the other parent to buy their own subscription.
- You have a solicitor, or may do soon: Coparity gives you a private thread with your own representative, a prepared brief with ranked exhibits, and read-only access for them — none of it visible to your co-parent.
- You want the day-to-day to be calmer: where the children are now, the next handover with what's still to pack, child-first early signals from your own data, and a private Journal for moments and reflections.
Whichever you pick, the point isn't which app the adults prefer. It's that your child spends less of their week waiting for two grown-ups to work out what happens next.
Will a court accept records from either app?
AppClose offers certified electronic business records; Coparity offers a neutral Snapshot and a full data export, and neither of those is certified. If something is likely to be needed in proceedings in England and Wales, ask your family solicitor or mediator what form they want it in before you choose.
Can I use either app if my co-parent won't join?
Yes, both work for one parent. Coparity gives a single parent the complete product — plan, calendar, expenses, record and Journal — and everything waits for the other parent if they ever join.
Does Coparity have in-app calls or payments?
No. Coparity has a realtime chat thread with optional tone help before you send, and shared expenses with a required receipt and who-owes-whom status, but no calls and no money moving inside the app. If in-app calls or payments matter to you, AppClose has both.
Is AppClose available in the UK?
Yes — AppClose is a US company serving several markets including the UK and Ireland, in eight languages. Its in-app payments between parents are US-only, so UK parents would settle up outside the app.
What does Coparity do that AppClose doesn't?
An AI-guided parenting plan that both parents agree provision by provision and that then binds the live settings; a private lawyer thread with a prepared case brief rather than shared records alone; proactive child-first signals read from your own data; and one price that covers both parents.
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14 days free, no card. One price covers both parents, and it works fully even if your co-parent never joins.
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