Co-parenting app

A co-parenting app for the routine of two homes.

Co-parenting doesn't fall on one big thing. It wears thin across dozens of small ones: who's picking up, who paid for what, what to remember, what travels with the child from house to house. Parli puts those details in one calm, private place — with the kids in the middle.

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In early access. Built with two-home families.

Why general tools fall short

Why WhatsApp and a regular calendar aren't enough for two homes.

Not because they're bad. Because they weren't built for it.

WhatsApp is great for conversation. A regular calendar is great for events. But co-parenting isn't only conversation, and it isn't only events — it's context. Who paid? Which custody week is this? What changed since last time? What does the kid need this week? What was already agreed, without revisiting it again?

When every detail lives somewhere else — half in one chat, half in another, the rest in a screenshot someone took — the next parent has to search instead of continue. And searching at 11pm after a long day means the rhythm breaks. When the rhythm breaks, the kids are the ones who feel it.

A co-parenting app isn't here to replace the chat or the calendar. It's here to give context a place of its own — so a calendar event, an expense, a note, and a conversation can live next to each other and pass the full picture forward.

Where the friction actually lives

What a co-parenting app should actually do.

Before comparing tools — worth knowing the baseline.

A schedule that does not scatter across messages.

Custody weeks shift, school adds a half-day, an activity moves. If the plan lives in three threads and a screenshot, it disappears one Tuesday — and the kid ends up at the wrong house.

Expenses that do not need a forensic search.

Receipts, splits, agreements that already happened. A running balance, not a debt clock. Settle on a cadence that works for both homes — without spreadsheets and awkward reminders.

A routine that travels without a conversation.

What was eaten, what got finished, what mood. A factual handoff briefing instead of a tense 7:30pm phone call.

Communication that stays on the topic.

Threads scoped to an event, an expense, or a child — not an open chat where every line risks reopening an old argument.

What's inside Parli

Six tools, one clear job each.

Each feature in Parli answers one action that recurs every week.

Shared calendar

Custody weeks, school events, one-off swaps. Visual separation of the two homes — no more reading every event to find the kid.

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Co-parenting expenses

One receipt, one split, a running balance. 50/50, agreed exceptions, or category-based splits.

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Care notes

Allergies, sleep routines, doctors, teachers. The family handbook both parents can open.

Handoff briefings

Five lines at every transition. What was eaten, what got finished, mood, what needs to come back.

Quiet messaging

Every thread scoped to an event, a child, or an expense. No infinite group chat.

Documents

Insurance cards, school forms, waivers. Tagged by child and category, accessible from either home.

Transparency

What Parli is not

So you know what you're getting — and what you aren't — before you decide.

Parli is not a legal tool.

We don't produce court filings, custody orders, or legally admissible records. If you're in active litigation and need formal documentation, talk to a family lawyer. Parli helps with the day-to-day, not the docket.

Parli is not another place that makes noise.

No likes, no feed, no notifications designed to pull you back in. The point is to finish the coordinating faster — not to keep you inside another system. Parli has succeeded when you opened it for a minute and got back to your life.

Parli is not a social network.

No statuses, no friends-of-friends, no mutual invitations. The family space holds the family members you add — and no more.

Parli is not a substitute for therapy or mediation.

Parli helps coordinate logistics. It doesn't replace parenting counseling, family mediation, or therapy. If the conflict is deep, a coordination tool is a small piece of the solution — not the solution itself.

If this sounds like what you're looking for

Parli is in early access. We onboard a small number of families each week.

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Questions

Frequently asked

How is Parli different from WhatsApp or Google Calendar?

WhatsApp and Google Calendar are excellent — for the jobs they were built for. They don't know about the rhythm of two homes. In Parli, every feature is scoped to one task: the calendar understands custody weeks, expenses show a balance, threads stay on a topic instead of the relationship. General-purpose tools work up to a point — past that, you're left with four chats and a mental ledger.

What if only one parent wants to start?

Start solo. Build your half of the picture — calendar, receipts, care notes. When the other parent is ready, invite them and they'll see the same page, not a re-explanation. In the meantime, your side is already organized.

Does this work for parents who were never married?

Yes. Parli is built for any family living across two homes — formerly married, separated, divorced, or families who never signed paperwork. The daily rhythm of coordinating between two homes is the same.

When will it be available?

We're in early access and onboarding a small number of families per week. Sign up via hello@parli.family and you'll get a personal reply, with onboarding when the system is ready for your specific situation.

What information do you store, and who sees it?

The goal of Parli is for family information to stay inside the family space it was meant for. We don't sell family data, don't build an ad model around it, and don't add advertising to the coordination experience. More in our privacy notice.

Early access

Tell us a little about your co-parenting setup.

Parli is in early access. If it sounds like the kind of tool your family would actually use, send us a short note and we'll write back personally.