AppClose 4+

Fantastic App for parents sharing time with kids

This app is amazing and it’s free without being bombarded with cruddy advertising ! I would happily have paid a nominal one of fee many apps try and charge an extortionate monthly or yearly fee and let’s be honest when splitting with your partner money can be really tight and that money for many years ahead is a difficult pill to swallow - So my heart goes out to the creator of this app I just hope they don’t change this or allow users to donate.. I know I would as a kind gesture..

I see people saying it doesn’t share but as far as I can tell it seems to be working fine although it did take some working out, I thought as soon as one partner added a cohabiting schedule it would automatically appear on the other but from what I can tell both need to add the chosen schedule and it automatically connects and aligns the dates between you both.. ( but don’t quote me on that !)

Only thing I would like to see is maybe if you pick a daily schedule that it gives
An option to show all events you have listed for that day..

Anyhow brilliant app and thank you

Developer Response ,

Dear Ap­p­Close User, over the past 4 years, we’ve be­come the #1 Co-Par­ent­ing App be­cause of peo­ple like you! Feed­back from our users has al­lowed us to build the best app for co-parents. The new update which is coming later this spring will in­clude, among many oth­ers, the fea­ture you men­tioned in your re­view. Thank you

Not great for non-Americans

I had high hopes for this app and initial it looks very good.

At first this seems pretty simple to set up but after a while you realise it’s far from that.
There isn’t even a tutorial and the holiday options are only set up for Americans.
For example there is no bonfire night for UK residence for example, mothers/fathers days are the American dates these are just a few and there isn’t even birthday option! Now although you can create “custom” ones you cannot even rename these so it just shows as a normal contact.

All I want is a calendar I can put the contact schedule in (alternating weeks) for both parents and then be able to set overriding dates which can be set to the relevant parent and this be displayed on the main calendar.
I.e normal contact shows normally but if a special event occurred that would override certain dates on a repeating basis it should shows this and which parent the child will be with.

More annoyingly I deleted schedules I created to “move” them to a new calendar hoping this would resolve the issue and instead the calendars wouldn’t even display the scheduled contact.

Overall summary -

Negatives
- buggy as hell,
- difficult to set up the very basics
- not accommodating to non- Americans

Positives
- some amazing features
- for Americans this is perfect

gave up after sitting with coparent to get it to work

Tried the iPhone version in August 2023. My ex put in a calendar entry suggestion for me to have the kids, it came to me, the button to accept it was disabled. Absolutely nothing we both tried would accept it. Anything I did do rejected it. I stood on her doorstep and she tried three times using bother her phone and my phone. It simply didn't work. We deleted the app and will try another.

I guess this is just a bug combined with a user-unfriendly problem. The big is that it should be easy for me to accept her suggestion. The user-unfriendly matter was that if I tired to close to reopen to accept it silently sent a rejection of her proposal to her. It should have asked me to confirm that I wanted to reject.

My current partner was also added to the app but wasn't able to see the kids schedule entered by my ex. That seemed like a serious defect or bug.

Given that automatically rejecting suggestions would be inflammatory to co-parenting I see these bugs/issues as being shockingly low quality. A company that ships iPhone software with effectively such “show-stopper” bugs is in serious trouble.

It is perfectly possible that they have fixed the shocking bugs by the time you read this. Yet they really don't deserve to be the #1 App on Apple app store. So much so it seems a serious problem for everyone involved.