Co-parenting, made calm · built in the UK
ParentGlow is the warm, reliable home for your family's calendar, messages, expenses and child info — built for separated parents in the UK, and for the kids at the centre of it all.
Next handover · Mon 12 October
5:00pm · Rachel → Mark
Tone Guard ON
Flags wording that might read as heated
Settled this month
£38.25 agreed
Why ParentGlow exists
The tools most separated parents are handed make it harder. Group chats that escalate. Spreadsheets that scatter. Court-mandated portals that feel like punishment — built for a different era, priced per parent, charging you to download your own records.
ParentGlow starts from a different place. It assumes good intent. It keeps the child at the centre. And it quietly records what was agreed — so neither of you has to.
Designed to lower the temperature, not gather ammunition.
Every screen is about their week, their health, their world.
A permanent record of what was said and agreed — there if you need it.
Less friction.
Less conflict.
A clear record.
What we agreed
Pulled live from your schedule and expenses
Agreed between you
Inside the app
Four jobs every two-home family juggles — handled in one warm place.
The schedule
Alternating weeks, 2-2-3, every-other-weekend or your own pattern — projected a year ahead and colour-coded by parent. Handovers, school holidays and UK bank holidays are all in the same view.
Need to swap a weekend? Change requests carry a full audit trail — request, approve, counter-offer or trade days, without a single heated text.
The conversation
Every message is permanent. No edits, no deletions, read receipts on both sides — so the conversation stays honest, and so does the history.
And when a reply comes out sharper than you meant it, Tone Guard flags it as you type, and a calmer version is one tap away if you want it. You decide what sends.
The money
Log it, split it, agree it — in pounds, with the receipt photo attached. Recurring templates carry the karate club and the prescriptions; monthly statements keep both sides square.
And if you ever need it, every ledger exports to a court-ready PDF: complete, dated and in order. Hopefully you won't.
The details
Allergies with severity. Medications and vaccinations. GP, NHS numbers, school contacts, documents with expiry reminders. One shared record both parents can trust — no more “it's on my phone somewhere”.
Give the people who help a safe way in: a sitter link shares your child's essentials with a grandparent, sitter or childminder for a set time, read-only, with no account to create. Print an Emergency Card: one A4 page with allergies, medication and who to call, so the printed copy works even with no signal.
Not ready for an app? Our free co-parenting guides are practical, UK-focused, and yours to keep. Or try our free tools for planning and building a parenting plan.
And quietly, so much more
One school day across two homes, and the quiet jobs ParentGlow does between breakfast and bedtime.
Both homes get the reminder. Whoever gives the dose taps Given, and it's ticked off for you both. No double doses, no “did you?” texts.
PE kit still at the other house? Tap Forgot something? and it goes on the next handover's list, marked as coming back. One tap on Handed over notes when it really happened. Only you can see it.
How handovers workTone Guard flags wording that might read as heated, and a calmer version is a tap away. You choose whether to use it, change it or ignore it. Nothing is sent until you press send.
Send her a sitter link: allergies, medicines and who to call, read-only from 3pm to 7pm, then it ends on its own. No account to make. The Emergency Card is one A4 page for her bag, and the paper copy needs no signal.
How sitter links workAll of it, quietly, for the kids at the centre of it all.
Pick the hours ParentGlow stays quiet. Message and handover alerts are skipped, not saved up, so there's no morning flood. Nothing is lost, and your co-parent never sees your hours. Severe-allergy and rescue-medicine reminders still come through.
How quiet hours workYour journal is author-only. Your co-parent can't see it, and nor can any professional either of you invites. It's for the things you need to write down, not send.
Also in the app
From our early-access families
“The handover used to be the worst part of my week. Now it's a card on a screen — not an argument on a doorstep.”
“My solicitor asked for six months of records. It took me four taps.”
“It's the first app that doesn't treat me like a suspect.”
From real parents on our early-access programme — product testers who agreed to be quoted. Some names have been changed for their privacy.
Why ParentGlow
The best-known co-parenting apps grew up around American courts, and three of them still charge each parent separately. Most UK families make do with a group chat instead. Here's how both compare.
On each app's cheapest yearly plan. Prices checked on 12 October 2026.
ParentGlow
£59.99One plan covers you both, at launch
TalkingParents bills in US dollars: $154 a year for two parents on its cheapest plan. 2houses (£99 a year) and amicable (£59.99 a year) charge once per family, as we do. ParentGlow is free during early access, then £59.99 a year or £5.99 a month.
Sources: OurFamilyWizard, AppClose, TalkingParents, 2houses and amicable. Prices change, so check before you rely on one.
| The everyday job | ParentGlow |
Group chat and spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|
| Whose weekend it is | One calendar both homes share, with your council's school terms already in | “Whose weekend is it again?” |
| What was said | Kept word for word: no edits, no deletions, and you both see when it was read | Edited, deleted or lost up the thread |
| The 11pm reply | Tone Guard flags it as you type, with a calmer version a tap away | Sent before anyone's slept on it |
| Who owes what | Split in pounds, receipt attached, marked settled when it's paid | IOUs, bank screenshots and resentment |
| What you agreed | One page, pulled live from your schedule and costs | Somewhere in a thread from March |
| Gran's afternoon | A sitter link that ends on its own, and an Emergency Card to print | Forwarded screenshots and a hurried phone call |
| If it ever goes further | A court-ready record pack, free, dated and in order | Screenshots and scrolling |
Fair's fair: OurFamilyWizard has been around since 2001 and is well known to UK courts, and it and AppClose include in-app calls, which ParentGlow doesn't have yet. For the detail, see ParentGlow against OurFamilyWizard, AppClose, TalkingParents, 2houses and amicable, or what it means to be built for the UK.
Getting started
Ten quiet minutes tonight. A paired-up co-parent by Friday. A weekend that runs itself.
Add the kids, your schedule pattern and the essentials — ten quiet minutes with a cup of tea.
They enter your six-character code and ask to join, and you approve them. They see the shared record, never your private notes.
Handovers, costs and records quietly tick along — receipts kept for you, not by you.
Pricing
Charging each parent separately punishes families for being separated. So we don't.
Freewhile we build together
£5.99/mocovers both parents
or £59.99/year · save ~£12
Invitedread-only access, controlled by you
Paid family spacefull active features
✦If your plan endsplanning and messages pause. Past records stay readable for 30 days, export is free at any time, and your children's allergies, critical medicines and emergency contacts stay viewable. Renew whenever you like and everything comes back.
Built with care in the UK · GDPR-first · your family's data is never sold
Questions, answered
Anything else? We're a friendly email away.
hello@parentglow.co.ukParentGlow isn't legal-advice software — but it's built so your records can be trusted. Messages and handover notes are permanent, with read receipts. Critical changes are written to a tamper-evident SHA-256 integrity chain. And when you need to share, your export is court-ready: complete, dated and in order. Under the March 2026 rules, messages, photos and recordings usually stay out of the court bundle unless the judge asks for them; if they're needed, yours are ready. What's used, and the weight it carries, is always the court's decision.
No. One subscription covers your whole family — both homes, every feature. We think charging each parent separately punishes families for being separated, so we simply don't do it. Sitter links for grandparents and sitters: read-only, time-limited, no account, at no extra cost. No “per-seat” anything.
Start alone. Set up the schedule, the children's details and the expenses on your own — it all works single-handed. When they're ready, they enter your invite code and ask to join, and once you approve them they're stitched into the shared record from that day forward. No pressure, no nagging emails from us.
No. Your journal is author-only, and care-log entries can be marked “only me” — filtered on the server, not just hidden on the screen. Everything that is shared is clearly labelled, so you always know what the other home can see.
It's the whole foundation. GDPR-first design, server-side authorisation on every request, no third-party analytics that identify you, and audit trails on critical actions. And the promise that matters most: exporting your data is free, forever — it's your family's record, not ours.
Properly. DD/MM/YYYY dates, £ GBP, UK bank holidays, NHS numbers with real validation, and the language of UK family law — contact time, child arrangements orders, parental responsibility. You'll never see “custody” or “visitation” in ParentGlow.
iOS and Android. ParentGlow is currently in early access with UK families — join the list below and you'll get a welcome email, occasional updates while we build, and one email when it's your turn. Unsubscribe any time.
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