2houses vs Fayr

2houses helps separated parents communicate and organize care and well-being for their children. Its shared calendar supports parenting schedules, change requests, recurring visits, events, and imported school terms and holidays, with synchronization to iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook, and other standard calendar apps. Finance tools track expenses, balances, payment invitations, alimony, and spending categories, with reports exportable as CSV or PDF. Parents can message each other, children, or a mediator; conversations may be archived or printed, but not deleted. A family information bank holds child-related contact, medical, and document details. The service also provides email and push notifications, shared photo albums, a family journal, and configurable access for children and other family members. It is available on Android, iOS, and the web. One subscription can cover both parents, children, third parties, and mediators, with read-only access available for mediators. The whole-family plan costs $8.25 a month, billed at 99.00 USD every 12 months. Its 14-day trial requires credit card details, and charges recur unless canceled before the trial or renewal period ends.

Fayr is a co-parenting app for organizing custody schedules, finances, documentation, location records and communication. Its time-sharing calendar tracks custody and lets each parent add special events to children’s schedules. Built-in messaging keeps child-related exchanges together with previous messages. Parents can enter, categorize and monitor expenses, attaching notes, images and receipts. Monthly parenting reports cover custody, documentation engagement and response time, while records can be exported as time- and date-stamped PDFs for legal documentation. Premium adds GPS-verified location check-ins, a File Vault for sharing photos, screenshots and PDFs, PDF exports and a private parenting journal. Journal material can be attached to calendar entries and optionally included in reports. Fayr Lite is free forever and includes the main features. Fayr Premium costs what you agree with the maker, billed monthly or through an annual subscription. The app runs on Android and iOS. FAYR LLC is based in Weston, Florida. Its privacy policy says use is licensed only in the United States and disclaims a definitive security guarantee.