Braidly vs dip

Braidly is a web-based co-parenting app for separated parents in the United States and Canada. It brings together a custody calendar, messaging, shared expenses, a kids’ schedule view, and records. The calendar supports 2-2-3, week-on/week-off, and custom rotations, with seeded holidays and school-break imports. Parents can submit expenses with receipt photos, set split ratios, approve or query costs, and track a running balance; Braidly records settlements but does not move money. The AI Tone Coach suggests calmer message rewrites, leaving the parent to choose what to send. For documentation, timestamped exports include a SHA-256 content digest, and legal hold prevents either parent from editing or deleting records through the app. Parents can grant invited viewers scoped, read-only access to selected records and revoke it. Braidly says it is in private beta, onboarding families in small batches, and free while in beta. Its listed plans are Free at free, Standard at $12.99 a month or $129.99 a year, and Premium at $24.99 a month.

dip is a co-parenting app for parents raising a child across two households. Its shared calendar keeps custody schedules and handovers visible to both parents, while expense tools let them record child-related costs, split them and track payments. Parents can communicate in a dedicated messaging space and use Tone Check to review a message before sending. The shared child vault can hold schedule changes, handover notes, receipts and medical entries; edits leave a visible trail, and records can be exported. Each parent can invite and manage their own grandparents and helpers, with permissions limiting what guests can see. Calendars, contacts and documents remain accessible offline and sync in the background. The app listing describes the vault as encrypted, and Google Play states that data is encrypted in transit. The maker says it does not sell user data. dip is available on Android, iOS and web, and its FAQ says it supports 10 languages. Its free plan is free, forever, for both parents, with no ads and no data sale.