Braidly vs Kidtime

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.

Kidtime is a coparenting app for coordinating child-related events, custody schedules, and custody analytics on Android, iOS, and the web. Its shared custody calendar offers more than 15 schedule templates, and one parent can track custody time and keep private notes without the other parent joining. Messages are timestamped, preserved, and exportable; an AI tone meter can suggest rewrites before sending. In-app calls are recorded and transcribed with speaker labels, and both recordings and transcripts are retained permanently. Parents can log expenses with receipts, set custom splits, and track approvals and balances; Kidtime does not process payments or charge transaction fees. Users can export messages, schedules, notes, and analytics to Excel or court-ready PDF. Attorneys can be given view-only web access to records. Optional Google Calendar sync creates a separate Kidtime calendar, and Kidtime says it does not read unrelated events. The Free plan costs nothing with no time limit, but its calendar shows roughly the prior week and next six weeks. Premium costs $99.99 a year and adds jumping to any month, custody analytics, note search, expenses, AI tone scan, exports, and attorney access. Kidtime is headquartered in Texas, United States.