Comparison

SmartCoparent vs Blended

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SmartCoparent

This app helps co-parents manage shared calendars, contacts, documents, and financial transactions like support payments and expenses. It offers features for both families and legal professionals, including reporting and secure communication.

Highlights
  • Shared calendar events
  • Support payment tracking
  • Expense management
  • Document sharing
  • In-app messaging
  • Professional reporting
Features
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Founded by a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®), SmartCoparent is the ultimate co-parenting solution for families and professionals. We designed SmartCoparent to be suitable for almost any co-parenting relationship imaginable. Share unlimited calendar events.store and share contacts, documents. Create, track, send and receive support payments on-line in under a minute. Use our easy to use dashboard to monitor messages, calendar updates, overdue support payments. Manage your expenses, and budget. Monitor your cash flow, and support payment activity with our advanced reporting tools. Family professionals have unique features. Create preliminary calendars, access court ready reports, receive PDF transcripts of co-parent messages and private journal entries. Communicate with your client on-line and even send invoices and receive payments on-line. SmartCoparent Features: 1. Create share and track shared calendar events. 2. Send support payment requests online. 2. Attach and share receipts, medical bills, etc.. 3. Track expenses online. 4. Accept online support payments. 5. Create and send recurring payment requests. 6. Manage, store and share important family contacts and documents. 7. Monitor and manage your cash flow and overdue support payments. 8. Instant mail notifications for messages, calendar events and payments. 9. Lawyers and professionals can create preliminary calendar events, message clients, share documents and even invoice clients and get paid on-line. 10. In-App messaging, share attachments and keep a private journal. 11. Automatically send reminders of overdue support payments. 12. Kid friendly accounts - can share calendar, and messaging with co-parents. 13. Run detailed support payment, and financial activity reports. 14. Invite unlimited members (children and adults) to join your SmartCoparent account. 17. Share only what you like, keep all other events, docs and contacts private. 18. Access to over 10,000 professionals. 19. Get valuable discounts from everything from sitters to school supplies from our partners. 20. NEW! Download, store, share and print transcripts of your messages and private journal entries. SmartCoparent: Made by co-parents, for co-parents. Reduce co-parenting stress, live better.

About

Blended

Simplify co-parenting with a shared calendar that instantly generates custody schedules, shares real-time updates, and reduces miscommunication. This free app helps families coordinate activities and handovers effortlessly.

Highlights
  • Instant custody schedule generation
  • Real-time shared calendar updates
  • Color-coded visual schedule
  • Handover tracking and reminders
  • Calendar event import
  • Support for multiple children
  • Notes system for daily instructions
Features
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The fastest way to share a custody calendar. Blended turns your custody agreement into a clear, color-coded calendar that you and your co-parent both see in real time. Free. No ads. No subscriptions. Your data is never sold or shared. NEW in 2.0: A fresh, glass-inspired design for iOS 27, a simpler Create Schedules tool, and smarter AI. Paste the custody section of your parenting plan and Blended builds the year for you. No more dragging dates around or entering 2-2-3 patterns by hand. Built for the way custody actually works: • Every common schedule built in: week-on/week-off, 2-2-3, 5-2-2-5, 3-4-4-3, 3-week rotation, every other weekend, weekends only, weekdays only, or paste your own • Handover days are shown as a fade between parents, not a hard cut at midnight • Add a note to any day: "Soccer practice 5pm," "Field trip, pack lunch," "Forgot inhaler at Mom's" • Get notified when your co-parent changes the schedule, with an Updates tab that shows exactly what changed • Sync your iPhone calendar to see school events, appointments, and activities right alongside the custody schedule Truly free, truly private No subscription wall, no premium tier, no ads. Your family's schedule belongs to your family. We don't sell or share your data. When you use the AI parser, the text you paste is sent for parsing only and is not stored. Designed to fit your family • Choose your week start day (Sunday, Monday, or Saturday) • Customize parent and co-parent names • Support for blended families with two households • Larger text and accessibility sizes fully supported • Light, fast, and works smoothly on older devices Real-time sync that actually works Make a change on your phone and your co-parent sees it instantly on theirs. No "did you get my text?" The calendar is the source of truth. Built by a co-parent who got tired of paying $100+/year for what should be a simple shared calendar. Questions or feedback? Reach out. Every email is read by a real person.

Screenshots

SmartCoparent4 screens
Blended4 screens

Verdict

The call

SmartCoparent and Blended both sit at 3.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 42% of SmartCoparent's written reviews are positive against 33% of Blended's. SmartCoparent also leads on iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for SmartCoparent against 3.3 for Blended. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 23 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of SmartCoparent's written reviews are positive against 33% of Blended's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartCoparent ships an update every 2 months, Blended every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SmartCoparent versus Blended: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartCoparentBlended
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (17 ratings) — better3.3 (23 ratings)
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1723 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.3 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoiety, Inc.Matthew Mueller

Customer experience

SmartCoparent

All ratings17 ratings
Positive52.9%
Neutral17.6%
Negative29.4%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral25.0%
Negative33.3%

Blended

All ratings23 ratings
Positive52.2%
Neutral8.7%
Negative39.1%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

SmartCoparent

No in-app purchases

None

Blended

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartCoparent free?
SmartCoparent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blended free?
Blended is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SmartCoparent or Blended?
SmartCoparent is rated higher. SmartCoparent averages 3.4 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Blended averages 3.3 from 23 ratings.
Do SmartCoparent or Blended have ads?
Neither SmartCoparent nor Blended shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartCoparent or Blended?
SmartCoparent ships an update every 2 months, and Blended every 6 weeks. Most recently, SmartCoparent was updated on October 24, 2026 and Blended on October 23, 2026.

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