Comparison

Co vs Documented

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

Head to head
About

Co

This app helps co-parents collaborate more effectively by providing tools for shared calendars, communication, task management, and expense tracking. It aims to reduce stress and improve planning for families with joint custody.

Highlights
  • Smart Shared Calendar
  • Safe Chat with AI
  • Lists & Reminders
  • Fair Expense Tracking
  • AI Scheduling Assistant
  • Info Hub
  • Expert Advice
Features
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Less stress. Better collaboration. A co-parenting app built for today’s families. Improve planning and avoid misunderstandings. The Coparenting app reduces common daily friction of shared parenting and joint custody. Plan together, stay in sync, and help your child thrive - no matter the family setup. “It really improved things for my child by transforming how we adults communicate.” 9 out of 10 users say co-parenting has become less stressful. --- WHAT COPARENTING HELPS YOU WITH • Smart Shared Calendar: Set handovers, activities and routines together • Everyone in the Loop: Share responsibilities - and moments - with the people who matter • Lists & Reminders: Pack lists and chores handled without the hassle • Safe Chat: Communicate privately and safely, avoiding conflict with built-in TalkSafe AI • Fair Expense Tracking: Log purchases and split costs transparently • Info Hub: Keep all key facts about your child in one shared place • Expert Advice: Read articles by child psychologist and researcher Malin Bergstrom *NEW* AI Scheduling Assistant Just snap a photo of a school letter, invite, or text. Our AI turns it into a calendar event and identifies deadlines and tasks too. No more “I forgot to tell you…” MADE FOR ALL CO-PARENTING SITUATIONS Whether things are smooth or complicated, this app makes it easier to share custody. • Build clear schedules and mutually agree on changes • Keep track of activities, tasks, and child needs • Chat with boundaries and structure • Share access with children, relatives or babysitters. You decide who sees what. SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN TOO Invite your child (recommended from ages 7+) to help them feel included. They can view activities, check reminders and build independence. EASY TO GET STARTED • One subscription covers everyone • Free trial and easy to cancel at any time --- "Thank you for this app, it has finally made us communicate!" “Managing custody schedules used to feel overwhelming. This app changed all of that.”--- Start co-parenting with less stress - download now. Questions or feedback? Reach us at hello@varannanvecka.app Terms of Use: Standard Apple Terms of Use – https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Documented

This app securely logs parenting moments with automatic timestamps and optional location data. Entries are sealed to prevent tampering and can include notes, photos, and voice memos. An optional upgrade allows for secure PDF export for legal purposes.

Highlights
  • Sealed, timestamped entries
  • Log notes, photos, videos, voice memos
  • Automatic timestamp and GPS
  • Tamper-evident record keeping
  • Private by default, no account needed
  • Secure PDF export for legal sharing
Features
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Documented is a private record of how you show up for your kids. Log what happened (a handoff, a missed exchange, a first sentence, a doctor's visit) and it is sealed the second you save it. Time captured automatically. Place attached if you want it. Nothing you can quietly rewrite later, which is exactly what makes it worth something. WHY SEALED MATTERS A note you typed months after the fact is a memory. A record made at the time is a different thing. Every entry gets a SHA-256 fingerprint linked to the entry before it. Change one character and the chain no longer matches, and the app tells you. Edits can't be hidden. That's what tamper-evident means. Separately, each entry's fingerprint is sent to an independent Time-Stamping Authority, which signs a statement that it existed at that moment. The stamp is requested the moment the entry seals, and if your phone is offline it's obtained as soon as you reconnect. Only the fingerprint leaves your phone, never your words, your photos, your children's names, or where you were. A fingerprint can't be turned back into your content. BUILT FOR HOW THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS Thirty seconds, one-handed, in a car park, before you forget. Write it, tag it, seal it. • Log notes, photos, videos, voice memos, receipts, and message screenshots • Tag which child, and which co-parent, each moment involved • Automatic timestamp and optional GPS, captured rather than typed • Corrections are amendments: the original stays, the correction sits beside it • Search and filter by child, category, or date PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No password. Documented opens straight into your record. Your entries stay on your iPhone, and in your own iCloud storage if you turn sync on. We can't read them. Your co-parent is never contacted, never notified, and never given access. Naming someone in your record is a label on your record, nothing more. WHAT IT COSTS Documented is a subscription, with a 7-day free trial. The subscription is the app, not an add-on to it. Included, with no limits of any kind: writing new entries, sealing them, the independent timestamp, photos, videos, voice memos and receipts, iCloud sync of your own record, search, filtering, amendments, the PDF export, and encrypted sharing with your attorney. No entry limit. No attachment limit. No storage tier. Free, whether you subscribe or not: reading, searching and verifying everything already in your record. Nothing you have sealed is ever locked away from you, and if a trial ends without a purchase the record becomes read-only rather than closed. People who installed Documented before this change keep their original free terms permanently. WHEN YOU NEED TO PRODUCE IT Your whole record becomes one PDF, ready to hand to your attorney: every entry in order, with its seal, an integrity statement, and your attachments. Any single entry can go on its own. You can send that record to your attorney encrypted on your device, to a key only they hold. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS Documented is a record-keeping tool. We're not a law firm and we don't give legal advice. Whether any record is accepted is decided by a judge under the rules of evidence where you live. What we can do is make sure that when you wrote something down, it's provable that you wrote it down then, and that nobody, including you, quietly changed it since. If something is on the line, talk to a licensed attorney in your state. Privacy Policy: https://documented.co/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://documented.co/terms

Screenshots

Co4 screens
Documented4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Documented at 4.8 against Co's 4.5. Documented also leads on chart position (#133 vs unranked) and ratings volume (161 vs 30). Co's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Co sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Documented sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Documented holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Documented has 161 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Co's written reviews are positive against 71% of Documented's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Co ships an update weekly, Documented every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Co versus Documented: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoDocumented
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (30 ratings)4.8 (161 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings30161 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#133 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHappy Parents ABRise Advertising LLC

Customer experience

Co

All ratings30 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%

Documented

All ratings154 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Co

Subscriptions2
  • Familjeprenumeration7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Access to all features7 Days trial$8.991 Month
6 purchases

Documented

Subscriptions6
  • Documented Plus7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Documented Plus14 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Documented Plus1 Month trial$17.991 Month
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  • Documented Plus - Yearly7 Days trial$179.991 Year
  • Documented Plus - Yearly14 Days trial$179.991 Year
  • Documented Plus1 Month trial$179.991 Year

Questions

Is Co free?
Co is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Documented free?
Documented is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Co or Documented?
Documented is rated higher. Co averages 4.5 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Documented averages 4.8 from 161 ratings.
Do Co or Documented have ads?
Both Co and Documented show ads.
Which is updated more often, Co or Documented?
Co ships an update weekly, and Documented every 4 days. Most recently, Co was updated on October 25, 2026 and Documented on October 25, 2026.

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