Shared Calendar vs SmartCoparent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shared Calendar
Easily share daily repeating patterns with others. Ideal for managing work shifts, custody schedules, or any recurring events. Invitees can view or edit based on set permissions, with notifications for changes and a full audit trail.
- Daily repeating patterns
- Share with multiple users
- Customizable permissions
- Push notifications
- Full audit trail
- Web interface
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Shared Calendar (formally Custody Calendar) is a simple one entry per day shared calendar application. You can store a daily pattern against each Shared Calendar to store your work shifts, child custody days or any other repeating pattern. Once added a calendar can be shared with as many people as you like. You can email or SMS invites to others who can view the calendar on the web or iPhone App. You can set permissions for people you invite to read only, read-write or read-write and invite others. Shared Calendar can be used by anyone who needs to share a calendar ( but is especially useful for managing a childs schedule when the parents are no longer together). • background app refresh keeps always up to date • push notifications when entries are changed • annotate each day with a repeating schedule (child with mum / dad, working days, nights etc...) • full audit trail, see who changed what, no more misunderstandings! • web interface, use the shared calendar even without an iPhone • search your calendars • optimised for all iPhone screen sizes
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.
- Shared calendar events
- Support payment tracking
- Expense management
- Document sharing
- In-app messaging
- Professional reporting
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shared Calendar at 4.7 against SmartCoparent's 3.4. Shared Calendar also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (61% vs 42%). SmartCoparent's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Shared Calendar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SmartCoparent asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shared Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shared Calendar has 124 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Shared Calendar's written reviews are positive against 42% of SmartCoparent's.
Shared Calendar ships an update every 9 days, SmartCoparent every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shared Calendar | SmartCoparent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (124 ratings) — better | 3.4 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.3% of reviews — better | 41.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dorada App Software Ltd | Moiety, Inc. |
Customer experience
Shared Calendar
SmartCoparent
In-app purchases
Shared Calendar
- 1 Year Ad Free Shared Calendar$1.99
- Single Calendar$4.99
SmartCoparent
No in-app purchases







