Comparison

ParentLink 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

ParentLink Co

This app streamlines co-parenting by offering shared custody scheduling, coordinated calendars, secure messaging, and transparent expense tracking. It aims to reduce conflict and keep children at the center of decision-making for separated parents.

Highlights
  • Shared custody scheduling
  • Coordinated calendars
  • Secure messaging
  • Expense tracking
  • Video calls
  • Child profiles
Features
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ParentLink is the all-in-one co-parenting platform designed to reduce conflict and keep your children at the center of every decision. SHARED CUSTODY SCHEDULING Create and manage custody schedules that both parents can see in real time. Handle recurring patterns, request schedule changes with built-in approval workflows, and never miss a handoff again. COORDINATED CALENDARS Track school events, medical appointments, extracurriculars, and more on shared calendars. Set reminders, invite the other parent, and manage recurring events—all without a single awkward text. SECURE MESSAGING Communicate through a dedicated, distraction-free messaging system. Every message is timestamped and stored, giving you a reliable record when you need it. Share files, react to messages, and search your history instantly. TRANSPARENT EXPENSE TRACKING Log shared expenses, request reimbursements, and track payments with built-in categories and approval workflows. Attach receipts and keep a clear financial record for both households. BUILT-IN VIDEO CALLS Stay connected with your children through high-quality video calls with recording and transcription options. No need to juggle separate apps. CHILD-CENTERED PROFILES Maintain detailed profiles for each child—including preferences, medical information, and important contacts—so both parents always have the information they need. WHY PARENTLINK? - Designed by co-parents, for co-parents - Reduces miscommunication and conflict - Everything in one place—no more scattered texts, emails, and spreadsheets - Secure, private, and built on trusted infrastructure - Works on iPhone, iPad, and the web Download ParentLink today and start co-parenting with clarity, not conflict.

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

ParentLink Co4 screens
Documented4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Documented at 70% against ParentLink Co's 0%. Documented also leads on ratings volume (300 vs 5) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). ParentLink Co's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Documented sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. ParentLink Co asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Documented holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Documented has 300 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of ParentLink Co's written reviews are positive against 70% of Documented's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ParentLink Co ships an update every 2 days, Documented every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
ParentLink Co versus Documented: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParentLink CoDocumented
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)4.8 (300 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews70.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5300 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#100 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperParentLink, Inc.Rise Advertising LLC

Customer experience

ParentLink Co

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Documented

All ratings272 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%

In-app purchases

None

ParentLink Co

No in-app purchases

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 ParentLink Co free?
ParentLink Co is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Documented free?
Documented is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ParentLink Co or Documented?
Documented is rated higher. ParentLink Co averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Documented averages 4.8 from 300 ratings.
Do ParentLink Co or Documented have ads?
Documented shows ads; ParentLink Co does not.
Which is updated more often, ParentLink Co or Documented?
ParentLink Co ships an update every 2 days, and Documented every 4 days. Most recently, ParentLink Co was updated on November 4, 2026 and Documented on November 5, 2026.

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