Comparison

CustodyLog vs Documented

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

Head to head
About

CustodyLog

This app helps parents document co-parenting disputes, including missed pickups and schedule violations. It provides a professional way to record interactions, ensuring you are always prepared for discussions or legal proceedings.

Highlights
  • Custody dispute documentation
  • Record missed pickups
  • Track schedule violations
  • Professional interaction logging
  • Co-parenting preparation
Features
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CustodyLog is the essential custody documentation app for parents navigating co parenting disputes. Whether you're dealing with missed pickups, schedule violations, or communication issues CustodyLog helps you document everything professionally, so you're always prepared. CustodyLog offers a free trial with a subscription required to unlock full access. Plans include Monthly ($9.99), Annual ($79.99) Privacy Policy: https://custodylogapp.com/privacy 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

CustodyLog4 screens
Documented4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CustodyLog at none against Documented's shown. CustodyLog also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 71%). Documented's advantage is chart position (#177 vs unranked) and ratings volume (161 vs 29). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. CustodyLog sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 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 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Documented has 161 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of CustodyLog'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

CustodyLog ships an update every 3 days, Documented every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
CustodyLog versus Documented: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCustodyLogDocumented
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (29 ratings)4.8 (161 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings29161 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#177 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdaniel ModernRise Advertising LLC

Customer experience

CustodyLog

All ratings29 ratings
Positive89.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.4%

Documented

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

In-app purchases

4 purchases

CustodyLog

Subscriptions4
  • CustodyLog Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
  • CustodyLog Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • CustodyLog Pro Annual3 Days trial$59.991 Year
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  • CustodyLog Pro Annual3 Days trial$79.991 Year
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 CustodyLog free?
CustodyLog 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, CustodyLog or Documented?
Documented is rated higher. CustodyLog averages 4.6 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Documented averages 4.8 from 161 ratings.
Do CustodyLog or Documented have ads?
Documented shows ads; CustodyLog does not.
Which is updated more often, CustodyLog or Documented?
CustodyLog ships an update every 3 days, and Documented every 4 days. Most recently, CustodyLog was updated on October 24, 2026 and Documented on October 25, 2026.

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