Comparison

CustodyLog vs CustodyBook

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 professional documentation to ensure preparedness during challenging situations. A free trial is available, with subscription plans for full access.

Highlights
  • Custody documentation
  • Co-parenting dispute tracking
  • Schedule violation logging
  • Professional record-keeping
  • Communication issue documentation
  • Free trial
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

CustodyBook

This app helps separated parents track custody days, exchanges, shared expenses, and notes. It generates a neutral, factual monthly PDF report for legal purposes, detailing who owes whom to the penny. The app emphasizes privacy with no messaging or server accounts.

Highlights
  • Custody day and exchange logging
  • Shared expense tracking with split calculation
  • Monthly PDF report generation
  • Note taking with date and time
  • Tracking of unreimbursed expenses
  • Exchange status logging (on time, late, no-show)
Features
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Your custody record, organized. CustodyBook is a one-sided log for separated parents: custody days, exchanges, shared expenses and notes — dated, factual, and exportable as a clean monthly PDF you can print or share with your lawyer. Court-ready PDFs: every entry dated, with edit history and a SHA-256 fingerprint you can verify at getcustodybook.com/verify. The judge decides what is admitted. Not legal advice. NEW IN 1.12 • Three new entry types on the + button: Event (school, medical or activities, and who attended), Incident (what happened, in facts) and Support payment (child support paid or received, and how). Events and incidents are a personal record of facts, not advice about your case. • Categories for expenses, notes, events and incidents, and Holiday, Vacation or Make-up day tags on custody days. • Search: in the period you pick, find entries by words, type or category, then make a PDF of just those. • Hearing dates: save the dates, times and places of your hearings in Hearing prep. • Reports show child support payments and make-up days. MESSAGES FROM A CHAT Turn a screen recording of a chat into a readable list in your log — you review who said what before saving. It is read on your phone; nothing is uploaded. Messages appear in your timeline and in your monthly and date-range PDF reports. WHY ONE-SIDED MATTERS Shared co-parenting platforms work when both parents join. Your RECORD doesn't need their account: it needs dates, facts and math. • Copy the month summary as plain text — ready for WhatsApp or your lawyer. • Custody days and exchanges logged in seconds. • Expenses in exact cents with a configurable split — the app tells you who owes whom, to the penny. • Monthly PDF report in a neutral, factual tone your lawyer will appreciate. • No chat with the other parent, no accounts, no server: we never receive a copy of your entries, and there is nothing to pay monthly. WHEN THE OTHER PARENT OWES YOU FOR EXTRAS • Mark the date you asked the other parent for their share of a medical bill, school fee or activity. The monthly report shows every unreimbursed extra, how much, and how long it has been waiting. • Add the time and place of each exchange or custody day - folded away, so a normal entry still takes seconds. • The app warns you when entries are not backed up yet, so a lost or broken phone doesn't have to mean a lost record. ALSO IN CUSTODYBOOK • Log each exchange as on time, late or no-show — for either parent — and see the monthly counts and minutes late in Reports. • See the nights with each parent, with percentages, counted from the days you have logged. • Create a PDF for any date range: a one-page summary for both parents first, then every entry in date order. • A gentle backup reminder on Today, plus "Contact us" in Settings for questions and ideas. TRY IT FOR 7 DAYS, THEN PAY ONCE Unlimited entries, summaries and reports. Use everything for 7 days, then a single one-time purchase keeps it yours for life — no ads, no login, no subscription, no monthly fee. CustodyBook records information you enter; it does not provide legal advice.

Screenshots

CustodyLog4 screens
CustodyBook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CustodyBook at 5.0 against CustodyLog's 4.4. CustodyBook also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). CustodyLog's advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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 CustodyBook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CustodyBook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CustodyLog has 32 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CustodyLog ships an update every 3 days, CustodyBook every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CustodyLog versus CustodyBook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCustodyLogCustodyBook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (32 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings32 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdaniel ModernTechInnova Solutions

Customer experience

CustodyLog

All ratings32 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.6%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative26.7%

CustodyBook

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
1 purchases

CustodyBook

One-time1
  • CustodyBook Unlocked - Lifetime$14.99

Questions

Is CustodyLog free?
CustodyLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CustodyBook free?
CustodyBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CustodyLog or CustodyBook?
CustodyBook is rated higher. CustodyLog averages 4.4 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while CustodyBook averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do CustodyLog or CustodyBook have ads?
Neither CustodyLog nor CustodyBook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CustodyLog or CustodyBook?
CustodyLog ships an update every 3 days, and CustodyBook every 2 days. Most recently, CustodyLog was updated on November 9, 2026 and CustodyBook on November 6, 2026.

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