Custody Folio vs Documented
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custody Folio
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Your record. In your hands. Custody Folio helps you keep custody notes, dates, files, and parenting plan records together. Write in your own words, keep supporting originals, and choose what to share. You do not need AI to organize your records or prepare for a conversation. KEEP THE DETAILS TOGETHER • Add dated notes, photos, supporting files, and original audio recordings. • Track parenting time, exchanges, virtual contact, expenses, and support payments. • Review events in a timeline and calendar. • Create focused PDF reports and exports using the records and dates you choose. PREPARE FOR YOUR NEXT CONVERSATION • Build a personal meeting brief with your questions and selected record references. • Download your worksheet to keep a private copy. • Find state directories and resources for parents and families, including mental health support information. WORK WITH YOUR INVITED ATTORNEY • Give an invited attorney read only access to a selected case and revoke future access when you choose. • Optionally enable requests and messages for that connection. • Reply to a request with selected saved records and keep the conversation together. • See which conversation version the invited attorney marked reviewed. This is not verification of the underlying facts. • Attorney conversations stay separate from court reports. YOU STAY IN CONTROL • Protect app access with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. • Review your records and supporting originals before sharing them. • Keep personal meeting and support worksheets separate from your case and attorney access. Custody Folio is for adults organizing their own records. It does not provide legal advice, mental health treatment, or emergency services. It is not a law firm, does not establish an attorney client relationship, and does not guarantee any court outcome or acceptance of a report. It is not a coparent messaging service. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://custodyfolio.com/privacy
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Custody Folio at none against Documented's shown. Custody Folio also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). Documented's advantage is chart position (#124 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Custody Folio sells 2 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.
Custody Folio ships an update daily, Documented every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custody Folio | Documented |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (201 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 201 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #124 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Slantwire Studios, LLC | Rise Advertising LLC |
In-app purchases
Custody Folio
- Custody Folio Monthly$5.991 Month
- Custody Folio Annual$59.991 Year
Documented
- 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
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