OurFamilyWizard Co-Parent App

It does what it needs to. And despite the below criticism, it’s still worth getting. The app is finicky at times. If you’re searching for messages sometimes it needs to be reset or it won’t show messages that do meet your search criteria. The calendar is a bit annoying because it will only show an event “viewed” by the other parent if they click on it even though they can receive event notifications in message form and there’s no way for you to send that they looked at that message. So they can use the excuse that they never saw the event. If you close out of the app without saving a message draft, it usually doesn’t save the draft, which is Really frustrating if you get a call or a text in the middle of drafting a message. You can lose all of a large part of it. This isn’t related to the app exclusively but OFW in general. I really wish they would add a feature that allows you to schedule a message to be sent later at a specific date and time. I tend to think of a lot of things in succession, but if I just leave them as a draft so as not to overwhelm my co-parent then I always forget to send them.

I’ve been using OFW for several years now and it’s been good for documenting/emails. I don’t need the call feature. What I do get frustrated on is the expenses are very limited. You can add any details or notes. There’s no other options besides %’s, no notes, and it’s set up to pay each other not show payments made to 3rd party. For example, school lunches were due - I wanted to show what I paid and what days, and what he owed. The amounts don’t break down to %s and I can’t add it because I don’t want it showing he owes me since I’m not paying it. Most of our expenses are like this.. If someone rejects there is no note section for a reason why. You have to send a message instead but now it breaks up the transaction into two different sections and it doesn’t link them together so it’s kind of messy. The calendar has gotten better but it would be nice if it would pop up errors as to why you can’t submit a new event/schedule instead of leaving the button greyed out and making us do the guesswork. Also if you go in to change or add a schedule it doesn’t let you adjust the times from the existing schedule so like if it ended on the 13th and you needed to extend it a couple of days you have to add a new start time which doesn’t always overlap with what you had so then you have little hour breaks on your schedule. Messages - it would be nice to have some editing abilities like Bold or Underline if we’re trying to make a list. If someone is using that to be aggressive then it’s on them and shows up on their emails - stop limiting the rest of us.

The application doesn’t work completely, you’re not able to add any information to be able to save between parties. I made a complaint about this and they told me to use the website but I paid $150 to use the app, not the website. Last week my ex-husband messaged me three times and I got no notifications about any of the messages. I happen to open it yesterday to find the messages and checked on my notifications in my settings and everything is turned on to blast my phone if he messages me. This can create discontent within your relationship and I would not recommend it until they really take these bugs seriously. I emailed them and told them they caused problems between my ex and I and their solution was to give me a refund and cancel my account, now my ex-husband has no one to talk to on the app and I have to re-order the account and pay the full amount because they will not prorate the parts that are not useful. When I emailed them and asked them what they were going to do about the bug issues and the things that I have reported, they refuse to answer my emails. Now, since my ex-husband has already paid for his subscription, I’m stuck paying for a second subscription even though these features don’t work and I’m going to have to monitor the application several times a day to see if he’s messaging me. This is the biggest rip off going because they know that you have no choice except to have the same application as your coparent.