Why parents look for alternatives to Our Days
Our Days costs $4.99 per parent per month ($39.99 per parent per year) and delivers a clean calendar experience for basic co-parenting schedules. Families adopt it because the price is low, the interface is simple, and the feature set avoids the litigation framing of apps like OurFamilyWizard. The frustrations emerge when the family's needs grow. The most common triggers: needing real expense reimbursement workflows rather than noting costs manually outside the app; needing household support for step-parents or grandparents who play regular custody roles; needing a structured mechanism for joint decisions like school enrollment or medical authorization; and discovering that Our Days' calendar does not visualize overnight custody patterns in a way that reflects how time is actually divided.
The alternative landscape
Five alternatives cover the range of reasons families leave Our Days. AppClose offers a free tier for basic scheduling, an upgrade in features without an immediate cost increase, though Premium costs more than Our Days per parent. 2Houses (approximately $5 per parent per month) adds journal features, document storage, and deeper expense categorization at a similar per-parent price point. OurFamilyWizard ($144 per parent per year) and TalkingParents ($9.99 per parent per month) serve families that have entered or re-entered litigation and need court-admissible messaging. CoFam ($79 per year per family, co-parent seat free) serves amicable families who want full co-parenting features at a total-family price that can be lower than Our Days when paying for both parents. Each makes a different trade on scope, price, and tone.
What changes when you switch
Our Days holds minimal historical data compared to litigation-focused platforms, which makes the transition lighter than most. The main items to account for before switching: the schedule configuration itself, which needs to be rebuilt natively in the new app; any notes or events stored in Our Days that are not captured elsewhere; and the other parent's willingness to onboard to the new platform. Our Days does not provide a certified message archive or expense export comparable to paid co-parenting tools, so there is little evidentiary data at risk. Families switching mid-year may also want to note the subscription billing date to avoid paying for an unused Our Days period. The practical migration is typically lighter than families expect, most of what matters in the switch is the custody schedule itself, and that is re-enterable in any alternative within an hour.
Migration tactics
Before closing Our Days, take a screenshot or written record of the current custody schedule, including holiday rotations and any notes attached to recurring events. Our Days does not offer a structured data export, so manual capture is the reliable method. Then open the new co-parenting app, configure the custody schedule natively using its schedule builder, add both parents and any additional household members, and set notification preferences. Run both apps in parallel for one to two weeks if either parent is uncertain about the transition, this keeps the schedule visible in Our Days while both parents verify the new app is working correctly. Cancel Our Days after both parents confirm the new platform is active and the schedule is accurate. The overlap period costs one additional subscription cycle but eliminates the risk of a schedule gap during the switch.
Which alternative fits which family
The right Our Days alternative is determined by which specific limit the family hit. Families that need expense reimbursement workflows without per-parent billing need a platform with single-family pricing and a built-in expense feature. Families that need documentation, journals, uploaded documents, detailed records, should look at 2Houses. Families that need court-admissible records because their conflict has escalated should look at OurFamilyWizard or TalkingParents, not at lighter-weight alternatives. Families with blended households need a platform that natively supports more than two adults in the custody arrangement. Families with only a slightly more complex schedule than Our Days can handle may find AppClose's free tier sufficient. The question to answer before evaluating alternatives is: which specific Our Days limitation is causing the actual friction?
How CoFam fits these criteria
CoFam addresses the most common Our Days limitations: expense reimbursement, overnight-aware calendar visualization, blended-household support, and joint-decision proposals. The pricing model charges $79 per year for the whole family, with the co-parent's seat always included. For a co-parenting pair each paying Our Days' per-parent rate, CoFam's total family cost is competitive or lower depending on the billing tier. The calendar uses proportional overnight fills that reflect how time is actually split, rather than treating custody days as identical full-day blocks. The expense workflow runs on tap-to-pay reimbursement with category rules. The household supports up to twelve members. Families who genuinely need only the calendar and are satisfied with Our Days' current feature set have no reason to switch, CoFam is the right move when the limits start to matter.
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