AppClose: Co-Parent Essentials
June 22, 2024
More About AppClose: Co-Parent Essentials
Now, co-parents, stepparents, family members, childcare providers, professionals, and other third parties – regardless of whether or not they use the app – can communicate and share information easily from the convenience of any mobile device. By organizing priorities and obligations into three different categories, we’ve made it even easier for you and the people in your circle to communicate, manage tasks, share appointments and events, track expenses, and send & receive money for reimbursement obligations.
Why use AppClose?
• NO MONTHLY CHARGES or SUBSCRIPTION FEES!
• Our unique, multi-functional calendars record and share events, appointments, expenses, and requests, & allow you to communicate by entry with other AppClose users in your circle..
• Send and receive text messages that cannot be altered or deleted.
• Group chat with multiple people in your circle.
•. Video & Phone Calls
• Save or share important child-related information (allergies, special medications, alternative child care options, measurements, school related information, etc.) with your co-parent or other third parties.
• Add third parties to your circle (i.e. grandparents, stepparents, ad litems, attorneys, mental health professionals, etc.) to keep everyone on the same page.
• Use AppClose Solo when your co-parent doesn’t use the app, you are a single parent, or you want to share personal or child-related information with non-AppClose users.
• Utilizing our parenting schedule templates or customizing your own makes schedule sharing easy.
• View parenting time percentages or your planned v. actual parenting time using our built-in parenting schedule statistics tracker.
• Quickly send a pick-up, drop off, or swap days request when the unexpected happens.
• . Check-in. With this exclusively private and non-trackable feature, you can now keep accurate records of when you arrive or depart any location, such as picking up or dropping off kids at exchanges or anywhere else for that matter.
• Track expenses by category and scan and organize receipts easily.
• Submit reimbursement requests through our expense tracker and keep records of any responses from the recipient (approved, declined, or paid).
• Send and receive money for reimbursement obligations via ipayou®, our built-in payment solution.
• Pet management.
• Calendar notes!
Exporting Records
With AppClose, exporting records is simple and FREE! Whether you need records for personal use or for litigation purposes, you can easily export the following records as needed:
• Unaltered text messages (on-on-one or group chat messages)
• Expense records
• Reimbursement request and response records
• Pick up, drop off, or swap days request and response records
• AppClose Solo requests and events
What is AppClose Solo?
AppClose Solo is a unique and exclusive feature only available to AppClose users, allowing you to send requests and events to non-connected co-parents, third parties, or other family members via text, email, or social media. You can even attach receipts or documents and export and print any records you might need for FREE with continued access to all of the other benefits of AppClose.
We owe our safety to the brave men and women who serve in our military. AppClose can provide military families with a way to stay connected, share information and keep everyone involved without the burden of another expense.
Latest Version
3.1.7
June 22, 2024
AppClose, Inc
Internet
Android
698,958
Free
com.appclose.androidapp
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User Reviews
Kirque Kirque
1 year ago
Horrible. Unreliable. Sometimes I don't get messages at all. Sometimes I can't send at all. Sometimes everything disappears. Truly makes a difficult situation worse when you have poor communication with a co-parent. My phone needs to be open to get notifications of a message, no matter what I do to the settings. The AppClose people think that because so many courts mandate they use them that their app doesn't stink. But it does. Edit: No, dudes. Your app just sucks. Deal with it. Or fix it.
A Google user
5 years ago
Changing from 3 to 4 stars. Very helpful app, but the seach UI needs improvement. The search bar above the chats doesn't actually search the chats. To search a chat you need to - select the chat - tap the bubbles - press the "export" button (maybe rename that to "search/export" so people know?) - select a date range - press OK - and THEN a search bar for the actual chat appears. I had to email support to figure it out. Besides, I'm enjoying the app and would recommend it to other families.
A Google user
5 years ago
Truley too early to write meaningful review. Only used it for about a week without having the need to use and experience all features. However, at this point.... Nice app, but wish it would write to Google calendar. Also not a truly intuitive app. Design could use some adjustments. Also it does not alert you to any texting from the ex-spouse if the app is closed. Overall a 8 out of 10. Not writing into Google calendar is my greatest frustration considering I live off my calendar for business
Stephen Saunier
2 years ago
*Response to Devs, Ihad to roll back to the previous version as .434 didn't load at all. App is extremely temperamental, notifications sometimes work despite having the app set to run in the background and without battery optimization. In very many instances, you don't know you have a message until you open the app. Additionally messages sometimes won't open in the app and it requires you to close the app and re-open it. My ex has an iPhone and has the same issues I do with android. Emailed dev
A Google user
5 years ago
This looks like a very handy app but fails to deliver. It is full of calendar glitches, for example: every other weekend showed up as Sunday through Thursday for odd dates that did not correspond to the schedule that I input. I messed with the options for longer than I care to admit and was not able to get it to make a correct calendar. I didn't even get to the other options, though I had really hoped that the visitation swap option would work for us.
Valerie Villa
2 years ago
It's a great app and it's free. However my biggest complaint is that the calendar needs work. There's no way to color code different entries on a single calendar. From the looks of it..you have to create multiple calendars with each its own color (parenting time, events, appointments etc). I don't see how you can connect all of these to be on the SAME calendar. If there is a way, the app doesn't show you how to do it. Better tutorials needed!
Reyn Tesla
2 years ago
It is what it is. The export messages feature is very helpful. Video chat is horrible. Most of the time it freezes after a few seconds and you can't hear or see anything. Additionally, the video is cropped so it shows less than say FaceTime or Google Duo. On top of that, there are black bars covering about 1/3 of the screen on the top and bottom. If you have smaller kids, also be prepared there are no filters for the video chat. Not a huge deal, but even more reason to use a different app.
A Google user
5 years ago
It is ok. I find it a challenge to figure out how to set everything up, mostly the kids schedules and changes. It is hard to delete an ongoing schedule and hard to edit it. There is a delay in messages at times and not all my messages send which has caused big communication issues in an ready temperamental situation. The concept is good, overall I do not like using the app though.
Domenick M
5 years ago
For a free app I guess it is hard to complain. However here is my take. Some of the functions are not very intuitive and hard to find. Also. I have been using the notes portion of the app like a journal. When I tried to print the extensive notes I had taken there was no option to download them. There is motion for expenses and other item all listed on the same level as the notes but you cant download notes. This is a no go for many that want to keep everything in one app so crosscheck is easy.
A Google user
5 years ago
Looks good but doesn't work. Too many glitches. Using it for communication but it won't send /receive messages reliably. We only used it a few weeks, didn't get to calendar, etc Specifics: I get a notification that I have a new message but when I click on the notification nothing happens. I open the app but the new message doesn't show. I have to navigate out of the conversation, go back in, scroll down. A few messages would not send or took several hours. Same for co-parent.
Sarah K
2 years ago
Gets the job done. So far, we've had a pretty easy time with it. I think i have 3 things that would make it better. I wish when i add events to a shared calendar that the event would default to share. I wish there was an easier place to add shared contacts. Lastly, and this is probably the biggest... If i have the reminder in the calendar set for the day before an event, when i tap the push notification, it says the event is happening today, instead of tomorrow. It's made me panic a couple times
A Google user
6 years ago
Been using it for months and all of the sudden it started saying "no internet connection" which I knew was not correct. I uninstalled and attempted to reinstall but now when I get to the add phone number to receive a verification link I also get the "no internet connection". Now I've lost months of communication between my ex and I that would've been helpful in my up coming court. I would not recommend this app, it was a total waste of time.
Devin Miles
2 years ago
I've been using this app for probably 8 months now and its definitely not been a terrible app but there are definitely some changes needed. Most importantly is navigating through the app. Having a spot right on the homepage for schedule/scheduling I think would make a world of difference along with things like an expense tab and maybe a tab users can customize to their needs. Definitely good for a free app, I'd purchase a "premium" version if we saw a lot of the same complaints fixed beforehand.
A Google user
6 years ago
It's Free - I'll stick with it. But it's not the most user friendly and doesn't have much in the way of instructions.. I would love to see a 'Search' features in the chat section. Also, there is nothing that shows whether or not you have shared something with a co-parent and confirms whether or not they've seen it/accepted it. I think this would be an invaluable feature. Additionally, the child profile sections could be a little more user-friendly. Once you have more than one 'note' in a section, you can't always scroll to the next or last note. UPDATE: so it appears that you can search but you have to act like you want to export the chats first. It was not user-friendly and there are no directions. The developer stated you can see confirmations if sent requests but tha is not what I was referring to. I believe that we should see confirmation of everything that is sent to and received by the co-parent so that we have a record of what notes, medical items, etc were shared and received so there is not question of what items were shared/received and when.
Taylor Bailey
1 year ago
The app is a really cool concept but it's slow, freezes a lot, tons of glitches. Ive tried to work with customer service and just got passed around a lot until someone eventually just didn't respond. Now my issues with the app keep piling up. I am in a tri blended family and have a calendar where we can all keep track of events and expenses in one place was very ideal. I hope someone comes out with something similar but easier to use. Don't be fooled by their responses on here. They suck
R Duke (getreal)
1 year ago
Do not rely on this app for storage. If something happens to your phone, you're screwed. I had to replace my phone last summer and when I downloaded the app on a new phone, logged in using my same email address, and the connection to the co-parent was not restored and ALL messages were GONE. Tech support will just tell you how to use the app and won't listen when you say you can't get your messages.
Hayley Brown
1 year ago
I hate the calendar with a passion. It's the least intuitive and most difficult calendar I've ever had to deal with. The expanded schedule isn't actually what an expanded schedule is and creating custom schedules is insanely frustrating. I should be able to click on a day and (just like every other calendar in existence) should be able to create an event for that day. But no... Until they make their calendar work like every other working calendar in existence then they'll stick with the 1 star
Xubile
1 year ago
Cons: Searching items is extremely limited. Event titles don't exist. Event notes don't exist and is designed as a general note assigned to 1 day rather than for a range. Pros: Free. Usable. Schedules must be accepted by both parties. Should make the events integrate into the system calendar to make it more usable.
Austin A
1 year ago
Was working great for a few months. I'm assuming the app auto-updated and now the calling feature will not work. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, and I've cleared cache and data. I contacted technical support as well, and they've responded; however, there was no resolution to the problem. Even after the reply to this review, the developer confirmed they're still working on it. It's been about a month with no access to the call feature. I'll update this review when I have resolution.
mario garnett
1 year ago
the system works for messages decently. Some notifications never show up and there's no indication of a pending message unless you open the app. Calling well you might just as well forget it. Has never worked well and isn't something to rely on. The idea is great the execution is lacking. Fix these things and review will improve.
