Co-parenting, made calm · built in the UK
ParentGlow is the warm, reliable home for your family's calendar, messages, expenses and child info — built for separated parents in the UK, and for the kids at the centre of it all.
Next handover · Mon 15 June
5:00pm · Oakwood Primary
Rachel Mark
Tone Guard ON
Keeps messages calm & child-focused
Settled this month
£115.43 agreed
Why ParentGlow exists
The tools most separated parents are handed make it harder. Group chats that escalate. Spreadsheets that scatter. Court-mandated portals that feel like punishment — built for a different era, priced per parent, charging you to download your own records.
ParentGlow starts from a different place. It assumes good intent. It keeps the child at the centre. And it quietly records what was agreed — so neither of you has to.
Designed to lower the temperature, not gather ammunition.
Every screen is about their week, their health, their world.
A tamper-proof history of what was agreed — there if you need it.
“Less friction. Less conflict. A clear record.”
The whole idea, really.Inside the app
Four jobs every two-home family juggles — handled in one warm place.
The schedule
Alternating weeks, 2-2-3, every-other-weekend or your own pattern — projected a year ahead and colour-coded by parent. Handovers, school holidays and UK bank holidays are all in the same view.
Need to swap a weekend? Change requests carry a full audit trail — request, approve, counter-offer or trade days, without a single heated text.
The conversation
Every message is permanent. No edits, no deletions, read receipts on both sides — so the conversation stays honest, and so does the history.
And when a reply comes out sharper than you meant it, Tone Guard reads the draft and suggests a calmer, child-focused rewrite before it sends. Less fuel. More signal.
The money
Log it, split it, agree it — in pounds, with the receipt photo attached. Recurring templates carry the karate club and the prescriptions; monthly statements keep both sides square.
And if you ever need it, every ledger exports to a court-pack PDF aligned to Practice Direction 27A. Hopefully you won't.
The details
Allergies with severity. Medications and vaccinations. GP, NHS numbers, school contacts, documents with expiry reminders. One shared record both parents can trust — no more “it's on my phone somewhere”.
And it isn't just the two of you. Invite grandparents, sitters and childminders into your circle with exactly the access you choose — and print an Emergency Card that works offline, verified by QR.
And quietly, so much more
Calendar, messages and expenses export into one tamper-evident evidence bundle — SHA-256 hash chain, timestamps, tidy PDFs your solicitor will actually thank you for. Free, like every export.
A printable A4 card for school bags and grandparents. No signal needed — verifies by QR.
A gentle nudge before the message you might regret — the rewrite is one tap away.
Doses, schedules and EpiPen flags — pushed to the right parent on the right morning.
Children's birthdays, nanna's, the school fair — never caught out again.
Author-only notes — for the things you need to write down, not send.
A living summary of arrangements, each labelled with where it came from.
Download everything you've ever added — every record, every receipt. Never paywalled. It's a promise.
All of it, quietly, for the kids at the centre of it all.
From our early-access families
“The handover used to be the worst part of my week. Now it's a card on a screen — not an argument on a doorstep.”
“My solicitor asked for six months of records. It took me four taps.”
“It's the first app that doesn't treat me like a suspect.”
Why ParentGlow
Most co-parenting tools were built in the US, priced per parent, and treat your own records as a paid extra. We think that's the wrong way round.
| Feature |
 ParentGlow
|
Rival apps | Group chat + spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| The price | One family plan covers both parents | Each parent pays, every year | Free — but everyone pays in stress |
| Built for the UK | Pounds, UK dates, NHS numbers and UK family law | Built for America — “custody”, “visitation”, dollars | Wherever the group chat drifted |
| Court-ready records | Tidy, solicitor-ready bundles — free | Certified records sold per request | Screenshots and scrolling |
| Records you can trust | Nothing can be quietly edited or deleted | Depends on the plan | Messages vanish all the time |
| Keeping things calm | Tone Guard suggests the calmer rewrite | A paid add-on, where it exists | 3am replies, no seatbelt |
| Emergency info | A printable card that works with no signal | Nothing built in | “It's on my phone somewhere” |
| Your family's data | Everything downloads free, forever | Pay to get your own records back | Scattered across five apps |
Comparison reflects common practice across mainstream co-parenting tools. We'd rather win on warmth anyway.
Getting started
Ten quiet minutes tonight. A paired-up co-parent by Friday. A weekend that runs itself.
Add the kids, your schedule pattern and the essentials — ten quiet minutes with a cup of tea.
One code pairs the second home. They see the shared record — never your private notes.
Handovers, costs and records quietly tick along — receipts kept for you, not by you.
Pricing
Charging each parent separately punishes families for being separated. So we don't.
£0while we build together
Onesubscription covers both parents
Invitedread-only access, controlled by you
Paid family spacefull active features
✦Expired family spacesafe access to existing records + export
Built with care in the UK · GDPR-first · your family's data is never sold
Questions, answered
Anything else? We're a friendly email away.
hello@parentglow.co.ukParentGlow isn't legal-advice software — but it's built so your records can be trusted. Messages and handover notes are permanent, with read receipts. Every change is written to a tamper-evident SHA-256 hash chain. And when you need to share, exports come out as tidy, timestamped PDF bundles aligned with Practice Direction 27A — the format family courts in England and Wales expect. Solicitors love a tidy bundle.
No. One subscription covers your whole family — both homes, every feature. We think charging each parent separately punishes families for being separated, so we simply don't do it. And your circle counts as family too: grandparents, sitters and childminders join with the access you choose, at no extra cost. No “per-seat” anything.
Start alone. Set up the schedule, the children's details and the expenses on your own — it all works single-handed. When they're ready, one invite code pairs them in and they're stitched into the shared record from that day forward. No pressure, no nagging emails from us.
No. Your journal is author-only, and care-log entries can be marked “only me” — filtered on the server, not just hidden on the screen. Everything that is shared is clearly labelled, so you always know what the other home can see.
It's the whole foundation. GDPR-first design, server-side authorisation on every request, no third-party analytics that identify you, and audit trails on critical actions. And the promise that matters most: exporting your data is free, forever — it's your family's record, not ours.
Properly. DD/MM/YYYY dates, £ GBP, UK bank holidays, NHS numbers with real validation, and the language of UK family law — contact time, child arrangements orders, parental responsibility. You'll never see “custody” or “visitation” in ParentGlow.
iOS and Android. ParentGlow is currently in early access with UK families — join the list below and we'll send one email when it's your turn. No spam, ever.
Early access is rolling out across the UK now. One email when it's your turn — that's it.
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