When an app charges each parent separately, the two homes pay twice. Two Porch Lights covers you and your co-parent with one subscription, paid yearly or monthly, for the calendar, shared expenses, and messaging you both actually use every week.
Start free · no credit cardTalkingParents accounts are billed per parent. When both parents take part, that is two subscriptions. Here is the side by side.
| When both parents take part | Two Porch Lights | TalkingParents |
|---|---|---|
| Who a subscription covers | Both parents co-parent joins free |
One account each billed per parent |
| Cost for both parents, per year | $99 total |
~$168 2 × $7/mo Essentials, billed monthly |
| Free trial | 30 days, plus 30 when your co-parent joins (60 days total), no card | 30 days |
| Free plan | Free trial, then one low price | Ended March 2026 |
| Shared calendar & parenting schedules | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shared expenses | ✓ split by your percentages, AI reads the receipt | Payment requests and tracking on every plan 2% to 4% fee to send money, by plan |
| Tone coach that softens a heated message | ✓ built in, no upgrade needed | Ultimate plan only ($32/mo) |
| Document storage | ✓ 5 GB, same on every plan | 1 GB Essentials · 15 GB Enhanced · 50 GB Ultimate |
| Private Tax Center & accountant packet | ✓ | Not among its listed features |
| Read-only access for your attorney | ✓ included with your plan or trial | No attorney access; you share PDF records PDF downloads free on Enhanced and Ultimate |
TalkingParents details reflect the plans, features and FAQs published at talkingparents.com/pricing and talkingparents.com as of September 2026 (Essentials $7/mo per account, billed monthly; annual billing saves 8%). Compare current plans before you decide. Two homes on the lowest-priced tier is roughly $168 a year combined at the monthly rate.
Two separate homes, working together for the kids. These are the tools that actually get used between drop-offs.
Your co-parent joins your shared space free with your invite link or code, and one subscription, from either of you, covers each of you.
Wrote it angry? Tap Soften and it rewrites your message calm and child-focused. You choose which version sends.
Parenting time, events that repeat or run over several days, and shared expenses in one place, synced live. Each event shows which kids it's for and who's driving, so you and your co-parent work from the same page.
Track 529s, daycare, medical, and mileage in a space only you can see, then build an accountant-ready packet in one tap.
Photograph any receipt or upload a PDF, and it fills in the amount, date, store, and category. Logging an expense takes seconds.
One of you on iPhone, the other on Android, plus tablets and computers. Use it in the browser today, get the iPhone app on the App Store, or the Android app on Google Play. On iPhone and Android, a Home Screen widget shows whose night it is and the month ahead without opening the app.
No. Your co-parent joins free with an invite link or code, and one subscription covers your shared space for each of you: the calendar, expenses, and messaging. Either of you can be the one who subscribes. The one personal extra is the private Tax Center: it is included for the parent who created the space, and a parent who joined from an invite gets their own by adding their own plan.
For everyday co-parenting, yes: a shared calendar and parenting schedules, expense splitting with receipt scanning, mileage for kids' activities, confirmed trip by trip by the parent who drove or added automatically if you choose (at the IRS standard mileage rate for business use, split 50/50), a message thread time-stamped by our server, alerts you choose (including alert emails as things are posted or in one end-of-day summary), a private journal, your parenting plan on file so either parent can ask it questions and get answers quoted from the plan, and an expiring read-only access code you can give an attorney or mediator while your plan or trial is active. Two Porch Lights is not a law firm: answers about your plan are not legal advice, and whether any record is accepted or given weight in a legal proceeding is up to the court, so follow your attorney's guidance and confirm details against your own court order.
Setup takes a few minutes: create your space and short setup tiles walk you through the rest. The first, Start from your parenting plan, lets AI read your court order and fill in what it finds: names, children, the schedule, holidays, the split and child support. It takes a PDF or a .txt file, and on the website a scanned PDF works too, up to 40 scanned pages. Then invite your co-parent with a link or code. Your first 30 days are free, plus 30 more once your co-parent joins (60 days total), with no credit card. Switching from TalkingParents? Download your PDF record from them, upload it in Settings, and your old messages join the thread in their original date order, clearly labeled as imported.
On the website, $99 a year (about $8.25 a month) or $12 a month. One subscription covers both parents, and either parent can subscribe. In the iPhone and Android apps you subscribe yearly or monthly through the App Store or Google Play, at the price shown there. Cancel anytime, and your data stays yours to export.
No. It runs in any web browser, so one of you can be on iPhone and the other on Android, and it works on a computer too. The iPhone app is available on the App Store, and the Android app is on Google Play.
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