Honest comparison
Quilt and OurFamilyWizard, side by side
OurFamilyWizard is the co-parenting app most people have heard of. Here is how the two differ, feature by feature. OFW details are from their public site and may change; check their current plans.
| quilt | OurFamilyWizard | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99/month or $79/year for the whole family. Free for families under one roof. 30 days free. | Per parent, per year: from about $144 (Essentials) to $288 (Signature) at the time of writing. Two parents pay twice. |
| The custody calendar | Written from your order: rotation, holidays, school breaks, hand-off times, years ahead. Colors show whose day it is. | Built by hand from templates; holidays entered one by one. |
| Asking for a change | Ask, give, swap, first refusal, make-up time. One-tap answer or counter. Pending changes show on the calendar. | Trade/swap requests with approve or decline. |
| The record | Every request, answer, message and expense is stamped by the server the moment it happens and can never be edited or deleted, by anyone. Download any date range as a Letter-size PDF with a case header, page numbers and a SHA-256 fingerprint, so a copy can be checked against the original. | Messages and calendar changes are logged and can be exported. |
| Messaging | An inbox with the other parent, the whole family, or one kid. Read receipts. A tone check that shows why a draft reads heated and offers a calmer version with the same facts. Plus comments on events and notes on days. | Dedicated messaging with ToneMeter (flags heated language) and read receipts. |
| Expenses | Snap a receipt and the amount, date, store and category fill themselves in. Set the split, send a report, the other parent approves or rejects each line, mark it paid. All in the record. | Expense log with reimbursement tracking and payments (OFWpay). |
| The kids | Pair a kid's phone or tablet with a six-digit code: their own Quilt opens every time. Whose house, the week, chores with stars and rewards, messages with the family. No account. | Child accounts on higher plans, view-only calendar. |
| School calendar | Paste the school's calendar link (FACTS Family Portal, a team, a church) and Quilt keeps it in step every day. | Entered by hand. |
| Around the house | An Echo Show widget and "Alexa, open quilt calendar": whose house, next hand-off, this week, the kids' chores. Wall mode for a kitchen tablet. | App and website. |
| Your other calendars | Two-way Google Calendar sync (a "Quilt" calendar in your Google account). Apple and Outlook subscribe with one link. Import your existing calendars. | One-way export to outside calendars. |
| Sign in | Apple, Google, or an emailed link. No password. | Username and password. |
| Help | A helper on every page that answers questions about the site, and reads your own agreement back to you when you ask. | Support articles and a help desk. |
| Family types | Co-parents, married, widowed, blended, grandparents and sitters as viewers. Same app. | Built for separated parents. |
| How it's built | New in 2026, built for phones first, with the tamper-evident record as the foundation instead of a feature bolted on. | Since 2001, with a large installed base. |
Will Quilt's record hold up?
Records are judged on how they were made, not on the logo. Quilt's are created by the system at the moment each thing happens, stamped with server time, never editable or deletable (the database itself refuses), include the email provider's delivery IDs for every notification, and export with a fingerprint that proves a copy is unaltered. That's a stronger set of guarantees than a PDF of a message log. Quilt is not legal advice; it's a very good witness.
Where the day-to-day is different
The calendar is written from your order instead of typed in. Changes are asked and answered in one tap and appear on the calendar. Kids get their own page. It syncs both ways with Google. One price covers the family, and it works for families under one roof too.
See it before you decide
A live demo calendar, no sign-in. Then 30 days free.