OurFamilyWizard Pricing 2026: What It Costs

OurFamilyWizard — written Our Family Wizard or My Family Wizard about as often, shortened to Family Wizard in most court orders, and abbreviated OFW — is the most established name in co-parenting apps, 22+ years in market and the platform judges and attorneys most often default to. It's also the most expensive option in the category. If you've been court-ordered onto it, or you're comparing it against newer apps, the pricing isn't always easy to find because it's split across four tiers and billed per parent.

Here's exactly what OurFamilyWizard costs in 2026, what each tier includes, who qualifies for the fee waiver, what the subscription and promo codes are, and what your options are if the price doesn't fit. Prices were checked on August 29, 2026 against ourfamilywizard.com and the OFW help center.

OurFamilyWizard pricing in 2026

Do both parents have to pay for Family Wizard? Yes. Every tier is billed per parent, so a co-parenting pair pays twice — and there is no free version of My Family Wizard for the second parent to sit on. That is the single thing most people are trying to find out, and it is the answer whichever way you spell the name.

OFW has four tiers, each billed per parent on a 1-year or 2-year plan (the 2-year rate is a little lower). There is no monthly billing — OFW says "we do not offer installment or monthly payment plans. All subscriptions are billed annually" — so the per-month figures on its pricing page are equivalents, not what you're charged. The main thing that changes as you go up the tiers is calling — how much documented audio/video calling you get, and whether calls can be recorded:

Two-year plans shave a bit off: Essentials $276 for two years ($11.50/mo), Premium $396 ($16.50/mo), Max $551.76 ($22.99/mo). Basic is $220 for two years — no discount.

The number that surprises most people is the household cost, because OFW has no shared or family plan — each parent subscribes separately:

• Two parents on Essentials: ~$300/year combined
• Two parents on Premium: ~$432/year combined
• Two parents on Max: ~$600/year combined

OFW's refund window is 30 days on a first website purchase only; renewals, upgrades and add-ons aren't refundable. Practitioner, child and third-party accounts are free.

OurFamilyWizard fee waiver: who qualifies and how to apply

OFW's fee waiver is broader than most people assume, and the application is an online form, not a support ticket. You qualify through any one of:

• Public assistance — SNAP, TANF, WIC, LIHEAP, SSI, Medicaid, or the National School Lunch Program, verified instantly through SheerID with no documents needed.
• Court-documented indigence (in forma pauperis) — proof from the court dated within the past 12 months.
• Free or reduced-rate legal representation — a signed letter from your attorney on letterhead.
• Domestic or intimate-partner violence — a signed letter from a qualified professional (a licensed mental-health provider, attorney, judge, social worker, or DV advocate or shelter).

An approved waiver gives you the Essentials subscription with unlimited calling, for a year, renewed manually each year (you can reapply from 30 days before it expires). If a court order says your calls must be recorded or transcribed, OFW adds those features at no cost too. New users apply at join.ourfamilywizard.com/app/feewaiver; existing users apply from the Billing page on the website. Each parent applies individually; OFW says it usually replies within five business days, and SheerID verification is often instant.

OurFamilyWizard subscription codes and promo codes

If you've been told to enter a "subscription code" or "promo code," it almost certainly came from a family-law or mental-health professional. OFW sells practitioners subscriptions in bulk — packages of 10, 20 or 30 accounts at an unpublished reduced rate — and they hand clients a five-part code to apply at My Account → Billing → Promo Code when activating or renewing a one-year subscription. OFW's practitioner documentation describes the codes as "a $99 dollar credit" usable on any parent subscription; its parent-facing page says a code "will cover the cost of a basic one-year subscription." There are no public coupon codes.

Military discount. If either parent is active duty, retired military, or a veteran, OFW's buy-one-get-one covers the second parent's subscription at no cost; verify with a DD-214 or current orders through the application on OFW's military-families page.

What you're actually paying for

OFW's higher price buys a genuinely deep, court-focused feature set:

• Immutable, court-admissible messaging — messages can never be edited, deleted, or retracted
• ToneMeter — flags negative language and suggests neutral alternatives before you send (their tone-scan feature)
• Documented calling, metered by tier — receive-only (Basic) → 45 min/mo (Essentials) → unlimited (Premium) → unlimited + recording + transcription (Max)
• Calendar with one-click time-trade requests
• Expense Log + OFWpay for tracking and moving shared money
• Journal with Moments (observations) and GPS-verified Check-ins
• Info Bank for medical, insurance, emergency, and school records
• Free third-party and practitioner accounts — attorneys, mediators, and family members at no extra cost

Credit where it's due: OFW is the most court-trusted platform in the category, its message immutability is real, and its professional ecosystem (attorneys and judges who already know the tool) is a genuine advantage if your case is headed to court. If a judge has specifically ordered OurFamilyWizard, use OurFamilyWizard.

Why OFW costs more than newer apps

Two structural reasons:

1. The per-parent model. There's no bundle and no free seat, so the sticker price is effectively doubled for a household — and if your co-parent refuses to pay, you're stuck carrying both sides or going without.
2. Calling is the upsell. The core records-and-calendar experience is similar across tiers; what you're really climbing the price ladder for is call minutes, then recorded calls, then transcripts. Getting recorded + transcribed calls (the Max tier) is where the ~$300/year-per-parent comes from.

For a household that mostly needs a shared calendar, documented messaging, and expense tracking — not recorded calls — you're paying premium-tier prices for a court-grade calling feature you may never use.

If the price doesn't work for you

OurFamilyWizard's $110–$300/year-per-parent pricing is the steepest in the category, and for many co-parenting households — especially paying for both parents — it adds up fast. The good news: newer apps deliver the core co-parenting workflow with a genuine free tier.

Kidtime — free tier that doesn't expire, with optional Premium

Kidtime has a free tier with no time limit that covers the core co-parenting workflow, plus a Premium tier for parents who want more. It's also the first co-parenting app with an AI assistant parenting plan builder, free to build:

How much cheaper is that? Kidtime Premium is $99.99/year per parent, frequently on sale, against OFW's tiers, which run from $110/yr (Basic) to $299.88/yr (Max) per parent — and the parent who won't pay can stay on Kidtime's free tier. If the free tier covers what you need, the comparison is $0 against OFW's $220–$600 a year for a couple, because OurFamilyWizard has no free option outside its fee waiver.

The honest comparison on features: OFW is the more battle-tested, court-entrenched platform, and it includes its own ToneMeter, so AI tone help is roughly an even trade between the two. Where Kidtime pulls ahead is price and access — the core co-parenting workflow (calendar, messaging, file vault, notes) is free, and Premium adds the court-focused tools (recorded calls and messages on the record, expense tracking, custody analytics, attorney access, court-ready exports, AI tone scan) for less than every paid OFW tier. Critically, because Kidtime has a real free tier, a co-parent who won't pay can still join and participate for free — which is exactly where OFW's per-parent model leaves people stuck.

For a feature-by-feature look, see our Kidtime vs OurFamilyWizard breakdown.

Other alternatives

If you're shopping the category broadly, our 12 best apps for divorced parents in 2026 post has verified 2026 pricing for every major app, including:

• TalkingParents — ended its free plan on March 30, 2026; $77/yr Essentials up to $352/yr Ultimate per parent (its tone meter is locked to the top tier).
• AppClose — ended its free tier in January 2026; now $83.88/yr on the web or $98.99/yr in the app, per parent.
• A fuller roundup: OurFamilyWizard alternatives compared.
• WeParent, Cozi, 2Houses, and others.

Bottom line

OurFamilyWizard remains the gold standard for court-involved, high-conflict cases — and it's priced like it, at ~$110–$300/year per parent (up to ~$600/year for a couple on the Max tier). If a judge ordered it, or you specifically need recorded-and-transcribed calls with a name attorneys already trust, it earns its price.

But most co-parenting households don't need all of that. If you mainly need a shared custody calendar, documented messaging, expense tracking, and clean records, you can get that today on a genuine free tier — Kidtime and a handful of others give you a real free path without losing the core features that make OFW useful. The cheapest way to decide is to run a free trial of one or two alternatives alongside OFW and compare before any money changes hands.

Sources: ourfamilywizard.com/plans-and-pricing, /plans-and-pricing/scholarships and /plans-and-pricing/military-families; OFW help-center articles on subscription plans (June 4, 2026), payment plans, fee-waiver steps and renewal (April 21, 2026), refunds (August 8, 2026), and practitioner subscription codes; OFW Knowledge Center pages on promo codes. Checked August 29, 2026.