OurFamilyWizard Pricing 2026: What It Costs

OurFamilyWizard (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, why it lands where it does, and what your options are if the price doesn't fit.

OurFamilyWizard pricing in 2026

OFW has four tiers, each billed per parent on a 1-year or 2-year plan (the 2-year rate is a little lower). 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 drops to $11.50/mo, Premium to $16.50/mo, Max to $22.99/mo.

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 does offer a military buy-one-get-one-free discount and a fee-waiver scholarship program for low-income families — neither is automatic, so you'll need to apply through their support channel. If you're court-ordered onto the app and the cost is a hardship, it's worth asking before assuming the full price is unavoidable.

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
• Unlimited third-party 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 — genuine free tier with optional Pro upgrade

Kidtime has a free tier with no time limit that covers the core co-parenting workflow, plus a Pro tier for parents who want more:

How much cheaper is that? Kidtime Pro starts at $69.99/year per parent — a fraction of OFW's tiers, which run from ~$150/yr (Essentials) up to ~$300/yr (Max) per parent. For a couple that's a small share of OFW's $300–$600/year, and if Kidtime's free tier covers what you need, the comparison is $0 against OFW's $220–$600, because OurFamilyWizard has no free option at all.

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 Pro adds the court-focused tools (custody analytics, attorney access, data export, AI tone scan) for a fraction of 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 tier in March 2026; ~$77/yr Essentials up to ~$353/yr Ultimate (its tone meter is locked to the top tier).
• AppClose — ended its free tier in January 2026; now ~$96–108/yr per parent.
• 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.