Two homes.
One calendar.

Coparia keeps the parenting rotation, the handovers, and everything scheduled around them in one place that both parents can see.

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Week on / week off

Two weeks

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Seven nights at each home, alternating. Handover is usually Friday after school.

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Showing Week on / week off. Seven nights at each home, alternating. Handover is usually Friday after school.

Four common rotations, or draw your own.

Set it once

Start from the rotation you already have.

Week on / week off, 2-2-3, 2-2-5-5 or every other weekend. Pick the one your arrangement is called, choose the day it turns over, and watch the preview line up before you save anything. If yours has its own shape, draw it.

  • The preview updates as you change the handover day, so you can check it against the real thing.
  • A schedule can cover every child or just one, for families where the arrangements differ.
  • Revising a plan starts the new one from a date. It never rewrites what already happened.
Choosing a parenting rotation, with the handover day and a preview of the two-week cycle

See it whole

Whose week it is, and what is in it.

One calendar for both households. The parenting schedule runs underneath as a color, so you can see the shape of the month at a glance, and everything scheduled sits on top of it.

  • Month, lanes or agenda, whichever way you think about time.
  • Children wear their own avatar, so you can pick out whose activity is whose without reading.
  • Changes appear for the other parent as they happen, without a refresh.
A month of the shared calendar, each day colored by which home the children are in

Put it down once

The dentist, and who is driving.

An event carries the things that actually get argued about later. Which children it is for, who is responsible for it, where it is, and when to be reminded.

  • Name a parent as responsible, and optionally give them the day itself in the same step.
  • Repeat it weekly, fortnightly, monthly or yearly, then change or cancel a single occurrence without touching the rest.
  • Start typing a location and the address completes itself.
The new event form, with the children it is for, a location, and start and end times

The evening, done

The bedtime list, ticked off in both houses.

Medicine at eight. Cream after the bath. Twenty minutes of reading. The things that repeat every single day and get lost in the handover between two homes. Coparia keeps them as a checklist, per child, per day, so whoever is with them can see what is left without phoning to ask.

  • What is due right now sits at the top, because somebody opens this at half past seven holding a wet child.
  • Ticked per child, so one child's bath is never the other's, and both houses are looking at the same list.
  • Due at "before bed" or "with breakfast" rather than at 20:00. A routine pinned to a clock is late every night for a child who goes to bed at half past.
Today's routines for two children, each step ticked off separately

Before anybody has to ask

Allergic to peanuts. Readable in ten seconds.

The standing facts about a child that anybody caring for them has to have, on one card. Allergies, intolerances, medications, the products you use and who to call. Written once by a parent, and readable by a grandparent or a sitter who has never opened this app before.

  • The most serious thing is first, and only a real danger is drawn loudly. A card where everything shouts is a card that gets skimmed, and the entry that gets skipped is the one that mattered.
  • Every entry says what to DO, not only what is wrong. "EpiPen in the front pocket of her bag, then call for help" is the line that helps somebody who is frightened.
  • A sitter can read it. Only a parent can change it. It is never hidden from the person looking after your children.
The Need to know card: a peanut allergy first, with what to do about it and a button to call for an ambulance

Stop typing them in

Photograph the roster. Keep the dates.

A practice schedule on a flyer, a term calendar photographed off a noticeboard, a spreadsheet from a coach. Coparia reads the dates out of it and proposes the events, and you keep the ones you want.

  • Photos and Word, Excel or text files. A phone photo is shrunk before it is sent, so there is nothing to do first.
  • What comes back is a draft in the ordinary event form. Nothing reaches the calendar until you save it.
  • Counted separately from the assistant, so reading a schedule never costs you a question.
Importing a schedule: a panel offering to read a photo or file and propose the appointments it finds

The hard part

Holidays and birthdays, decided in advance.

The dates that cause the most trouble are the ones nobody wants to negotiate twice. Set the rule once and the calendar keeps it.

  • Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November, not a date you re-enter every year.
  • A holiday can alternate by year, so it changes hands on its own and neither parent has to remember whose turn it was.
  • A child's birthday works the same way, for that child or for all of them.
Adding a holiday rule, with the name completing from a catalogue of common holidays

The rest of it

People who help

A grandparent or a sitter can be a helper rather than a parent. They see what they need to and nothing more, and whether they can see the parenting schedule at all is your choice. They can tick off a routine and read what a child is allergic to without ever seeing a message between the two of you.

Ask for cover

Flag an event you cannot make. Your helpers hear about it, and the first one to accept becomes responsible for that day only. Nobody is left guessing whether somebody is coming, and the day goes back to normal afterwards.

Swap a week

Ask the other parent for a night or a week, and the calendar changes only if they agree. The swap is recorded against the days it moved, so in six months there is an answer to what happened rather than two memories of it.

Messages, kept together

Conversations sit with the calendar they are about, so arranging a swap does not happen in a text thread nobody can find later. Search goes back through all of it, and a draft you started and did not send is still there tomorrow.

Told, not buried

Choose what reaches you in the app, by email or as a push, and take a digest daily, weekly or monthly. Or turn the lot off. A separating family does not need another app competing for attention.

An assistant that reads your calendar

Ask what is happening on Thursday, or when the children are next with you for a full weekend. It answers from your own calendar rather than from the internet, and when it proposes an event it hands you a draft to check instead of saving anything itself.

Works with the calendar you already use

Subscribe to Coparia from Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar and the parenting schedule appears beside your work diary. Follow a school or a club calendar the other way, and share a read-only link with somebody who does not need an account.

Your record, yours to take

Download the whole family record whenever you want it: the calendar, the schedule, the history of who had the children and when. A PDF for a person or a court, and JSON for a program. Free on every plan, because a record you cannot take out is not really yours.

Coming soon

The same calendar, in your pocket.

The iPhone app is in development and close. The calendar, messages, routines and the Need to know card, built natively rather than a web page in a frame. Everything below is already working; what is left is the App Store.

The agenda on an iPhone: each day banded by which home the children are in, with who has them and what is on
Tonight's routines on an iPhone, what is due now at the top, each step its own tick
The Need to know card on an iPhone, the two dangers first, each saying what to do

Questions people ask

How do two households share one calendar?

Coparia gives both parents the same calendar, with the parenting schedule running underneath it as a color, so each day shows which home the children are in. Both parents see changes as they happen. Events carry the things that get argued about later: which children they are for, who is responsible, and where.

How do you keep a child’s routine going across two homes?

Coparia keeps routines as a checklist per child per day, so medicine at eight, cream after the bath and twenty minutes of reading are ticked off in whichever house the children are in that night. What is due now is lifted to the top of the list. A routine is due at a part of the day, such as before bed or with breakfast, rather than at a clock time that is wrong for a child who goes to bed at half past.

How do I make sure a babysitter knows about a child’s allergy?

Coparia keeps the standing facts about a child on one card called Need to know: allergies, intolerances, medications, the products the family uses, and who to call. The most serious entry is first, every entry says what to do rather than only what is wrong, and anybody caring for the children can read it. Only a parent can change it, and it is never hidden from a helper.

Can a grandparent or a babysitter see the calendar?

A grandparent or a sitter can be added to Coparia as a helper rather than as a parent. A helper sees what they need to and nothing more, and whether they can see the parenting schedule at all is the parents’ choice. Helpers can tick off routines and read the Need to know card without seeing messages between the parents.

Does Coparia work with Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar?

Yes. Coparia publishes a calendar feed that Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar can subscribe to, so the parenting schedule appears beside a work diary. Coparia can also follow a school or club calendar the other way, and a read-only link can be shared with somebody who does not have an account.

Is there a Coparia app for iPhone?

An iPhone app is in development and is not in the App Store yet. Coparia runs in a phone browser today and can be added to the home screen. The calendar, messages, routines and the Need to know card are all built natively in the app that is coming.

Can I get my family’s records out of Coparia?

Yes, on every plan and at any time. Coparia exports the whole family record: the calendar, the parenting schedule, and the history of which parent had the children on which days. It comes as a PDF for a person or a court, and as JSON for another program.

Start with the rotation you already have.

Setting up takes about five minutes. Name your family, add the children, pick the rotation, and invite the other parent when you are ready.

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