Custody X Change: Pricing, What It Does, and a Simpler Alternative

Custody X Change is custody software that builds a parenting plan, lays out the schedule and works out each parent's share of parenting time. Its public site publishes exactly one price — "Plans start at just $6/month (billed annually)" — and the plan list and per-tier prices sit behind a sign-in, so treat $6 a month as a floor rather than the figure you will pay. It is a plan builder and parenting-time calculator first and a day-to-day calendar second, which leaves the years after the plan is signed to something else. Read from custodyxchange.com's pricing and FAQ pages on 6 September 2026.

What Custody X Change costs

We checked three of their pages on 6 September 2026 and this is the whole of what is public. We are showing you the gap as well as the figure, because a starting price with no tier list attached is not a price.

The plan screen at their app subdomain asked us to sign in when we checked, so anything beyond that entry price would be a guess, and we do not publish guesses about other people's pricing. If you are budgeting, ask them directly for the full plan list before you sign up.

What Custody X Change actually does

From their own product pages, read 6 September 2026, the toolset is:

• A parenting schedule builder — a customisable calendar for laying out an arrangement
• A parenting time calculator that works out how the time divides
• A parenting plan generator that produces the written agreement
• A digital journal for documenting events privately
• An expense tracker with receipts
• A messaging system with documented records
• A child information organiser and an activity coordinator

Read that list again and notice where its centre of gravity is. Three of the headline tools — the schedule builder, the time calculator and the plan generator — are about producing a document and a number. That is a drafting job. It is also, mostly, a job you do once.

Who it suits

• You are drafting or renegotiating a parenting plan and want a structured document rather than a blank page — see our own parenting plan template.
• You need a defensible parenting-time percentage for a support calculation or a filing.
• You are comparing several schedule options before committing to one — the custody schedule examples and schedules by age pages cover the same ground.
• A lawyer or mediator has asked you for a written proposal to work from.
• You want the plan and the arithmetic produced by the same tool, so the two cannot drift apart.

None of that is what SplitDay does. SplitDay has no plan generator and no drafting workflow, and no software output — theirs or ours — is automatically accepted by a court. If your job today is writing the plan, a plan builder is the right shape of tool.

The gap it leaves: the years after the plan is signed

Here is the thing about a parenting plan. Drafting it is an intense few weeks. Living with it is the next ten years. Once the document exists, the questions change completely, and none of the new ones are drafting questions:

• Whose day is it — this Thursday, and the Thursday after the clocks change?
• Did the exchange actually happen, at the time it was supposed to?
• Are we still tracking to the plan, or has the count quietly drifted?
• What happens at Thanksgiving, and who had it last year?
• What do I show if the split is disputed eighteen months from now?

That is the work SplitDay is built for: you set the pattern once and the calendar fills itself in, you log each exchange as it happens, the scoreboard keeps the running balance of nights, holiday rules override the regular pattern on the days you assign, and a CSV export gives you the full history when someone questions the count. It also handles the awkward edges, like a handoff on the night the clocks change. More on the day-to-day in the shared custody tracker guide.

From plan document to live calendar

If you have just finished a plan — in Custody X Change, with a mediator, or on a legal pad — this is the handoff, and it takes about five minutes.

1. Read the pattern out of the plan. Almost every written arrangement reduces to a named rotation: 2-2-3, alternating weeks, 60/40, every other weekend. The custody schedule examples page names them, and the most common schedules shows which ones real families settle on.
2. Set that pattern and its start date. One screen, and the calendar is laid out for years ahead.
3. Add the holidays your plan names. Pick your country's preset pack and assign the days; an assigned holiday overrides the regular rotation. The holiday custody schedule guide covers the rotation conventions.
4. Log exchanges as they happen. Thirty seconds each, and the scoreboard keeps the running balance so the percentage is never a reconstruction. Cross-check it against the parenting time calculator.
5. Export the CSV when the count is questioned. It contains the full history, not a summary — and read what courts actually do with app records before you rely on it.

Custody X Change and SplitDay compared

These are complements more than rivals, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. If you also want the wider field, the 2026 co-parenting app comparison covers five products, and there are cost pages for OurFamilyWizard, AppClose and TalkingParents. Our own prices are on the pricing page, and if cost is the whole question, start with the free co-parenting app rundown.

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