Why we split one paid plan into two

For a long time, there were two ways to use just parent: a free plan, or a single paid plan at $120 a year that unlocked everything at once. Families told us that gap was too wide. Some wanted more room, more history, more contacts, without paying for AI tools they weren't ready to use.

We listened. The single paid plan is now two: Plus and Complete.

Here's how the new lineup breaks down, and why Plus is the one most families should start with.

The gap between free and everything

The free plan was genuinely useful, but it had limits: 30 days of message history, a 30-day calendar window, and room for 5 contacts.

The old paid plan solved every one of those limits at once, and added AI features on top. For a lot of families, that was more than they needed and more than they wanted to pay. There was nothing in between: you either lived with the caps or bought the whole toolkit.

That's the pattern we heard back most often. A parent whose co-parent relationship is calm doesn't need a tone checker. A parent two years post-separation with a stable schedule doesn't need court-ready exports. What they both wanted was simple: keep more history, add more contacts, plan further out. Nothing more complicated than that.

Plus: the plan built for most families

Plus is $7.99 a month, or $71.99 a year.

It removes the caps that free families kept running into, without adding AI tools you may not need yet.

• Unlimited message, journal, and expense history
• Plan the calendar beyond 30 days, including holidays
• Unlimited contacts, plus a read-only view for family and grandparents
• Shared documents and photos
• Expense auto-split and a formal dispute workflow

Complete: for when conflict runs higher

Complete is $119.99 a year, billed annually only, which works out to about $10 a month.

It includes everything in Plus, plus five things aimed squarely at high-conflict stretches: a tone check before you send a message, drafting help in messages and the journal, calendar sync with Apple and Google, and a court-ready record export with a cryptographic hash for authenticity.

That tone check is worth explaining, because it works in both directions now. Every plan, including free, already lets you preview how an incoming message reads before you open it, so you're not caught off guard by something heated. Complete adds the other half: a check on your own message before you hit send, so a hard day doesn't turn into a message you'd word differently tomorrow.

One subscription. Two parents.

This is the part that separates just parent from almost every other option out there.

Most co-parenting apps charge each parent their own subscription, which quietly doubles the household cost. On just parent, one household pays, and the co-parent gets full access at no extra charge. Run the numbers on a two-parent household for a full year and the gap is hard to ignore.

• just parent Plus: $71.99 total, for both parents
• just parent Complete: $119.99 total, for both parents
• Comparable two-parent plans elsewhere: often $170 to $430 a year

You don't have to change a thing

If free has worked for your family, it still works exactly the same way: no credit card, no expiry date, no pressure. The point of adding a middle plan wasn't to push anyone off free. It was to stop asking families to choose between too little and too much.

And situations change, so moving between plans is meant to be painless. Start on free, move to Plus once the 30-day history limit starts to sting, add Complete if things get harder to navigate calmly. None of that is a one-way door.

The best pricing page isn't the one with the most plans. It's the one where every family can find the plan they actually need.

Free, Plus, and Complete are live now inside just parent. If you've been sitting between the two old options, this is the update that was built for you. You can see all three side by side on the pricing page.