Free beta · under active development

Always know who has the kids. Never argue over a calendar again.

Your custody schedule, in the calendar you already use. Swaps the other parent approves with one link. A record of every change that holds up when it matters.

Takes about two minutes. The other parent never needs an account.

The CustodyMap dashboard: 'Ava & Ben are with Mom', next handoff in 1 day 2 hours, a month calendar coloured by parent, and a pending swap request
Read this before you sign up. CustodyMap is free during the beta and it is being built in the open. Screens will change. Calendar sync to Google and Outlook and text-message links are being switched on over the coming weeks. Your data is kept and backed up nightly, but if you need something rock-solid today, this is not it yet. Questions, bugs, ideas: hello@custodymap.com. What to expect from the beta

How it works

Set it up once. Then it just tells you.

  1. 1

    Pick a rotation, or paint your own

    2-2-3, week on week off, every other weekend and the rest are ready to go, drawn out so you can see them. Shift rotations and odd splits: click the days you want.

  2. 2

    Check it on a real calendar

    See the actual months with handoff times on the days that change hands. Click any day to give it to the other parent before you save.

  3. 3

    Share it for approval, or start today

    Send the other parent a link. They see exactly which days move and approve by email. Or activate it yourself; either way, the record says which.

Step one of the schedule builder: eight typical rotations shown as two-week colour strips with the split and number of handoffs

Right now

Open it and the first line answers the question.

Who has the kids right now. When the next handoff is, in hours and as a time. Who takes over. One button to request a swap. That is the whole top of the screen, because that is what you came for.

The calendar sits underneath, coloured by parent, with the handoff time on the days that change hands and a badge on any day that was swapped.

Dashboard header reading 'Ava & Ben are with Mom. Next handoff in 1 day 2 h, tomorrow 3:00 PM at school pick-up. Then Dad has them.'

Swaps

Change a day without a text-message argument.

Click the day. Say who should have it and why. Then choose: ask the other parent to approve, which sends them a link and changes nothing until they say yes. Or change it yourself.

Both paths are written to the record, and the record says which one you used. That is the difference between "we agreed" and "I decided", and it is visible later.

The 'Change a day' dialog: which day, right now Mom has this day, give this day to Dad, why, and two buttons: Ask Dad to approve, Change it myself

Your calendar

It lives in Google, Outlook, or Apple Calendar. Locked.

We do not write into your calendar. We publish the schedule into a calendar we own and share it with each parent read-only. Nobody can drag a Tuesday from inside Google Calendar, including you. Every event carries a "Request a change" link that brings you back here.

Reminders fire before each handoff, an hour and fifteen minutes out by default, so nobody is late because they were busy. Apple Calendar and everything else subscribe to a private feed.

Google Calendar · CustodyMap · The Rivera householdMom has the kidsFri 3:00 PM → Mon 8:00 AM · at school pick-upDad has the kidsReminder 1 hour before · Reminder 15 minutes beforeRequest a change for this day →

The record

Every change, written down, in plain English.

"Custody swap for Sat, Sep 19 requested by Mom, approved by Dad by email from this address at this time." Each entry carries who, when, from where, and what the schedule looked like before and after. Entries are never edited or deleted.

If you ever need it in front of a mediator or a judge, it is there, complete, and readable without us. Whether it is admissible is between you, your lawyer, and the court.

Ledger

  • DEVIATION_APPROVED Sep 12, 8:41 PM

    Co-parent "Dad" (email verified) approved the custody swap for Sat, Sep 19 on "2-2-3". Custody to Dad. Swap is now in effect.

  • DEVIATION_REQUESTED Sep 12, 1:02 PM

    Custody swap requested by Mom for Sat, Sep 19. Proposing custody to Dad. Awaiting co-parent approval. Notes: Grandma visiting.

  • SCHEDULE_CREATED Sep 7, 9:15 AM

    Custody schedule "2-2-3 · from Sep 7, 2026" created by Mom. Pattern 2-2-3, handoffs at 6:00 PM, Mondays at school.

Numbers

Overnights for the court. Hours for you.

Courts and child-support formulas count overnights, so we show those first, by month and by year, with a running balance. Underneath: real hours with the kids, worked out from your handoff times, both as total time and as time outside school.

Export the day-by-day list as a spreadsheet whenever you need it.

Reporting: hours with the kids as total time and outside school, an overnight split donut, overnights by month, and a running balance line

School and activities

Whose weekend is the soccer tournament on?

Paste the school's calendar link, or upload the PDF from the fridge, and we read it. Every practice, game, early release and day off shows up labelled with whose custody time it lands on, and we warn you when one straddles a handoff.

No-school days also feed the schedule: a Monday handoff "at school" quietly becomes a direct handoff on a teacher work day.

Coming up

  • Soccer practice Tue, Sep 15

    Ava & Ben · 5:30–7:00 PM · Dad's time

  • Soccer tournament Sat, Sep 26

    Ava · 9:00 AM–4:00 PM · Mom's time

    Custody changes hands during this. Agree who's driving.

  • Teacher work day (no school) Mon, Sep 21

    All day · Dad's time · handoff moves to 9:00 AM

Built for interrupted people

We design as if everyone has ADHD, because at 9 PM on a school night everyone does.

One thing per screen

The first line answers your question. One button does the thing you came to do. The rest waits below.

Pick up where you left off

Get pulled away halfway through building a schedule? It is saved. A quiet line at the top lists anything unfinished and takes you straight back.

Reminders before every handoff

An hour before and fifteen minutes before, in both parents' calendars. Change the timing in one place.

Price

Free while in beta.

We will tell you before anything costs money, in the app and by email, and you will be able to export everything first. Beta families get a say in what we build next.

Join the free beta

Questions

Does the other parent need an account? +

No. Everything the other parent has to do, they do from a link we send: review a proposed schedule, approve or decline a swap. They get a one-time code by email to prove it is them. If they want their own login later, they can have one.

Can someone move a day from inside Google Calendar? +

No. We publish your schedule into a calendar we own and share with each parent read-only. Nothing can be dragged, edited, or deleted from Google, Outlook, or Apple Calendar. Every event has a "Request a change" link that brings you back here, where the other parent approves it.

Is the record court-admissible? +

We keep a tamper-evident record of every change: who did it, when, from where, and what the schedule looked like before and after. Changes one parent makes alone are labelled as such. Whether a court accepts it is up to the court and your lawyer. We are not giving legal advice.

Which calendars work? +

Google Calendar and Outlook get a shared, live-updating calendar. Apple Calendar and anything else subscribe to a private feed. Sync is being switched on during the beta; the feed works today.

What happens to my data if I leave? +

You can delete your account from Settings. Access stops immediately. After a short grace period we seal the history into a locked archive that only you or a legal request can open, and delete everything else. The archive exists because custody records sometimes matter years later.

Is it really free? +

Yes, while we are in beta. We will tell you in the app and by email before anything costs money, and you will be able to export everything first.

CustodyMap

A custody calendar that lives in the calendar you already use, with a record that holds up. Free while in beta.

© 2026 CustodyMap. Under active development. Nothing here is legal advice.