User Guide

The Custody Calendar

The calendar is available from the main page of the site. It displays your custody schedule over one or more months, colour-coded for each parent.

Tap the Settings button to open the configuration panel. All your settings are saved on your device and will be restored on your next visit.

Choose your country (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg or Quebec). For France, select your school zone (A, B, C, Corsica or an overseas department). Also select your child's school level (nursery, primary, middle or high school), as this affects Wednesday school-free days.

Custody Patterns

The app offers three custody patterns. Choose the one that matches your court order or parental agreement:

• Alternating weeks — The child spends one week with one parent, then the next week with the other.
• Alternating weekends — The child lives mainly with one parent during the week and spends every other weekend with the other parent.
• Custom — You define exactly which days belong to each parent.

Holidays and Public Holidays

Turn on the "Holidays and Public Holidays" option in Settings so the calendar accounts for your zone's school breaks and public holidays.

Holiday dates are fetched automatically from the official national school calendar, based on your zone (A, B or C for France).

You can choose which parent takes the first or second half of each holiday period, and reverse this rule for even or odd years.

Summer Holidays (July–August)

Four modes are available in Settings for the summer period:

Even and odd years: the calendar uses the year when the long summer holidays begin (even or odd). With “Vacation alternation (Parent A)” (the two buttons just above), you choose whether Parent A takes the first or second part in even years; in odd years it is automatically the opposite. This applies to every mode below, including exact midpoint (first or second half of the summer).

• Full month — One parent has all of July, the other all of August; who gets which month follows even/odd years and “Vacation alternation”.
• Calendar fortnights — Blocks run from the 1st to the 15th, then from the 16th to the end of the month. Four alternating blocks over both months.
• Strict fortnights — Alternation every 15 days starting from the first day of your zone's summer holidays.
• Exact midpoint — Summer is split exactly in half. If the split falls during the night, the app moves it to the time you configured for parents' celebration days.

Public Holidays, Long Weekends and Wednesdays

The calendar automatically detects public holidays and bridge days. For children in nursery or primary school, Wednesday is treated as a school-free day.

When a public holiday is next to a Wednesday (for example an Ascension bridge), the calendar groups all these school-free days together. The parent changeover happens on the last school day, at the pick-up time you configured.

Parents' celebration days

In Settings you choose your household type: a mother and a father, two mothers, or two fathers. Then you pick which parent hosts the child for each relevant calendar date (Mother's Day, Father's Day, or the matching dates for your household), or turn on automatic alternation from one year to the next.

The handover time for these celebrations is configurable. If a long summer break split falls during the night, the app uses that same time to move it to a more practical moment.

Sharing Your Calendar

Tap the Export button in the calendar. You can download a calendar file for each parent, covering the full school year (September to August).

If you use Home Assistant, check the Integration section for a more advanced sync. See the Home Assistant guide→

Activities, daily logistics, and messaging

From the Simulator menu, three screens sit alongside the interactive custody calendar: activities and outings, daily logistics, and co-parent messaging. You can also open them from your household’s Activities & outings hub.

Activities and outings

Activity and outing ideas filtered by school level (preschool through high school) and themes (sports, culture, holidays, and more). Handy for planning weekends or school breaks depending on which home the child is in.

Daily logistics

Checklist-style lists (like a school bag): clothes, comfort items, homework, sports gear, and so on. Tick what’s packed or ready to reduce mix-ups when the child switches homes.

Communication

Per-child messaging for practical topics (times, supplies, delays, and similar). Only the household creator and co-parent can use it when signed in; observers cannot see these messages.

Exporting messages as PDF

On the Communication screen, the household creator or co-parent can download a plain text (.txt) file with every message for the selected child: each message’s date and time, who wrote it, the parents’ names and email addresses when the app has them, plus an integrity seal so you can check the file was not altered after export. Useful when you need a readable record.

Open these screens on the site:

• Ideas & outings
• Backpack & gear
• Messaging

Privacy and Shared Households

Your household is a private space. Information is only visible to the people you have invited.

Each member has a role: the household creator manages children (add and remove). Both the creator and the co-parent have access to the calendar and messaging, and each can invite observers. An observer (grandparents, nannies, etc.) can only view the calendar of the children they were given access to.

For extended family: in household management, each parent only sees members they personally invited (access codes they generated). Observers added by the other parent for their side of the family do not appear in your list — and vice versa. The custody calendar stays shared between both parents in the household. If you export the calendar file and send it to relatives outside the app, that sharing is only between you and them.

If you have children from different relationships, each household is completely separate. Members of one household cannot see anything from another.