Our Family Wizard Reviews

I am an out of state father with high-conflict parenting situation. All what I wanted is to see my child. Before I got the app, the other parent would move with a child without notifying me, move my daughter out of school, change doctors but most of all- I would travel across the country for visitation just to be told she does not feel like releasing the child. I had times I couldn't' reach my daughter for three months a time or heard no response to my emails or calls. I tried everything prior to OFW app: pleadings, begging, trying to take a high road and wait for a contact... nothing worked.

Here are the benefits of the app:
1. Streamlines the messaging and solves the problems associated with pick up/drop off times for visitation. You can see when the other parent reads the messages and they can no longer ignore your messages for weeks or months at a time. And if they do- you have a full record of them doing so.

2. It limits your phone conversations (which in high conflict parenting are impossible) and correspondence to only what really pertains to the child. No blaming, unnecessary sarcastic messages, no accusations... the app makes it simple and clear on who is really focusing on the child's well being and who focuses on creating problems.

3. If the judge awards you a summer, you can input that in OFW, add exchange locations and times and there is NO NEED for any other communication.

4. You can keep in the loop the other parent by using Journal, Calendar and Moments and again- no need for any other communications that may create conflict.

Since the court ordered the use of the app, I have been able to successfully schedule exchange for summer break. I have been able to finally travel to where my daughter's home state and not be threatened, and not worry that I will be coming back again "empty handed". At the same time, I can keep the other parent updated on our plans and whereabouts when our child is in my care.

I am so relieved... I feel like I can be a father again and I can enjoy the time with my daughter. I no longer have to be scared and threatened.

This app is not fancy but it keeps both parents accountable. You can ignore little snarky comments and focus on big things and making sure your child is happy. Thank you OFW!

You need to have monthy plans. I have three months left before my child turns 18 and i had to pay 119$ to write 1 message.

There must be some quiet reason lawyers and judges are pushing this overpriced worthless app on divorced parents. They clearly have never used it.

Tried this app, was a nuisance. Using texting and email was far easier and could do off my hands free. This app forced me to pull over continually log in, select the messaging program and message. Further the messaging interface is inferior to apple texting or android. You can not take pics out of the app and it is confusing the way the threads are set up.
Big pass unless you want to further complicate your life.

120$ a year and you can't print from their app. Yiu need to physically fire up the ol' laptop and do it from the desktop version. About 5 years+ behind the present. Time to catch up and get with the now OFW. The said their tech department was working on it

My husband refused to use this app after I made the purchase. As it was past the 30 day money back guarantee period Family Wizard won't give me any money back. As it was a Canadian purchase I am now out $165 CAD. So far the app works just like my ex husband. Full of promises with no follow through and a lot of disappointment. If you're going to sign up for a parenting app - don't use this one and make sure you sign up before your ex spouse does to ensure you actually get your monies worth.

I am done. Useless site. I have to authenticate my fingerprint periodically? Why? I have used finger print to get into Google for years. But a few months after starting to use OFW I have to sign in with username/password because they need to confirm my fingerprint is still mine? Wow. So I do not recall the login information and I request it. No code came to my phone. So now they want me to contact them, for a simple sign in! Yeah right! At this point, you can fluck right off! As of today I will never use OFW again.
Michael Brant

This App is useful for communication with an abusive personality type when you are required by court order to "co-parent" with someone that abuses you and your children. It is especially useful if the other parent uses coercive control, gas-lighting and psychological rather than physical abuse as the primary tools in their abuser tool kit. At first our abuser was really enthusiastic about using this App as he saw it as another platform to manipulate and there is nothing he loves more than to have a new venue in which to abuse. Now that he has come to see that OFW can't be manipulated and everything is recorded he no longer cares for it. He really cut back on the number of abusive, denigrating and accusatory messages that he sends me. The problem of adult survivors and their children being forced to maintain a relationship and communication with their abuser is rooted in a broken Family Court/Uneducated or Corrupt Judges problem. Other reviewers have a valid point that OFW financially benefits from the lucrative, niche divorce industry but it didn't create the industry. Family Court and our government system is the chicken and OFW is the egg. Our abuser now rants to our kids how much he hates OFW, he reads our messages to them out-loud and tells them it's all your Mother's fault for bad communication but he has blamed and denigrated me to the children for anything and everything for going on 2 decades so nothing new there. The judge tells him to stop involving the children but does absolutely nothing about it when he admits what he does, the children tell the judge he involves them and I repeatedly provide proof that he still puts them in the middle. The family court system is broken in California. Survivors should not be forced to communicate with our abuser. We should be allowed to "just leave" as everyone tells us to do and praises us for. No one seems to know about post separation abuse and how abuser's use the family court system to weaponize the children.

This app due to a court order enforces victims of abusive relationships to have to continue in the abusive relationship. The abuser is allowed to say whatever he wants and the victim has to read it due to a court order. The app does have a "tone" meter which is bars that turn red when the sender writes something mean, but it still allows the message to go thru. In my experience this app is not acceptable for co parenting if the couple was in an abusive relationship to begin with.

This is another way for someone to cash in. Not useful at all. Why does the platform exists if you can track your conversations, money transactions (which there's always a fee for them), among others, with other sources. No one from the courts are monitoring this, and they sell you they will. They don't interfere with anything which was one of the selling points.

This app shouldn't exist. No one from the courts is "monitoring" this. It's a money scam! THIS APP ONLY CREATED ANOTHER PLATFORM FOR MY EX HUSBAND TO HARASS ME, just more "officially" because it's a $100 app instead of a text or email. It's ridiculous. He messages me and then creates a journal entry and then uploads the screenshots to the "info bank" (For safe measure) STAY AWAY FROM THIS APP! STAY AWAY. There is no support, no way to stop any of it. Just a waste od money! Unless that is, you are abusing it. Then it's perfect for you.

It's an added value scam that is imposed on the domestic court system. That in my situation at least the website illegally created a contract between myself and them.