Casewell vs OurFamilyWizard — for UK parents

OurFamilyWizard details from ourfamilywizard.com, checked July 9, 2026. Confirm current plans with the provider.

How to read this in the UK

Three things need to stay separate in a record. What the arrangement says, what actually happened, and the file that shows it. Blur them together and a reader has to take your word for it. Keep them apart and the record speaks for itself.

The UK is not one family-law system. England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each have their own rules, forms and vocabulary. Use the words that appear in your own order or agreement rather than a term borrowed from somewhere else.

Keep the complete source file, not a crop of it. Write events in the order they happened, and say plainly where something is missing or unclear. A family solicitor can work with a record like that. They cannot work with a reconstruction.

Locality checklist for a UK review

Name the UK nation and court. Copy the key words from the current order or plan. Add places only when they help explain the event. Remove home or school addresses if the reader does not need them. Check the right court rules before you use a private timeline as a formal record.

What OurFamilyWizard is for

OurFamilyWizard exists to make messages between two parents accountable. Messages are documented, ToneMeter nudges heated wording down before it sends, the shared calendar handles schedule trades, and expenses route through a system both parents see. Courts across the US order parents onto it precisely because it removes the he-said-she-said around messages. If your conflict lives inside the messages themselves, this is the tool type you need.

What Casewell is for

Casewell documents your experience of co-parenting rather than the conversation between parents. A custody journal entry takes under a minute. Type, child, what happened, when, with the screenshot, photo, or receipt attached to that event.

Entries accumulate into a timeline you can filter by child, type, or date range and export as an expert PDF. A parenting-time record for your attorney, an expense summary with repayment status, or a full bundle for family court planning. The other parent never joins, never sees it, and can't derail it.

The overlap people ask about

Both apps produce records a legal expert can review, and both offer writing support that cools heated language. ToneMeter on messages in OFW, the optional neutral rewrite on journal entries in Casewell. The difference is scope.

OFW's record covers what happened on the platform. Casewell's record covers what you documented from life. The no-show at 5pm, the receipt for the school trip, the pattern across three months of Fridays.

Neither substitutes for the other, which is why the practical answer for many higher-conflict situations is both. The ordered channel for talking, the private journal for everything else.

Cost logic

OurFamilyWizard is priced per parent. So the real cost of the platform is usually two subscriptions, sustained for as long as the order or arrangement lasts. Casewell is one $2.99/week or $49.99/year subscription because there is only ever one user. If you're paying for OFW and mostly using your own notes anyway, you're paying platform prices for journal work. See the alternatives comparison for how that decision usually plays out.

A UK review note

Casewell and OurFamilyWizard solve different problems — private custody records vs court-ordered shared messages. Here's how to know which you need, or whether you need both. Sharing any of it in the UK takes a few more steps.

Before you share any of this, work from a copy. Remove private details the reader does not need, and leave the original file untouched.

Check each key sentence. Can you link it to a date or source? If not, change the summary. Do not fill the gap with a guess.

Name the UK nation and court on the review copy. Keep the words used in the order. Ask a family solicitor about court rules and what you may need to share.