Contact calendar apps compared 2026: which one suits you?
Prices, strengths and who each of the 2026 contact apps suits. Umgangszeit as the offline option for one parent keeping their own records.
Guides
Seven guides on the questions that keep coming up around contact. Written from the perspective of the parent who does the travelling, for parents in Germany.
What can I expect when it comes to contact?
What rights you have, what is customary and what you should record when a contact time does not take place.
Keeping a contact log: factual, not judgemental
Why short, sober entries are worth more than long ones, and which wordings work against you.
Documenting contact costs
Which costs come with contact, how to work out your journeys properly and which receipts you will be missing later.
One main home or alternating residence: what it really costs the contact parent
The two models briefly explained, with a worked example of what additionally ends up on your shoulders.
Keeping a memory book: what remains when your child lives somewhere else
Why the happy moments do not belong in the documentation, what goes into an entry and how to keep it going.
Contact on a small budget: ten ideas for under ten euros
What you can do together when little is left after the journey and a second household.