How dip works, step by step
Start with your own side. Bring your Co-Parent in when the time feels right.
Between the school run, tuition and exam weeks, your days are full enough already. dip is useful to you from the first day, a quiet home base for your own household, and it works better still once your Co-Parent is on it. Here is the shape of it.
Three steps, no rush.
You can send the invitation from the first minute. A bit of setup first just means your Co-Parent walks into something warm rather than an empty screen.
Set up your own side
Put in your details and your child’s, the routine you already keep, the school calendar, the tuition slots, the clinic appointments, the small things you keep meaning to write down. It’s yours from the start, and it earns its place on an ordinary Tuesday morning, whether or not the other parent ever joins.
Add the people who help
Bring in the people who really carry the week: the grandparents who take the afternoon shift, your helper, an aunt who does the school fetch, a neighbour you trust. They stay on your private side, and nothing about the other parent ever reaches them. Your Village belongs to you alone.
Invite your Co-Parent
When you’re ready, and not a day before, you can send a simple invitation. Your Co-Parent arrives to something already running: the shared calendar, the handovers, the costs. That tends to matter most before the long holidays, Raya, Chinese New Year, Deepavali or Christmas, when the balik kampung plans have to be settled early and everyone is asking who is going where. Nobody has to be invited for dip to be worth using.
What you will find inside.
A quiet place to keep the running around in order, so two homes stay in step through school terms, exam weeks and the rainy season.
The Backpack
The things that move between the two homes, listed and ticked off before every handover. The reading book, the PE kit, the water bottle, the inhaler, the tuition workbook due tonight. One less thing to discover at the school gate in the morning jam.
Shared calendar and handovers
Drop-offs, pick-ups, sports day, exam weeks, term breaks, the rotation. Both homes look at the same plan, so nobody is working it out from memory at 6.45am with the jam already building.
Shared costs, in ringgit
Snap the receipt and the maths is handled. Tuition fees, school shoes, the dentist, the uniform that lasted one term. What is shared gets split fairly, so neither of you is keeping score in your head.
Messages that stay calm
Voice notes or typing, whichever you use. The Peace Filter takes the heat out of a tense message before it arrives. Useful at 11pm, when the reply you want to send is not the one that makes tomorrow’s handover easier.
The Village
Your own circle: grandparents, your helper, an aunt, a friend you trust. They see your side only, and nothing about the other parent reaches them.
The Vault
One steady place for documents, contacts and health records: the immunisation card, allergies, the clinic number, the school office. What is saved stays saved, and every change leaves a trail you can see.
Made for the way households here work
One parent, a few children, more than one Co-Parent, grandparents under the same roof, in-laws who are in and out every day. Every co-parenting relationship stands on its own, and the boundaries between them hold.
Start with dip.
Open it in your browser, or download it to your phone. Free for both parents, forever. No ads, and your family’s details are never sold.
You can set up your side, add the people who help you, and use dip every day without the other parent ever signing up.