Add a co-parent — share your kid's account.

My wife came home from one of our son's games last weekend and asked the obvious question: "Why am I not on KidGOAT?" Up until then, I was the one on the bench tapping points and rebounds, and the kid record on the app was technically mine. She had no way to add stats from a game I missed, and her phone wouldn't show her the upcoming-game banner the morning of a game. The whole thing was set up like there's only one parent, when of course there's two.

So we shipped co-parents. Add another parent (your partner, the kid's other parent, a grandparent who comes to most games) and you both get the same view of the kid's account. You both can tap during games. You both see the same upcoming-game banners on your homepage. You share one player history.

How it works

Open /settings and you'll see a new Co-parents card under your profile. Tap Invite a co-parent →. You get a share link you can text, WhatsApp, or AirDrop to whoever's joining.

The co-parent taps the link, signs in with their own email, and the system links their account to your kid's record. They never create a new kid — they just become a second parent on yours. The whole flow is two screens for them: enter their name + email, click the email link, done.

From that moment on, when they sign in to KidGOAT they see exactly what you see — the same kid hero, the same game log, the same upcoming-game banner with the share + reschedule + cancel buttons, the same league standings line for your kid. They do still have their own settings page (their name, their email, their profile photo) — the personal stuff stays personal.

Two phones, same view

Here's the goal in one image — both parents on the morning of a game, both seeing the upcoming banner on their homepage, both able to RSVP and start tracking:

What the co-parent sees on their settings page

So you can tell the two roles apart, the co-parent's /settings page picks up a small confirmation panel showing they're linked — and an Unlink button if they ever want out:

What both parents share (and what they don't)

The principle is: anything about your kid is shared; anything about you personally stays per-account.

Shared between both parents: the kid's profile (name, photo, jersey, position, height), the full season game log, the league standings line, the upcoming-game banners, the pending-game reminders on the homepage, the ability to tap stats during a live game, the ability to log a past game manually, the ability to edit a finished game's box score.

Not shared (each parent has their own): their own first / last name on their profile, their own email and sign-in, their own profile photo, their own settings page. So when an RSVP link goes out from one parent's phone, it correctly attributes to that parent — Mom's invites say "From Vic," Dad's say "From Adam."

What happens during a game with both parents tracking

If you're at the gym together and both phones are on the live tracker, KidGOAT picks up taps from both of you during the game. When one parent ends the game, the other's stats merge into the canonical record. Neither side gets double-counted; whoever was the more active tapper gets credit for that play, and the final box score reflects the combined picture. Most of the time only one parent ends up actively tapping, but if you both do, it works.

The case I most cared about, though, is the one where you're not together — where my wife is at the game and I'm on a work call, or vice versa. She opens the app, taps Start tracking, and the stats land on Dan's record same as if I'd been there. Later that night I open my phone and the game's already in his log.

How to use it

1. Sign in to KidGOAT, open /settings, scroll to Co-parents, tap Invite a co-parent →.
2. Copy the share link and send it to your partner (text, WhatsApp, AirDrop, however).
3. They tap the link, enter their name + email, tap the email-link to sign in. The link expires in 7 days, and only the first person who taps it gets attached.
4. Both of you are now linked. Open the homepage, the kid's page, or the game tracker on either phone — same data, same controls.

Removing a co-parent

Either parent can unlink at any time. The primary parent (the one who created the kid record) can remove a co-parent from their Currently linked list with a Remove button. The co-parent themselves can unlink their own account from their settings page. Either way: their sign-in keeps working — they just stop seeing the shared kid record afterward. The kid's data is untouched.

Why we built this

Youth sports doesn't fit one parent. It fits two — sometimes more — adults who care about the same kid and don't all have the same Saturday schedule. The thing that broke me was watching my wife come back from a game I'd missed and have nothing to do with the stats she'd just witnessed. There was no way for her to add them. The app was politely telling her she didn't count. So we made it count.

If you've got someone in your life who deserves to be on your kid's KidGOAT account, tap Invite a co-parent and send them the link. Same data, two phones, no awkwardness about who "owns" the kid's record. Let me know what you'd change.

— Adam