Coming soon to iPhone & Android
Out at the park. Over at ours. Lobby’s open.
Out & Over is a small app for the parents you already know. Say when you’re around, see who else is, and let the afternoon sort itself out.
A phone showing the Out & Over feed: a grid of check-in cards from Sarah, Jamie, Priya and Devon, running off the bottom of the screen — park and playground visits, open houses, and online gaming hangs, each with a place, a rough duration, and how many kids are coming.
Three ways to say you’re around.
Each one has its own color in the feed, so you can read the whole afternoon at a glance.
Out
You're at a park, a pool, a playground. Somewhere public, so anyone you've added can just turn up.
Nobody is out right now. Be the one who breaks the rain spell.
Over
Your door is open — the yard, the basement, the kitchen table. You write the address detail yourself, and only the people who can see the check-in get it.
No open doors today. Open yours? Tap + and post Over.
Virtual
A lobby is open. Platform, game, gamer tag. For the afternoons when nobody can get across town.
The lobby is empty. Boot up a hang — controllers down, mics on.
The lines in italic are the app’s own empty states — what you see on a slow day.
A check-in is one small announcement.
No group chat, no scheduling thread, no thirty messages to land on a Tuesday. You tap once to say where you are and roughly how long you’ll be there. The parents you’ve added see it, and can say they’re coming.
- Who
- A parent you added yourself, by invite link. There is no discovery feed and no strangers.
- Where
- In your own words. “Riverside Park” for everyone, “near the big slide” for the people coming. The app has no idea where that is — it's text, not a map pin.
- How long
- A window, not an appointment. Nobody has to commit to a time.
- Who's coming
- Tap once to say you're in. The host gets a notification, and everyone else sees the afternoon filling up.
- The note
- One line of context. “Bubble machine is out.” “Side gate open.”
Nobody here is a stranger.
Out & Over is a private circle you build one invite at a time. You share a link, someone taps it, and now you can see each other’s afternoons. Nobody arrives any other way.
No discovery feed
There is no feed of nearby families and no algorithm deciding who lives close to you. The only way anyone joins your circle is a link you sent them.
You write where you are
A place is a line of text you type — “Riverside Park”, “our yard”, “near the big slide”. You decide how much to say, and your friends see exactly the words you chose.
And then somebody says yes.
When a friend posts a check-in, your phone tells you once. When someone taps in on yours, you hear about it. Those are the only two times it will interrupt you.
The rest of the plan happens in the comments on the check-in itself, where everyone going can see it, instead of scattered across four separate message threads.
Two notifications and a comment thread: “Sarah M. is Out — Riverside Park, about an hour and a half, 2 kids”, “Jamie K. is in — they’re coming over”, and two comments on the check-in reading “On our way!” and “Bringing the good bubbles.”
How it works
- 1
Send your invite link.
Your circle starts empty and stays that way until you fill it. Share your link with the parents you'd actually text — at pickup, in the group chat, however you already talk.
- 2
Say when you're around.
One tap: Out, Over, or Virtual. Where, roughly how long, how many kids, and a line if you want. It takes about as long as sending a text and it reaches everyone at once.
- 3
Someone comes over.
They tap in, you sort out the details in the comments, and the afternoon takes care of itself.
A quiet day on the block?
Be the one who breaks the rain spell.