Dispute Buddy
Dispute Buddy is a desktop application that helps parents extract and analyze text messages from iPhones for family court proceedings. The tool identifies patterns of coercive control, gaslighting, emotional abuse, and child welfare concerns, and generates court-ready PDF reports. It supports OurFamilyWizard message report imports and offers a one-time fee for lifetime use.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Legal Technology
- Software Only
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Problem
Parents involved in family court disputes often need to present text message evidence but lack an efficient way to extract, organize, and analyze years of conversations. Manually scrolling through messages to find relevant patterns or specific incidents is time-consuming, error-prone, and can miss critical behavioral evidence needed for legal proceedings.
Solution
Dispute Buddy provides a desktop application that downloads and analyzes iPhone text messages to create court-ready PDF reports. The software automatically detects patterns of coercive control, gaslighting, emotional abuse, financial abuse, and child welfare concerns across years of conversations. Users can also search the generated report for specific events or keywords after download. The app supports importing OurFamilyWizard message report PDFs, either alone or alongside iPhone messages, and stores imported data only for the current session to protect privacy.
Target Audience
Primary users are parents involved in family court disputes who need to present text message evidence, as well as family lawyers seeking to analyze communication patterns in their clients' cases.
Features
- Automated pattern detection for coercive control, gaslighting, emotional abuse, financial abuse, and child welfare concerns
- Court-ready PDF report generation with message counts, parent identification, children, and date ranges
- OurFamilyWizard Messages Report PDF import support, with contacts displayed separately from iPhone and WhatsApp contacts
- Keyword and theme search functionality within the downloaded PDF report using standard ctrl-f commands
- Privacy-focused design that only collects the user's name and email, with no access to contacts, messages, videos, or images
- Available for both Mac and PC with a one-time fee for lifetime use