De Kind records what each parent has spent on the children. It does not calculate what one of you owes the other, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a missing feature.
Why not
To turn two spending totals into a debt, you need to know how costs are meant to be shared between you. De Kind has no way of knowing that. Your arrangement might be an even split, or proportional to income, or specific to certain categories, or set out in a court order. Any figure the app produced would rest on an assumption nobody had agreed to — and a number presented as a fact, but built on a guess, is worse than no number at all.
This matters most in exactly the situation the app is designed for. A figure you cannot explain the basis of is one a solicitor cannot rely on, and one the other parent can reasonably dispute. What each of you spent is a matter of record. What follows from it is a matter for the two of you, your solicitors, or the court.
What the Costs page shows instead
- The total logged in the period you have selected.
- How much each parent logged, side by side, with the proportion each represents.
- A breakdown by category.
Those are facts drawn straight from your entries. If your arrangement is a simple even split, the arithmetic is yours to do and you will know the basis for it.
Using it in a discussion or a court bundle
Export the cost log from Reports as a CSV or PDF. It carries every entry with its date, category, amount, who logged it, and whether a receipt is attached, along with per-parent totals. That is the evidence. The conclusion drawn from it belongs to whoever is deciding — and a record that stops where the evidence stops is more useful to them than one that guesses.
Was there a balance figure before?
Until August 2026 the Costs page displayed a “who owes whom” figure based on an even split. It was removed because it asserted an arrangement that had never been agreed, and because it changed depending on the date range you were viewing — which made it impossible to rely on or to explain. Nothing about your recorded costs changed when it was removed; only that calculation was withdrawn.