PottyGo
Potty training an autistic child takes a village. PottyGo keeps the village in sync.
Log any event in seconds, one-handed. Everyone who helps — parents, grandparents, aides, therapists — sees the same timeline, live. No more starting from zero at every handoff.
Free while in beta Works in any browser No ads, ever
The real timeline
If it’s taking years, you’re not doing it wrong.
Potty training an autistic child is a different journey — longer, less linear, and shared across more hands. Most apps assume a two-week bootcamp and a single caregiver. PottyGo is built for the actual reality:
The average training journey for autistic children — about 1.6 years for urine training and 2.1 for bowel.
At ages 4–5, nearly half of autistic children aren’t yet toilet trained, compared with 8% of typically developing peers.
of autistic individuals experience GI conditions — one reason timing, diet, and pattern history matter so much.
Sources: parent-survey research (Tsai et al.); SPARK for Autism, 2022; Ward et al., 2023.
How it works
Three steps. The third one runs itself.
Log in seconds
Two taps records a win, attempt, accident, or dry check. Add a note if you want. Backdate it if life happened first.
Invite your team
Your partner, grandma, the aide, the therapist. Everyone logs to the same timeline, and every log syncs live.
See the story
Daily timelines and 7-, 14-, and 30-day stats show the long arc — including the dips that are a normal part of it.
Built for 7 AM chaos
Three seconds. One hand. Logged.
Mid-mess, mid-meltdown, mid-hallway-sprint — logging can’t be a form with twelve fields. PottyGo’s big buttons capture the moment in two taps, with room for a note when you have a hand free.
That speed is the whole game: the difference between a three-second log and a thirty-second one is the difference between an app your family actually uses and one it abandons in week two.
The headline feature
Every caregiver, one shared memory.
Consistency across caregivers is the core of every evidence-based toileting approach — and it breaks the moment someone tags in without context. In PottyGo, everyone you invite logs to one live timeline with a name on every entry.
Grandma sees what the aide saw. Monday-you sees what weekend-you did. The reminder schedule travels with the child, not with whichever adult happens to be holding the phone.
Role-based invites: owner, parent, co-parent, caregiver — you decide who’s in.
Progress, honestly framed
The long arc, not the last bad day.
Regression isn’t failure — it’s part of the pattern. PottyGo’s history views show weeks and months, not just today, so one rough Tuesday sits inside a trend you can actually see.
That’s what keeps a whole team believing through a journey measured in months: proof, on the screen, that the work is adding up.
On the roadmap
Where PottyGo is headed
PottyGo is in beta, and the roadmap is shaped by the families using it. Here’s what we’re building next — labeled honestly, because you’ve been burned by app promises before:
Patterns in plain language
“Most wins happen 20–40 minutes after meals.”Insights that turn months of logs into an actionable schedule — pattern-based support, not medical advice.
Stage-based guidance
Beginner → Intermediate → AdvancedFrom sitting tolerance to interval progression to self-initiation, grounded in published toileting protocols.
Handoff notes
“Day 3 of 30-min intervals — green timer works best.”Context that travels with the timeline, so whoever’s next starts with the full picture — never from zero.
Privacy
Your child’s story stays yours.
No ads, ever. And no advertising SDKs watching in the background.
We never sell your data. Your logs exist to help your child, full stop.
You choose who sees the timeline. Access is invite-only and role-based, and you can revoke it.
Delete anytime. Remove your account and your family’s data whenever you choose.
PottyGo supports your routine — it doesn’t replace your clinician. Nothing in the app is medical advice. Read the full privacy policy.
PottyGo exists because my family lives this. I built it after one too many handoffs where the plan lived in three heads and a group text — and one too many apps that assumed we’d be done in two weeks. If it helps your village the way it’s helping mine, I’d genuinely love to hear about it.
Questions
Fair questions, straight answers.
Is PottyGo really free?
Everything in the beta is free. Paid family plans for team features will come later — priced per family, not per caregiver — and core tracking will stay free.
What devices does it work on?
Any modern browser — phone, tablet, or computer — at pottygoapp.com. The iPhone app is in TestFlight beta (email us for an invite). A dedicated Android app is on the radar; in the meantime the browser version works well on Android.
My child isn’t autistic — is PottyGo still useful?
Yes. PottyGo is designed around long, non-linear training journeys and shared caregiving. That fits many developmental disabilities — and plenty of neurotypical potty training, too.
Can aides and therapists use it with us?
That’s the point. Invite anyone on your team — they see the shared timeline and can log alongside you. Clinician-friendly exports are on the roadmap.
What happens to our data?
It’s stored securely, visible only to the people you invite, never sold, and you can delete your account and data at any time. Details in the privacy policy.
Start where you are.
Set up in two minutes. First log in three seconds. The rest of the village can join whenever they’re ready.