From guest list to last dance.

Nothing here assumes what kind of event you're running. You define its parts: a drinks reception and a dinner, a ceremony and a lunch, or one long afternoon. The rest of the app arranges itself around them, so guests, suppliers and schedules all attach to a part rather than to the event as a whole.

A fiftieth birthday and a company away-day are not the same event, and neither has to pretend to be a wedding to be planned properly.

Open the app and the event is there: how long you have, how many have replied, what the budget is doing, and which suppliers are still owed. Every number on it comes from the plan rather than from a target you set once and stopped believing.

What needs attention rises to the top on its own, so the task you have forgotten and the invoice that was due last week are the first things you see.

Invite people to the whole event or to one part of it, track who has replied, and keep plus-ones attached to the person who brought them. Headcounts update themselves as replies come in, so the number you give the venue is the number you actually have.

Dietary requirements and access needs sit on the guest rather than in a note somewhere else. When the caterer asks, the answer is already on the list.

Build the room from what the venue actually gives you: round tables, long tables, a bar, a stage, a dance floor. Then put people in seats and let the app keep count of who is still standing.

It flags the things you would rather not discover on the night, like a seat still held by somebody who dropped out, or two people who came together sat at opposite ends of the room. Print it or send it as a PDF when the venue asks.

Set what you expect to spend by category, and the app fills in what you have actually committed from the suppliers you have booked. The gap between the two is the whole point, so it is never more than a glance away.

Categories cannot quietly out-promise the budget, and going over is reported rather than rewritten. Useful when somebody else is paying and will ask.

Doors at seven, speeches after the main course, band on at nine. Build the running order for the event, and separate ones for the set-up and the clear-down, each with its own times and its own people.

The gaps show between the entries, because the empty half hour matters as much as the things either side of it. Hand it to the venue, the band and whoever is keeping the night moving.

The venue, the caterer, the band, the photographer, the hire company: contacts, quotes, what is agreed and what is still owed. Each supplier is filed under a budget category, so booking one updates the budget without you telling it twice.

Deposits and balances carry dates, so money due next month is visible this month, and a payment that has slipped past its date is marked rather than merely late.

A new plan comes with a checklist in it: the things most events need doing, roughly when they are usually done. Take what is useful, ignore the rest, or write your own from the start.

Anything overdue is marked and surfaces on the overview, and tasks can be shared out between whoever is helping rather than living in one person’s head.

A wall you pin things to: photographs, a link to the venue you liked, a sketch of the room, a voice note from the caterer, a checklist of what to ask them. Keep several boards, one per thing still undecided.

It is deliberately loose. Everything else in the app has a shape and a total; this is the part that does not, because the early half of planning rarely does.

Three widgets, in every size from the smallest square to the one that fills an iPad’s Home Screen. Countdown is the days until the event, with what still needs doing before it. At a glance shows the numbers you choose from guests, to-dos, budget and suppliers. Up next puts anything overdue first, then what is coming.

Up next is not just a display: tick a task off from the Home Screen and it is done in the app. The countdown also goes on the Lock Screen, as a circle, a line of text or a rectangle beside the clock.

There are Control Centre buttons too, for the to-do list and the running order, so you can put one on the Lock Screen or bind it to the Action button.

Plan on the iPad at the kitchen table, then check a supplier’s number on your phone at the venue. With a subscription your event syncs through your own iCloud account, so every device you own is showing the same guest list, the same seating plan and the same balance owing.

Then share it. Send the event to whoever is running it with you: a partner, a co-organiser, the committee member who books the venue. They open it on their own Apple Account, on their own iPhone or iPad, and they are not looking at a copy or a screenshot: they are in the same event. They tick a task off and it is ticked for you. They do not need a subscription of their own.

All of it goes through Apple. The event sits in your iCloud, under your Apple ID, and we hold no copy of it. There is no account to create with us and nothing of ours in between.

Everything lives on your device. Subscribe, and it syncs through your own iCloud to your other devices, over Apple's servers and under your Apple ID, with nothing of ours in between. There is no account to create with us, and no copy of your guest list on a server we control.

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