Press kit

Occasion is a pair of planning apps for iPhone and iPad: one for weddings, one for every other kind of event. Guests, seating, budget, suppliers, schedules and to-dos in a single plan that lives on your own device and syncs through your own iCloud.

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Occasion Plans is two apps built on one foundation, Occasions: Wedding Planner and Occasions: Event Planner. Both hold the whole of an occasion in a single plan. The guest list knows who has replied and what they can eat; the seating plan is the actual room, with the guests dropped into it; the budget fills itself in from the suppliers you have booked; the running order shows the gaps as well as the events. Plans stay on the device and, with a subscription, sync through the owner’s iCloud account and can be shared with another Apple Account so two people can plan the same occasion at once. There is no account to create, and no copy of anyone’s guest list on a server the developer controls.

Two people, one plan. Most planning apps sync to their own servers and charge per seat. Occasion shares a plan to a second Apple Account through iCloud, and the person you share with does not need a subscription of their own. Whoever you are planning it with gets the real plan, not a read-only copy.

No account, and no copy on our side. There is nothing to sign up for. A plan lives on the device it was made on, and with a subscription in the owner’s own iCloud, under their Apple ID. The developer holds none of it and can’t read any of it.

No assumptions about who is getting married. A new plan asks for partner one and partner two. Couples who would rather be named as bride and groom, bride and bride, or groom and groom can set that, and the app follows their wording throughout. The default asks nothing of anybody, and nothing puts one person ahead of the other. Guest records carry access needs as a first-class field rather than as a note.

Widgets that do something. Three widgets in every size, including one that fills an iPad’s Home Screen, plus Lock Screen complications and Control Centre buttons. A task can be ticked off from the Home Screen without opening the app, and on the day itself a Live Activity keeps the running order on the Lock Screen with a button to move it on when something overruns. All of it is in the free app.

An old app rebuilt rather than retired. The originals have been on the App Store since 2012. Version 2.0 is a rebuild from nothing, and it imports the old app’s data on first launch. Anyone who paid for the old apps keeps what they paid for.

A few below, on both devices. The archive has these at full resolution along with both app icons: occasion-press-kit.zip (22 MB). Everything in it is a real screenshot of the app running on sample data, not a mock-up.

The shipped icons, 1024 px, square and unmasked. iOS applies the rounded corners itself, so please leave them square or round them to Apple’s own radius.

The apps are Occasions: Wedding Planner and Occasions: Event Planner on the App Store, and the family name is Occasion Plans. The two differ on purpose: a store listing has to carry the words people search for. Shortened, and in the wordmark, both are Occasion. The wordmark is set in Fraunces, one weight, one ink, and there is no logo or symbol beside it: if you need a mark, use the app icon.

Email press at occasionplans.com. Review copies, a specific screenshot, a device we haven’t shown, or a question about how something works: all fine, and answered by a person.