Comparison

Wedding Planner iWedPlanner vs Occasions

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Wedding Planner iWedPlanner

This app helps you plan your dream wedding with a comprehensive checklist, vendor organization, and seating chart. Keep track of RSVPs, set reminders, and manage all your wedding details in one place.

Highlights
  • To-Do List Management
  • Vendor Organization
  • Wedding Day Organization
  • RSVP Tracking
  • Seating Chart
  • Countdown Reminders
Features
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Planning a wedding can take time. No two weddings should be alike because everyone has a different view of what they like, their favorite color, location, and more. With the right amount of planning, and the perfect wedding planner app, you can create the picture perfect dream wedding. The iwedplanner app provides some very useful features. Take A Look At The Features You Will Get: 1. To-Do-List One of the best features of this app is the To-Do list. With every wedding planned, there is a To-Do list. A list like this will keep you on track and remind you what you need to do, buy, create, or handle on a certain timeline. With the app, you will be able to keep track of everything on your iPad, iPhone, or your iPod. Check off the list as you go. 2. Keeping Track of your Vendors When planning a wedding, you are probably going to be dealing with several vendors. It could all get confusing if you don't have a way to organize the vendors. With the wedding planner app, you can organize your vendors according to your favorites. As you get closer to the wedding date, you will appreciate the quick access to the vendors, especially if someone cancels on you at the last minute. 3. Wedding Day Organization By your wedding day, you want everything to be flawless. Most people write their wedding planning down on a notebook. If it rains, that paper is as good as gone. If you hand the notebook to a friend, he or she may not show up for the wedding because they are sick and now, no one has the notebook of organization. With the app, you can have it on your phone at all times and transfer it over to your wedding planner or anyone else you want to have involved in your wedding planning decisions. 4. Organizer The absolute greatest challenge to planning a beautiful wedding is organization. The wedding planner iPad, iPhone and iPod that is the ultimate organizer. Includes a place for contact details, quick note and appointments. It also includes gift tracker, a place to list songs so the wedding is capable of posting directly to Twitter and Facebook. 5. Reminder The 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 reminder countdown will keep you on top of those hectic days. The fact that you can set reminders for important days in dates has to be one of the iPad, iPhone and iPod apps best features. You will never forget to pay your vendors on time or miss a rehearsal. 6. Keep Track of the RSVP's One of the hardest tasks is keeping track of who has responded and who will be attending the after wedding reception. The iWedPlanner app, you will be able to keep track of the party lists; from the pre-wedding party to who is attending your wedding and the reception. 7. Seating The seating arrangement is apt to change from day to day. The iWedPlanner seating chart is a valuable tool that can be used to add or delete people all the time. Nobody gets the seating right the first time, deciding who sits next to whom at the engagement wedding and reception is a time consuming task. The iPad, iPhone and iPod app allow you to define each table by numbers seated and you can also get summaries of what tables are full and which table has empty seats. 8. Budget Calculator Keeping track of budget is of primary importance when planning a wedding. The budget calculation feature in the iWedPlanner iPad, iPhone and iPod app is designed so that you can keep track of not only who contributed and how much but also estimates. This means you can list the items you want to purchase and how much you think you will need to pay for them, you can also input information about actual purchase prices in the budget calculator return the difference to the budget. Wedding planning can sometimes be very stressful and if you don't want to hire a wedding planner to do it all for you, having an app like this will most certainly benefit you and those who want to help you plan your wedding. This is a special moment that you don't want to trust to just anyone so having an wedding app will keep you on schedule.

About

Occasions

This app simplifies wedding planning by consolidating all essential information in one accessible location. It helps manage guest lists, budgets, vendor bookings, and schedules, reducing stress for engaged couples. Features include a countdown, to-do lists, and seating arrangements.

Highlights
  • Countdown to wedding day
  • Budget planner
  • Guest list management
  • To-Do list
  • Vendor bookings tracker
  • Seating planner
  • Schedule organizer
Features
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Everything you are planning, in one place: who is coming, where they are sitting, what it costs, who you are paying, and what happens when. On your iPhone and iPad, from the engagement to the thank-you cards. THE OVERVIEW Open the app and the day is there. How long you have, how many have replied, what the budget is doing, which suppliers are still owed. Every number comes from your plan, and anything overdue rises to the top on its own. THE GUEST LIST Invite people to the whole day or just the evening, 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 caterer is the number you actually have. Dietary and access needs sit on the guest, not in a note somewhere else. SEATING Lay the room out with the tables you actually have: round, long, a top table, a cake table, a dance floor. Drag guests into seats while the app counts who is still standing, and it flags a seat held by somebody who has since declined. Print it or send a PDF when the venue asks. MONEY Set what you expect to spend by category, and the app fills in what you have committed from the suppliers you have booked. Categories cannot out-promise the budget, and going over is reported rather than rewritten. THE RUNNING ORDER Hair at eight, photographer at ten, cars at half past one. Build the order for the day itself, and separate ones for the rehearsal and the morning after. The gaps show between the entries, because the free forty-five minutes matters as much as the things either side of it. SUPPLIERS The venue, the florist, the photographer, the band. 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 carry dates, so money due next month is visible this month. TO-DOS A new plan arrives with a wedding checklist already in it: the things everybody has to do, roughly when they are usually done. Take what you want, ignore the rest, and share the tasks out. SCRAPBOOK A wall you pin things to: photographs, a link to the venue you liked, a voice note from the florist. Keep several boards, one per thing still undecided. ON THE HOME SCREEN Three widgets in every size, plus Lock Screen countdowns and Control Centre buttons. Tick a task off from the Home Screen and it is done in the app. On the day itself a Live Activity holds the running order on the Lock Screen, with a button to move things on when something runs late. NO ASSUMPTIONS A new plan asks for partner one and partner two. If that is not what you call yourselves, set it to bride and groom, bride and bride, or groom and groom, and the app uses your words. ALSO IN THERE Catering by course. Colour palettes lifted from a photograph. Thank-you tracking. Spreadsheet import and PDF export. Fifteen accent themes and six app icons. A finished wedding is archived in full rather than deleted. SYNC AND SHARING With a subscription your wedding syncs through your own iCloud, so every device shows the same guest list and balance owing. Then share it with the person you are marrying. They open it on their own Apple Account and are in the same wedding, not a copy: they tick a task off and it is ticked for you. They do not need a subscription of their own. PRIVACY It all goes through Apple. No account to create with us, and no copy of your guest list on a server we control. WHAT IT COSTS Free to use for one wedding, with up to twenty-five items in each list. A subscription lifts the limits and adds sync and sharing, and covers Occasion Plans: Events too. Personal covers one wedding, Planner up to ten, and Unlimited as many as you need. Each is sold monthly or yearly and starts with one month free. Personal Forever is a single payment for one wedding and does not renew. Terms of Use: https://www.occasionplans.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.occasionplans.com/privacy

Screenshots

Wedding Planner iWedPlanner4 screens
Occasions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Occasions at none against Wedding Planner iWedPlanner's shown. Occasions also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 49%). Wedding Planner iWedPlanner's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 3.7) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Wedding Planner iWedPlanner sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Occasions sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wedding Planner iWedPlanner holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of Wedding Planner iWedPlanner's written reviews are positive against 79% of Occasions's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Wedding Planner iWedPlanner versus Occasions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWedding Planner iWedPlannerOccasions
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (18 ratings) — better3.7 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews48.9% of reviews79.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSentientIT Software SolutionCreateful Ltd

Customer experience

Wedding Planner iWedPlanner

All ratings18 ratings
Positive72.2%
Neutral11.1%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews139 reviews
Positive48.9%
Neutral3.6%
Negative47.5%

Occasions

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews174 reviews
Positive79.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative12.6%

User reviews

Wedding Planner iWedPlanner

From 18 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Useful planning tools
  • 🚀 Comprehensive features
  • 💡 Helpful RSVP and guest management
  • 👍 Easy to organize wedding tasks
  • 💡 Vendor and budget tracking

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Difficult to navigate
  • 🤔 Lacks customization
  • 🤔 Generic and impersonal
  • 🐛 Unreliable data saving

Occasions

From 7 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💯 Excellent wedding planning tool
  • 📋 Helpful for keeping everything organized
  • 🗓 Great for managing budget and vendors
  • 🤝 Useful for guest list and RSVP tracking
  • 🔍 Comprehensive features in one place

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Limited to 10 guests in free version
  • 🤔 Guest list management could be improved
  • 🔍 Lacking some customization options
  • 🐛 Occasional app crashes or freezes
  • 💰 Considered overpriced by some users

Bugs and requests

Wedding Planner iWedPlanner

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App crashes when trying to update profile
  • Unable to save information entered
  • Inconsistent behavior across different devices
  • Vendor search functionality not working as expected
  • Date and time pickers difficult to use

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to customize checklists and templates
  • Better user interface and design
  • Improved stability and reliability
  • More flexible guest management options
  • Integration with other wedding planning tools

Occasions

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Guest list and notes section not functioning properly
  • Seating chart feature freezing or crashing for some users

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to group guests by family/couple
  • Include dietary requirements and meal options
  • Integrate with cloud storage for backup/sync
  • Provide more pre-made checklists and templates
  • Allow easier rearrangement of seating chart

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Wedding Planner iWedPlanner

One-time8
  • Wedding Photos Premium$0.99
  • Wedding Hair style Premium$0.99
  • Wedding Invitations Premium$0.99
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  • Wedding Countdown Premium$1.99
  • Wedding Budget Manager Premium$1.99
  • Wedding CheckList Premium$1.99
  • iWedPlanner Wedding Planning App without Advertisement$2.99
  • Wedding Seating Chart Premium$2.99
10 purchases

Occasions

Subscriptions5
  • Personal Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • Planner Monthly1 Month trial$12.991 Month
  • Personal Yearly1 Month trial$29.991 Year
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  • Planner Yearly1 Month trial$99.991 Year
  • Unlimited Yearly1 Month trial$149.991 Year
One-time5
  • 1 Additional Plan Bundle$0.99
  • Full version$2.99
  • 5 Additional Plan Bundle$3.99
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  • 10 Additional Plan Bundle$14.99
  • Personal Forever$49.99

Questions

Is Wedding Planner iWedPlanner free?
Wedding Planner iWedPlanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Occasions free?
Occasions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wedding Planner iWedPlanner or Occasions?
Wedding Planner iWedPlanner is rated higher. Wedding Planner iWedPlanner averages 4.1 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Occasions averages 3.7 from 7 ratings.
Do Wedding Planner iWedPlanner or Occasions have ads?
Wedding Planner iWedPlanner shows ads; Occasions does not.
Which is updated more often, Wedding Planner iWedPlanner or Occasions?
Wedding Planner iWedPlanner ships an update every 2 months, and Occasions every 2 months. Most recently, Wedding Planner iWedPlanner was updated on November 1, 2026 and Occasions on November 1, 2026.

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