Occasions vs Wedding Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Countdown to wedding day
- Budget planner
- Guest list management
- To-Do list
- Vendor bookings tracker
- Seating planner
- Schedule organizer
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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
Wedding Planner
This app helps you organize your wedding preparations with a personalized checklist, budget tracker, and timeline planner. Keep all your important contacts and memories in one place, and even sync with your partner. Enjoy special features like a wedding journal and Apple Watch integration.
- Personalized checklist
- Budget tracking
- Wedding day timeline
- Contact organization
- Sync & backup
- Wedding journal
- Apple Watch integration
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Wedding Planner is the perfect companion to have while preparing for your big day. It's packed with a personalized checklist of all the essential to-dos for you and your partner's "I dos." You'll feel so much more at ease to know what has been done and what still needs to be done - there's no better app to use for all your wedding needs, so start planning with Wedding Planner today! And it's so much more than just a checklist. Here are some of Wedding Planner's amazingly helpful features: • Sync & Backup: Invite your partner to participate or simply back up your data for peace of mind. • Categories: If you ever feel lost, you can find any checklist item by category from Accessories to Stationery. • Photos: Keep your favorite photos of you and your loved one right on the home screen to remind yourself of what this is all about every time you open the app. • Music: Add your special song and listen while you get things done. • Budget: Set a budget and get an estimate of how much to spend on each expense. • Journal: Keep a wedding journal for all the days leading up to the wedding - these are memories worth saving. • Day-of: Plan the timeline of events on your wedding day and easily share it with vendors, friends, and family. • Contacts: Put all your important wedding contacts in one place and organize them by category. • Apple Watch: Check off your to-dos and view your wedding countdown and photo on Apple Watch! • And more! In addition to the free features listed above, we also offer Wedding Planner Premium as a subscription. Wedding Planner Premium subscribers will have access to an ad-free experience and unlimited storage. Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription in Account Settings after purchase. Terms: https://www.sunflowr.com/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sunflowr.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wedding Planner at 4.5 against Occasions's 3.7. Wedding Planner also leads on ratings volume (3.7K vs 7) and device support (4 vs 2). Occasions's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Occasions sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Wedding Planner sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wedding Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wedding Planner has 3.7K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Occasions's written reviews are positive against 82% of Wedding Planner 's.
Occasions ships an update every 2 months, Wedding Planner every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Occasions | Wedding Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (7 ratings) | 4.5 (3.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.3% of reviews | 82.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 3.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Createful Ltd | Sevenlogics, Inc. |
Customer experience
Occasions
Wedding Planner
Bugs and requests
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
Wedding Planner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Occasions
- 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
- 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
Wedding Planner
- Wedding Planner Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
Questions
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