Comparison

Occasions vs Smarty Wedding

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

Head to head
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

About

Smarty Wedding

This wedding planner helps organize your entire event, from guest lists and budgets to tasks and schedules. Create a personalized wedding website with online RSVP, and keep track of your big day with a home screen countdown widget.

Highlights
  • Wedding website creation
  • Online RSVP with meal choices
  • Guest list management
  • Home screen countdown widget
  • Budget tracking
  • Task management
  • Vendor management
  • Cloud backup
Features
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Smarty Wedding is a wedding planner with your own wedding website, online RSVP, and a countdown widget on your home screen — guests, budget, tasks, and schedule all in one place. Wedding Website — NEW Create a beautiful wedding website from your plan in minutes: countdown, schedule, venues with a map, dress code, FAQ and photos. Guests RSVP online with meal choice and dietary needs — answers flow straight into your guest list. Send personal email invitations, print QR codes, and decide who can open it: invited guests only, a password, or everyone with the link. Widget See days until your wedding on your home screen — names, date, and daily reminder at a glance. Countdown Keep track of how much time is left until wedding. Guests Manage a list of wedding guests. Wedding Day Schedule Plan a detailed wedding day schedule. Budget Control all wedding costs. Tasks Make notes for everything you have to do. Vendors Manage all your vendors and have all the important information about them in one place. Notes Write down all your thoughts and important links. Quotes Inspire yourself by beautiful quotes about love and marriage. Cloud Backup Keep your wedding plan safe with encrypted cloud backup and restore it on a new device. Share with Partner Invite your partner to plan together — share guests, budget, tasks, and more. Private by default Your plan stays on your phone and works offline, with no ads or tracking.

Screenshots

Occasions4 screens
Smarty Wedding4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Occasions at 79% against Smarty Wedding's 0%. Smarty Wedding's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Occasions sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Smarty Wedding sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Occasions ships an update every 2 months, Smarty Wedding every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Occasions versus Smarty Wedding: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOccasionsSmarty Wedding
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCreateful LtdIvan Rozhon

Customer experience

Occasions

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

Smarty Wedding

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Smarty Wedding

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

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
Show 2 more
  • 10 Additional Plan Bundle$14.99
  • Personal Forever$49.99
1 purchases

Smarty Wedding

One-time1
  • Premium$3.99

Questions

Is Occasions free?
Occasions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Smarty Wedding free?
Smarty Wedding is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Occasions or Smarty Wedding have ads?
Neither Occasions nor Smarty Wedding shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Occasions or Smarty Wedding?
Occasions ships an update every 2 months, and Smarty Wedding every 2 weeks. Most recently, Occasions was updated on October 29, 2026 and Smarty Wedding on October 29, 2026.

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