Comparison

Occasions vs Wedding Planner for Brides

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

Wedding Planner for Brides

This app helps couples plan their dream wedding by providing a countdown, customizable to-do lists, guest list management, and a budget tracker. Stay organized and communicate with your partner throughout the planning process.

Highlights
  • Wedding countdown
  • Customizable to-do list
  • Guest list management
  • Integrated cost calculator
  • Partner sync
  • Push notifications for tasks
Features
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Network your respective plans on this journey together and stay in constant communication about the organization of your individual dream wedding. Based on the prospective date of the wedding day, the app calculates your personal wedding countdown and assists you in taking care of all upcoming tasks in a timely manner. An extensive to-do list, which can be manually tailored to fit your dream wedding, ensures that you do not forget anything while organizing your wedding day. With our wedding app, creating and editing guest lists is a breeze. An integrated cost calculator helps you keep track of total costs, money already paid, and outstanding payments. Post the status of your wedding preparations on Facebook and Twitter, and allow your friends, acquaintances and visitors to follow the current state of affairs at all times. Do not miss a single task anymore! Use push messages to be conveniently reminded of things to do. This simplifies the planning of your personal dream wedding, and ensures that no detail is overlooked. Features Summary * Universal App * Sync for partner * Section for your vendors * Wedding Countdown * Individual cost planner * Pre-defined, flexible cost list * Breakdown in overall costs, expenses already paid and outstanding costs * Print and email function for the cost list * Flexible guest list with address book import * Adjustable Task Scheduler with helpful information * Push messages for all outstanding tasks * Share option to Facebook and Twitter * Widget: Your personal countdown always directly in view

Screenshots

Occasions4 screens
Wedding Planner for Brides4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Occasions at Free against Wedding Planner for Brides's $0.99. Occasions also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 57%). Wedding Planner for Brides's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and device support 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

Occasions is free to download; Wedding Planner for Brides costs $0.99 up front. Occasions sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Wedding Planner for Brides asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wedding Planner for Brides holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 12 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Occasions's written reviews are positive against 57% of Wedding Planner for Brides's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Occasions ships an update every 2 months, Wedding Planner for Brides monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Occasions versus Wedding Planner for Brides: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOccasionsWedding Planner for Brides
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.7 (7 ratings)4.7 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.3% of reviews — better57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings712 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCreateful LtdPatrick Eysoldt

Customer experience

Occasions

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

Wedding Planner for Brides

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews56 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral12.5%
Negative30.4%

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 for Brides

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
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  • 10 Additional Plan Bundle$14.99
  • Personal Forever$49.99
None

Wedding Planner for Brides

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Occasions free?
Occasions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wedding Planner for Brides free?
Wedding Planner for Brides costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Occasions or Wedding Planner for Brides?
Wedding Planner for Brides is rated higher. Occasions averages 3.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Wedding Planner for Brides averages 4.7 from 12 ratings.
Do Occasions or Wedding Planner for Brides have ads?
Neither Occasions nor Wedding Planner for Brides shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Occasions or Wedding Planner for Brides?
Occasions ships an update every 2 months, and Wedding Planner for Brides monthly. Most recently, Occasions was updated on November 1, 2026 and Wedding Planner for Brides on November 10, 2026.

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