Occasions vs Simple 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
Simple Wedding Planner
Organize all your wedding details in one clutter-free space. Manage guest lists, seating arrangements, vendors, budgets, and to-do lists to enjoy the planning process. Offers a private and beautiful interface designed to reduce stress.
- Guest list management with RSVP tracking
- Seating chart design
- Vendor contact and contract tracking
- Expense tracking and budget management
- Customizable wedding checklist
- Secure iCloud syncing
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Planning a wedding is beautiful — and a lot. Simple Wedding Planner keeps every detail in one calm, clutter-free place, so you can stay organized and actually enjoy the journey to your big day. From your guest list to your budget, it brings the five things that matter most into one elegant app. No ads. No noise. No endless tabs — just a clean, private space to plan your wedding, your way. EVERYTHING YOU NEED, IN ONE PLACE: Guest List Keep everyone in one place. Track RSVPs, plus-ones, contact details, and dietary needs, and watch your headcount update as replies come in. Tables Design your seating with ease. Create tables, assign guests, and see at a glance exactly who's sitting where. Vendors Stay on top of every vendor. Save contacts, contracts, costs, and payment status for your venue, caterer, photographer, and everyone in between. Ledger Know where your money is going. Track every expense by category and always see what you've spent and what's left. Checklist Never miss a step. Follow a timeline of to-dos from "just engaged" to "I do," and check off each milestone as you go. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT Calm by design — a clean, beautiful interface built to reduce stress, not add to it. Truly private — your plans sync securely across your devices through your own iCloud. We can't see your data, and we never sell it. No ads, ever — no banners, no pop-ups, no one trying to sell you anything. Plan your way — solo or together with your partner. Simple Wedding Planner I Do While Simple Wedding Planner is free to use, you can upgrade to 'I Do' to unlock the full suite of wedding planning tools. Subscribe to monthly, annual, or purchase a lifetime license. Subscriptions will auto-renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least a day before each renewal date. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew in Apple account settings. Simple Wedding Planner is a wedding planning and organization tool. It is not intended for financial, tax, legal, or any other professional advice or advisor service. It is not intended to create, form, or otherwise be involved in any relationship between users and other third parties. Terms of Use: https://blackforestcompany.com/tc-simple-wedding-planner/ Privacy Policy: https://blackforestcompany.com/privacy-policy-simple-wedding-planner/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Simple Wedding Planner at 4.6 against Occasions's 3.7. Simple Wedding Planner also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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 Simple Wedding Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Simple Wedding Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 8 respectively.
Occasions ships an update every 2 months, Simple Wedding Planner every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Occasions | Simple Wedding Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (7 ratings) | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Createful Ltd | Blackforest LLC |
Customer experience
Occasions
Simple 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
Simple 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
Simple Wedding Planner
- I Do - Monthly$1.991 Month
- I Do - Annual$14.991 Year
- I Do - Lifetime$24.99
Questions
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