Comparison

Gather vs Your Party Planner

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

Head to head
About

Gather

This app allows you to create private, invite-only groups for your family, friends, or clubs. Easily share plans like dinner or events, and manage shared items like season tickets within your trusted circles. It offers a simple way to coordinate activities without public feeds or algorithms.

Highlights
  • Create private, invite-only circles
  • Share plans in seconds
  • One-tap joining for plans
  • Centralized plan comments
  • Manage shared tickets
  • No public feeds or algorithms
Features
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Gather is a private, invite-only app for the people already in your life. Make a Circle for your family, your friends, your book club, your neighborhood, or your team. Share what you're already doing. Dinner tonight. A hike this weekend. An extra ticket. Coffee after work. The right people see it and tap to join. How Gather works • Post a plan in seconds. A dinner, a walk, a rodeo night, a quick coffee. • Join with one tap. Anyone in the Circle says "I'm in." • Keep it in one place. Comments live on the plan, so nobody digs through a group text for the details. • Private by design. No public feeds, no algorithms, no follower counts. Invite-only. Shared tickets, sorted Gather started as a way for one family to pass around their Houston Rodeo season tickets. Claim a date, confirm the handoff, and everyone knows who has them tonight. It works for any AXS-transferred season pass shared inside a private Circle. Who it's for Families. Friend groups. Book clubs. Sports and activity groups. Neighborhood crews. Anyone who shares season tickets. Free to use A new Circle is free, with room for up to 10 members. Gather Plus adds unlimited Circles and unlimited members for $4.99 a month or $47.99 a year. Posting plans, joining plans, and handing off tickets are never paywalled. No ads. No algorithms. Just your Circle. Gather Plus is an auto-renewable subscription. $4.99 USD per month or $47.99 USD per year (about $4.00 a month). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. It renews automatically unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://zuccigather.com/legal/privacy Terms of Use: https://zuccigather.com/legal/terms

About

Your Party Planner

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Party planner is your all-in-one party planner for birthdays, christmas parties, garden parties and Baby Showers. Bring your to-dos, guest list, budget, schedule, wish list, menu and shopping list together in one simple place. Stay organized throughout the planning process and enjoy the countdown to your celebration. PLAN EVERY DETAIL • Create and organize your celebration • Manage to-dos and due dates • Track guests, RSVP statuses and the number of attendees • Set your budget and record expenses • Write your wish list • Create a schedule for the day • Plan your menu and shopping list • Count down to your celebration • Export and import your party plan • Use the app in English, German, French or Spanish • Keep everything at a glance with Home Screen Widgets PARTYPLANER PRO Unlock additional planning tools with Partyplaner Pro: • Plan multiple parties • Personalize backgrounds and countdown designs • View detailed guest statistics • Keep extended guest and party notes • Organize expenses by category and view visual charts • Create an interactive seating plan using drag and drop • Export your seating plan as a PNG and your wish list as a pdf • Discover the Baby Shower Game Catalog and manage the games PRIVATE BY DESIGN The party details you enter are stored locally on your device. No account is required, and Partyplaner does not use its own analytics, tracking or personalized advertising services. Less juggling. More celebrating. Start planning your party today. Partyplaner includes optional in-app purchases. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Gather4 screens
Your Party Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Gather at every 5 days against Your Party Planner's fortnightly. Gather also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Gather sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Your Party Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gather ships an update every 5 days, Your Party Planner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Gather versus Your Party Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGatherYour Party Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames YenPaul Schwind

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Gather

Subscriptions2
  • Gather Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Gather Plus Annual$47.991 Year
2 purchases

Your Party Planner

Subscriptions1
  • Partyplaner Pro – Monthly$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Partyplaner Pro – Lifetime$17.99

Questions

Is Gather free?
Gather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Your Party Planner free?
Your Party Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gather or Your Party Planner have ads?
Neither Gather nor Your Party Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gather or Your Party Planner?
Gather ships an update every 5 days, and Your Party Planner fortnightly. Most recently, Gather was updated on October 31, 2026 and Your Party Planner on November 10, 2026.

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