What's new

If you signed in through Apple or Google in the app, you sometimes ended up without a name: comments, guest lists and emails were missing your display name even though your first and last name were already stored. I now build the display name from your first and last name automatically. This also works retroactively: existing accounts without a display name have been repaired.

A small fix in expenses: in the list of open payments, name and amount overlapped on narrow screens whenever the "Mark as settled" button sat next to them. The button now gets its own line below the payment on mobile, and everything stays readable.

When you respond to an invitation, you now pick how to continue first: with Google, Apple or Facebook, with email and password, or without an account as before. The account is created together with your response in a single step, no detour through a separate registration page. Without an account the promise stays the same: your email is only used for this event, for reminders for example. And whether other guests can see your name is now decided in the final step before sending.

Hosts get a thank-you: when one of your guests signs up after your event, I add a free event credit to your account and drop you a note. And if you feel like hosting yourself after attending an event, you don't start from scratch: "Create your own event" carries over the event's building blocks, meaning modules and settings. Title, date and location remain yours to pick. And once your own event has wrapped up, your start page nudges you to plan the next one right away, as a one-click copy of the one that just ended.

The event page now asks you personally: "Are you coming to [event name]?" If the date or location isn't settled yet, the yes button says "Yes, count me in!" instead of "Yes, I'm coming!", so you commit first and vote on the date or location afterwards. While a location poll is running, the event page now shows it right next to the date ("Location to be announced"), before there was no hint at all.

Also tidied up: the duplicate date poll notice above the RSVP question is gone, the info lives next to the date now. And of the three answer buttons only "Yes" is red anymore, Maybe and No step back, so your eye lands on the button that matters.

Everywhere the app counts, guests, the bring list, tasks, photos and the expense balance, digits now roll smoothly to their new value instead of jumping. If you have reduced motion enabled on your system, values keep switching instantly.

On your phone, the keyboard sometimes covered the exact field you were typing into while creating an event, especially on date proposals. The active field now reliably stays visible, including in the RSVP view and settings windows. The date poll summary shows entered times immediately. And in emails, the event name sometimes appeared wrapped in asterisks instead of bold, that is fixed too.

Every email I send you, invitations, reminders, RSVPs, tickets and comments, now carries the same design as the app: the logo, a soft gradient and clear typography. When your mail app runs in dark mode, they adapt automatically.

Also fixed: some emails greeted you with an empty "Hi," without your name, it now reliably shows again. And amounts now follow your language's formatting.

The diet and allergy question during your RSVP is now truly optional: "Next" is always active, and leaving it empty skips the question. After your RSVP you can leave the short module tour anytime via "End tour" instead of skipping every step one by one.

Also: the guest counter on the event page now clearly says "12 going" instead of a bare number next to the "All" filter. Active polls now always stay expanded, only finished ones collapse and still show their winner. And when you delete a group, its events are now removed along with it as promised. Before, they stayed reachable as orphaned pages.

On your phone (iOS and Android) you can now reload the page by simply pulling it down, just like in other apps.

Also fixed: as a guest you now reliably stay signed in after your RSVP. Before, the event page could forget who you were on your next visit, leaving you unable to change your answer.

When you RSVP yes to an invite, "Add to calendar" now shows up right away, no page reload needed. The downloaded calendar file now shows the event link only once instead of twice in the notes.

If you accidentally submit the same form twice (say, a double-click), you now get a short heads-up instead of a silent no-op.

On group events, some members couldn't RSVP when the event was set to invite-only, even though they were active in the group. That's fixed now, and you decide per event whether only group members see it or also anyone you share the link with. If a group event already had a running date poll or active tickets, both sections now stay reachable in settings instead of disappearing after a while.

Settings now show a short explanation under every section. The quick-jump bar at the top of the event page (Guests, Potluck, Photos, ...) marks modules with new activity with a dot, and with many active modules it now scrolls cleanly to the side instead of getting cut off.