What's new

A new event now starts with up to five planning items that fit the occasion. The app recognizes it from the title, like “kids party”, “wedding”, “Christmas party” or “BBQ”, and for “Henry's 8th birthday” also from the age. Items you already handled in the wizard (the venue is set, the bring list is on) and items that would already be due at creation are left out. “Load template” uses the same occasion. Checklist reminders now come bundled, at most one per event and day.

When you open an event or group page in Safari on an iPhone, Safari shows a hint about the app at the top. Tapping “Open” shows the same page right in the app.

New users no longer get a separate email about the iPhone and Android app. The note now sits at the bottom of the welcome email. If you already have the app installed, the note is left out. The welcome email itself is shorter: instead of a long feature list it shows which occasions events works for, and tapping one starts an event with a matching title.

Emails about an event are more compact and end with the host's first name and the event's name.

The thank-you for hosts now comes when one of your guests creates an event of their own after attending yours, no longer as soon as they sign up. The message about it comes from me, no longer in the name of your event.

A host reported it: when creating an event, no address could be entered. The search said “Address search failed”, and “Enter manually” did nothing. Since September 28 the address fields did not work when creating an event or in the event settings. That is fixed. The search now reliably finds places like “Kickfabrik Nürnberg”, shows each result only once and reports an error at most once. If it finds nothing, you can type the address yourself via “Enter address manually” right in the results.

In the planning card the first tab is now called “Message guests”. You pick the recipients at the top and write the message below. A note explains that guests get it by email and that it shows on the event page. The card itself is still only visible to you and your co-hosts.

When you upload a title image or profile photo, the frame now stays put and you drag the image under it with your finger and zoom with two fingers or the mouse wheel. The image opens already cropped to the center, so a tap on “Save” is usually enough.

A host reported it: your own questions came right after “I'm coming”, before the guest had even entered their name. The flow now asks for the contact details first and your questions after that. A line below the heading names you as the host (“Lisa would like to know a bit more.”), and the questions are numbered with more space between them. The answers so far now sit above the current question from the second step on, so the flow reads from top to bottom.

When an event's date changes, whether through a poll or because you edit it, your own reminders now move with it: they shift by the same number of days and are only dropped if they would end up in the past or after the event. Reminders for the checklist, Secret Santa and photos go out again for the new date.

Anyone offering a ride or a place to stay, or who booked a time slot, gets an in-app note to check their offer or booking. As a host you learn when your time slots are still on the old day or the reply deadline falls after the new date. While a poll is still running, the note waits until it is decided.

While a date poll runs there is no date yet, and while guests vote on the venue there is no destination. Rides and stays are therefore paused during a date or venue poll, time slots during a date poll. Instead of empty lists the module shows a note with a link to the poll, and existing entries stay visible. As soon as you close the poll, everything opens again. Adding time slots during a date poll used to crash; that is fixed.

When the venue is decided, all guests who said yes now get a message with the new venue, just like for the date. The invitation card, calendar file and emails show “Date to be announced” or “Location to be announced” instead of an empty line while a poll runs.

A host reported it: for 70 l of beer the calculator planned two 50 l kegs with 30 l left over. For drinks with several containers (beer on kegs and crates, water and soft drinks on two crate sizes) the calculator now shows a tip with the combination that leaves the least over, for example “Buy 1 keg of 50 l and 1 keg of 20 l instead of 2 kegs of 50 l. Nothing left over instead of 30 l.”. There are also new 5 l (party keg) and 10 l kegs for self-serve, which get no tip. The bring list stays on the container you picked.

A host reported it: for a school reunion he wanted to know the guests' birth names, and there was no place for that. Under “Manage” > “Guests”, in the last step of creating an event, and as a default for new dates of a group, you can now add up to five questions of your own, as free text or a choice. Each question can be required, asked of companions too, and visible to other guests (anonymous guests always stay hidden). Use the arrows to set the order. Duplicating an event carries the questions over.

Guests answer the questions in a step of their own when they say yes or maybe, and can change their answers via “Change response”. You see per question how many have answered, can ask for missing answers by email, and find all answers in the guest management and in the Excel export.

A host reported it: when you plan far ahead, say a reunion a year out, guests do not come back to the portal after they accept, so new info never reaches them. You now write a news item right on the event page, in the “Planning” card under the “News” tab (subject and test email are under “Manage”), and pick with a dropdown who gets it by email: accepted and maybe, accepted only, maybe only, not answered yet, or all guests. Beforehand you see how many guests actually get it and how many cannot be reached, and you can send yourself a test email under “Manage”. Guests with an account also get a push notification.

On the event page the messages appear as “News”, and every invited guest only sees the ones sent to their group. Each sent item shows when it went out and to how many guests. Guests can react with an emoji (one per guest and message) and use “Discuss on the message board” to start a board post that refers to the news. After answering, the follow-up tour shows the news first. Each event can send five messages per day.