April 4, 2026·3 min read·Updated August 3, 2026

dinner without the drama.

You just want six friends around a table. Why does it take forty messages to make that happen?

You know how it goes. You text the group: “Dinner Saturday?” Then it starts. “What time?” “Can I bring someone?” “What should I bring?” “Wait, where do you live again?” “Is it BYOB?” “I'm vegetarian btw.”

By the time you've answered everything, you're too exhausted to cook.

settle it where the conversation already is.

The deciding part happens in a chat, so BoredApp does it there too. Drop a poll in the group chat for the night, another for the place, and let people vote instead of typing “I'm easy” six times. When both polls close, a banner appears above the thread with the winning date and venue already filled in — tap Create Event and everyone in the conversation is invited.

No retyping. No one left off because they were muted that week.

A group chat where two polls have closed on a date and a restaurant, with a banner above the thread offering to create an event from the poll results — Four messages and there's an actual plan. The banner carries the poll results straight into an event.

one event. zero confusion.

Now the details have a home. Time, your address, and the notes people always ask for — “BYOB, I'm making pasta, tell me about allergies.” Share the link and anyone can open the full event in their browser without installing a thing. They RSVP Going, Maybe or Can't, so you know exactly how many plates to set before you shop.

A Dinner at Alo event showing the time, restaurant, a note about the tasting menu, a 4 of 6 attending badge, and Calendar, Navigate, Share, Poll and Tasks actions — The reservation, the address, the warning to come hungry — and a headcount that updates itself.

potluck? assigned, not hoped for.

“I'll bring something” is how you end up with three pasta salads and no dessert. Put the list on the event instead — salad, dessert, wine, ice — and assign each line to a person. When two people split a job, each gets their own checkbox, so neither assumes the other one has it.

You can watch it fill in during the week rather than finding out at 7pm.

everyone just gets there.

Saturday comes. Your friends tap Navigate and their maps app opens. Nobody's lost, nobody's texting you from the wrong street. Anyone running late can opt in to share an ETA, and you see a plain minute count — “~7 min” — so you know whether to put the pasta on. No map, no coordinates, no creepy tracking. The minutes get computed; your location never gets stored.

and the night doesn't vanish.

Photos from the table go into the event's shared album, so the good one someone took of everybody mid-laugh isn't stuck on their phone forever. They fade after 90 days; saving the ones you want to your own phone is free and always will be.

Hosting should be fun, not a part-time job. Settle it in the chat, create the event, cook the food.