the easiest birthday party you'll ever plan.
Every parent knows the drill. Plan the party, send the invites, answer the same five questions twenty times.
“What time does it start?” “Where is it again?” “Can you resend the address?” “Is it indoor or outdoor?” “What should we bring?”
It's exhausting, and it's the same chaos every time. Group chats don't solve it — they make it worse. The details get buried under 47 messages about who's bringing cupcakes.
one event. everything in one place.
Create the party as an event and the date, time, venue and details all live in one screen. Add the notes people always ask about — “grip socks provided at the door,” “pizza partway through, cake right after,” “drop-off is totally fine.” Don't have a name for it yet? Leave the title blank and BoredApp names it from the venue.
Still deciding? Start a poll right on the event — “Pool party or park?” — and the group settles it. The going count at the top of the event is your live headcount, so you always know how many you're actually catering for.
split the load. nothing forgotten.
Birthdays are a pile of small jobs. Cake. Goodie bags. Plates. Decorations. The piñata. Drop them into a Tasks list on the event and assign each one — to yourself, your partner, or the parents who offered to help. The list shows its own progress, so “3 of 6 complete” is the honest answer to “are we ready?”
When a job is shared — both grandparents bringing snacks, three parents splitting the library books — each person gets their own checkbox. Nobody assumes the other one had it covered.
invite parents, not chaos.
Invite people through the app, or just share the link — iMessage, WhatsApp, email, the class group chat, wherever they already are. Parents open it in their browser and see the whole event. No install, no account, no barrier. They RSVP Going, Maybe or Can't, and you get a real headcount instead of a thread of thumbs-up emoji.
light the candles at the right time.
On the day, everyone taps Navigate and their maps app opens with directions. No copied addresses, no screenshots of a map in the group chat.
Want to know whether to wait on grandma before the cake? Guests can opt in to share an ETA, and you see a plain minute count — “~9 min” — next to their name, plus who's already arrived. No map, no dot, no coordinates. We compute the minutes and never store your location, and sharing stops on its own once you get there.
the photos, from every phone in the room.
You spent the party hosting it, which means you barely photographed it — and the good shots are on other people's phones. Every event has a shared album built in. Parents add straight from the event, react to each other's shots, and the candle moment you missed shows up from three angles you weren't standing at.
Album photos fade after 90 days. Saving them to your phone is free, always, for everyone — so what you want to keep, you keep.
and then it keeps going.
Next year, find this one under Past Events and tap Repeat Event — same crew, re-invited, in one tap. And those parents who installed BoredApp for the party now have it for their own kid's birthday, the Saturday soccer carpool, and the class picnic.
One birthday party. A dozen families who never have to do the group-chat version again.
Stop planning parties in group chats. There's a better way.