4 Things to Know When Developing an Event app
Time is the most expensive and limited resource, and if we want to manage it more effectively, we can take the help of modern information technologies both for affairs planning and pleasant leisure searching.
The popularity of time management applications is ever-growing and obvious. If you look to create a mobile app for events, as the company with extensive experience in application development and offers services of event app developers for hire, we seek to share some tips on how to make an event app. Let us consider several types of such apps.
Source: MPI Research
I Organizers
The pace of life today has increased so much that keeping everything in one’s head is almost impossible. Remember that strange feeling when you forgot about something important?
Psychologists say that the human brain can simultaneously hold only three themes in mind. But busy people just need to remember a lot more, and it isn’t possible without the task scheduler. We constantly need to record something and be reminded of it later.
The usual built-in calendar or a text editor is not suitable for these purposes. Paper notebooks and planners are inconvenient, messy and inefficient.
The ideal would be a mobile event app development - task scheduler or organizer. What kind of functionality should a handy task scheduler have? Let's try identifying the main points: comfortable and intuitive interface, user’s native language availability, possibility to create task lists on certain dates, reminder function.
Most sought after functions of such apps:
• Reminders
In a paper planner, one can attribute the task to a certain date. But only the electronic scheduler is capable of reminding about the occurrence of the desired time.
• Repetitive tasks tracking
We all have events that are repeated from time to time. For instance, monthly communal payments and friends’ birthdays.
• Information backup
Task planners can easily manage the backup processes. In other words, the user will never lose their tasks as they could lose a notebook.
• Teamwork organization
Almost all electronic planners envisage such functions:
- setting tasks for subordinates;
- receiving tasks from management;
- group task discussions and meetings.
Based on these criteria, we propose two of the most popular and full-featured applications for organizing things as examples.
1. Wunderlist
Perhaps the best, this cross-platform mobile app for conferences with tons of options was downloaded more than a million times.
With Wunderlist, it is possible to build plans for large projects, create subprojects, reminders, and various lists. In addition, Wunderlist allows the user to share created notes and lists with friends and colleagues.
Developers offer three usage plans for Wunderlist: Free, with basic functionality, Advanced, allowing to create to-do lists and projects, and Pro version with expanded features and the business planning module for startups.
Capabilities:
• various lists organization;
• lists grouping;
• deadlines tracking;
• tasks collaboration;
• media (pictures, videos, documents, prices) of any size embedding;
• handy calendar (can be synced with Google Calendar and iCal).
2. Todoist
Todoist is one of the top-end services for the task lists management. It is cross-platform and was evolved from a simple list of tasks.
Capabilities:
• automatic tasks and lists synchronization between all the linked devices;
• cloud backup;
• completion deadlines and priorities for each specific task;
• offline information storage;
• project collaboration capabilities and a clear tasks distribution between team members;
• revisions and notes notifications;
• visual scheduler;
• integration with Dropbox and Google Drive cloud document storages;
• additional widgets, integration with Google Now and DashClock.
II Event planning apps
In a recent survey conducted among managers in the events organization, over 1800 professional event organizers were asked about their preferred applications. The results show that more than 63% of pollees are using some kind of event mobile planning app for iOS (iPhone) or Android to organize their work or even ordered custom event management app.
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The farsightedness of this part of managers is obvious: instead of printing mountains of papers, flyers, and omissions, it is sufficient to have one app that will combine all the needed functions. In addition, the app is very useful in case of schedule changes. Instead of typing the edited agenda of the day, one can easily make changes inside the mobile app – it’s less troublesome and helps to minimize costs.
As an example, let’s review Eventbrite. It is the event organization service, with the use of which one can create a customized page for an event, sell tickets online, collect information about visitors and manage records.
Eventbrite’s features:
• access to pages from anywhere;
• barcode tickets distribution;
• online payments;
• possibilities for the event promotion on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn;
• visitors registration;
• invitations and letters sending;
• graphic data representation in real time.
III Check-in apps
The check-in trick was invented by the Foursquare developers - it employs the users’ manual labor, their marks on the map and comments to the places they visited.
An interesting Localmind geo-platform is a kind of additional service to Foursquare, even the registration is done through Foursquare account.
Localmind service event registration app is not really that innovative but is gaining popularity and already is included in the list of Apple recommended applications.
The main purpose of Localmind is to allow the user to seek answers from other users registered at a specific location. The main difference from other similar services is the real-time information exchange. Another difference – Localmind is focused on what is happening at the institution one is going to visit and not on what their friends do at the moment.
The main interface is designed so that it contains a map of surrounding area on which places are marked, where active online users that are willing to share information on their present site have checked-in. How many empty seats are available at the bar? Is there a line to the box office and whether tickets to the premiere of a movie are available? How is the party in the club going?
Already we can say that the application belongs to a must have a category. Run this app, and you will see on the map the set of labels, each of which is an opportunity to receive the latest information about what is happening there.
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Another example of such apps can serve one of our cases – a social network local event app for the California startup. The initial idea was to organize a social network of pro-active lifestyle. Supplies a user with push notifications about all the events happening near his current geolocation containing the profiles of all the participants. Allows a user to create their own thematic events, invite friends to join in, see who wishes to join and check the list of current participants at any time.
IV Event search engines
“Meetup will change your life" - promise the creators of the application. Meetup makes online communities real and helps to find a group of people who share your interests, in real life.
Meetup works on the principle of interest grouping and finder: user registers, becomes acquainted with new people and spends their time the way they are used to. With Meetup, it is easy to monitor what is going on around you, both in the network and in real life.
Another application of the same class is Songkick. It helps to keep track of the concerts of favorite artists.
Moreover, the application does this by scanning the device’s internal music library and user’s profile at Last.fm. Based on the scan, it concludes favorite artists and gives a list of their upcoming concerts in the area of user’s location.
Sweeping through the list of concerts, a user can browse the concert location map, see what other artists will perform in the upcoming show, and add the upcoming concert as an event to their calendar.
Possible means of monetization:
1. Freemium model.
2. The use of the most application features is free of charge, but the user can purchase access to additional functions/modules, virtual goods or additional decorations.
3. Paid Pro accounts.
4. Paid application (trial versions).
5. Internal advertising.
Source: MPI Research
Final thoughts
As we discussed in this article, there’s a lot of types of time management apps at the market and demand for those is high enough that new idea can skyrocket from the start. Contact us if you’re interested and our experts will consult you fully on the prospects of your ideas and event app development cost.
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