Mobile app

App or website: what is where?

By Nimanto 2 min read

In short

Use whichever you have to hand: the app and the website share one account, and every change shows in both. The drag-and-drop studio, the partner dashboard and some plan and payment steps are website only; push notifications, the Activity feed and the day's "now" marker are app only.

The Nimanto app and nimanto.com are two doors to the same house. One account, one set of invitations, guests, replies and designs; a change in one shows in the other.

In both

  • Creating a Signature invitation or a card, previewing it, publishing and sharing it.
  • The guest list, personal links, imports from a file, the contact book.
  • Replies, approvals, the waitlist, custom questions, exports.
  • Messages to guests and the two automatic reminders.
  • The photo album, its QR code and moderation.
  • Design Genie briefs, revisions and your designs.
  • Eli, the helper.
  • Favourites, notifications settings, your profile, deleting the account.
  • The Help Center and the contact form.

Website only

  • The Invitation studio, the drag-and-drop editor for moving and restyling what is on each page. The app's Edit layout on the web opens it inside the app, already signed in.
  • The partner dashboard for partners.
  • Starting or changing a paid plan on iPhone, and paying for premium items there, unless in-app purchase is switched on. Android hands off to the website's checkout from inside the app. See Can I buy in the app?.
  • A few planner tools, such as the floor plan, Day sheets and spreadsheets, and the Event Hub's Revenue and payout set-up. The app opens them on the website, signed in.
  • The public pages: the marketing site, guides and catalogue pages. The app has its own catalogue.

App only

  • Push notifications and the Activity feed. The website has the bell and e-mail instead.
  • Adding guests from your phone's contacts.
  • A "now" marker on the schedule on the day, and a same-day reminder set on the phone.
  • The microphone that uses your phone's own speech recognition when you describe an invitation.

One difference to know about

On the website, publishing e-mails every guest with an address at once. In the app, publishing and sending are two deliberate steps: the seal closes, and the Share screen asks you to send. See Publishing and sending.

Editing in both places

An invitation whose layout you changed in the website's studio can still have every word changed in the app; the app simply does not move what the studio arranged. If an invitation changed on the website while the app had it open, the app offers to reload rather than overwrite.

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