From “we should hang out” to a date on the calendar.
The whole path. What you do, what the app does, and exactly what it touches on the way. It takes one sitting and it ends with people actually turning up.
For you
Six steps, one sitting-
Name the excuse
Thirteen kinds, plus whatever you invent. Trivia night is not a listed occasion. It is now.
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Fill in the details
Date, time, place. Then whatever else matters: what to bring, where to park, whose fault it is.
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Let it draw
Pick a style and a tone, or don't. The TinselVite studio designs original artwork with your wording painted in, then reads every line back before you see it. Never clip art.
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Decide who's invited
Pull names from your contacts or type them. Only the people you pick are ever saved. Everyone else stays out of it.
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Send it as a text
Each guest gets their own private link, and your own Messages app opens with it ready. It arrives from you, because it is from you.
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Stop asking
Coming, not coming, and hasn't answered, updating while you watch. You will never type “bump” again.
Your friends do none of this
They get a text. They tap it. That is the entire experience. No download, no account, no password, nothing to explain in the group chat.
Questions
- Can I change the names painted on the design?
- Yes. Type your own names, initials or title, and the design is painted again with them, in the same style. Each painting is one of the three your credit covers.
What we actually touch
Device permissionsFour device permissions, and every one of them is optional. Decline any of them and the app still works. You'll just do a little more typing, or go without that one convenience.
| Permission | Why it is asked for |
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| Contacts | So you can pick guests from your address book instead of typing names and numbers. Contacts are read on your device. Only the people you actually add to a guest list are stored, and TinselVite never writes to your address book. |
| Calendar | So you can add an event to your calendar in one tap. TinselVite writes that single event. To do it, the app has to see which calendars are on your device and which one it's allowed to write to. It never reads the events already in them. |
| Photos | Only when you choose a photo: either one to print on the card itself, or one to use as a style reference for the artwork. The app opens your system photo picker and receives the single image you pick, not your library. |
| Notifications | Off unless you turn it on. Used to tell you when a guest replies to an invitation you sent. |
None of these permissions is used for advertising, profiling, or sharing with third parties. The Privacy Policy has the complete description of data collection, storage, and deletion.