Create a space and invite someone

Step 1. Choose how to sign in

The sign-in screen appears when you first open the app. On iPhone you'll see a Sign in with Apple button, and if a Google button is shown you can use that too. To use email, tap Continue with email.

New to email sign-in? On the Sign up tab, enter your email, a password (at least 6 characters) and a nickname, then tap Get started. If you already have an account, tap Sign in on the Sign in tab.

Step 2. Name the space, pick your relationship and tap Create space

After your first sign-in, you'll see a screen for creating a space. Space name is already filled in with ‘Just us’, and you can change it to anything you like. Under What's your relationship?, pick one of Couple, Married, Living together, Roommates or Other.

You can change the name and relationship later: go to Our space in the Settings tab and tap Rename. Only the space owner can do this.

Once the space is created, a screen asks once what you'd like to start with. To use it with someone, choose I want to coordinate with someone or Both. Whichever you choose, you can use both later.

Step 4. The other person taps the link and signs in

Tapping the link either opens the app right away or opens an invite page. If the invite page opens, tap ‘Open in app’. If the app isn't installed, the invite code is copied and you're taken to the store. After installing the app and signing in, tap the Paste invite code button on the create space screen to enter the code, then tap Join.

When the link opens the app, the sign-in screen shows a message that the invite link was recognized. Once you sign in, you join the other person's space right away instead of creating a new one. If the link didn't open, tap the link you received once more.

If the link doesn't open, you can join with the code. After signing in, enter the code you received in the Already have an invite? field at the bottom of the create space screen, then tap Join. You can also copy and paste the whole message you received, and the code is found automatically from the link in it. If what you copied has no code, you'll see ‘There's no invite code in what you copied.’ On iPhone, it's the system paste button, so it may look a little different. The code is made of letters and numbers, and lowercase letters are changed to uppercase.

Step 5. In Switch space, tap the space you want to switch to

You can have more than one space. In the Settings tab, open Our space and scroll all the way down. The Switch space card lists each space you belong to on its own row. The space you're viewing now says Current, and the others say Switch. Tap another space's row and your calendar, anniversaries and to-dos switch to that space.

To create a new space, tap Create new space on the same card. Set the Space name and What's your relationship?, then tap Create space. You move to the new space right away.

In Planner mode, tapping an event from another space shows the ‘Switch to this space?’ window. Tap Switch to move to that space and open the event.