Your Life Will be Better With Tally Ho

A free iPhone app that helps you see more of your friends & family

The greatest joy in life is spending quality time with the people you love. This is a truth that really hit me back when I was in college and gained renewed importance after a recent death in my family. That difficult experience was the inspiration and guiding light for Tally Ho.

We’re all busier than ever, running in separate circles, making it challenging to get a group of people physically together in the same place at the same time. Email, texts, and messaging apps enable you to freely communicate with the people you’re trying to see, but do a poor job of aiding the gathering process for casual, everyday happenings.

Enter Tally Ho, a free iOS app that makes planning get-togethers with your friends easy, quick, and fun. Its smart design and automation means you spend less time and energy on herding cats and more time looking forward to seeing the people you care about. Download it here.

HOW TALLY HO IS DIFFERENT

To plan a BBQ, most folks would start an email chain or write a lot of text messages to the people they want to see. Gathering interest and availability that way can quickly get messy, with a long thread that leaves everyone feeling uncertain of what the final plan is. Suddenly that BBQ doesn’t feel quite so fun and simple to pull off.

Tally Ho makes planning simpler. The app drastically reduces how much time and headache it takes you to rally your friends around an activity, find the best time to meet up, and get them to actually show up.

With the Tally Ho app, it takes you 20 seconds to propose that BBQ and set the plan in motion. Your invitees don’t need to have the app; our system automatically sends personalized text messages to them, asking people to vote for meeting up at, say, 3pm Saturday or 5pm Sunday. You later check the vote tally, select the final time and that’s it: everyone automatically gets a text update with the final plan and a link to add the event to their calendars. You stay firmly in the captain’s seat, setting the course, while Tally Ho runs around as your deckhands, doing your bidding.

“Makes it super easy to schedule getting together with friends.” — James

“Love it. Easier to plan events and get people to show up in this age of flakiness.” — Sarah

“The app I’ve been waiting for! Why didn’t Doodle and Evite do this?? So much better.” — Wendy

GROUP PLANNING MADE SIMPLE

• Made for on-the-go. Create an event proposal in 20 seconds using a single thumb. It’s that fast and easy to initiate a plan that’s appealing and casual.
• Find the best time to meet. If you don’t have a set time in mind, coordinate your friends’ busy schedules by proposing a few days and times to meet. We’ll poll your friends and show you the results. You pick the best time and we’ll update everyone.
• Set it and forget it. We automatically send out personalized invites, collect rsvps, and send targeted and appropriate reminders. We’ll loop you in when needed, such as to pick the final event time or answer a friend’s question.
• Friends don’t need the app. Once an event is created, Tally Ho will send out personalized event invites via text. Your friends can seamlessly rsvp and download the event to their phone’s calendar, without needing to download the app.
• Easy to start. The app is fast to download and get started with. Its simple design is user friendly, so even your aunt can get onboard.

WHY I BUILT TALLY HO

Our relationships with other people are at the very core of our existence. That fact hit me hard this last spring, when my mom passed away from a brain tumor. She was a tremendous influence on my life and I highly valued all of the time we spent together over the years.

Death makes you pause and reflect on what really matters. Both great thinkers like the Dalai Lama and the average person on their deathbed know that cultivating and cherishing personal relationships is one of the key pillars of finding meaning in life.

“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” — Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

It’s not enough to have a lot of people you call friends; you have to spend quality time with them enjoying shared activities. You need to eat together, drink together, go on urban hikes together, watch sunsets together, learn something together. To live fully, we need to nurture relationships that enrich and seek experiences that matter.

That’s why we built Tally Ho. To help you engage in meaningful activities with people that you care about. Go ahead and fill your week with as many happy hours, brunches, hikes and movie nights as you can handle. It’s easy to propose activities to your friends and quickly gather their interest and availability.

BONUS: THE ORIGINAL IDEA

Back in college, my two best friends and I embraced the message behind Tim McGraw’s song “Live Like You Were Dying”. We organized regular parties and adventures on campus, to help friends take a break from studies and enjoy the moment. We started a Facebook group to inform and coordinate our friends, so they could join us. The group was called Tally Ho.

That was 10 years ago and the Facebook group no longer exists, but the spirit lives on. Luckily, my friend saved the group’s description:

“FUN LIST! There are so many hours in the day, and so many times we just need something fun to do. Get scuba certified, sail in the SF bay, bike on angel island, camp, run in the sprinklers, go to a hookah bar, visit Cuba. And it’s friends that make our adventures. So we hope you can come out for a party or an excursion, or just some good beer and mellow music sometime this year … To all things ridiculous and fun, we salute you.” ~ Rory, James & Eric circa 2006

Thanks for reading!

Rory, Founder & CEO

More information: www.letstallyho.com

Get the app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tally-ho-invites-get-together/id1150927703?mt=8