After just lately buying scholar planning app Saturn, Snapchat is now shifting to combine Saturn standing data straight into Snap profiles, which offers you extra methods to attach with Snap associates, and sustain with what they’re as much as at any given time.
As you possibly can see in these instance screens, Saturn is primarily centered on making it simpler for college students to remain on monitor with their faculty commitments, however that additionally expands to sharing your calendar with associates, and even chatting and becoming a member of occasions in-app.
And shortly, that data will even be obtainable in your Snapchat profile as properly.
In Snapchat’s Assist Middle, it’s added a brand new overview of what Saturn is, the way it works, and how one can simply join it to your Snapchat account.
As per Snap:
“Saturn enables you to share your schedule with associates to allow them to see what you’re as much as in actual time within the Snapchat app.”
You possibly can join your Saturn account from both the Snap or Saturn apps, through an automatic connection course of linking the 2. You possibly can then handle your Saturn connection from inside the “Companion Connections” aspect of your Snapchat Settings.
As soon as linked your Saturn calendar standing might be displayed in your Snap profile beneath your show identify.
Snap customers will be capable to handle their Saturn calendar standing by going from their Snapchat Settings, the place they will additionally management who can see their Saturn Standing.
Additionally, you’ll quickly be capable to begin a Snapchat chat from Saturn:
“In case your good friend on Saturn has linked their Saturn and Snapchat accounts, tapping the yellow ‘Chat’ button in a good friend’s profile within the Saturn app will open the Snapchat app. Should you’re associates on Snapchat, tapping the button will open within the chat dialog with that good friend. Should you’re not associates on Snapchat, it would open to their Friendship Profile.”
So it looks like Saturn will stay useful as a separate entity, for now a minimum of, with Snap seeking to higher align the 2 to maximise its personal connection alternatives.
I imply, it looks like, ultimately, Snap will simply merge the 2, and the separate Saturn app will disappear. However for now, Snap’s going to keep up each, whereas Snapchat customers will even invite their Snap associates to sign-up for Saturn through Snap.
It’s an attention-grabbing integration, which leans into Snapchat’s core use case in connecting younger folks, and facilitating relationships.
Snap hasn’t formally introduced when Saturn performance might be made obtainable within the app, however presumably, it’s coming very quickly.
