Wedding · for couples and families preparing a Turkish çeyiz
Ceyizly is a checklist and budget ledger for couples and families preparing a Turkish çeyiz, the household goods gathered for a couple's new home before the wedding. It opens with 110 items already listed, sorted into seven sections of the home and three bohça, the wrapped gift bundles the two families exchange. Each item you check off fills its section of the hope chest a little higher. You can note what you expect to pay and what you paid, and all of it stays on your phone with no account.
Tap the circle beside an item and its section of the hope chest fills upward in one smooth motion, with a small tap from the phone. The bar at the top rises too, and the item stays on the list, checked and crossed out. Fill a section all the way and a knot line closes it.
Start a trip, pick the sections and bohça you're shopping for, and only the items you haven't bought yet come up in a one-handed list. Check each one off in the store and type what you paid right there, or leave it blank. End the trip and it is kept with how many things you picked up, the amount you noted, and how far the chest rose, say from 38% to 41%.
Gelin, damat and söz bohçası come preloaded as bundles of their own, each with a starter list and its own progress bar. Pull items in from the main list or create new ones inside the bundle, and one item can belong to a room and a bohça at the same time. If your family isn't preparing a bohça, leave it out and it stops counting.
A çeyiz is usually gathered over months or years, a set of towels one week and a refrigerator another, and plenty of families still keep track in a paper notebook or a spreadsheet. Ceyizly opens with the list already written: 110 items drawn from Turkish retailers' çeyiz guides, wedding sites and forums, from the çaydanlık, the stacked Turkish teapot, to the bedroom furniture set. You start by checking off what you already have, not by typing.
The items sit in seven sections the way Turkish çeyiz lists divide them: four rooms (kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room) and three kinds of goods (large appliances, small appliances, home textiles). Bohça items live apart, in their own bundles. Search finds an item by name, and any section folds shut with a tap on its header.
The first launch walks you through the real screens, with one practice check along the way. Skip it whenever you like, or replay it from Settings.
No two homes need the same things. Open any item and choose Not for our home: it leaves the list and the progress count, so the chest can still fill to the top. Excluded items wait in Settings and come back exactly as they were, checks and amounts included.
Anything the list is missing goes in with the plus button, along with its section and an estimated price if you know it. You can rename the preloaded items, set how many you need (twelve tulip tea glasses, six bath towels), and keep a short note on each. Items you added yourself can be deleted.
The three bundles that come preloaded follow Turkish practice. Gelin bohçası and damat bohçası are the bundles for the bride and for the groom, and söz bohçası is exchanged by both families when the promise (söz) is made, so each of its items notes whose side it is for. Söz bohçası varies from family to family and many skip it; leaving any bohça out takes its items out of the progress count, and you can bring it back later.
You can also create a bundle of your own, for a mother-in-law or a sibling, and name it the way your family does. Deleting a bundle keeps every item that is also filed in a section of the home.
Every item has two optional amounts: what you expect to pay and what you actually paid. The Budget tab shows what you have spent so far, an estimate for what is left, and the two together. Below that, each section and each bohça gets its own spent and remaining figures. Thousands are separated as you type, which helps when totals reach tens or hundreds of thousands of lira.
An item without an amount is not counted as zero. The screen tells you how many bought items have no amount and how many remaining items have no estimate, and tapping the count opens a list of those items. Prices move, so an estimate can be changed any time. Ceyizly never looks up prices, never links to a shop, and never tells you a number is too high.
Amounts are kept in one currency, picked from your phone's region on first launch (Turkish lira in Turkey, euro in Germany) and changeable in Settings from a list of twenty. Changing it swaps the symbol only. Nothing is converted.
Set a target date in Settings if you have one, and the Hope Chest tab shows the days to go as a plain number. Once the date has passed it simply counts the days since. There are no reminders, streaks, or notifications, and nothing tells you what should have been bought by now.
Your list, your amounts, and your bohça stay on your phone. There is no account and no server, and the app sends nothing over the network. When you change phones, export a backup file and restore it on the new one; a file that isn't a Ceyizly backup is turned away without touching your current records. Delete all data returns the app to the fresh preloaded list.
To keep the family in the loop, Share what's left sends a plain text list through your phone's share sheet: how ready the çeyiz is in percent, then what is still missing in each section and bohça. There is no live syncing between phones.
Çeyiz is the set of household goods, from dinnerware and bedding to large appliances, that a Turkish family gathers for a couple's new home before the wedding. It is often collected over a long stretch and tracked in a written list. Ceyizly is a place to keep that list.
A bohça is a wrapped bundle of gifts the two families give each other during the engagement and wedding. Ceyizly includes gelin bohçası, damat bohçası and söz bohçası with starter items, keeps them separate from the rooms, and lets you create your own.
No. You type the prices you see, and the app adds up only what you entered. Changing the currency changes the symbol and leaves your numbers as they are.
Mark an item Not for our home and it drops out of the list and the progress count. You can put it back later from Excluded items in Settings. A whole bohça can be left out the same way.
Not directly. There is no shared account and no syncing, and nothing is uploaded. You can send a text summary of what is still left through your phone's share sheet.
No. Ceyizly is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases.
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