After recently acquiring student planning app Saturn, Snapchat is now moving to integrate Saturn status info directly into Snap profiles, which will give you more ways to connect with Snap friends, and keep up with what they’re up to at any given time.
As you can see in these example screens, Saturn is primarily focused on making it easier for students to stay on track with their school commitments, but that also expands to sharing your calendar with friends, and even chatting and joining events in-app.
And soon, that info will also be available on your Snapchat profile as well.
In Snapchat’s Help Center, it’s added a new overview of what Saturn is, how it works, and how you can easily connect it to your Snapchat account.
As per Snap:
“Saturn lets you share your schedule with friends so they can see what you’re up to in real time in the Snapchat app.”
You can connect your Saturn account from either the Snap or Saturn apps, via an automated connection process linking the two. You can then manage your Saturn connection from within the “Partner Connections” element of your Snapchat Settings.
Once connected your Saturn calendar status will be displayed on your Snap profile beneath your display name.
Snap users will be able to manage their Saturn calendar status by going from their Snapchat Settings, where they can also control who can see their Saturn Status.
Also, you’ll soon be able to start a Snapchat chat from Saturn:
“If your friend on Saturn has connected their Saturn and Snapchat accounts, tapping the yellow ‘Chat’ button in a friend’s profile in the Saturn app will open the Snapchat app. If you’re friends on Snapchat, tapping the button will open in the chat conversation with that friend. If you’re not friends on Snapchat, it will open to their Friendship Profile.”
So it seems like Saturn will remain functional as a separate entity, for now at least, with Snap looking to better align the two to maximize its own connection opportunities.
I mean, it seems like, eventually, Snap will just merge the two, and the separate Saturn app will disappear. But for now, Snap’s going to maintain both, while Snapchat users will also invite their Snap friends to sign-up for Saturn via Snap.
It’s an interesting integration, which leans into Snapchat’s core use case in connecting young people, and facilitating relationships.
Snap hasn’t officially announced when Saturn functionality will be made available in the app, but presumably, it is coming very soon.
