Colara vs Marry Planner

Colara is a shared wedding workspace for planners, photographers, vendors, and couples, organized around a live timeline. Its planner workspace brings together timelines, vendors, contracts, couples, and floor plans. A free CRM includes a lead and client pipeline, proposals, e-signature contracts, invoices, payment reminders, scheduling, questionnaires, an inbox, email templates, finances, a calendar, and a task board. The free CRM allows unlimited clients, leads, jobs, proposals, contracts, and invoices, but vendors do not receive an owned wedding workspace. Free-plan online payments carry a 1% platform fee on cards or 1.5% total on bank payments, capped at $30 per payment including Stripe’s fee; manual payments have no platform or Stripe fee. Colara offers an AI timeline builder and assistant, and connects with QuickBooks Online, Google Calendar, Zapier, Make, and webhooks. Its free iPhone and iPad app is available on the App Store. Paid plans start at $29 a month.

Marry Planner is a wedding planning app for keeping guest, budget, vendor, seating and checklist details together. Guest tools track RSVPs, dietary restrictions and plus-ones, and let users assign people to tables. The budget tracker sorts expenses by category; vendor records can include contacts, contracts, payment due dates and notes. Its visual seating chart supports drag-and-drop, with up to two tables on Free and unlimited tables on Premium. Premium also offers a Guest Album where guests can upload photos and videos by link or QR code without an account, with Google Drive connection. Couples can share selected wedding details through free, unlimited links that may be password-protected or turned off. The service runs on the web and has native iOS and Android apps with push notifications and real-time sync. Free covers one wedding and up to 30 guests; Premium is $49.99 a year, billed annually, and is also listed at $4.17/mo (annual). A two-month free trial is listed.