Folio vs Zola Wedding Planner

Folio is a web-based wedding planning app for couples organizing an event with a partner. Its planning tools cover guest management, budgeting and payment tracking, tasks, a wedding-day timeline, seating arrangements, a wedding website, and a gift registry. Guests receive personal RSVP links and can respond without creating an account or downloading an app. Vendor records can follow each supplier from inquiry through final payment, with contacts, notes, status, and linked expenses. CSV imports support lists prepared in Excel or Google Sheets; dietary reports export as CSV, while browser timelines can be printed or saved as PDF. Folio says it shows no ads, does not sell data, and stores information on Hetzner Cloud servers in Germany. Couples retain access until three months after the wedding, then can export their data. The product is still in development. The Couples plan costs 79.00 EUR once, including VAT; a view-only Demo is free.

Zola Wedding Planner combines tools for venues, vendors, wedding websites, registries, invitations, guest lists, and budgets. Its marketplace helps couples discover, contact, and book vendors, with recommendations personalized to the wedding. Guest management tracks RSVPs, meal selections, and plus ones, and accepts spreadsheet imports. A seating chart supports drag-and-drop assignments plus customizable table names and seat counts. Registry features include gifts, experiences, zero-fee cash funds, group gifting, and virtual exchanges for credit before shipping. The iOS app manages a website, checklist, invitations, registry, gift notifications, and Gift Tracker; Zola says the free wedding app is currently iOS-only, while planning tools are listed for web and iOS. Couples can password-protect their wedding website, but registries cannot currently be password-protected. Zola says uploaded planning-tool information is not encrypted or otherwise secured. Its free plan is free for personal, non-commercial use with a registered account. Paid offerings are listed from 17.99 USD. Team-Z advisors provide chat or email support.