ForeverAfter vs Zola Wedding Planner

ForeverAfter is a wedding planning app for couples organizing plans, budgets, and guests in one place. It includes expense tracking by category, savings goals, a checklist, and a day-of schedule, alongside guest lists, RSVPs, seating, and a wedding website. Guests can reply to invitations on a phone without installing the app or creating an account, and responses can include meal choices. Couples can also collect guest photos and use a voice guest book. The free Starter plan supports unlimited guests and includes one contributor, five AI planner messages, and the ability to hear one guest book message. Premium costs 19.99 GBP as a one-time purchase for one wedding; it adds unlimited contributors, an AI wedding assistant, guest photo and video sharing, and access to every voice guest book message. ForeverAfter says it does not sell personal data or use wedding data for advertising. Guest photos and videos are deleted three months after the wedding, while account and wedding data remain until the account is deleted. Support is available by email or in-app, and the team aims to reply within 1–2 business days.

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.