NevaPlan Wedding Planner vs Zola Wedding Planner

NevaPlan Wedding Planner brings guest management, seating, budgeting, vendors, timelines, stationery, and honeymoon planning into one workspace. Its guest tools handle QR-code RSVPs and check-in, dietary notes, plus-ones, and live counts. Users can create drag-and-drop seating plans, arrange guests automatically, and track meal choices. Vendor and venue records can hold quotes and contracts, while the budget tracks payments and due dates. Wedding-day tools include a QR check-in and a live run sheet assembled from the itinerary, tasks, and photo shoots. Deposits sync to NevaPlan Budget Planner, and honeymoon plans open as trips in Trip Planner. The service offers nine printable PDFs, a wedding binder PDF, and PDF and Excel exports. Up to 10 people can collaborate, with changes syncing in real time across devices. It supports 13 languages and works on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. The free plan costs nothing, has no time limit or card requirement, and covers up to 15 guests and core features. The lifetime license costs $49.99 as a one-time purchase, with no renewal.

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.