Compare/Martida vs Zola
An honest comparison

Martida vs Zola

Zola is strong before the day: Zola gives couples a free wedding website, registry, planning tools, guest list, seating charts and vendor discovery. Martida is a paid app that runs the wedding itself, with a budget that tracks every cost, synced event access, doors, vendor movement and the memory record.

Choose Zola if

It is a mostly single-day, mainstream wedding and you want a free website, a gift registry, and a place to find vendors.

Choose Martida if

Your wedding runs over several days, you invite by family, and you need a real budget, the door, and the day run.

What you get on Martida

The five things a wedding website cannot do, that the day actually needs.

The budget

A real budget that tracks the wedding as it changes

Every cost, vendor and contract stays in one record. Mark deposits, attach agreements, scan receipts, and see what is paid, due this week, and still left against the ceiling.

BudgetGBP 8,200 left
Caterer - Saffron TablePaid
PhotographerDue Fri
Receipt read - FloristGBP 1,240
One wedding

Every event is connected to the same households

Martida treats a wedding as days, event blocks, households and seats. The same guest can be invited to the nikah, the dinner, the reception, or all of them without keeping separate spreadsheets alive.

The Reddy household12 guests
NikahSeated
HennaSeated
ReceptionTable 4
On the day

Run the live wedding, not just the website

The door team scans passes, the couple and planner see what changed, vendors receive GO and HOLD cues, and crew can keep the room moving from the same wedding record.

The feast - 19:30Live
Cue - DJGO
Door check-in318 in
Send-offNext
Your guests

One guest pass from invitation to memories

A guest opens one link. It carries their invitation, event access, seat information, door pass, and the private memory layer for photos, videos and voice blessings.

Memory passPrivate
PhotosShared
VideosKept
Voice blessingsSaved
Built for it

Made for large family-led cultural weddings

Multi-day structures, family-owned guest lists, hundreds of guests, multiple languages, prayer-aware schedules and day-of dignity are the starting point, not a workaround.

520 guests62 households
4 daysMulti-block
Prayer-time awareYes
2 languagesGuest copy

The full comparison

Feature by feature, including where Zola genuinely leads.

Feature
Martida
Zola
Guests and seating
Family-owned guest lists
MartidaBuilt in
Zola-Guest-list first
Event-specific guest responses
MartidaEvent access
ZolaMulti-event RSVPs
Seating across multiple events
MartidaEvent blocks
ZolaSeating chart
Built around 1,000+ family weddings
MartidaDesigned for it
Zola-General weddings
Money and budget
Tracks costs, vendors and contracts
MartidaLive record
ZolaCategory tracker
Scan receipts
MartidaOn-device
Zola--
Per-guest cost from accepted guests
MartidaAutomatic
Zola-Manual
Payment due dates
MartidaYes
ZolaYes
Running the day
Events synced into one wedding
MartidaShared pass
Zola-Separate lists
Live running order
MartidaYes
Zola--
Door check-in and scanner
MartidaYes
Zola--
Photo, video and voice memories
MartidaBuilt in
Zola--
Vendor cues and crew channel
MartidaYes
Zola--
Where Zola leads
Gift registry
Martida--
ZolaYes
Vendor marketplace
Martida--
ZolaYes
Public wedding website
Martida--
ZolaYes

Which one should you choose?

If your wedding is mostly one day and fairly standard, Zola is excellent and free, and the registry alone may be reason enough.

If it runs over several days, gathers hundreds of guests by family, and has to actually be run on the day, that is the wedding Martida is built for. They are not mutually exclusive: Zola can host the public website while Martida runs the live wedding record.

See Martida run a wedding.

One synced wedding across every day: a real budget, households and seats, the door, vendors, and photo, video and voice memories.

Common questions

Is Martida a Zola alternative?+

Not exactly. Zola is a free website, registry and planning suite. Martida is a paid app for running large, multi-day weddings. Plenty of couples can use both.

Can Zola handle a multi-day wedding?+

Zola can list several events, collect guest responses and support seating charts for multiple events. Martida goes further by making days, access, doors, vendors and memories part of one shared wedding record.

Does Martida have a gift registry?+

No. Martida runs the event. Pair it with a registry if you want one.

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