Comparison

Zola vs Places Time Intelligence

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Zola

This app helps couples plan their entire wedding, from finding venues and vendors to managing the guest list, budget, and seating arrangements. It offers tools for creating a wedding website, sending invitations, and setting up a registry, all designed to simplify the planning process.

Highlights
  • Venue and vendor recommendations
  • Customizable wedding website builder
  • Invitation and paper suite design
  • Flexible wedding registry options
  • Guest list and RSVP tracking
  • Wedding budget management
  • Seating chart creation
  • Wedding countdown widget
Features
Currently charting
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Ready to plan your wedding? Do it all with Zola. Zola’s free tools make wedding planning a joy, not a job. • Venues & vendors: Finding your dream team shouldn’t feel like a scavenger hunt. Get personalized vendor recs that fit your style, location, and budget. • Wedding website: Your love wasn’t built in 5 minutes, but your website can be! Our customizable templates make it easy to create a tailor-made, totally you site with no design skills required. • Invites + paper: The simplest way to get from “save the date” to “thanks so much!” Use our templates to create stunningly unique save the dates, wedding invitations, and more, plus get free samples and free addressing, too. • Registry: It’s the wedding registry, reinvented. Choose from thousands of gifts, experiences, and zero-fee cash funds you actually want, with hassle-free returns and exchanges. Or discover Instant Registry and automatically add our most-popular picks in under 60 seconds. • Guest List: RSVP “yes” to our free and easy RSVP tracker. Still need a few addresses? Grab all your guests info in one go with Contact Collector, and make changes with a single click. • Wedding budget tracker: Skip the spreadsheet and track all your expenses in one easy place. Get allocation suggestions based on your overall budget, and never miss a payment with automatic reminders. • Seating chart: Seat all your guests in minutes for all your wedding events. Pull names right from your guest list, drag and drop ‘til it’s perfect, then export a PDF to share! No sticky notes needed. • Wedding countdown: Celebrate every day along the way to THE day with a countdown widget right on your home screen! Who We Are We’re Zola, the wedding planning company helping modern couples celebrate their love authentically and plan their weddings confidently. Our job is to understand who you are as a couple and what you want from your wedding. Once we know that, we give everything we’ve got – expert advice, unparalleled support and useful tools – to help you get there. From getting engaged to getting married, Zola’s there for every day along the way.

About

Places Time Intelligence

This app uses your background location to create a detailed overview of how you spend your time. It tracks visits to various places, measures duration, and provides breakdowns by day, week, month, or year. You can also view commute times and distinguish between sleep and awake time at home.

Highlights
  • Background location tracking
  • Time spent at locations breakdown
  • Visit duration measurement
  • Commute time tracking
  • Sleep vs. awake time differentiation
  • Map view of detected places
  • Pause tracking anytime
Features
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Places turns background location into a clear picture of where your time goes. See how much of a day, week, month, or year was spent at Home, Work, the Gym, errands, and in transit. Places detects repeated locations, measures visit duration, and keeps untracked time visible instead of redistributing it. Use Places to: - Compare time across common places - Separate estimated sleep from awake time at Home - Review day, week, month, and year breakdowns - See driving and commute time - Understand gym visits without assuming every long stay is a workout - Switch between Time, Places, Map, and Settings with bottom navigation - View detected places on a map - Pause background tracking at any time Sleep is an estimate based on continuous overnight presence at Home. Places does not access HealthKit and does not present estimated sleep as medical or confirmed health data. Your location history is private to your account. Places does not sell location data or use your activity for cross-app tracking. OPTIONAL AD-FREE ACCESS Ads help support the free app. Remove Ads Forever is a one-time in-app purchase with no renewal. Restore Purchases is included.

Screenshots

Zola4 screens
Places Time Intelligence4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Places Time Intelligence at none against Zola's 10. Zola's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (99K vs 1). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Zola sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Places Time Intelligence asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Zola against 5.0 for Places Time Intelligence. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zola has 99K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zola ships an update every 3 days, Places Time Intelligence every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Zola versus Places Time Intelligence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZolaPlaces Time Intelligence
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (99K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings99K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#110 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB36 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperZola, Inc.Edge Case LLC

Customer experience

Zola

All ratings98,918 ratings
Positive98.4%
Neutral0.8%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews281 reviews
Positive45.6%
Neutral9.3%
Negative45.2%

Places Time Intelligence

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Zola

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App login issues and data loss
  • Inaccurate registry information
  • Compatibility problems with older devices
  • Delayed or missing gift deliveries

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved guest list management
  • Enhanced mobile app functionality
  • Better integration with external registries
  • Customizable website design options
  • Streamlined gift tracking and thank-you process

Places Time Intelligence

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Zola

One-time8
  • Website Animations$1.99
  • Website Animations$3.99
  • Website Animations$5.99
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  • Website Animations$9.99
  • Seating Chart2 variants$14.99
  • Disposable Camera - 150 Guests$39.99
  • Premium SMS2 variants$59.99
  • Premium SMS$79.99
None

Places Time Intelligence

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zola free?
Zola is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Places Time Intelligence free?
Places Time Intelligence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Zola or Places Time Intelligence?
Places Time Intelligence is rated higher. Zola averages 4.9 out of 5 from 99K ratings, while Places Time Intelligence averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Zola or Places Time Intelligence have ads?
Places Time Intelligence shows ads; Zola does not.
Which is updated more often, Zola or Places Time Intelligence?
Zola ships an update every 3 days, and Places Time Intelligence every 2 weeks. Most recently, Zola was updated on November 10, 2026 and Places Time Intelligence on October 31, 2026.

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