Knotwork
Plan a whole wedding in one place, without five tools disagreeing about it.
Free, open source and private. No paid tier, no ads, no upsell, no sign-up to start.
Formerly Trousseau.
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Why we built this
Wedding software is rarely free. The planning apps are paid for some other
way: vendor marketplaces, registry commissions, adverts, and upsells to the
printed stationery you were about to buy. Your guest list is the asset. It
holds names, emails, family relationships, and dietary needs that are
sometimes medical.
The tools also don't talk to each other. The seating chart, the place cards
and the run sheet end up as three copies of one guest list, drifting apart.
When this project began, two apps disagreed about what day the wedding
was.
Knotwork is the opposite of that:
- Free forever. Not a trial, not freemium. There is no paid version to be
upsold to, and the AGPL stops anyone building a closed, paid fork of the
hosted service.
- Private by default. Open it and plan. With no account, your wedding
stays in your browser and nothing leaves the device.
- One wedding, many tools. Every tool reads and writes the same document,
so a change in one shows up correctly in all the others.
What it does
Seat your guests, and one click puts every table number on the place cards.
Move the ceremony by ten minutes and every job hanging off it moves too.
Nothing is retyped.
The tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|
| 👥 | Guests | The one guest list everything builds on. Import a CSV from Joy, Zola, The Knot or your own spreadsheet. The column mapper guesses what it can and asks about the rest. |
| 🪑 | Seating | Draw the room to scale in real units, then put people in it. Keep-together and keep-apart rules, and a live dietary breakdown. |
| 💌 | Stationery | Print-ready place cards, table signs and seating boards with table numbers filled in from the room, and the order of service as a folded booklet. |
| 🕒 | Timeline | The running order of the day. It shows what collides, what runs past curfew, and what can't be reached in time. |
| 📋 | Delegation | The jobs, and who is doing them, hung off each part of the day. |
| 📷 | Group shots | The family photo list, built from who is related to whom. |
The six above are there from the start. Add these from the toolbox when
your wedding needs them:
| Tool | What it does |
|---|
| 💍 | Ceremony | Who walks down the aisle, in what order, and to what. The order of service, music and readings, with cues on the Timeline. |
| 📦 | Boxes | What is packed in which box, and where each box has to be, by when. |
| 🍷 | Bar | How much drink to buy, in bottles and cases, and roughly what it costs. |
| 💷 | Money | What each supplier costs, what is paid, and what falls due, against your budget. |
| ✅ | Checklist | What to have done before the day, each item with a date. |
| 📱 | Binder | The day on your phone: what's on now and next, who to ring, and where a guest sits. Works without signal. |
Removing a tool only hides it. What you made in it stays, and comes back when
you add the tool again.
Around the tools
- 🖨️ One PDF pack. The floor plan, run sheet, job list and group shot list,
printed from the wedding as it stands.
- 🔗 Guest and supplier links. A guest sees their own seat and nothing
else. A supplier sees their part of the day and can confirm it.
- 🤝 Plan together. Two partners and a planner, signing in with a
six-digit code by email, or with Google or Apple (no passwords). Real-time sync, version history with restore, and conflicts
are shown, never silently resolved.
- 🗂️ Planner mode. Many weddings per account, and a library of reusable
processionals, box sets and bar settings.
- 🧭 A guided tour with a complete example wedding, and a ⌘/Ctrl-K command
palette.
Seat a guest, and her place card has her table. Drag Zainab onto Table 13,
open Stationery, and her card already reads "Table 13".
Move the ceremony, and the day follows. Pinned at 13:30, moved to 14:00:
drinks, photos and dinner all move with it. Later still, and it tells you what
no longer fits.
The Binder, on the day. What is on now, who to ring, where a guest sits,
and the shot list to tick off, on a phone, with or without signal.
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