ClientCasa vs Timeline Genius
Timeline Genius does the day-of timeline. ClientCasa does a better one — cascade-solved, golden-hour aware, offline-ready — and the whole business around it.
Pricing and feature data scraped directly from Timeline Genius’s site — last verified April 17, 2026.
Pricing, side by side
Best monthly rate (paid annually). Both products show the same way: lowest publicly advertised annual price.
ClientCasa
- FrontCasa$19/moor $23/mo billed monthlyWebsite + Clients. Site builder, lead capture, bookings, CRM, proposals, and contracts.
- BackCasa$19/moor $23/mo billed monthlyClients + Books. CRM plus invoicing, payments, expenses, time tracking, profitability, and tax prep.
- WholeCasa$34/moor $42/mo billed monthlyAll three pillars: Website + Clients + Books. Save $4/mo vs buying singles separately. Custom domain bundled.
Unlimited clients on every plan. 14-day free trial.
Timeline Genius
- Unlimited$45.83/moor $54.95/mo billed monthlyUnlimited events + team members; $549.95/yr billed annually
- 5 EventsQuote5 client cap$194.95 one-time charge (not a subscription)
Both have AI. Different jobs.
Here is what Timeline Genius's AI does well, and where ClientCasa's assistant fits in.
ClientCasa AI
Click it. Ask it. Both work.
Every workflow has two ways in: a clean UI to click through, and an assistant to ask. Draft a proposal, scan a receipt, look up profit on a project — same data, same result. Use whichever is most natural for you.
- Ask anything: "How profitable was the Smith wedding?", "Show overdue invoices over $1k" — answers come from your own data
- Snap a receipt with your phone, forward an invoice from your inbox, or drop in a PDF — the assistant reads it and queues a categorized expense for you to approve
- Send a questionnaire, then one-click draft a proposal from the response
- The assistant can act anywhere in the app — drafting invoices, finding clients, looking up files, suggesting next steps
- Optional onboarding helper: describe your business in plain English, get a configured workspace
- Real-time web search for market rates and pricing benchmarks when you need them
Safety rail: The assistant drafts and proposes; it never sends, deletes, or charges. Every action waits for your click — so you can move fast without worrying about a runaway agent.
Timeline Genius AI
Genie AI reviews your timelines, offers planning advice, and analyzes documents — focused entirely on the event timeline.
- Genie AI: on-demand timeline review + planning advice
- The "Genius" feature: an auto-generated initial timeline from basic event details
- Document analysis to catch missed details
Where it shines: Timeline-specialized — it knows wedding day-of structure cold.
Timeline Genius’s gap: Works only on the timeline. It can't draft a proposal, read a receipt, answer a profitability question, or touch anything outside the day-of schedule.
Feature comparison
Every cell verified against Timeline Genius’s public pricing & feature pages.
| Feature | ClientCasa | Timeline Genius |
|---|---|---|
| Proposals | ||
| Contracts & e-signatures | ||
| Invoicing | ||
| Recurring billing | ||
| Payment schedules | ||
| ACH payments | ||
| Time tracking | ||
| Rate cascading | ||
| Minimum billable hours | ||
| Expense tracking | ||
| Receipt capture | ||
| Mileage tracking | ||
| Recipe / BOM costing | ||
| Per-client profitability | ||
| Schedule C tax exports | ||
| Quarterly estimated tax | ||
| Inquiry form | ||
| Pipeline / kanban | ||
| Client questionnaires | ||
| CRM messaging & timeline | ||
| Client portal | shared read-only timeline only | |
| Meeting scheduler | ||
| Calendar sync | ||
| AI assistant | ||
| Receipt & document scanning | ||
| Workflow automation | via Zapier | |
| REST API | ||
| Webhooks | ||
| Zapier | ||
| Unlimited clients | unlimited events |
The honest take
Where each tool genuinely wins. No spin.
Where ClientCasa wins
- The entire rest of your business — CRM, proposals, contracts, e-signature, invoicing, payments, and tax-ready books — which Timeline Genius does not touch
- A true cascade engine: every time is derived, so changing one anchor or a duration reflows the whole day automatically (vs. a manual bulk time-shift)
- Golden-hour anchoring computed from the venue’s coordinates
- An offline, full-screen day-of "Run Day" view that keeps working without signal at the venue
- A public REST API + webhooks (and Zapier/Make/n8n) to wire the timeline into your other tools
Where Timeline Genius wins
- Laser-focused on the wedding day-of timeline, with deep templates wedding pros trust
- Live day-of SMS reminders to vendors (in ClientCasa this ships but needs Twilio/A2P configured first)
- Unlimited concierge support on every plan
- Established mindshare among wedding coordinators
Frequently asked questions
What is the real difference between ClientCasa and Timeline Genius?+
Timeline Genius is a wedding day-of timeline tool — it auto-builds a schedule, shifts times, texts vendors, and shares a branded timeline. That is all it does. ClientCasa runs your whole business (CRM, proposals, contracts, e-signature, invoicing, payments, tax-ready books) AND includes a day-of timeline with a true cascade engine: set the ceremony time and everything before and after re-times itself. If you only need a timeline, Timeline Genius is focused and good. If you are running the business, ClientCasa replaces it plus the five other tools around it.
How is ClientCasa’s timeline different from Timeline Genius’s?+
Timeline Genius lets you bulk-shift selected items by a fixed amount. ClientCasa derives every time from sequence, duration, buffers, and anchors — so retiming a single Key Moment (the ceremony, say) reflows the entire day automatically, with conflict detection. It also anchors photo blocks to golden hour computed from the venue’s coordinates, runs a full-screen offline "Run Day" view at the venue, and exposes the whole timeline over a public REST API + webhooks.
Does Timeline Genius have AI like ClientCasa?+
Yes — Timeline Genius's Genie AI reviews timelines, gives planning advice, and analyzes documents, all focused on the day-of schedule. ClientCasa also has a timeline Coach (it audits the day for conflicts, tight gaps, and portraits scheduled outside golden hour, and proposes one-click fixes) — plus an AI that works across the rest of your business: reading receipts, drafting proposals, and answering profitability questions. Same word, much wider scope.
Can Timeline Genius send day-of text reminders? Can ClientCasa?+
Timeline Genius sends live day-of SMS reminders to vendors out of the box. ClientCasa has the same reflow-aware reminder engine built in, but it ships inert — you connect your own Twilio/A2P messaging to turn it on. If live vendor texting on day one matters most, that is a genuine point for Timeline Genius today.
How much does Timeline Genius cost vs ClientCasa?+
Timeline Genius is $54.95/month, or $549.95/year ($45.83/month) for unlimited events, or $194.95 one-time for 5 events — for the timeline alone. ClientCasa is $19/month billed annually for Clients (which includes Event Days), or $34/month for the Website + Clients + Books bundle — the timeline plus your entire business, with a custom domain included. Pricing verified June 2026.
Can I move my timelines from Timeline Genius to ClientCasa?+
You rebuild the day in ClientCasa’s setup wizard — pick the event type and Coach drafts the Key Moments, categories, and a starter timeline tailored to it, which you adjust. Because the engine solves times from anchors, you typically enter less than you would re-typing a Timeline Genius schedule row by row. Vendors come from your reusable rolodex and attach per event with their call times.
A timeline that re-times itself, inside the business that runs it.
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